A supplement to The Morning-exercise at Cripple-Gate, or, Several more cases of conscience practically…

Matth. 22.37, 38. Jesus said unto him, Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind. This is the first and great Commandment.

IT is fit this Exercise should begin with a general Introduction, that may indifferently serve every Sermon that shall be Preached. I should be much mistaken, and so would you too, should we think this Text unsuitable: let's therefore, not only in the fear, but also in the love of God, address our selves to the management of it.

IT is fit this Exercise should begin with a general Introduction, that may indifferently serve every Sermon that shall be Preach'd. I should be much mistaken, and so would you too, should we think this Text unsuitable: let's therefore, not only in the fear, but also in the love of God, address our selves to the management of it.

This Command you have in Deut. 6.5. Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thine heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy might. This Command is not found in Exodus, nor in Leviticus, but only in Deuteronomy, i. e. the second Law of Moses, which as some express it, bore a Type of the second Law, viz. the Evangelical, to which this Command is proper; for the Old Law was a Law of fear tending to bondage, and therefore Moses mentions the incussion of terror in the giving of it, which when he hath dispatched, he begins the following Chapter with Love, noting, that the Holy Ghost will cause the Law of Love, to succeed the Law of Fear. And 'tis observable that the Jews read this place with the highest observation: and their Scribes write the first and last words of the Preface to it with greater Letters than ordinary, to amplify the sense, and to note that this is the beginning and the end of the Divine Law; and they read this Scripture morning and evening with great