The law is lawfully used as a means of conviction of sin: for this<\/p>\n
purpose it was promulgated (established) at Sinai. The law entered, that<\/p>\n
sin might abound: not to make men more wicked, though occasionally and<\/p>\n
by abuse it has that effect, but to make them sensible how wicked they<\/p>\n
are. Having God\u2019s law in our hands, we are no longer to form our<\/p>\n
judgments by the maxims and customs of the world, where evil is called<\/p>\n
good, and good evil; but are to try every principle, temper, and<\/p>\n
practice, by this standard. Could men be prevailed upon to do this, they<\/p>\n
would soon listen to the Gospel with attention. On some the Spirit of<\/p>\n
God does thus prevail: then they earnestly make the jailer\u2019s inquiry,<\/p>\n
\u201cWhat must I do to be saved?\u201d Here the work of grace begins; and the<\/p>\n
sinner, condemned in his own conscience, is brought to Jesus for life.<\/p>\n
When we use the law as a glass to behold the glory of God, we use it<\/p>\n
lawfully. His glory is eminently revealed in Christ; but much of it is<\/p>\n
with a special reference to the law, and cannot be otherwise discerned.<\/p>\n
We see the perfection and excellence of the law in his life. God was<\/p>\n
glorified by his obedience as a man. What a perfect character did he<\/p>\n
exhibit! Yet it is no other than a transcript of the law. Such would<\/p>\n
have been the character of Adam and all his race, had the law been duly<\/p>\n
obeyed. It appears therefore a wise and holy institution, fully capable<\/p>\n
of displaying that perfection of conduct by which man would have<\/p>\n
answered the end of his creation. And we see the inviolable strictness<\/p>\n
of the law in his death, There the glory of God in the law is<\/p>\n
manifested. Though he was the beloved Son, and had yielded personal<\/p>\n
obedience in the utmost perfection, yet, when he stood in our place to<\/p>\n
make atonement for sin, he was not spared. From what he endured in<\/p>\n
Gethsemane and upon the cross, we learn the meaning of that awful<\/p>\n
sentence, \u201cThe soul that sinneth shall die.\u201d<\/p>\n
John Newton<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
The law is lawfully used as a means of conviction of sin: for this purpose it was promulgated (established) at Sinai. The law entered, that sin might abound: not to make men more wicked, though occasionally and by abuse it has that effect, but to make them sensible how wicked they are. Having God\u2019s law […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[78,38],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3483","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-author-john-newton","category-the-law"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3483","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3483"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3483\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3484,"href":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3483\/revisions\/3484"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3483"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3483"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3483"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}