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…

Now (saith Paul) when it shall turn (as we translate, or rather when they shall turn, for the word [Greek or Hebrew] is observed to be used always of persons, and though the word be in the singular number in the original, yet, according to the custom of Scripture, it may be understood plurally, because he speaks of a collective body:) When, saith the Text, this turning shall be, the veil shall be taken away: or rather, as Camero well observeth in the present tense, It is taken away: for you cannot conceive that the Jews shall be first turned unto God, and the veil afterwards to be taken away; but they both are together. I will give another instance, that Christ was the end of intention or aim in the dispensation of the Law, from Galat. 3. 23, 24. We were kept under the Law, till Faith came: Wherefore the Law was our School-master, to bring us unto Christ. In which words, not the Moral Law simply taken, but the whole dispensation of the Jews, is compared to the instruction of a School master. Now, as a School-master doth not only beat or correct, but teach also and direct: Thus the Law did not only severely curb and keep from sin, but did also teach Christ. Hence we are said to be kept under the Law; which although some make an expression from the strict keeping and watching which soldiers ⟨p. 270⟩in a garrison use to make, yet a learned man makes it to denote the duty of a School master, as one who is to give an account of such committed to his charge: In which sense Cain said, Am I my brothers keeper? The Law then as a School-master did not only threaten and curse, or, like the Egyptian taskmasters, beat and strike, because the work was not done, but did show where power and help was to be had, viz. from Christ only.

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