If we do not become skilled in the proper uses of the law, we can never distinguish the Law and Gospel rightly. Inevitably, we will either confuse the law for the gospel or gut the gospel by making it unnecessary and something tending to immorality. Calvin’s successor, Theodore Beza, said, “…Ignorance of [the] distinction between Law and Gospel is one of the principal sources of the abuses which corrupted and still corrupt Christianity”