The law is a lance in the hand of the surgeon to open the ulcer of sin and corruption within us; the gospel as a medicinal balsam drains and gradually heals it, when applied in the way of believing. The law is a plough to till up the fallow ground of the heart of man; the gospel is the good seed cast into the furrows, which being impregnated by the dew of heaven, makes it spring up to everlasting life. The law is as a hammer to break the rock in pieces; the gospel dissolves it with the warm fire of the love of God shed abroad in the heart by the Holy Ghost. Thus the law is subservient to the great design of the gospel.
Ebenezer Erskine — Sermon IX, "The Law of Faith Issuing Forth from Mount Zion," on Isaiah 2:3, in The Select Writings of the Rev. Ebenezer Erskine, vol. 1, Doctrinal Sermons (Edinburgh and London: A. Fullarton, 1848), p. 225
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