Can we be too gospel-centered?

“It is not easy to get the law killed; something of a legal disposition remains even in the believer while he is in this world: many a stroke does self and self-righteousness get, but still it revives again. If he were wholly dead to the law, he would be wholly dead to sin; but so far as the law lives, so far sin lives. They that think they know the gospel well enough bewray (reveal-J.F.) their ignorance; no man can be too evangelical, it will take all his life-time to get a legal temper destroyed.”

Ralph Erskine, The Works of Ralph Erskine, vol. 2, p. 27


HT: Paramount's Gospel-Driven Quote of the Week (7/27/09)