Christian Theology - Media Sabda Org

The law of God is a code of instruction, in which God makes himself
known in the holiness and justice of his nature, his displacence at sin, and
his love of righteousness;—as also to manifest himself in the magnitude
of his mercy, and readiness to save. In a word, it is God's system of
instruction by which men are taught the knowledge of their Creator and
of themselves—directed how to walk so as to please God—redeemed
from crooked paths—and guided in the way that leads to everlasting life.
This is the Bible—The Book, by way of eminence—the Book made by
God—the only book that is without blemish or error—the book that
contains the TRUTH, the whole TRUTH, and nothing but the TRUTH: that
without which we should have known little about God, less concerning
ourselves, and nothing about heaven, the resurrection, or a future state:
the book that contains the greatest mass of learning ever put
together—the book from which all the sages of antiquity have, directly or
indirectly, derived their knowledge: by means of which, the nations who
have studied it most, and known it best, have formed the wisest code of
laws, and have become the wisest and the most powerful nations of the
earth.
The revelation which God has given of himself is a perfect system of
instruction. It reveals no more than we ought to know; it keeps nothing
back that would be profitable. It gives us a proper view of the nature and
authority of the Lawgiver. It shows the right he has to govern us.
All well constituted and wisely enacted laws are for the benefit of the
subjects. This is emphatically the case with the law of God. He needs not
our allegiance—he wants not our tribute. He is infinitely perfect, and
needs nothing that we can bring. There was the utmost necessity for this
law:—he that is without law is without reason and rule. He has no line to
walk by—nothing to teach, restrain, or correct him. He is led astray by his
passions; and lives to his own ruin and destruction. God in his mercy has
given him a law to bind, to instruct, and to lead him. In this law he has
shown man at once his duty and his interest.