_Ps. 119:97_—“_O how love I thy law! it is my meditation all the day_”; _Rom. 3:8, 31_—“_and why not (as we are slanderously reported, and as some affirm that we say), Let us do evil, that good may come? whose condemnation is just.... Do we then make the law of none effect through faith? God forbid: nay, we establish the law_”; _6:14, 15, 22_—“_For sin shall not have dominion over you: for ye are not under law, but under grace. What then? shall we sin, because we are not under law, but under grace? God forbid ... now being made free from sin and become servants to God, ye have your fruit unto sanctification, and the end eternal life_”; _7:6_—“_But now we have been discharged from the law, having died to that wherein we were held; so that we serve in newness of the spirit, and not in oldness of the letter_”; _8:4_—“_that the ordinance of the law might be fulfilled in us, who walk not after the flesh, but after the Spirit_”; _1 Cor. 7:22_—“_he that was called in the Lord being a bondservant, is the Lord’s freedman_”; _Gal. 5:1_—“_For freedom did Christ set us free: stand fast therefore, and be not entangled again in a yoke of bondage_”; _1 Tim. 1:9_—“_law is not made for a righteous man, but for the lawless and unruly_”; _James 1:25_—“_the perfect law, the law of liberty_.” To sum up the doctrine of Christian freedom as opposed to Antinomianism, we may say that Christ does not free us, as the Antinomian believes, from the law as a rule of life. But he does free us (1) from the law as a system of curse and penalty; this he does by bearing the curse and penalty himself. Christ frees us (2) from the law with its claims as a method of salvation; this he does by making his obedience and merits ours. Christ frees us (3) from the law as an outward and foreign compulsion; this he does by giving to us the spirit of obedience and sonship, by which the law is progressively realized within. Christ, then, does not free us, as the Antinomian believes, from the law as a rule of life. But he does free us (1) from the law as a system of curse and penalty. This he does by bearing the curse and penalty himself. Just as law can do nothing with a man after it has executed its death‐penalty upon him, so law can do nothing with us, now that its death‐penalty has been executed upon Christ. There are some insects that expire in the act of planting their sting; and so, when the law gathered itself up and planted its sting in the heart of Christ, it expended all its power as a judge and avenger over us who believe. In the Cross, the law as a system of curse and penalty exhausted itself; so we were set free.