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 they are used as equivalent terms, implying one and the same thing. But we cannot understand here, either by one or the other, the ceremonial law. ’Tis not the ceremonial law, whereof the apostle says, in the words above recited, _I had not known sin but by the law_: this is too plain to need a proof. Neither is it the ceremonial law which saith, in the words immediately subjoined, _Thou shalt not covet_. Therefore the ceremonial law, has no place in the present question. 2. Neither can we understand by the law mentioned in the text, the _Mosaic_ dispensation. ’Tis true, the word is sometimes so understood: as when the apostle says, speaking to the _Galatians_, (c. iii. v. 17.) _The covenant which was confirmed before_ (namely with _Abraham_ the father of the faithful) _the law_, i. e. the _Mosaic_ dispensation, _which was four hundred and thirty years after, cannot disannul_. But it cannot be understood so in the text; for the apostle never bestows, so high commendations as these upon that imperfect and shadowy dispensation. He no where affirms, the _Mosaic_ to be a _spiritual_ law: or, that it is _holy and just and good_. Neither is it true, that God will _write_ that law _in the_ hearts of them whose _iniquities he remembers no more_. It remains, that _the law_, eminently so termed, is no other than the moral law.