[286] "Nulla forma syllogistica tenet in terminis divinis." (Luth. Op. (L.) i, 56.) No syllogistic form holds in divine terms. "If the form of the syllogism could be applied to divine things, we should know the article of the Holy Trinity, and should not believe it. "In one word, Aristotle is to theology as darkness to light. "Man is more hostile to the grace of God than he is to the law itself. "He who is without the grace of God sins incessantly, even though he neither kills, nor steals, nor commits adultery. "He sins, for he does not fulfil the law spiritually. "Not to kill, and not to commit adultery, externally, and in regard to action, merely, is the righteousness of hypocrites. "The law of God and the will of man are two adversaries, who, without the grace of God, can never agree.[287] [287] "Lex et voluntas sunt adversarii duo, sine gratia Dei implacabiles." (Ibid. 57.) Law and will are two adversaries implacable without the grace of God. "What the law wishes the will never wishes; only from fear it may make a show of wishing. "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.) [288] "Lex est exactor voluntatis, qui non superatur nisi per Parvulum qui natus est nobis." (Ibid.) "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] [289] Luth. Op. Lips. xvii, p. 143, et Op. Lat. i. In this way Luther attributes to God all the good that man can do. The thing to be done is not to repair, or, so to speak, to patch up the will of man; an entirely new will must be given him. God alone could say this; for God alone could perform it. This is one of the greatest and most important truths that the will of man can acknowledge.