⚖ Law & Sanctification · Uses of the Law

Pedagogical-Only

The law only convicts; it has no civil or normative office — radical-spiritualist.

This is a contested or rejected alternative.

The Westminster baseline on Uses of the Law is Three-Uses-Affirmed. Personas and schools listed below hold this alternative position instead — either because they argued for it at the Assembly (like the Erastians on polity) or because they represent a receiving tradition that departed from the Standards on this point.

Cruxes on this attribute

The Assembly navigated 2 cruxes that bear directly on Uses of the Law.

Justification and the Antinomian Crisis 1643–1647 How do you secure sola fide without letting the law fall away? The Third Use of the Moral Law 1645–1646 Does the moral law remain the rule of life for the regenerate?

Other positions on Uses of the Law

Three-Uses-Affirmed WCF Civil (restraint), pedagogical (driving to Christ), and normative (rule of life for the regenerate) — WCF XIX.5–6. Two-Uses-No-Third Civil and pedagogical only; denies the third use for the regenerate — the antinomian position rejected by XIX.6.