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§. 10. The gathering of Israel into a Policy by Moses, as a Theocracy, and their receiving a Law from God himself as a Political Body, was but the full Establishment of the Covenant of Peculiarity, in performance of what God had promised to Abraham, and in Circumcision had begun.

§. 11. This Law of Moses therefore must be Considered as an Affix or Appendix to the Common Law of Grace, and so either as related to it, or as considered simply and distinctly in it self without that relation. And as it was a Divine Political Law, for the Government of a Republic as such.

§. 11. This Law of Moses therefore must be Considered as an Affix or Appendix to the Common Law of Grace, and so either as related to it, or as considered simply and distinctly in it self without that relation. And as it was a Divine Political Law, for the Government of a Republick as such.

§. 12. The Common Covenant of Grace was the Soul as it were of this Political Jewish Law; and therefore was really expressed in it, in the Decalogue and other parts: As it was the Soul of their state of Peculiarity, which was the Reward of Abraham's Faithfulness in the Common Covenant: And their peculiar Promise to Abraham's Seed as the Nations Blessing, with their Types and Prophecies all led them to Christ more plainly than he was revealed to others.