“The excellency of the law more clearly appears in the gospel than in the doctrine of the law itself... Surely God set a high price on His law, that He would not save any soul that had broken it, other than by His Son who must come to fulfill it.Therefore, Christians must learn to prize the law of God.”

Jerremiah Burroughs

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