Observe, 1. That God's word is righteousness, and it is an everlasting
righteousness. It is the rule of God's judgment, and it is consonant to
his counsels from eternity and will direct his sentence for eternity.
The word of God will judge us, it will judge us in righteousness, and
by it our everlasting state will be determined. This should possess us
with a very great reverence for the word of God that it is
righteousness itself, the standard of righteousness, and it is
everlasting in its rewards and punishments. 2. That God's word is a
law, and that law is truth. See the double obligation we are under to
be governed by the word of God. We are reasonable creatures, and as
such we must be ruled by truth, acknowledging the force and power of
it. If the principles be true, the practices must be agreeable to them,
else we do not act rationally. We are creatures, and therefore
subjects, and must be ruled by our Creator; and whatever he commands we
are bound to obey as a law. See how these obligations are here twisted,
these cords of a man. Here is truth brought to the understanding, there
to sit chief, and direct the motions of the whole man; but, lest the
authority of that should become weak through the flesh, here is a law
to bind the will and bring that into subjection. God's truth is a law
(John xviii. 37) and God's law is the truth; surely we cannot break
such words as these asunder.