unto the Perfon ofC/;rifl. t 6 t . 3. There is a peculiar Refpecr unto him in all Moral Obe– dience as Mediator. I. , In that by the Jupreme Authority over the Church wherewith he was veiled, he hath confirmed all the com– mands of the Moral Law, giving them new enforcements, whence he calls them his Commands . ihis, faith he, tS my Commandment, that ) 'OU love one another, which yet was the Old Commandment ofthe Moral Law; thou jhalt love thy Neighhour tu thy fel}: Hence the Apoi1le calls it an Oldand NewCommandment, I Joh. '. 7, 8. The Law was given unto the Church under the Old Tefl:a– mentinthehandofa !Vfecliator, thatis, -of!Ylofes, Gal. 3· I9· It had an Original Power of obliging all mankind unto Obe– dience from its firfl: Infl:itution or Prefcription in our Creati– on; which it never loft nor abated in. Howbeit the Church was obliged to have a refpecr unto it, as it was given unto them, ordainedhy Angels in the hand of a Mediator. See Mal. 4· 4· Hereon many things hard and difficult did enfue, which we ,are now freeq from. We are not obliged unto the Ob– fervance of the Moral Law it felf, as givenm the hand of that Mediator, which gave it the formal Reafon of a Co·venant unto that People, and had other Statutes and Judgments infe– l'arable from it. But the fame Law continueth fl:ill in its Original Authority and Power, which it had from the beginning to oblige all indifpenfibly unto Obedience. · Howbeit as the Church of lfrael as fuch was not obliged ' unto Obedience unto the Moral Law abfolutely confidered, but as it was given unto them peculiarly in the hand of a Me– diator, that is, ofMofes; no more is the Evangelical Church asfuch, obliged by the Original Authority of that Law, but as it is confirmed unto us in the hand ofour Mediator. This renders .all our Moral O!Jedience, Ev~ngelical. For there is no Duty of it~ but we are obliged to perform it in Faith Y through - ' '
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