A discourse of the true nature of the Gospel demonstrating that it is no…

But Christ tho as Mediator he is no Law-giver, yet perfectly knows the Nature of the Law given at Mount Sinai; that the Law contains all Duties, for he makes the Sum of it to consist in Love to God, and in a due degree of Love to our selves, and in loving our Neighbour, Matth. 22. 35, 36, 37, 38, 39, 40. Then one of them which was a Lawyer, asked him a question, tempting him, and saying, Master, which is the great Commandment in the Law? Jesus said unto him, Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy Heart, and with all thy Soul, and with all thy Mind. This is the first and great Commandment. And the Second is like unto it, Thou shalt love thy Neighbour as thy self. On these two Commandments hang all the Law and the Prophets. Now it will be very difficult to give an Instance of any Duty which we owe to him our Great Creator, or to our selves, or to Men our Fellow-Creatures, which are not included in one of those two Tables, or to name a Precept which may not be reduced to them. The Scripture alleged is the more demonstrative for this Reason, that our Lord Christ's Answer is to a Man enquiring concerning his Duty; and then, if at any time, there was occasion to mention this new Law, and to have told him the additional Precepts, had there been any such things. But Christ sends him ⟨p. 44⟩to the Moral Law, as comprehending all that Man was to do, and as a perfect Rule of Duty sufficient completely to instruct him. And indeed what more can be required of Man, than to love God with all the Powers and Faculties of his Soul, and to love himself as he ought to do, and his Neighbour in like measure?

But Christ tho as Mediator he is no Law-giver, yet perfectly knows the Nature of the Law given at Mount Sinai; that the Law contains all Duties, for he makes the Sum of it to consist in Love to God, and in a due degree of Love to our selves, and in loving our Neighbour, Matth. 22. 35, 36, 37, 38, 39, 40. Then one of them which was a Lawyer, asked him a question, tempting him, and saying, Master, which is the great Commandment in the Law? Jesus said unto him, Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy Heart, and with all thy Soul, and with all thy Mind. This is the first and great Commandment. And the Second is like unto it, Thou shalt love thy Neighbour as thy self. On these two Commandments hang all the Law and the Prophets. Now it will be very difficult to give an Instance of any Duty which we owe to him our Great Creator, or to our selves, or to Men our Fellow-Creatures, which are not included in one of those two Tables, or to name a Precept which may not be reduced to them. The Scripture alledg'd is the more demonstrative for this Reason, that our Lord Christ's Answer is to a Man enquiring concerning his Duty; and then, if at any time, there was occasion to mention this new Law, and to have told him the additional Precepts, had there been any such things. But Christ sends him