1. Consider, Whose sentence this is. There is sententia legis and sententia judicis—the sentence of the law and the sentence of the judge. The sentence of the law is the sentence of the word of God, and that is either the law of works or the law of grace. The damnatory sentence of the law concludeth all under the curse, for ‘all are under sin:’ Gal. 3:10, ‘For as many as are under the works of the law are under the curse; for it is written, Cursed is he that continueth not in all things that are
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