95. Queft. Of what Ufe is the Moral Law to all Men? Anfw. The Moral Law is of Ufe to all Men, to inform them of the holy Nature and Will of God", and of their Duty, binding them to walk accor dingly ; to convince them of their Disability to keep it, and of the finful Pollution of their Nature, Hearts and Lives; to humble them in Senfe of their Sin and Mifery, and thereby help them to a clearer Sight of the Need they have of Chrift, and of the Perfection of his Obedience .

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Lev. 11. 44. For I am the ing of them there is great reward. Lord your God: ye fhall therefore v. 12. Who can understand his er fanctify your felves, and ye fhall be rors: cleanfe thou me from fecret holy; for I am holy: neither fhall faults. Rom. 3 20. Therefore by the ye defile your felves with any man- deeds of the law there fhall no feh ner of creeping thing that creepeth be juftified in his fight:for by the law upon the earth. v. 45. For I am the is the knowledge of fin. Rom.7. Lord that bringeth you up out of What fhall we fay then? Is the law the land of Egypt, to be your God: fin? God forbid. Nay, I had not ye fhall therefore be holy, for I am known fin, but by the law: for! holy. Lev. 20.7. Sanctify your felves had not known luft, except the la therefore, and be ye holy: for I am had faid, Thou shalt not covet. the Lord your God. v. 8. And ye fhall keep my ftatures, and do them': I am the Lord which fanctify you. Rom. 7. 12. Wherefore the law is holy; and the commandment holy, and juft, and good.

y Rom. 3. 9. What then? arene better than they? No in no ways! for we have before proved both Jews and Gentiles, that they are all under fin. v. 23. For all have finned, and come short of the glo of God.

Gal.3.21. Is the law then again the promises of God? God forbid for if there had been a law givea which could have given life, wen ly righteoufnefs fhould have been by the law. v. 22. But the fcripture hath concluded all under fin, that

w Micah 6.8. He hath fhewed thee, O man, what is good; and what doth the Lord require of thee, but to do justly, and to love mercy, and to walk humbly with thy God: James 2. 10. For whofoever fhall keep the whole law, and yet offend in one point, he is guilty of all. v. 11. For he that faid, Do not commit adul-, the promife by faith of Jefus Chri tery, faid alfo, Do not kill. Now might be given to them that be if thou commit no adultery, yet if lieve.

thou kill, thou art become a tranf greffor of the law.

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a Rom. 1o. 4. For Chrift is the ea of the law, for righteoufnefs to eve ry one that believeth.

96. Queft. What particular Ufe is there of the Moral Law to unregenerate Men?

Anfw. The Moral Law is of Ufe to unregenerate Men, to awaken their Confciences to fly from Wrath o come b, and to drive them to Chrift: Or upon heir Continuance in the Estate and Way of Sin, to eave them inexcufeable d, and under the Curfe hereof.

97. Queft. What Special Ufe is there of the Moral Law to the Regenerate?

Anfw. Although they that are regenerate and beleve in Chrift, be delivered from the Moral Law sa Covenant of Works, fo as thereby they are

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b1 Tim. 1. 9. Knowing this, that cufing, or elfe excufing one ane law is not made for a righteous other. an, but for the lawless and difo- Gal. 3. 10. For as many as are dient, for the ungodly and fin- of the works of the law, are under ts, for unholy and prophane, the curfe: for it is written, Curfed is rmurderers of fathers, and mur- every one that continueth not in all rers of mothers, for man-flayers, things which are written in the book 10. For whoremongers, for them of the law, to do them. at defile themfelves with man- 97. f Rom. 6. 14. For fin fhall not nd, for men-ftealers, for liars, have dominion over you: for ye perjured Perfons, and if there be are not under the law, but under ny other thing that is contrary to grace. Rom. 7. 4. Wherefore my .brethren, ye alfo are become dead 96. Gal.3.24. Wherefore the law to the law by the body of Chrift; as our school-mafter to bring us un- that ye fhould be married to anoChrift, that we might be juftified ther, even to him who is raised from y faith. the dead, that we fhould bring forth Rom. 1. 20. For the invifible fruit unto God. v. 6. But now we ings of him from the creation of are delivered from the law, that beworld are clearly feen, being ing dead wherein we were held; that derftood by the things that are we should serve in newness of fpirir, ade, even his eternal power and and not in the oldnefs of the letter. odhead; fo that they are without Gal. 4. 4. But when the fulness of the Compared with Rom. 2. 15. time was come, God fent forth his hich fhew the works of the law Son made of a woman, made under ritten in their hearts, their con- the law, v. 5. To redeem them that ience alfo bearing witnefs, and were under the law, that we might eir thoughts the mean while ac- receive the adoption of fons.

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neither juftified nor condemned h: Yet befide the general Ufes thereof common to them with all Men, it is of fpecial Ufe, to fhew them how much they are bound to Chrift for his fulfilling it, and endu ring the Curfe thereof in their Stead and for their Good; and thereby to provoke them to more Thankfulness, and to exprefs the fame in their greater Care to conform themselves thereunto as the Rule of their Obedience.

Rom. 3. 20. Therefore by the deeds of the law there fhall no flesh be juftified in his fight: for by the law is the knowledge of fin.

h Gal. 5. 23. Meeknefs, temperance: against fuch there is no law. Rom. 8. 1. There is therefore now no condemnation to them which are in Chrift Jefus, who walk not afterthe flesh, but after the Spirit.

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Bleffed be the Lord for he hath vifited and redeemed his people, v. 69. And hath raised up an horn of fal vation for us, in the houfe of his fervant David. v.74. That he would grant unto us, that we being deli vered out of the hands of our ene mies, might serve him without fear, v. 75. In holiness and righteoufhels before him all the days of our life Col, 1. 12. Giving thanks unto the

i Rom. 7. 24 O wretched man that I am, who fhall deliver me from the body of this death? v. 25. I father which hath made us meer thank God, through. Jefus Chrift to be partakers of the inheritance our Lord. So then, with the mind of the faints in light: v. 13. Who I my self serve the law of God; but hath delivered us from the power with the flesh, the law of fin. Gal, of darkness, and hath tranflated 3.13. Chrift hath redeemed us from into the kingdom of his dear Son: the curfe of the law, being made a. v. 14. In whom we have redemption curfe for us: for it is written, Curfed through his blood, even the forgive is every one that hangeth on a tree: nefs of fins. v. 14. That the bleffing of Abraham 1 Rom. 7. 22. For I delight in the might come on theGentiles through law of God, after the inward man Jefus Chrift; that we might receive Rom. 12. 2. And be not conformed the promife of the Spirit through to this world: but be ye transformed faith. Rom. 8.3. For what the law by the renewing of your minds, that could not do, in that it was weak ye may prove what is that good, and through the flesh, God fending his acceptable, and perfect will of God. own Son, in the likeness of finful Tit. 2. 11. For the grace of God flesh, and for fin condemned fin in that bringeth falvation, hath ap the flesh: v.4. That the righteousness peared to all men; v. 12. Teach of the law might be fulfilled in using us that denying ungodlines who walk not after the flesh, but and worldly lufts, we should live after the Spirit. foberly, righteously, and godly in

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98. Quest. Where is the Moral Law fummarily comrehended?

Anfw. The Moral Law is fummarily comprehenled in the Ten Commandments, which were deliered by the Voice of God upon Mount Sinai, and ritten by him in Two Tables of Stone "; and are corded in the Twentieth Chapter of Exodus. The our First Commandments containing our Duty to God, and the other Six our Duty to Man ".

99. Queft. What Rules are to be obferved for the ght understanding of the Ten Commandments?

Anfw. For the right Understanding of the Ten Commandments, thefe Rules are to be observed, 1. That the Law is perfect, and bindeth every ne to full Conformity in the whole Man unto he Righteousness thereof, and unto entire Obelience for ever; fo as to require the utmost Perfe

his prefent world; v.13. Looking or that bleffed hope, and the gloious appearing of the great God, nd our Saviour Jefus Chrift: v. 14. Who gave himself for us, that he night redeem us from all iniquity, nd purify unto himself a peculiar eople zealous of good works.

98. Deut. 10. 4. And he wrote n the tables, according to the first Briting, the ten commandments, which theLord fpake unto you in the nount, out of the midft of the fire,in he day of affembly: and the Lord gave them unto me. Exod. 34. . And the Lord faid unto Mofes, Hew thee two tables offtone like unto the first and I will write upon thefe tables the words that were in the firft tables which thou brakest. v. 2. And be ready in the morning, and

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come up in the morning unto mount Sinai, and present thy felf there to me, in the top of the mount. v. 3. And no man thall come up with thee, &c. v. 4. And he hewed two tables of ftone, like unto the firft; andMofes rose up early in the morning, and went up unto mount Sinai, as the Lord had commanded him, and took in his hand the two tables of stone.

Mat, 22. 37. Jefus faid unto him, Thou shalt love the Lord thy God, with all thy heart, and with all thy foul, and with all thy mind. v. 38. This is the firft and great commandment. v. 39. And the fecond is like unto it, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thy felf. v. 40. On thefe two commandments hang all the law and the prophets. R

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4. Tha have heard, that it hath been fai An eye for an eye, and a tooth a tooth. v. 39. But I fay unto yo that ye resist not evil.-- ข.43. have heard that it hath been faid Thou shalt love thy neighbour, an hate thine enemy. v. 44. But l unto you, Love your enemies, ble them that curfe you, do good! them that hate you, and pray them which defpitefully ufe yo and perfecute you; &c.

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99. • Pfalm 19. 7. The law of thefe, cometh of evil. the Lord is perfect, converting the foul the teftimony of the Lord is fure, making wife the fimple. James 2. 10. For whofoever fhall keep the whole law, and yet offend in one point, he is guilty of all. Mat. 5. 21. to the end. v. 21. Ye have heard that it was faid by them of old time, Thou shalt not kill, and whofoever shall kill, shall be in danger of the judgment. v. 22. But I fay unto you, That whofoever is angry with his brother without a cause, shall be in danger of the judgment: and the law is fpiritual: but I am ca whofoever shall fay to his brother, nal,fold under fin. Deut. 6. s. The Raca,fhall be in danger of the coun- fhalt love the Lord thy God with cel: but whofoever shall fay, Thou all thine heart, and with all thy fool, fhall be in danger of hell fire.-- foul, and with all thy might. Com v. 27. Ye have heard that it was pared with Mat. 22. 37. Jefus faid faid by them of old time, Thou unto him, Thou shalt love the Lord fhalt not commit adultery. v. 28. thy God with all thy heart, and But I fay unto you, That whofoever with all thy foul, and with all the looketh on a woman to luft after mind. v. 38. This is the first and her, hath committed adultery with great commandment. v. 39. An her already in his heart.--- v. 33. the fecond is like unto it, Tho Again, ye have heard that it hath halt love thy neighbour as thy fell been faid by them of old time, Thou 4 Col. 3. 5. Mortify therefore your fhalt not forfwear thy felf, but fhalt members which are upon the earth; perform unto the Lord thine oaths. fornication,uncleanness,inordinate v. 34. But I fay unto you, Swear not at all; neither by heaven, for it is Gods throne: v.37. But let your communication be, Yea, yea; Nay, may: for whatsoever is more than

affection, evil concupifcence, and covetousness, which is idolatry. Amos 8. 5. Saying, When will the new moon be gone, that we may

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