Not only does the law give no life, but it reveals no object. As being creatures, it suffices not that we have a nature capable of certain affections; we must have an object too, and which even forms them. God alone can create, but has no need of objects. Now, the law gives neither. It says, “thou shalt love the Lord thy God;” but who—what is He (save the terror of His judgment if disobeyed)? It is a rule, and the consequences of breaking it—that is all. But it gives no nature to enjoy what is blessed, nor any blessed object to be enjoyed and to form the heart. Christ is both, revealing God as the only begotten Son in the bosom of the Father.