A Christian is legal when not fully rought into the free grace of the gospel and his perfect standing in Christ. The seventh of Romans (as that which Paul hypothetically puts as his own) represents such state. It is the very opposite of antinomianism, which is an abuse of grace, in order to give license to the flesh. In Galatians it is strongly opposed by the apostle as contrary to, and destructive of, true Christian liberty, which is equally opposed to legality on the one hand, and to antinomianism on the other.