LAW-GENERAL
Certainly if
the giving of the law were so full of terror, much more terrible shall be our
being judged according to that law.
Ezekiel Hopkins
A Puritan Golden Treasury,
compiled by I.D.E. Thomas, by permission of Banner of Truth, Carlisle, PA. 2000, p. 166.
I do not
believe that any man can preach the gospel who does not preach the law. The law
is the needle, and you cannot draw the silken thread of the gospel through a
man's heart unless you first send the needle of the law to make way for it. If
men do not understand the law, they will not feel that they are sinners. And if
they are not consciously sinners, they will never value the sin offering. There
is no healing a man till the law has wounded him, no making him alive till the
law has slain him.
C.H. Spurgeon
The law stops
every man's mouth. God will have a man humble himself down on his face before
Him, with not a word to say for himself. Then God will speak to him, when he
owns that he is a sinner, and gets rid of all his own righteousness.
D.L. Moody
In the maxims
of the law, God is seen as the rewarder of perfect righteousness and the
avenger of sin. But in Christ, His face shines out, full of grace and
gentleness to poor, unworthy sinners.
John Calvin
The law by which God rules us, is as dear to Him as the gospel by
which He saves us.
William Secker
God’s
commands instruct us about His attitude toward sin, and tell us what kinds of
things He designates as sin, and that He has a provision for sin, typified, and
then fulfilled in His Son. If we use the law that way – let it be so. If we use
it as a scourge, let us be anathema. It is revelation, not salvation.
Reid Ferguson
Quoted
in: Studies in Galatians by John Reisinger, Sound of Grace, Issue
148, June 2008, p. 17. Used by Permission.
Until the
gospel of the Lord Jesus Christ arrives unto us, the law pronounces unto us
nothing but curses; we hear nothing but a thunder of wrath cursing us.
Cotton Mather
A Well-Ordered Family, Soli Deo Gloria, 2001 (first printing 1699), p. 24.
God's ways
will frequently baffle us but God's will is sufficiently clear to lead us in
the meantime. God's ways may not be
clear but our way is – at least enough of it to know what obedience
requires. We may wait for God's
providence but we already have God's law, and that is all we need for the
moment.
1 Samuel, Focus, 1998, p. 272.