1. IT has been shewn in the preceding discourse, which are the most usual ways of _making void the law thro’ faith_: namely, first, The not preaching it at all, which effectually makes it all void at a stroke: and this under colour of _preaching Christ_ and magnifying the gospel, tho’ it be in truth, destroying both the one and the other: secondly, The teaching (whether directly or indirectly) that faith supersedes the necessity of holiness: that this is less necessary now, or a less degree of it necessary, than before Christ came: that it is less necessary to us, because we believe, than otherwise it would have been: or, that Christian liberty is a liberty from any kind or degree of holiness: (so perverting those great truths, that we are now under the _covenant of grace_ and not _of works_: that _a man is justified by faith, without the works of the law_; and that _to him that worketh not but believeth, his faith is counted for righteousness_:) or, thirdly, The doing this practically; the making void the law in practice tho’ not in principle: the living or acting, as if faith was designed to excuse us from holiness: the allowing ourselves in sin, _because we are not under the law, but under grace_. It remains to enquire, how we may follow a better pattern, how we may be able to say with the apostle, _Do we then make void the law thro’ faith? God forbid! Yea, we establish the law._ 2. We do not indeed establish the old ceremonial law: we know that is abolished for ever. Much less do we establish the whole _Mosaic_ dispensation. This, we know, our Lord has _nailed to his cross_. Nor yet do we so establish the moral law (which it is to be feared, too many do) as if the fulfilling it, the keeping all the commandments, were the condition of our justification. If it were so, surely _in his sight, should no man living be justified_. But all this being allowed, we still in the apostle’s sense, _establish the law_, the moral law.