Chapt 7, review of The Law as a Rule of Moral Conduct

"That the moral law is a rule of life to believers, may be proved by various arguments. . . . Paul, . . . asserts with regard to himself, 'I delight in the law of God, after the inward man.' Now, whatever law it be that is here designed, he informs us that he delighted in it after the inward man. By which expression he intends, not the soul, in contradistinction to the body; but the mind, considered as renewed, in opposition to the corruption of nature, still inherent. This law, therefore, cannot be that which is ceremonial; for that was abrogated by the death of Christ. Nor can it be the law of sin; for that was his greatest burden, as appears from the context. Nor can it be the law of his mind, or that new and holy disposition which was produced in is heart in regeneration . . . Nor can it be the moral law, as a covenant; for to that he declares he was dead. It remains, then, that it must be the moral law, as the rule of his obedience to God. In the law, thus considered, he greatly delighted. He saw it was holy, and just, and good. That supreme love which he had to his God; that ardent affection which he had to his neighbour; caused him to esteem it highly and to observe it with diligence. Nay, whoever is possessed of the same holy and heavenly principle, cannot but love that law which requires the constant exercise of it."

This quote is from the last chapter - Chapter VII - in the Death of Legal Hope, which is included in the Works of Abraham Booth, Volume 2. For more information and to purchase your copy, visit our website at PBPress.org.