And much more is it the evangelical law of Jesus Christ.
Make the tree good, our Lawgiver aphoristically said.

Reformation and sanctification differ, says Dr.Hodge, as clean clothes differ from a clean heart.

Now, Diabolus was all for clean clothes when he saw that Mansoul was slipping out of his hands.

He would have all the drunkards to become moderate drinkers, if not total abstainers; and all the sensualists to become, if need be, ascetics; and all those who had sowed out their wild oats to settle down as heads of houses, and members, if not ministers and elders, in his set-up church.

But we are too well taught, surely; we have gone too long to another church than that which Diabolus ever sets up, to be satisfied with his superficial doctrine and his skin-deep discipline.