The law unsealed

To make way for the Exposition, we shall 1. Lay down some Conclusions which arise from the Preface. 2. Give you some ordinary distinctions. 3. Clear and confirm some Rules or Observations useful for understanding of the whole Law.

The first Conclusion that we take for granted is, that this Law (as 'tis Moral) doth tie even Christians and Believers now, as well as of old; which appears from this, that he who is God the Law-giver here, Acts 7. 38. is the Angel Christ, and 'tis his Word, as is clear, vers. 30. 31. as also the matter of it being connatural to Adam, it did bind before the Law was given, and that obligatory force cannot be separated from its nature, (though the exercise of Right Reason in Nature be much obliterate since the Fall) therefore Christ was so far from destroying this Law in its Authority, and Paul so far from making it void by the Doctrine of Faith, that our Lord tells he came to fulfil it, Matt. 5. 17. and Paul shows, that his preaching of Faith was to establish it, Rom. 3. 31. which truth being confirmed by them both in their ⟨p. 3⟩Practise and Doctrine, showeth that the breach of the holy Law of God, is no less sinful to us now, then it was to them before us.

The first Conclusion that we take for granted is, that this Law (as 'tis Moral) doth tye even Christians and Believers now, as well as of old; which appears from this, that he who is God the Law-giver here, Acts 7. 38. is the Angel Christ, and 'tis his Word, as is clear, vers. 30. 31. as also the matter of it being connatural to Adam, it did bind before the Law was given, and that obligatory force cannot be seprated from its nature, (though the exercise of Right Reason in Nature be much obliterate since the Fall) therefore Christ was so far from destroying this Law in its Authority, and Paul so far from making it void by the Doctrine of Faith, that our Lord tells he came to fulfill it,