THE FIRST PART.
THE MISERY OF MAN.
2. LORD’S DAY.
3. Whence knowest thou thy misery?
Out of the law of God (Rom. 3;20).
Rom. 3;20—For by the law is the knowledge of sin.—Rom. 7;7.—Ex. 20;1-17.
*4. What doth the law of God require of us?
Christ teaches us that briefly (in Matt. 22;37-40): “Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, with all thy soul, with all thy mind, and with all thy strength. This is the first and great commandment (Rom. 13;10); and the second is like unto it: Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself (Matt. 7;12). On these two commandments hang all the law and the prophets.”
Rom. 13;10—Love is the fulfilling of the law. Deut. 6;5.—1 Tim. 1:5.
Matt. 7;12.—Therefore all things whatsoever ye would that men should do to you, do ye even so to them: for this is the law and the prophets.—1 John; 4;20, 21.—1 Cor. 13;1-8.
*5. Canst thou keep all these things perfectly?
In no wise (1 John 1;8); for I am prone by nature to hate God (Rom. 8;7) and my neighbor (Titus 3;3).
1 John 1;8.—If we say that we have no sin, we deceive ourselves and the truth is not in us.—Rom. 3;10-12.—Jer. 13;23.
Rom. 8;7.—The carnal mind is enmity against God; for it is not subject to the law of God, neither indeed can be.—Ps. 14;1—Eph. 2;3.—Rom. 1;30.
