Notes on Wesley's Sermon on the Law SERIES: The Nature of the Law

1. The law and the commandment are sometimes taken to be different things, but they are the same. And neither is the same thing as the ceremonial law. 

2. The law mentioned in Romans 7 is not the Mosaic dispensation.

3. “This law is an incorruptible picture of the high and holy One that inhabits eternity. It is He whom in His essence no man has seen or can see, made visible to men and angels.” 

4. The law is “divine virtue and wisdom assuming a visible form.” 

5. From another vantage point, the law is “supreme, un changeable reason; it is unalterable rectitude; it is the ever lasting fitness of all things that are or ever were created.” 

6. “The law of God…is a copy of the eternal mind, a transcript of the divine nature.”