The death of Christ, so far from abrogating the law or lowering its requirements, establishes it as a rule of life which the believer is bound to regard as the perfect standard to which all his works ought to conform. But as his obedience is necessarily imperfect, as his best performances cannot abide a comparison with this standard, he relies not on them for acceptance, but on the blood of his glorious substitute. Thus, so far from depressing the standard of duty, this scheme of justification by the imputed righteousness of Christ imparts a higher sanction to the law, clothes it with a more august and commanding authority and perpetuates it as an indispensable rule of life and measure of obligation.

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