A35539:47
Gospel-love, heart-purity, and the flourishing of the righteous being the last sermon of the…
Gospel-love, heart-purity, and the flourishing of the righteous being the last sermon of the late reverend Mr. Joseph Caryl.
London : Printed and are to be sold by John Hancock Senior and Junior, 1675
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Yea for as much as the Apostle at the 7. vers. speaks of those who desire to be Teachers of the Law, and in the 8. and 9. verses, proceeds to speak of the nature and use of the Law, I conceive the Word Commandment may be extended to the whole Law of God, or to the whole Revelation, or the mind of God concerning things to be done, or forborne by us. And so here is a figure, here's a change of number, the singular is put for the plural, Commandment, for Commandments, ⟨p. 7⟩and indeed, as the Doctrine of Grace is nothing else but a Collection of promises, so the Law is nothing else, but a Collection of precepts, and in this sense saith Mr. Calvin here, by the word Commandment, we may take in all the Commandments of God. Not only those that are expressed in the Decalogue, but those which are scattered quite through the Holy Scriptures. The end of the Commandment, or of the Commandments, the whole Revealed will of God, concerning the Agenda, or things to be done, It is charity, or it is Love; and so much for the first thing, what we are to understand by the Commandment.
Yea for as much as the Apostle at the 7. vers. speaks of those who desire to be Teachers of the Law, and in the 8. and 9. verses, proceeds to speak of the nature and use of the Law, I conceive the Word Commandment may be extended to the whole Law of God, or to the whole Revelation, or the mind of God concerning things to be done, or forborn by us. And so here is a figure, here's a change of number, the singular is put for the plural, Commandment, for Commandments, ⟨p. 7⟩and indeed, as the Doctrine of Grace is nothing else but a Collection of promises, so the Law is nothing else, but a Collection of precepts, and in this sense saith Mr. Calvin here, by the word Commandment, we may take in all the Commandments of God. Not only those that are exprest in the Decalogue, but those which are scattered quite through the Holy Scriptures. The end of the Commandment, or of the Commandments, the whole Revealed will of God, concerning the Agenda, or things to be done, It is charity, or it is Love; and so much for the first thing, what we are to understand by the Commandment.