4. But all men are not herein of his mind. Many there are who will not agree to this. Many in all ages of the church, even among those who bore the name of Christians, have contended, That _the faith once delivered to the saints_, was designed to make void the whole law. They would no more spare the moral than the ceremonial law, but were for _hewing_, as it were, _both in pieces before the Lord_: vehemently maintaining, “If you establish any law, _Christ shall profit you nothing: Christ is become of no effect to you: ye are fallen from grace_.” 5. But is the zeal of these men according to knowledge? Have they observed the connection between the law and faith? And that considering the close connection between them, to destroy one is indeed to destroy both? That to abolish the moral law is in truth, to abolish faith and the law together? As leaving no proper means, either of bringing us to faith, or of _stirring up that gift of God_ in our soul. 6. It therefore behoves all who desire either to come to Christ, or to _walk in Him whom they have received_, to take heed how they _make void the law through faith_; to secure us effectually against which, let us enquire, first, which are the most usual ways of _making void the law through faith_, and secondly, How we may follow the apostle, and by faith _establish the law_. I. 1. Let us, first, inquire, Which are the most usual ways of _making void the law through faith_. Now the way for a preacher to make it all void at a stroke, is, Not to preach it at all. This is just the same thing, as to blot it out of the oracles of God. More especially when it is done with design; when it is made a rule, “Not to preach the law:” and the very phrase, “A preacher of the law,” is used as a term of reproach, as tho’ it meant little less than, “an enemy to the gospel.” 2. All this proceeds from the deepest ignorance of the nature, properties and use of the law: and proves that those who act thus, either know not Christ, are utter strangers to living faith: or at least, that they are but babes in Christ, and as such _unskilled in the word of righteousness_.