The Morning exercise [at] Cri[ppleg]ate, or, Several cases of conscience practically resolved

Study throughly the unchangeable natures, the eternal laws and differences of moral good and evil. To open this; There are some things of a middle and indifferent nature, neither good nor evil in themselves: But if God commands or forbids any of these, they are then good or evil indeed, but only because or whilst he doth so. The Ceremonial Law of the Old Testament stood in these things, and is now abolished by the same Divine authority which enacted it. And it is now the glory of Christian Religion, that (excepting the two Sacraments, and a very few other positive institutions for great and weighty causes reserved) the Evangelical Law of the New Testament ⟨p. 90⟩consists of such precepts as carry their own Credential letters, and are built upon moral grounds of everlasting equity and righteousness. Wherefore the Romanists deserve very ill of Christian Religion; nor are the Lutheran Churches to be excused, who of their own heads impose so many indifferent things now in the service of God under the Gospel, and that for no other reason, but because they will; consequently rendering that yoke a hard one which Christ left easy, and that burden a heavy one, which he would have light.

Study throughly the unchangeable natures, the eternal laws and differences of moral good and evill. To open this; There are some things of a middle and indifferent nature, neither good nor evill in themselves: But if God commands or forbids any of these, they are then good or evill indeed, but only because or whilest he doth so. The Ceremonial Law of the Old Testament stood in these things, and is now abolished by the same Divine authority which enacted it. And it is now the glory of Christian Religion, that (excepting the two Sacraments, and a very few other positive institutions for great and weighty causes reserved) the Evangelical Law of the New Testament ⟨p. 90⟩consists of such preceps as carry their own Credentiall letters, and are built upon morall grounds of everlasting equity and righteousnesse. Wherefore the Romanists deserve very ill of Christian Religion; nor are the Lutheran Churches to be excused, who of their owne heads impose so many indifferent things now in the service of God under the Gospel, and that for no other reason, but because they will; consequently rendring that yoak a hard one which Christ left easie, and that burthen a heavy one, which he would have light.