04 - Gadsby's Questions for Law Men

John Calvin set out three uses for the law of Moses. In particular, in his third use, Calvin alleged that the law is the believer’s perfect rule of life, a whip to beat him into sanctification. According to the Reformer, the believer needs this whip because he is a lazy ass.
Millions of believers during the past 450 years have adopted Calvin’s scheme. Many still do, even though most of them seem rather shy at using the most severe of Calvin’s terms. Many more, even though they do not realise it, have been affected by Calvin, and are what I call ‘incipient’ law-men, ‘recipe preachers’.