the geneva catechism 4 (continued)
advance day by day. That is as I understand it.
230. Do we not have perfect rule of goodness in the Law? Yes, and therefore God demands nothing from us, but to follow it; and, on the other hand, repudiates and rejects all that a man undertakes to do beyond what it contains. The only sacrifice He requires is obedience (1 Sam. 15:22; Jer. 7:21-23).
231. What is the purpose then of all the admonitions, reproofs, commandments, and exhortations made both by Prophets and Apostles? They are nothing else than declarations of the Law, leading us into obedience to it rather than turning us away from it.
232. But nothing is said about particular vocations? When it is said that we are to render to every one his due, we may well infer what the duty of each is in his own vocation. Moreover as we have already said, this is expounded for us in the whole of Scripture, for what the Lord has set down in this summary, He treats of there, and with much fuller teaching.