Looking unto Jesus a view of the everlasting gospel, or, the souls eying of…

4. What is it to have the Law written in our hearts? This writing contains the former, and is something more; the Metaphor is expressed in these Particulars.—

1. It is said to be written, that there might be something within, answerable to the Law without; it was written without, and so it was written within. This writing is the very same with copying or transcribing. The writing within is every way answerable to the writing without: Oh what a mercy is this, that the same God who writ the Law with his own finger in the Tables of Stone, should also write the same Law with the finger of his Spirit in the Tables of our Hearts! as you see in a Seal, when you have put the Seal on the Wax, and you take it off again, you find in the Wax the same Impression that was on the Seal: So it is in the hearts of the faithful, when the Spirit hath once softened them, then he writes the Law (i.e.) he stamps an inward aptness, an inward disposition on the heart, answering to every particular of the Law; this is that which the Apostle calls the Law of the mind, I see another Law in my Members warring against the Law of my mind: ¹Now what is this Law in the mind, but a disposition within, to keep in some measure every Commandment of the Law without? and this is the writing of the Law (or if you will) the copying or transcribing of the Law within us.

1. It is said to be written, that there might be something within, answerable to the Law without; it was written without, and so it was written within. This writing is the very same with copying or transcribing. The writing within is every way answerable to the writing without: Oh what a mercy is this, that the same God who writ the Law with his own finger in the Tables of Stone, should also write the same Law with the finger of his Spirit in the Tables of our Hearts! as you see in a Seal, when you have put the Seal on the Wax, and you take it off again, you find in the Wax the same Impression that was on the Seal: So it is in the hearts of the faithful, when the Spirit hath once softned them, then he writes the Law (i.e.) he stamps an inward aptness, an inward disposition on the heart, answering to every particular of the Law; this is that which the Apostle calls the Law of the mind, I see another Law in my Members warring against the Law of my mind: