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AND as the word of the gospel raises those that are strong to sublime
and lofty heights, so it suffers not the weak to be dragged down to the
depths, for it secures to the perfect the fulness of blessing, and brings
to those who are overcome through weakness pardon. For the law placed those
who fulfilled its commands in a sort of middle state between what they
deserved in either case, severing them from the condemnation due to
transgressors, as it also kept them away from the glory of the perfect. But
how wretched and miserable this is, you can see from comparing the state of
this present life, in which it is considered a very poor thing for a man to
sweat and labour only to avoid being regarded as guilty among good men, not
also to be esteemed rich and honourable and renowned.
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