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…

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, Joh. 5.10. &c.) And His scope is to wipe off that Imputation, and how? by showing that He still presseth the Moral law, even beyond what the Pharisees did. 2. It was the Moral law especially, which the Pharisee s corrupted, and whereof he undertaketh the Vindication, and it is Holiness in Obedience to that which he presseth as necessary beyond what the Scribes and Pharisees did; and indeed it was in that law they failed mainly, and not in the Ceremonial law. 3. The offence and mistake that Christ is to preoccupy and rectify amongst His Hearers, requireth this: for many of them fancied that by the Messiah there should be a Relaxation from the Duties of Holiness called for in the Moral law; and therefore, saith He, think not so; now a Relaxation from some other laws might have been thought of warrantably. 4. It is such a law whereof to teach the Abrogation at any time is sinful and pernicious, therefore it is certainly the Moral law.

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 Pharisies did: Think no • (saith He) That I am come to destroy the Law and the Prophets, I am not come to destroy, but to fulfill; 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 Mathew cometh in, in order after His being challenged for breach of Sabbath,