Vindiciae legis, or, A vindication of the moral law and the covenants, from the…Vindiciae legis, or, A vindication of the morall law and the covenants, from the…

I Shall not stand upon any more arguments to prove the perpetual obligation of the Moral Law, because this is abundantly maintained in that assertion already proved, that the Moral Law as given by Moses, doth still oblige us.

I Shall not stand upon any more arguments to prove the perpetuall obligation of the Morall Law, because this is abundantly maintained in that assertion already proved, that the Morall Law as given by Moses, doth still oblige us.

I come therefore to those places of Scripture which seem to ¹hold forth the duration of the Moral Law for a prefixed time only; even as the ceremonial Law doth. I shall select the most remarkable places, and, in answering of them, we shall see the other fully cleared. And I will begin with that, Luke 16. 16. The Law and the Prophets were until John. It should therefore seem, that the Law was to continue but until Johns time. I will not here stand to dispute whether John Baptist was to be reckoned under the Old Testament, or the New; only take notice that we cannot make a third different estate, wherein the Covenant of grace should be dispensed, as an Antinomian author doth: for our Saviour seemeth fully to conclude, that he did belong to the Old Testament; therefore he saith, The least in the kingdom of heaven is greater then he^*: Although in this respect he was greater then any of the Prophets that went before him, that he did not prophesy of a Messiah to come, but pointed with his hand to him who was already come. And, as for the text it self, none can prove that the Law was to be abrogated when John Baptist came; for, least any should by that expression think so, our Saviour addeth, Heaven and earth shall sooner pass away, then that one title should fall to the ground. Therefore the meaning is, that the Law, in respect of the typical ⟨p. 224⟩