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dS
OF
THE
MORAL LAW, AND THE EVIL
OF
SIN. [SEAM.
V
eludes also his
authörity,
which
obliges us to walk by
the
rule
he gives us.
The
commands or requirements of the moral
law
may
represented
in
different
views,
but
all
agree
in
the same
design and substance.
Sometimes the moral
law
is
represented
as requiring
us
to seek
after
the knowledge
of
that
God
who
made
us,
as
obliging us to believe
whatsoever
God
discovers
to
us,
and
as
commanding
us
to
perform those
duties
he
pre
-
scribes,
and
to
abstain
from
those.
things which he for
-
bids.
Sometimes again this moral
law
is
represented
by
dis-
'tinguishing it
into
those
duties
which we owe
to
God,
to
our
neighbours,
and
to ourselves.
The duties
which
we
owe to
God are fear
and
love,
trust and
hope,
worship
and
obedience,
prayer
and praise, ,doing every
thing to
his glory,
and patience
under
his
providences
in
life
and
death.
The
duties
which
we owe
to
our neighbours are
submission
to our superiors, compassion
to
our inferiors,
truth
and
fidelity,
justice and
honesty, benevolence
and
goodness toward all men.
The duties
which
we owe
to
ourselves are sobriety and
temperance;
and
in
general
the
moral
law
requires a
restraint
of our
natural appetites
and
passions
within
just
bounds,
so
that
they
neither
Break
out
to
the dishonour
of
God, to the
injury
of
our
neighbour,
or
to hinder
us
in
the
pursuit of our
own
best
interests.
There.
is
yet another general ,representation
of
the mo-
'ral
law,
which
is
used in seripture both
in
the Old and
'New
'Testament.
It
is
mentioned
by
Moses:
Deut.
vi.
5.
Lev. xix.
18.
and repeated and confirmed
by
our
blessed
Saviour
Mat.
xxii. 37.
" Thou
shalt love
the
Lord
thy
God
with all thy
heart and
_soul,
and thy neigh-
bour
as
thyself;
on
these
two
commandments hang
all
the
law and prophets
:"
And
therefore
St.
Paul,
Rom. xiii.
10.
tells
us,
"
love
is
the
fulfilling
of
the law."
For
he
that
loves
God
and
his
neighbour
as he ought,
will
perform
all necessary duties toward
them, as well as
govern
him-
self aright
in obedience
to
God
his
Maker.
Having
explained what
I mean by
the
moral
law,
we
come
to enquire where it
is
to be found
?
I
answer,
it
is
found
in
the ten commands
given to
the Jews
at
Sinai;
it
is -found
in
the holy scriptures,
scattered
up and
down
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