If you tell those tending toward legalism that they shouldn’t talk so much about obedience and the law, you are pushing them toward the antinomian spirit that cannot see the law as a wonderful gift of God.

Calvin’s emphasis that salvation becomes ours in Christ and not merely through Christ.

The offer of the gospel is to be made not to the righteous or even the repentant, but to all.

They were clearly related to, yet distinct from, the application of them to civil life and worship.

pointed to a future sacrifice that would be fully efficacious to deal with sin.

Repentance, which is the fruit of grace, thus becomes a qualification for grace.

You must first have Christ himself, before you can partake of those benefits by him.

antinomianism

what God wants is that I be myself.”