thee: oh let me not go wrong out of Thy commandments."

Moreover, you must learn God's testimonies: what He has witnessed and
declared about Himself, and His own character, His power and His
goodness, His severity and His love. And where will you learn that, as
in the Bible? The Bible is full of testimonies of God in Christ about
Himself; who He is, what He does, what He requires; and of testimonies of
holy men of old, concerning God and concerning duty; concerning God's
dealings with their souls, and with other men, and with all the nations
of the old world, and with all nations likewise to the end of time. And
if people will not read and study their Bibles, they cannot expect to
know the way to eternal life. That too the man who wrote the 119th Psalm
knew, and said, "I have had as great delight in Thy testimonies, as in
all manner of riches."

Moreover, you must learn God's judgments; the way in which He rewards and
punishes men. And those too you will learn in the Bible, which is full
of accounts of the just and merciful judgments of God. And you may learn
them too from your own experience in life; from seeing what actually
happens to those whom you know, when they do right things; and what
happens again, when they do wrong things. If any man will open his eyes
to what is going on around him in a single city, or in the mere private
circle of his own kinsfolk and acquaintance; if he will but use his
common sense, and look how righteousness is rewarded, and sin is
punished, all day long, then he might learn enough and to spare about
God's judgments: but men will not. A man will see his neighbour do
wrong, and suffer for it: and then go and do exactly the same thing
himself; as if there were no living God; no judgments of God; as if all
was accident and chance; as if he was to escape scot-free, while his
neighbour next door has brought shame and misery on himself by doing the
same thing. For it was well written of old, "The fool hath said in his
heart--though he is afraid to say it with his lips--There is no God." And
the man who wrote the 119th Psalm knew that, and said, "I remembered
Thine everlasting judgments, O Lord, and received comfort; for I was
horribly afraid for the ungodly who forsake Thy law."

I say again: that the only way to attain eternal life is to know, and
keep, and profit by God's laws, God's commandments, God's testimonies,
God's judgments; and therefore it is that the Psalmists say so