By the law of the wise and righteous, here, we may understand either
the principles and rules by which they govern themselves or (which
comes all to one) the instructions which they give to others, which
ought to be as a law to all about them; and if they be so, 1. They will
be constant springs of comfort and satisfaction, as a fountain of life,
sending forth streams of living water; the closer we keep to those
rules the more effectually we secure our own peace. 2. They will be
constant preservatives from the temptations of Satan. Those that follow
the dictates of this law will keep at a distance from the snares of
sin, and so escape the snares of death which those run into that
forsake the law of the wise.