3ly. The Moral Law strictly taken for the Ten Commandments, is not by him ⟨image 13⟩distinguished (as it ought to be, and as the Scripture frequently doth) according to Gods intention and design in the promulgation of it, which was to add it as an Appendix to the promise, Gal. 3. 19. and not to set it up as an opposite Covenant, Gal. 3. 21. and the carnal Jews mistaking and perverting the use and end of the Law, and making it to themselves a Covenant of Works, by making it the very rule and reason of their Justification before God, Rom. 9. 32, 33. Rom. 10. 3. these things ought carefully to have been distinguished, forasmuch as the whole Controversy depends on this double sense and intention of the Law; yea, the very denomination of that Law depends hereon: For I affirm it ought not to be denominated from the abused and mistaken end of it amongst carnal men; but from the true scope, design and end for which God published it after the Fall: And though we find such expressions as these in Scripture, The man that doth them, shall live in them. And cursed is every one that continueth not in all things, &c. yet these respecting the Law not according to Gods intention, but Mans corruption and abuse ⟨image 13⟩of it, the Law is not thereby to be denominated a Covenant of Works. Gods end was not to justify them, but to try them by that terrible dispensation, Ezod. 20. 20. whether they would still hanker after that natural way of self-righteousness; for this end God propounded the terms of the first Covenant to them on Sinai, not to open the way of self-justification to them, but to convince them, and shut them up to Christ; just as our Saviour, Matth. 19. 17. puts the young man upon keeping the Commandments, not to drive him from, but necessitate him to himself in the way of Faith.
3ly. The Moral Law strictly taken for the Ten Commandments, is not by him ⟨image 13⟩distinguished (as it ought to be, and as the Scripture frequently doth) according to Gods intention and design in the promulgation of it, which was to add it as an Appendix to the promise, Gal. 3. 19. and not to set it up as an opposite Covenant, Gal. 3. 21. and the carnal Jews mistaking and perverting the use and end of the Law, and making it to themselves a Covenant of Works, by making it the very rule and reason of their Justification before God, Rom. 9. 32, 33. Rom. 10. 3. these things ought carefully to have been distinguished, forasmuch as the whole Controversie depends on this double sense and intention of the Law; yea, the very denomination of that Law depends hereon: For I affirm it ought not to be denominated from the abused and mistaken end of it amongst carnal men; but from the true scope, design and end for which God published it after the Fall: And though we find such expressions as these in Scripture, The man that doth them, shall live in them. And cursed is every one that continueth not in all things, &c. yet these respecting the Law not according to Gods intention, but Mans corruption and abuse ⟨image 13⟩of it, the Law is not thereby to be denominated a Covenant of Works. Gods end was not to justifie them, but to try them by that terrible dispensation, Ezod. 20. 20. whether they would still hanker after that natural way of selfrighteousness; for this end God propounded the terms of the first Covenant to them on Sinai, not to open the way of self-justification to them, but to convince them, and shut them up to Christ; just as our Saviour, Matth. 19. 17. puts the young man upon keeping the Commandments, not to drive him from, but necessitate him to himself in the way of Faith.
