The life of faith in three parts, the first is a sermon on Heb.…

1. To Moses and the Apostles of Christ, a special Commission was granted, to one to settle the Tabernacle and its worship, and to the other, to settle the orders of the Gospel Church. Christ sent them to teach all things, whatsoever he commanded, Mat. 28.20. And he promised to be with them, and to send them the Spirit to lead them into all truth, and to bring all things to their remembrance. Accordingly they did obey this Commission, and settled the Gospel Churches according to the will of Christ; and this many years before any of the New Testament was written. Therefore these acts of theirs have the nature and use of a divine Revelation and a Law. For if they were fallible in this, Christ must break the foresaid Promise.

2. But all the Acts of the Apostles which were either about indifferent things, or which were about forecommanded duties, and not in the execution of the foresaid Commission, for which ⟨p. 240⟩they had the promise of infallibility, have no such force or interpretation. For 1. Their holy actions of obedience to former Laws, are not properly Laws to us, but motives to obey Gods Laws: And this is the common use of all other good examples of the Saints in Scripture: Their examples are to be tried by the Law, and followed as secondary copies or motives, and not as the Law it self, 1 Cor. 11.1. Be ye followers of me, even as I also am of Christ. Heb. 6.12. Be followers of them, who through faith and patience do inherit the promise. 1 Cor. 4.16. Phil. 3.17.