““The law in its directive power remains with the believer. This must needs be plain from the words: 'the law which was for hundred and thirty years after (the promise), cannot disannul (the promise), that it should make the promise of none effect' (Gal. 3:17). For if the law, as the apostle says, was given 430 years after the promise, then it was given either as a covenant or as a rule. But as a covenant it could not be given, for then God would have acted contrary to Himself, first in giving a covenant of grace and then of works. Therefore He have it as a rule, to reveal to us, after our justification by the promise, a rule of walking with God so that in all things we might please Him.””
![“Whatever they [antinomians] say of the law, though they cast contempt and disgrace upon it, and upon those who preach it, yet we know that, for the substance of it, it is the image of God, a beam of His holiness. The things therein commanded and forbidden are things morally, and therefore…” quote by Samuel Bolton](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/035/samuel-bolton-40683_good-and-evil_whatever-they-antinomians-say-of-the-law_1030327.jpg)
![“We are not under its [the laws] curses, but we are under its commands. We are not under the law for judgement, but we are under the law for conduct.” quote by Samuel Bolton](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/017/samuel-bolton-40683_law_we-are-not-under-its-the-laws-curses-but_2821376.jpg)
![“[When her daughter suggested the President refer in his conversation with foreign dignitaries about lawn care to 'fertilizer' instead of to 'manure':] But remember, it took me almost thirty years to get him to call it manure.” quote by Bess Truman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/4fe/bess-truman-27530_care_when-her-daughter-suggested-the-presiden_25215.jpg)
