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The main principles of Christian religion in a 107 short articles or aphorisms, generally…
The main principles of Christian religion in a 107 short articles or aphorisms, generally received as being proved from scripture : now further cleared and confirmed by the consonant doctrine recorded in the articles and homilies of the Church of England ... / by Tho. Adams ...The main principles of Christian religion in a 107 short articles or aphorisms, generally receiv'd as being prov'd from scripture : now further cleared and confirm'd by the consonant doctrine recorded in the articles and homilies of the Church of England ... / by Tho. Adams ...
London : s.n., 1675
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Expl. 41. By a Law in the general, we are to understand, the Will of the Lawgiver requiring duty: But here by the Moral Law we are to understand, (1.) More generally, the revealed Will of God, of what man is to believe and do in order to salvation. (2.) More particularly, the Decalogue, which is the sum of all Moral Laws, which are scattered up and down in the Scripture. And this Decalogue (or Ten Words, or Ten Commandments) may be called Moral, (1.) Because of the universality of it; for the Decalogue doth oblige all mankind, it being that very Law, for substance, which was written in very legible Characters in the heart of Adam, and is not quite blotted out of the minds of the veryest Gentiles in the world. (2.) It doth oblige at all times. (3.) The whole man, for it requires as well the internal obedience of the soul, and all its powers and faculties, as outward obedience of the body.
A. 42.1 The sum of the Ten Commandments, is to love the Lord our God with all our heart, with all our soul, with all our strength, and with all our mind, and our neighbour as our selvess.
- 1What is the sum of the Ten Commandments?
- sMat. 22.37. Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind. 38. This is the first and great Commandment. 39. And the second is like unto it, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thy self. 40. On these two Commandments hang all the Law and the Prophets.