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Some select cases resolved. Specially, tending to the right ordering of the heart, that…
Some select cases resolved. Specially, tending to the right ordering of the heart, that we may comfortably walk with God in our general and particular callings: &c. In a letter to a pious friend in England. / By Thomas Shepard, M.A. Formerly of Emmanuel-College in Cambridge in England: afterward Minister of Cambridge in New-England. ; Corrected by four several editions.
Boston: printed by Rogers and Fowle, 1747
THE Sum of Christian Religion: In Way of Question and Answer.
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.
Q. What Rules are you to observe to understand the Moral Law?
A. These: 1. That in whatsoever Commandment, any Duty is enjoined, there the contrary Sin is forbidden; and where any Sin is forbidden, there the contrary Duty is commanded. 2. That the Law is Spiritual; and hence, requires not only outward, but inward and Spiritual Obedience. 3. Where any gross Sin is forbidden, there all the Signs, Degrees, Means, and Provocations to that Sin are forbidden also; and are in God's Account that Sin: And so where any Duty is commanded, there all the Signs, Means and Provocations to that Duty, are commanded also. 4. That the Law is perfect; and therefore there is no Sin in all the Scripture, but […] forbidden in it; nor no Duty required (if moral) but it is commanded in it.
A. These: 1. That in whatsoever Commandment, any Duty is enjoined, there the contrary Sin is forbidden; and where any Sin is forbidden, there the contrary Duty is commanded. 2. That the Law is Spiritual; and hence, requires not only outward, but inward and Spiritual Obedience. 3. Where any gross Sin is forbidden, there all the Signs, Degrees, Means, and Provocations to that Sin are forbidden also; and are in God's Account that Sin: And so where any Duty is commanded, there all the Signs, Means and Provocations to that Duty, are commanded also. 4. That the Law is perfect; and therefore there is no Sin in all the Scripture, but 〈…〉 forbidden in it; nor no Duty required (if moral) but it is commanded in it.
Thus much of our moral Observance of God.