[1st.] The first thing we have liberty from, is its
rigour and terror in commanding. Heb. xii. 18–22, “We are not come
to the mount that might be touched, and that burned with fire, to the
whirlwind, darkness, and tempest, to the sound of the trumpet, and the
voice of words, which they that heard besought that they might hear it no
more; but we are come to mount Sion,” etc. As to that administration of
the law wherein it was given out with dread and terror, and so exacted its
obedience with rigour, we are freed from it, we are not called to that
estate.