{"id":5930,"date":"2018-06-26T12:31:48","date_gmt":"2018-06-26T12:31:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.baptists.net\/history\/?p=5930"},"modified":"2023-05-17T07:09:10","modified_gmt":"2023-05-17T07:09:10","slug":"our-schoolmaster","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.baptists.net\/history\/2018\/06\/our-schoolmaster\/","title":{"rendered":"Our Schoolmaster"},"content":{"rendered":"<h4 align=\"center\">\u201cThe law is our schoolmaster to bring us unto Christ.\u201d<\/h4>\n<p class=\"drop-cap\">So it reads; but if you will refer to your Bibles you will see the words \u201cto bring us\u201d are in italics, showing that they are not in the original. \u201cThe law worketh wrath,\u201d therefore cannot bring us to Christ. It rushes up to a man, if I may so speak, takes him by the throat, and says, \u201cPay me what thou owest!\u201d And the poor quickened sinner thinks he will; but the more he strives the deeper in debt he feels himself to be. The Holy Spirit teaches him that \u201cevery evil thought is a sin,\u201d to say nothing of his evil doings, and that \u201che that offends in one point is guilty of all.\u201d The law still, as it were, has hold of him; but when he is made to give up all for lost, finding himself utterly ruined, then the Blessed Spirit leads him to Christ; and here he experiences a good hope, and then, in God&#8217;s own time, a deliverance from the law and a glorious salvation.<\/p>\n<div class=\"simplefavorite-button\" data-postid=\"5930\" data-siteid=\"1\" data-groupid=\"1\" data-favoritecount=\"0\" style=\"box-shadow:none;-webkit-box-shadow:none;-moz-box-shadow:none;\"><div class=\"bookmark-off\"><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cThe law is our schoolmaster to bring us unto Christ.\u201d So it reads; but if you will refer to your Bibles you will see the words \u201cto bring us\u201d are in italics, showing that they are not in the original. \u201cThe law worketh wrath,\u201d therefore cannot bring us to Christ. It rushes up to a man, if I may so speak, takes him by the throat, and says, \u201cPay me what thou owest!\u201d And the poor quickened sinner thinks he will; but the more he strives the deeper in debt he feels himself to be. The Holy Spirit teaches him that \u201cevery evil thought is a sin,\u201d to say nothing of his evil doings, and that \u201che that offends in one point is guilty of all.\u201d The law still, as it were, has hold of him; but when he is made to give up all for lost, finding himself utterly<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":14239,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_vp_format_video_url":"","_vp_image_focal_point":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[887],"tags":[1228,1194,1197],"class_list":["post-5930","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-william-gadsbys-fragments-complete","tag-antinomianism","tag-gospel-law","tag-spiritual-growth"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.baptists.net\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5930","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.baptists.net\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.baptists.net\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.baptists.net\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.baptists.net\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5930"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.baptists.net\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5930\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15887,"href":"https:\/\/www.baptists.net\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5930\/revisions\/15887"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.baptists.net\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14239"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.baptists.net\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5930"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.baptists.net\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5930"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.baptists.net\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5930"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}