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The following quote is from Calvin's "Institutes of Christian Religion" Book 2, Chapter 5, Section 7
The ungodly are neither blocks nor stones, when, taught by the Law that their lusts are offensive to God, they are proved guilty by their own confession; nor are the godly blocks or stones, when admonished of their powerlessness, they take refuge in grace. To this effect are the pithy sayings of Augustine, God orders what we cannot do, that we may know what we ought to ask of him. 
There is a great utility in precepts, if all that is given to free will is to do greater honour to divine grace. Faith acquires what the Law requires; nay, the Law requires, in order that faith may acquire what is thus required; nay, more, God demands of us faith itself, and finds not what he thus demands, until by giving he makes it possible to find it. Again, he says, Let God 
give what he orders, and order what he wills.