VVorlkf of it, in,the Ep les of áu$. 4.1 comprehends with it all the Revelations that God made under the Old Teftament, in the Explanation and Confirma- tion of that Law, in Roles, Motives, Directions andEnforce- ments of Obedience. 6. Wherefore rmn the Law is the whole Rule of Obedience which God gave to the Church under the Old Teftament, with all the Efficacy wherewith it was accompanied by the Ordinances of God , including in it all the Promifes and Threatningsi that might be Motives unto the Obedience that God didrequire. This is that which God and the Church called the Law under theOld Teftament, and which the yews. fo called with whom our ApoftIe had to do. That which we call the Moral Law was the Foundation of the whole and thofe Parts of it which we = call the judicial and Ceremonial Law , were peculiar Inftances of the Obedience which the Church under the Old Teftament was obliged unto, in the efpecial Politie and divine Worthip , which at that feafon were neceffary unto it. And two things ..doth the Scripture teftifie'into concerning this Law. I. That it was a perfect compleat Role of all that internal °, fpiritual and moral obedience which God required of the Church. The Law of the Lord k perfect converting the Soul, the Teftiimony of the Lord k fore making Wife the Simple. Pfd. 19. 7. And it was fo of all the external Duties of Obe- dience, for matter and manner, time and feafon; that in both, the Church might walk acceptably before God, Ifa. 8. 20. And although the Original Duties of the Moral Part of the Law are. often preferred before the particular Iuftances of Obe- dience in Duties of outward Worlhip5 yet the whole Law was always the whole Role of all the Obedience internal and external that God required of the, Church,, and which he ac- cepted in them that did believe. 2. That this Law, this Rule of Obedience as it was ordained 4ofGod to be the Itattrument of his Rule of the Church and by
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