A37049:764
A practical exposition of the X. Commandments with a resolution of several momentous questions…A practical exposition of the X. Commandements with a resolution of several momentous questions…
A practical exposition of the X. Commandments with a resolution of several momentous questions and cases of conscience.A practical exposition of the X. Commandements with a resolution of several momentous questions and cases of conscience.
London: printed for Dorman Newman, 1675
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
1. All of them in the Old-Testament had alike Authority, Privileges, and Prerogatives, which neither the Judicial nor Ceremonial Law had, as 1. To be distinctly pronounced by God himself, without adding more, Deut 5.22. 2. To be written by His own finger in Tables of Stone, Exod. 29.18. 3. To be laid up and kept in the Ark, Exod. 25.1 •. And if these and other Prerogatives did put a difference, and show a difference to be put betwixt the other Nine Commands, and all Judicial or Ceremonial Laws, Why not betwixt them, and this also? 2. In the New-Testament they are all alike confirmed; when the Law in general is spoken of, none of them is excepted, and therefore this Command is necessarily included.
1. All of them in the Old-Testament had alike Authority, Priviledges, and Prerogatives, which neither the Judicial nor Ceremonial Law had, as 1. To be distinctly pronounced by God himself, without adding more, Deut 5.22. 2. To be written by His own finger in Tables of Stone, Exod. 29.18. 3. To be laid up and kept in the Ark, Exod. 25.1 •. And if these and other Prerogatives did put a difference, and shew a difference to be put betwixt the other Nine Commands, and all Judicial or Ceremonial Laws, Why not betwixt them, and this also? 2. In the New-Testament they are all alike confirmed; when the Law in general is spoken of, none of them is excepted, and therefore this Command is necessarily included.
For which we should look first to that place, Matth. 5.17. Where our Lord in a special manner intendeth to vindicate the Moral Law, and to press holiness in Moral Duties upon His Hearers, even in another sort than the Pharisees did: Think no (saith He) That I am come to destroy the Law and the Prophets, I am not come to destroy, but to fulfil; Verily he that breaketh one of the least of these Commands, and teacheth Men so, shall be called least in the Kingdom of God, &c Where, by Law, must necessarily be understood the Moral law, for he was thought to be a Transgressor of that, and especially of this Command in it (for that Sermon in Matthew cometh in, in order after His being challenged for breach of Sabbath,