"The law is the hangman of the will, and is subject only to the Child who has been born unto us.[288] (Isaiah, ix, 6.)
"The law makes sin abound; for it irritates and repulses the will.
"But the grace of God makes righteousness abound, through Jesus Christ, who makes us love the law.
"Every work of the law appears good externally, but internally is sin.
"The will, when it turns toward the law without the grace of God, does so only for its own interest.
"Cursed are those who do the works of the law.
"Blessed are all those who do the works of the grace of God.
"The law, which is good, and in which we have life, is the law of the love of God, shed abroad in our hearts by the Holy Spirit, (Rom., v, 5.)
"Grace is not given in order that works may be done more frequently and more easily, but because without grace there cannot be any work of love.
"To love God is to hate oneself, and know nothing out of God."[289]