N EVV CovENANT. ---------------------~---------- befaved,ifyouwouldhaueit-by the Law, to what end is the I.aw given then'! By·rrafon of - tranfkreffim, that you might learne to know • how impoffib1c it is for you to come to G·tJd> to be partaker of the Covenant ;my other way than by Faith; Saith he, you might remem– ber that Adam, when he was in~innocency and perfection, was much ftrongcr than you, yet did not keepethe Law; but, becaufe that W;iS eafie for people to forget, the I.aw was given againe by uwofe.ruponMount Sinai, that the · Lerd by that meanes mightre-minde you of the Commandemenr, and of your finnes, and of thecurfe belonging to you, and therefore, faith he, when the Law was delivered, ·it was .fo terrihle, that uwofes himfelfc did tremble; and therefore faid the People, Lord, doe not · • thou jjeake to m any more, deliver not the Law tousany more, but let Mofts come, and he as a Mediator between us,let him fpeake: For we are not ableto fee thefe fires,thefe burnings, .wearenorabletofeethis·and live. The mea• ningofii: is this, the Law, ifany manlooke on ir, it is·fo terrible, when God.. comes to fpe-Jke ·· to a Man in his Law, and in his Commande– ments, tpatthere is. nothi-ng to be expetted but death: That fame fearefulndfeat Mount Sinai, was buto.qdy an expreffion ofthat feare which the LawofGod putsup,on every mans confci~ ::ence; And therefore when the p·eople rheh de– fired a·Mediator, that might fpeake, and that pod might .fpeake no . more, another thing ;was: The end of f,i– ving the Law.• What the ter· roursatthe · giving of the Law,til'd fig• nilie. '
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