The Christian Attitude to the Law

If we are Christians, we delight in that Law, and we are not under it as a rule of condemnation and of judgment, but we rejoice to obey it. We could not suggest an alteration to it which would be an improvement. The Ten Commandments are very simple, but absolutely perfect for the purpose for which they were intended. To add another to them, or to take one away from them would be to spoil the whole. We "delight in the Law of God after the inward man." Whoever may be Antinomians, that is, those who are "against the Law," we are not to be numbered amongst them, for we can say, with Paul, "The Law is holy, and the commandment holy, and just, and good;" and though we are carnal, and often feel ourselves "sold under sin," yet we cannot find any fault with the Law. If eternal life could have come by any Law, it would have come by that Law; and even though that Law now can do nothing for us but condemn us, yet, as we hear its terrible sentence, we feel that the Law "is holy, and just, and good." We desire, then, to have even the moral Law in our hearts, and to have it written there, that none, of our steps may slide.