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b'Theology Gals | Episode 142\\n\\nThis week Coleen and Rachel talk about the importance of law and gospel. They also show the emphasis on law and gospel in the Reformed Faith.\\xa0\\nEpisode Resources:\\nLaw, Gospel, And The Three Uses of the Law (1) by R. Scott Clark\\xa0\\n\\nLaw, Gospel, And The Three Uses Of The Law (2) by R. Scott Clark\\xa0\\n\\nThe Three Uses of the Law by R. Scott Clark\\xa0\\n\\nLaw and Gospel by Michael Horton\\n\\nConcerns About The Rhetoric: \\u201cX Is A Gospel Issue\\u201d by R. Scott Clark\\n\\nThe Indicative and The Imperative A Reformation View of Sanctification by Michael Horton\\xa0\\n\\nCalvin on Law and Gospel by Michael Horton\\xa0\\n\\nHeidelberg Catechism\\xa0\\n\\nChapter 1 Part 1: The Law-Gospel Distinction Lane Keister\\xa0\\n\\nIs the Law/Gospel Distinction Only Lutheran? Part 2\\nLaw and Gospel quotes\\xa0\\nCalvin\\n\\nFurther, because Paul seems to abrogate the Law, as if now-a-days it did not concern believers, we must now see how far this is the case\\u2026he does not treat of the Law in the abstract, but sets it forth invested with those of its qualities, wherein it is opposed to the Gospel; for, inasmuch as his controversy was with those who interpreted it amiss, he could not help contrasting the Law with the Gospel, as if they were in opposition to each other: not that they were really so, if their respective doctrine be dextrously applied to its proper object, but because such a conflict arose from the absurd mixture, which the false apostles introduced. They asserted that men are justified by the works of the Law, and, if this were admitted, the righteousness of faith was destroyed, and the Gospel fell to the ground. They, moreover, restored the yoke imposed on the ancient people, as if no liberty had been obtained by the blood of Christ. In this discussion it was necessary for Paul to advert only to that which is peculiar to Moses, and distinct from Christ; for although Christ and Moses perfectly accord in the substance of their doctrine, still, when they are compared with each other, it is fitting to distinguish what is peculiar to each. Calvin\\u2019s Commentaries (Commentaries on the Last Four Books of Moses 3:199-200)\\xa0\\n\\nJohn Owen\\n\\nThe order, relation, and use of the law and the gospel do uncontrollably evince the necessity of this conviction previous unto believing. for that which any man hath first to deal withal, with respect unto his eternal condition, both naturally and by God\\u2019s institution, is the law. This is first presented unto the soul with its terms of righteousness and life, and with its curse in case of failure. Without this the gospel cannot be understood, nor the grace of it duly valued. For it is the revelation of God\\u2019s way for the relieving the souls of men from the sentence and curse of the law, Rom. 1:17. That was the nature, that was the use and end of the first promise, and of the whole work of God\\u2019s grace revealed in all the ensuing promises, or in the whole gospel. Wherefore, the faith which we treat of being evangelical,- that which, in its especial nature and use, not the law but the gospel requireth, that which hath the gospel for its principle, rule, and object,- it is not required of us, cannot be acted by us, but on a supposition of the work and effect of the law in the conviction of sin, by giving the knowledge of it, a sense of its guilt, and the state of the sinner on the account thereof.\\xa0\\n\\nJohn Bunyan\\n\\nIf there be the terror, horror, and severity of the law discovered to a people by the servants of Jesus Christ, though they do not speak of it to the end people should trust to it, by relying on it as it is a covenant of works; but rather that they should be driven further from that covenant, even to embrace the tenders and privileges of the second, yet, poor souls, because they are unacquainted with the natures of these two covenants, or either of them, therefore, say they, \\u2018Here is nothing but preaching of the law, thundering of the law;\\u2019 when, alas, if these two be not held forth-to wit,'