which if a man doe, he shall live] But ever since the fall he was disabled to doe what the Law required; therefore the failing of justification and salvation, by what is in a mans self, serveth 1. to shew how perfect our condition was before the fall: 2. what God might expect of us since we have fallen, in that we fell not by his, but by our own default: 3. to direct us whither to have recourse, viz. to Christ, from the Law, Galatians 3:24. by whose merit and mediation we may be acquitted, when by the Law we are condemned. I am the Lord] And therefore ye ought to serve me alone, as my people; this is often repeated, as vers. 4, 5, 6, 21, 30. to mind the people of Gods right of command, and power to punish; and to admonish men to marke and consider not so much what it is, as who it is, by whom any thing is commanded, or forbidden.