3. There is therefore the closest connexion that can be conceived, between the law and the gospel. On the one hand, the law continually makes way for, and points us to the gospel: on the other, the gospel continually leads us to a more exact fulfilling of the law. The law, for instance, requires us to love God, to love our neighbour, to be meek, humble or holy: we feel that we are not sufficient for these things: yea, that _with man this is impossible_. But we see a promise of God, to give us that love, and to make us humble, meek and holy. We lay hold of this gospel, of these glad tidings: it is done unto us according to our faith: And _the righteousness of the law is fulfilled in us_, through faith which is in _Christ Jesus_. *We may yet farther observe, that every command in holy writ, is only a covered promise. For by that solemn declaration, _This is the covenant I will make after those days, saith the_ Lord, _I will put my laws in your minds, and write them in your hearts_, God hath engaged to give whatsoever he commands. Does he command us then to _pray without ceasing_? To _rejoice evermore_? To be _holy as he is holy_? It is enough. He will work in us this very thing. It shall be unto us according to his word. 4. But if these things are so, we cannot be at a loss, what to think of those who in all ages of the church, have undertaken to change or supersede some commands of God, as they professed, by the peculiar direction of his Spirit. _Christ_ has here given us an infallible rule, whereby to judge of all such pretensions. Christianity, as it includes the whole moral law of God, both by way of injunction and of promise, if we will hear him, is designed of God, to be the last of all his dispensations. There is no other to come after this. This is to endure ’till the consummation of all things. Of consequence all such new revelations, are of _Satan_ and not of God; and all pretences to another more perfect dispensation, fall to the ground of course. _Heaven and earth shall pass away: but_ this _word shall not pass away_. III. 1. _Whosoever therefore shall break one of these least commandments, and shall teach men so, he shall be called the least in the kingdom of heaven: but whosoever shall do and teach them, the same shall be called great in the kingdom of heaven._