Quote 1342
To run, to work, the law commands, The gospel gives me feet and hands. The one requires that I obey, The other does the power convey.
Ralph Erskine
Ralph Erskine, Gospel Sonnets or Spiritual Songs (Edinburgh: John Pryde, 1870), 288- 893.9K
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The moral law requires obedience, but gives no strength (as Pharaoh required brick, but gave no straw), but the gospel gives strength; it bestows faith on the elect; it sweetens the law; it makes us serve God with delight.The Ten Commandments, 44
As we know a tree by its fruit; so we may know justification by sanctification.
The Law with its function does contribute to justification - not because it justifies, but because it impels one to the promise of grace and makes it sweet and desirable. Therefore we do not abolish the Law; but we show its true function and use, namely, that it is a most useful servant impelling us to Christ; for its function and use is not only to disclose the sin and wrath of God but also to drive us to Christ. Therefore the principal purpose of the Law in theology is to make men not better but worse; that is, it shows them their sin, so that by the recognition of sin they may be humbled, frightened, and worn down, and so may long for grace and for the Blessed Offspring.
both Torah and Messiah are essential for God's people. Law cannot function properly in the life of God's people without Messiah and Messiah can be properly appreciated only in the context of the LORD's law. Law and gospel must be joined together if God's people tare to experience the full "blessed" condition that comes from the LORD (Pss. 1:1; 2:12; 119:1-2).The Flow of the Psalms, Ch 9
You are to follow none, but as they follow Christ: the most godly ministers are but limited examples; you are to follow them as far as they follow Christ, but no further.
There is but one way to heaven, and that is Christ.
But there are many ways to hell: especially these two; some walk a more clean way of self-righteousness, & others a more dirty way of open wickedness; but both meet together at the end…
The law of God helps us to know God, know ourselves, know our need, and know the life of peace and blessedness. It helps us to know God because it specifically reveals his character and his attributes, his holy will, what he's like.
What is the difference between the moral law and the gospel? (I) The law requires that we worship God as our Creator; the gospel, that we worship him in and through Christ.The Ten Commandments, 43
To run and work the law commands, Yet gives me neither feet nor hands; But better news the gospel brings: It bids me fly and gives me wings.
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