Sublime

Romans 13:4

the Confession of Faith taught that while the law is not a covenant of works for the believer, it nevertheless functions as a rule of life.

With respect to doctrine, we must not imagine that the coming of Christ has freed us from the authority of the law: for it is the eternal rule of a devout and holy life, and must, therefore, be as unchangeable, as the justice of God, which it embraced, is constant and uniform.

Trent said: To check unbridled spirits it [the Council] decrees that no one, relying on his own judgment shall, in matters of faith and morals pertaining to the edification of Christian doctrine, distorting the Holy Scriptures in accordance with his own conceptions, presume to interpret them contrary to that sense which holy mother Church, to whom

Hebrews.

God’s rules aren’t about diminishing their joy and freedom but about increasing it.