REMARKS ON THE LAW OF GOD.
By H. S. Gurney
How clear it is, not only from the scriptures of truth, but from the dictates of reason, that God’s Law has eternally existed with himself. God is eternal. His throne is eternal. The "house" or "building of God not made with hands" is "eternal" See 2 Cor. v, 1; John xiv, 2. The Fathers house, or house of God, the place of God’s throne in his house, [Heb. viii, 1, 2] hence, a place to deposite his Law. We read, "justice and judgment are the habitation of his throne." Now common sense would dictate the question, how can there be justice without a law? In the beginning of the world God made man, and gave him power to govern the whole animate creation, whether in sea air, or on the land. See Gen. i, 26; Heb. ii, 7, 8. How unreasonable to suppose that God gave man no Law by which he should be governed. God knew the end from the beginning. His Law is, and always was perfect; hence, there could be no alteration for the better. And he, knowing the natural disposition of man to evade it, hath said; "My covenant will I not break, nor alter the thing that has gone out of my lips." God shew Moses in the mount the Law, and the place of its deposite, and told him to make a house and furnish it like the one shewed him in the mount. What infinite condescension with Jehovah to shew man the place of his throne, and to write for man his Law of justice. H. S. GURNEY.