IT is inconceivable that a moral governor should leave his subjects without a law. It is inconceivable that men should be called to account for infractions of moral conduct, and not have revealed to them the standard by which conduct is determined. The great infinite God does not demand of men obedience to an unrevealed law. His nature and the nature of His responsible creatures demand clear, readable, understandable revelation. Before man sinned, this was not necessary; for the law was written in man's heart and nature, and an unperverted, undefiled conscience was a sufficient monitor. But after man sinned, his conscience became perverted, his heart carnal, and a revelation outside of him became necessary. How early this written revelation was given, we know not. Noah may have possessed it. We know that in Abraham's day great codes of laws were written; and from the fact that Abraham is said to have kept God's charge, and commandments, and statutes, and laws, we would infer that these were classified. Not a single one of the Ten Commandments was a new precept when it was spoken from Sinai's top and inscribed by its Author on tables of stone. All existed before, and were observed by the enlightened faithful. The divinely given Decalogue summarized the great moral precepts for sinful man, and placed them in such form, and inaugurated their giving with such display of power and glory, that they could never be questioned by a believer in God's Word. That law was committed to Israel for the world. Rom. 9:4. God made His people priests of the nations (Ex. 19:5, 6); and the priest's lips should keep knowledge, and the people should seek the law at his mouth (Mal. 2:7). That law of Ten Commandments, while a part of the law of Moses, interwoven in all its precepts, was a distinct code by itself, and is called "the law." Ex. 24:12. When God finished speaking it, "He added no more." Deut. 5:22. He differentiated between that and all other laws, not only by speaking it in audible voice, but He engraved it Himself in tables of enduring rock. Ex. 31:18; 32:15, 16. Then were the tables placed for safest preservation in the holy golden ark. Thus by every means which would appeal to men God honored His law. Our Lord honored that law by its observation and by His teaching, as the prophet seven centuries before declared, "He will magnify the law, and make it honorable." Isa. 42:21. One thousand years before Christ, He had said through the psalmist David, "Lo, I come: in the volume of the book it is written of Me, I delight to do Thy will, O My God; yea, Thy law is within My heart." Ps. 40:7, 8. And when the Word was made flesh, He averred in harmony with the prediction which went before, "For I am come down from heaven not to do Mine own will, but the will of Him that sent Me." John 6:38. Of that law, our Lord declared that one jot or one tittle would never pass from it, and that it was easier for heaven and earth to pass than one tittle to fail. Matt. 5:17-19; Luke 16:17. The above, and many other considerations and scriptures, abundantly testify that between Jesus and the law there was perfect harmony. He gave it, He loved it, He lived it, He taught it, He died to save men from its condemnation, He lives to bring them to its obedience. It is this law which points out sin (Rom. 7:7; 1 John 3:4), and which faith establishes in the heart (Rom. 3:31). Only the carnal mind is at enmity with its righteous requirements. Rom. 8:7. The regenerated heart loves it and keeps it. 1 John 5:3.