His Burden is Light

Rom 2:14-16, "For when the Gentiles, which have not the law, do by nature the things contained in the law, these, having not the law, are a law unto themselves: Which shew the work of the law written in their hearts , their conscience also bearing witness, and their thoughts the mean while accusing or else excusing one another;) in the day when God shall judge the secrets of men by Jesus Christ according to my gospel." We are familiar with this passage, of course, and it is often used in evangelism to explain how Gentiles can know they are guilty before God and need a Savior. The Jews can study the law and know sin and, with the conviction of conscience recognize it in themselves. The Gentiles also can however, without the written law, because it is written in their hearts. For example, as Matthew Henry writes in his commentary on this passage, they have a sense of justice and equity, they have been taught pity to the miserable, conservation of public peace and