What the Methodist Episcopal Church Teaches.
(From Catechism No. 2. Articles 5 and 6 are substantially the same.) “86. What is the rule of our obedience?
“The moral law. ‘If thou wilt enter into life, keep the Commandments.’ Matt. 19: 17. “87. Where is the moral law given?
“In the Ten Commandments. Ex. 20: 1-17.” The Teaching of Albert Barnes.
“We learn, hence, (1) that all the law of God is binding on Christians (compare James 2: 10); (2) that all the commands of God should be preached, in their proper place, by Christian ministers; (3) that they who pretend that there are any laws of God so small that they need not obey them, are unworthy of His kingdom; and (4) that true piety has respect to all the commandments of God. Compare Ps. 119: 6.” What Presbyterians Declare.
(From the Confession of Faith.) “The Bible contains the whole counsel of God concerning all things necessary for His own glory, or man’s salvation, faith, and life. “The moral law doth forever bind all, as well justified persons as others, to the obedience thereof; and that not only in regard to the matter contained in it, but also in respect of the authority of God, the Creator who gave it. Neither doth Christ in the Gospel any way dissolve, but much strengthen, this obligation.”—
Article 5. “Neither are the aforementioned uses of the law contrary to the grace of the Gospel, but do sweetly comply with it, the Spirit of Christ subduing and enabling the will of man to do that freely and cheerfully which the will of God, revealed in the law, requireth to be done.”
—Article 7.