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 of this, because they were slow of understanding, he wrote on two tables of stone; which he commanded the fathers to teach their children, thro' all succeeding generations.

6. And thus it is, that the law of God is now made known to them that know not God. They hear, with the hearing of the ear, the things that were written aforetime for our instruction. But this does not suffice. They cannot by this means comprehend the height and depth and length and breadth thereof. God alone can reveal this by his Spirit. And so he does to all that truly believe, in consequence of that gracious promise, made to all the Israel of God: ''Behold, the days come, saith the Lord, that I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel. And this shall be the covenant that I will make, I will put my law in their inward parts, and write it in their hearts, and I will be their'' God, and they shall be my people. Jer. xxxi. 31, &c.

II. 1. The nature of that law which was originally given to angels in heaven, and man in paradise, and which God has so mercifully promised to write afresh, in the hearts of all true believers, was the second thing I proposed to shew. In order to which I would first observe, that altho' the law and the commandment are sometimes differently taken, (the commandment meaning but a part of the law) yet in the text