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

I Now should heartily rejoice to be excused from searching any other Records but those of the Bible, if my Learned Brother did not bring me from Greek to Latin Authors, whom he musters in greater multitudes. To rescue them therefore from his Abuse, in fastening on them a Meaning of which they never had a thought, it will be needful to state the Sense of the word Law in the Roman Language, as well as I have done it in the Hebrew and Greek.

I Now should heartily rejoice to be excus'd from searching any other Records but those of the Bible, if my Learned Brother did not bring me from Greek to Latin Authors, whom he musters in greater multitudes. To rescue them therefore from his Abuse, in fastning on them a Meaning of which they never had a thought, it will be needful to state the Sense of the word Law in the Roman Language, as well as I have done it in the Hebrew and Greek.

That Lex, or Law, may signify any Doctrine, as well as a Precept, appears from the Derivation of it given by Isidore, à Legendo, from Reading^a, which agrees very well to a Doctrine: And among the Romans, their Laws were inscribed on Brass Tables, and publicly hung up that they might be read by the People^b; and I wish the Doctrine of the Gospel was more commonly read and known. The same Word is also sometimes employed to signify the Rules of any Science or Art, which are purely instructive, but not obliging by the Force of any Sanction. Thus Juvenal, Sat. 6. v. 450, 451, 452.

That Lex, or Law, may signify any Doctrine, as well as a Precept, appears from the Derivation of it given by Isidore, à Legendo, from Reading^a, which agrees very well to a Doctrine: And among the Romans, their Laws were inscrib'd on Brass Tables, and publickly hung up that they might be read by the People^b