The Law (2)

The matter now engaging our attention is in what sense it can be truly said that believers are delivered from the law. It was explained that the command of God "do and live" as coming to man, guilty and under the curse, and dead through trespasses and sin because he must be, places him from the very nature of matters under the necessity of first delivering himself from the curse of the law by atoning for his sin and of meriting for himself life. How hopeless the plight of man under the law....