Exercitations concerning the name, original, nature, use, and continuance of a day of sacred…

And this is well observed by the Church of England, which after the Reading of the whole Decalogue, the fourth Command amongst the rest, directs the people to pray, That God would write all these Laws in their Hearts. Now this concerneth only the Moral Law. For although Obedience unto all Gods Ceremonial and Typical Institutions whilst they were in force, was Moral, and a part of the Law written in the Heart, or required in general in the Precepts of the first Table of the Decalogue, yet those Laws themselves had no place in the Promise of the Covenant, that they should be written in our Hearts; for if it should be so, especial Grace would be yet administered for the Observation of those Laws now they are abolished, which would not only be vain and useless; but contradictory to the whole Design of the Grace bestowed upon us, which is to be improved in a due and genuine Exercise of it. Neither doth God bestow any Grace upon men, but withal he requires the Exercise of it at their hands. If then this Law was written in Tables of Stone together with the other Nine, that we might pray and endeavour to have it written in our Hearts, according to the Promise of the Covenant, it is and must be of the nature of the rest; that is, Moral and everlastingly obligatory.

And this is well observed by the Church of England, which after the Reading of the whole Decalogue, the fourth Command amongst the rest, directs the people to pray, That God would write all these Laws in their Hearts. Now this concerneth only the Moral Law. For although Obedience unto all Gods Ceremonial and Typical Institutions whilst they were in force, was Moral, and a part of the Law written in the Heart, or required in general in the Precepts of the first Table of the Decalogue, yet those Lawes themselves had no place in the Promise of the Covenant, that they should be written in our Hearts; for if it should be so, especial Grace would be yet administred for the Observation of those Laws now they are abolished, which would not only be vain and useless; but contradictory to the whole Design of the Grace bestowed upon us, which is to be improved in a due and genuine Exercise of it. Neither doth God bestow any Grace upon men, but withal he requires the Exercise of it at their hands. If then this Law was written in Tables of Stone together with the other Nine, that we might pray and endeavour to have it written in our Hearts, according to the Promise of the Covenant, it is and must be of the nature of the rest; that is, Moral and everlastingly obligatory.