Excerpt from A Rule and a Riddle: Or, an Everlasting Task for Blind Watchmen and Old Women, in a Letter to a Friend It is firange that the believer is not command ed to look to M'ofes the lawgiver, and to the bond woman that is under the law, infiead of looking to 'abraham our father, and to Sarah that bare us, whom God called alone, and blefli'd and increa/itd, lfaiah li. 2. Paul would have us tread in the fleps of the faith of our father Abraham, which he had being yet uncircum czfed, and declares that the promije that he jhould be the heir of the world, was not to him, or to his fled, through the law, Rom. Iv. 12, 13. And yet affirms, that as main: as are of faith are bleflbd with faithful Abraham - And this promifed blefling, and promifed heir/hip, was given to Abraham, and to his fled - four hundred and thirty years before the law, or before our only rule of life was given. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.