The knowledge of the law is exceedingly useful to believers, as a standard of continual self-examination, to exclude spiritual pride, and to keep the soul at all times abased, and simply dependent on the Lord Jesus Christ. Knowledge, gifts, usefulness, or other attainments by which men are distinguished from those around them, have a powerful tendency to excite self-complacency and self-preference; but when a believer compares the state of his heart, and the very duties and services he performs, with the spiritual and holy commands of God, he is reminded of his guilt and depravity, and taught his constant need of repentance, forgiveness, the blood of Christ, and the supplies of his grace.

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