Flogging a Dead Horse

That's what it feels like – trying to get the Reformed to engage with Scripture on the law without reading it through a Reformed Confession. But... let's try again.
The so-called threefold division of the law is of paramount importance to the advocates of John Calvin's threefold use of the law. It conveniently enables them not only to enforce their chosen part of the law on believers, but to dispose of – skirt round, explain away – any scriptural passage that contradicts their theology. They dare not let it go. If they do, the whole Reformed edifice of covenant theology on the law will crumble about their ears. And they know it. Sadly, it was also stop them coming to a proper understanding of the law, and the liberty the believer has in Christ under his law in the new covenant.