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Law: Quotations from Burning Words

Of law there can be no less acknowledged than that her seat is the bosom of God, her voice the harmony of the world: all things in heaven and earth do her homage, the very least as feeling her care, and the greatest as not exempt from her power.— RICHARD HOOKER

The law of God is not the conflict of will with will, but of wisdom with folly, knowledge with ignorance, right with wrong - the announcement out of parental love, of the conditions of spiritual life, happiness, immortality. The punishment of sin, therefore, may be contemplated, not as the overflowing of wrath, but the outworkings of natural law, coincident with the judgment of infinite righteousness.— EDWARD THOMSON

Laws, in their most general signification, are the necessary relations derived from the nature of things.— MONTESQUIEU

Law, meaning obedience to a holy God, passes by a natural transition into the gospel; that is, reverential duty to a person, to the obedience of love at last, which obeys, because the beautifulness of obedience is perceived.— F. W. ROBERTSON

The law showed what man ought to be. Christ showed what man is, and what God is.— W. P. MACKAY

The law discovers the disease. The gospel gives the remedy.— MARTIN LUTHER

The law is what we must do; the gospel what God will give.— MARTIN LUTHER

The law sends us to Christ to be justified, and Christ sends us to the law to be regulated.— JOHN FLAVEL

Though the moral law has ceased as a covenant, it remains as a rule of life. It will forever continue as the standard of holiness.— CHARLES BACKUS

The moral law is to be viewed not only as the rule of our obedience, but also as the reason of it. We must not only do what is commanded, and avoid what is forbidden in the law; but we must also do good, for this very reason, that God requires it, and avoid evil, because He forbids it.— FISHER'S CATECHISM