294 Ephefrana,Chap. 2.. VER.15 The third thing to be marked , is theabolifhment of thefe Laws; whereof, for more ample confideration of the point , confider what our Saviour faith, Mat.5. 18,19. One tittle of the Law (hall not efcape, &c. And, Rom.3.3 r. where the Apoftle affirmeth, that the Doarine of Faith, and the Go/pel, de not aboláfh the Law, but eflablifh it : Here both the words, the former in one, the latter in the other is denyed of the Law, which here are affirmed of it. So that the Doétrine ari- (èth more fully ; viZ. Door. That thefe Laws, e/pecially this of Rites is utterly abolifbed, otherwife alt Rites arc abolilhed. then the LawMoral! the curfewhereofin us receiving alteration ; for > > as thefe phrafes teftifiethere is fuch removal( of thefe Laws made, as that in regard ofbond they are a nullity, they Rand repealed, and men are freed from them, as if they never had been given. And to fpare proofof a thing fore- prophefied , executed, really applyed, fuch as this abrogating was ; I will , a. clear only the mauerof their remo- vall; 2. (hew you the reafons; 3. the ufe. it. Firft therefore for theMorall Law, there is no change made in that Not the Mo.. rail Law. Law the Law it felf but the order of it in us is changed ; for we are > > g freed, s. from juftification by it; 2. from thecurfe; 3. from the rigour of it; but yet fo, as all this order mutt have his accomplithment in an- Rom. r.4. other for us : Therefore theApoftlenever faith,The Law is dead, but Gal. 2.19. we aredeadro the Law. z. Secondly, the Laws judiciall are of three kindes. r. Theone of fuch as aregrounded onunchangeable reafon,as the Law ofpunifhing voluntary Murther with death: Now thefe are not to be altered in the generali , though the kinde of death may be changed. a. They are fuch as are cloathed with Ceremony of Type or Order. Or, 3. So tempered to State; perfons, &c. I FM. the firft,we arefree from them as ordinancesPoliticall delivered, Nov Judicial!, which bath they bindeus, a. as the perpetuali equity of God, agreeable to the Lawof Natureand Morall, is in them. a. We are bound, not to the uall particular determination of punifhment, but the generali ; with liber- tie both to intend and exchange the kinde, and to mitigate or releafe the kinde, freed from all particularities and circumftance,bound onely to the fubftance, or fomewhat proportionable. a. The fecond, riot grounded on unchangeable equity, and cloathed n't'''Iy.as wa with Ceremony, no way binde, yet may without fin be taken into ufe; ceremony., the Ceremony ceafed, the generali equity remained) ; the particular determination bindeth none. 3. For the third, how far the Ceremony is abrogated Ceremonies were either Typicall,or of Order onely,withoutfigni- 1 ficatio n. Now the firft are repealed, in regard of bond to them, in regard of ufe, in wayof fignification, in wayof worfhip ; yetfo may i be ufed, as to prevent offence. This we are to know, that the Cere- monies of the Jews were not only takenaway, as they were Types fore-
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