Ckrifl .a Beleevers Law giver, law that are the rules of .uflice and equity, that are morale, we have them: in this Kin doi7L' of (leaven: hacked we have them given n anv her way in the hand of this Mediator, with more i riélneiíe,wiîh more fi lrituallneffe and inlargement rather,; For thi- our Ki'?g tells uS afterwards in this Chapter, that he . came -not to deilroy he lìw but to fulfill it, he comes t open it : iaith he, ye have heard it Paid by them of old time, thou ihalc nor commit Adclrery, but III unto you, that whofoever !orkçrh on a woman to It fl a ¡ter her, hath commrted adultery with t-er,al!ready in his heart : Chrifl expounds the law, and feemes input it in a higher pitch then the Jewes had : There is a great deale of comfort now I confef e in that, that thou haft thy law now from Jeh .Chrift: And in this indeed thou mlyeft have this comfort having thy law from him, that he will not be fo exa& as to .,eguire all forfeitures fromthe breach of the law, as was requir'd-ofthe Jewes: In the adminftration of Mofes there was fuch and fuch fo. feitures upon breach of the law but God is pleaf'd to_manifefl more grace now, fo that he doth not now (land fo exa&lyupon breaches as to pronounce a curfe upon every one that doth offend in that way : Mofes delivered his law that the people should looke upon thenlfelves as accur- fed if fo be that they did offend in any part of it ; It's true, there was fomething of Chrif} revealed to help beleevers in- deed; but for'the molt part it was little knowne,, fo as for the generallity of the people they lookt uponthemfes(or should do fo)as accurfed, if they did breake any part of the\lakv. But in this Kingdome of Heaven, that's a bleffedneffe., that thou hall a law from him that loves thee more then his life',' -áe was willing to lay down his life for thee that gives thee thy law, now when one hath a law from one. that we know loves him dearly it's comfortable ; And he is the Judge of the law, and he. is to take all the forfei : :u -es of the law that loves me dearly, evenmore then his own life : why this is a great comfort. The Second thing in the blefledneffe of this kingdome of Heaven is this, that Jefus Christ he now rules in the hearts of his Saints by his word and fpirit, a great deale more fully then
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