A discourse of the true nature of the Gospel demonstrating that it is no…

In other places it is employed to signify the whole Doctrine of Truth contained in God's Word, both of the Old and New Testament. Thus in Psal. 1. 2. But his delight is in the Law of the Lord, and in his Law doth he meditate Day and Night. The Design of the Psalmist being to give the entire Character of a Person truly blessed, the Description must be so comprehensive, as to take in, not only his delighting in the Precepts of the Moral Law, (which a Turk or Heathen may do, and the old Philosophers really did) but an inward feeling of a ravishing Pleasure in the Knowledge of the Gospel, and in meditating on the admirable free Grace of God displayed in the Salvation of a Sinner. And it is this pleasing Sense, resulting from the Apprehension of the Doctrine of Grace, which is the distinguishing Mark of that blessed Believer, whom the Psalmist with such wonderful Eloquence describes. So then the Law in which the Believer delights, is not the old Law of Works, nor a new one of a resembling Nature, but it is the Doctrine of the Gospel, as opening the hidden and unsearchable Riches of God's Grace and Love in Christ Jesus. And thus the most Learned^a Commentators, both Papists, as well as those of the Reformed Religion, explain the word Law in this extensive Meaning, as not merely signifying Precepts, and Commands, but that delightful Instruction which the Knowledge of Evangelical Truths affords the happy Believer.

In other places it is imploy'd to signify the whole Doctrine of Truth contained in God's Word, both of the Old and New Testament. Thus in Psal. 1. 2. But his delight is in the Law of the Lord, and in his Law doth he meditate Day and Night. The Design of the Psalmist being to give the entire Character of a Person truly blessed, the Description must be so comprehensive, as to take in, not only his delighting in the Precepts of the Moral Law, (which a Turk or Heathen may do, and the old Philosophers really did) but an inward feeling of a ravishing Pleasure in the Knowledg of the Gospel, and in meditating on the admirable free Grace of God display'd in the Salvation of a Sinner. And it is this pleasing Sense, resulting from the Apprehension of the Doctrine of Grace, which is the distinguishing Mark of that blessed Believer, whom the Psalmist with such wonderful Eloquence describes. So then the Law in which the Believer delights, is not the old Law of Works, nor a new one of a resembling Nature, but it is the Doctrine of the Gospel, as opening the hidden and unsearchable Riches of God's Grace and Love in Christ Jesus. And thus the most Learn'd