Free from the Law

Thus Christ having freed us from under the tutorship of the Law, takes us under his own tuition, and teaches us to yield obedience of faith to his Fathers will, and to serve him in newness of spirit, and not in the oldness of the Letter . . . For the ten Commandments are called a Covenant, Deut.4:13. Exod.34:28. And the Apostle in his Epistle to the Hebrews calls it an old, faulty, vanishing Covenant, Heb.8:7,9,13. opposing against it, that new, perfect and everlasting Covenant of the Gospel. You know the zealous Jews sought Righteousness and Life by the works of the Law. Rom.9:31-32. That is to say, They did think (as many of the professors of our times do) to be saved by keeping the ten Commandments. Luke 18:18,20-22. And Paul bears them record, that they were zealous, but it was not according to knowledge. For they being ignorant of Gods Righteousness went about to establish their own Righteousness, and the Apostle hereupon tells them, that Christ is the end of the Law for Righteousness, to every one that believes, Rom.10:2-5. And therefore we may use great plainness of speech and safely conclude, that the Administration of the Law (written and engraved in stones, even the ten Commandments as they were first, old, faulty and vanishing Covenant) is now done away and abolished; And yet we do not hereby make void the Law, but establish it, Rom.3:31. For we say that we ought to yield obedience of Faith, in newness of spirit, and so fulfill the Royal law according to the Scripture, James 2:8 . . . Neither are we without Law to God, but under the Law to Christ, 1Cor.9:21.
Hanserd Knollys, Christ Exalted (London: Jane Coe, 1646), 24.