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5. The fifth Rule is, that the Law is spiritual, Rom. 7. 14. and that not only outward obedience to such duties, or outward abstinence from such sinful acts is called for, but the Law, having a spiritual meaning, calls for spiritual service, and that in these ⟨p. 8⟩three: 1. As it requires spiritual duties, such as Faith, Fear, Love to God, and •• others; right habits, as well as right affections, and outward actions, and therefo•• Paul, to prove the spirituality of the Law, instanceth in the habit of Lust, Rom. 7. •• a thing thereby discharged. 2. The Law is spiritual, in that the obligation thereof reaches to the Spirit, and very inwards of the Heart, affections and thoughts, as wel• as to the outward man; the love it requires, is love with all the Soul, Heart and Mind. Hence there is Heart-Idolatry, Murder, and Adultery, as well as outward, therein condemned. 3. It is spiritual, in respect of the manner; it requires as to all outward duties, that they be done to a spiritual end, from a spiritual principle, and in a spiritual way, opposite to the carnal way, to which the unrenewed heart of man is inclined, in which sense we are commanded to walk in the spirit, Gal. 5. 16. and so praying and praising, which this Law calls for, is praying and praising in the spirit, 1 Corinth. 14, vers. 14, 15, 16.

5. The fifth Rule is, that the Law is spiritual, Rom. 7. 14. and that not only outward obedience to such duties, or outward abstinence from such sinful acts is called for, but the Law, having a spiritual meaning, calls for spiritual service, and that in these ⟨p. 8⟩