The original title of this study was The Excellency of the Gospel Above the Law, and was written to be a comparison of the greater and full revelation of God in the New Covenant.

Always a doctor to the heart and soul, Puritan Richard Sibbes joyfully shows us how the Spirit of God produces likeness to Christ and consequent great liberty in those who are members of it. One of few Puritan treatises with much to say about the doctrine of adoption.