Our obligation to imitate and obey him is more original even than any published precept, for it is founded on our natural relation to him, as moral creatures of a righteous and beneficent Sovereign. Christ came not to destroy the law, but to fulfil; it was impossible that he should come on the former errand. Hence, whatever change of dispensation man’s sin and fall and God’s mercy may have prompted, it is simply impossible that there can be anywhere or for any object a dispensation of disobedience.