The Doctrine of Justification by Faith

3. The Law under the Old Testament, doth immediately refer unto the Law given at Mount Sinai, nor is there any distinct mention of it before. This is commonly called the ⟨p. 412⟩Law absolutely; but most frequently the Law of God, the Law of the Lord; and sometimes the Law of Moses, because of his especial Ministry in the giving of it. Remember the Law of Moses my servant, which I commanded unto him, Mal. 4.4. And this the Jews intended by the Law.

4. Of the Law so given at Horeb, there was a Distribution into three Parts. (1.) There was [Greek or Hebrew] Deut. 4.13. The ten Words; So also Chap. 10.4. that is the ten Commandments written in two Tables of Stone. This Part of the Law was first given; was the Foundation of the whole; and contained that perfect Obedience which was required of Mankind by the Law of Creation, and was now received into the Church, with the highest Attestations of its indispensable Obligation unto Obedience or Punishment. (2.) [Greek or Hebrew] which the LXX render by [Greek or Hebrew], that is jura; Rites or Statutes; but the Latin from thence Justifications, Justifications, which hath given great Occasion of Mistake in many both Ancient and Modern Divines. We call it the Ceremonial Law. The Apostle terms this Part of the Law distinctly [Greek or Hebrew] Ephes. 2.15. The Law of Commandments contained in Ordinances; that is consisting in a Multitude of Arbitrary Commands. (3.) [Greek or Hebrew] which we commonly call the Judicial Law. This Distribution of the Law shuts up the Old Testament, as it is used in places innumerable before, only the [Greek or Hebrew] the Ten Words, is expressed by the general Word [Greek or Hebrew] the Law, Mal. 4.4.