(Thrift g Beieevers Law-giver . Secondly, Iñ diflinc}ion and "op po :ition f om or unto the Kingdomes of the world,_ It is not of rid; World, faith Chrift. Thirdly, Becaufe that Chrift his feat i 3 now at the prefent in Heaven. Fourthly, Becaufe that the way of his Government, it is fpirituall and heavenly, not in an outward way. And then Fifthly, Becaufe is will certainly bring both foule and body to Heaven at laft ; Therefore the whole adminilfratron of the Meffiah in his way and government is call'd the King dome of Heaven. --- Chrift is the King, and the blefTing of this it would be very large to open in the perticulars, there is infinite bleffedneffe in this Kingdome of Heaven. Por firft,'Tis Chrift the Mediatorthat gives thee Lawes, if thou beef+ brought under the Date of the Gofpellro be a fi:b je& of Chrift by being a B .leaver, I fay Chrift he gives thee thy laves ; now thou haft them from the hand of a Mediator : The Jewes had their !awes ( the ten Commandements ) from the hand of a mediator, from Mofes . But thou haft the law - for the guiding and orderingof thee from, the hand .of Jefus Chrift, It's true, the fame thing that Mofes did require men then, was that thatJefus Chrift gave to them, and Mofes wife he was a kind of type of Chrift even in that, but thou haft. them more .fully from the hand of a Mediator, from the hand ofChrift, ( the law) for the guiding and ordering of thy fife: and that is a great difpute about the law now, which truly hath little in it to edification, viz. Whether we have our lax now from Mofes or from Chrift, and fo many that fpeaks agaïnft the law, when it comes to a difpute, the uttermof} that they can, give is this, that we are delivvered from the law as it was given. by Mofes : why what's that to purpofe, if we be bound ,to the fame thing that Mofes did command, and by as flrong bonds as thofe were that liv'd in the time of the law : what great matter whether we have it from Mofes or no, we have rt,andare bound to ït by as flrong bonds if it comes from the hands of ChriPc And we may fatisfie our felves enough inthis, but we have the law-
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