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Show 21 . XIII. Of the Gofpet .. Law. I ' . • J' v THe objeCl:ions ag~inll VVar. ta:ken out of the G0Lpel have a grllaW tfhew • in the examination -whereof, 1 will n'ot fay 'with ·many, tha:in the Go[. pel, beGd.e the prece-pts of ?a_tth. and the Sacraments-, nothing eHe 1s found but -what i~ of Natural Law; foi·, as mofi underfiand this, it is not true. This 1 williB~Y acknowledge; in th~ Gotpcl nochirl'a is commanded us, -which batn ~ not a ~atural honef~y apd comelinefs; but that we are not fijrther obliged b1 the ~Laws of Chrifl:.,. than we are by, na· U!ral Law, I canriot- grant. I~ is mar· vellous to fee what pains they take, who are in tlie other opinion, to pr?ove tnc things forbidden by the Law of Nature, which by the Gofpel are made unlaw· * Spe~tt hue full_, fuch as arc . concubinacy, di_\'orce, ill~? H1_eronyp ~lygamy *. Things in dee~ of iuch I ~~,.; 1~{af:"t nature; tha-t to abfia'in from them, rca· •li.t chri~i; ~- fon it felf tells us i$ more honefi: and ~· liudPaplnia•ru, commina : Yet not fnch, as contaiD •liud ~au!~ in them (ret the divine Law afide) an) noflerpr4&~p~t. at>parer'lt wickednefs • ~nd who ~an 1 John 3 • 1 ~. · fay, . n~~ure ~a th bou~d us . to that wluc: ,.. ocu, tfl., 1111. the Chnfl:ian Law gives 1n .rrecepr, t Ztn4tn • Jdtm· lay down our lives for the brethren1 9~ (tn(ta. •pud It is a faying of Juftin Martyr* , 1r Orlt.~t!" 111 ex- l' J: iti to nature is his dutv, 1vh cerptu zlli· qu• zve accorwn 6 ~ h q Philo&4tia di. hAfh "'tl•t/}et ltttaine4. to, the Fatt h :n 6Mnlfl!. C 11 }'' I ('hrift • Neither will I follow their co11jetlure, who fuppofe Chri!t in his ~ Sermon on the Mount, was on1y an In-terpreter of M ?fes Law. Thete w?rds, Mar.r_..acq~ of hi! fo oftrepeate'd have another;tbund: · Te have heard, that it h11th /Jeen /tfid to them of old : hut I fay unto you • . Which opp6lition, and the Syriack._ and othet . 1 ' r i verlions proov·e the truth of that r~adin~ · · · ·• 1 : • to them (not, hy them} of old. Thoic of old, or the antients,. were no ,other thaw they that liv'd in Mo[es thne .; for the commands l'ehearfed as fpoken t~ the anticnts,are not the fayings 'of the . ·~.· .. c. , Lawyers, but of Mlfos, eicMr .word · t: CJ. for ~ord, or atle!t in fenfe. Thau .fha/~ Ex.2.o.1J; not k,Jll. Whofoever Jhall ~ill fhall he in Lev.2.1.2.r. danger of jlldgement. Thou Jhalt HI# Ex.~e.l'f. comm~t dau/try. Whofuev_er foall put 4- Deur.2.4•1• way hu Wtfe, let him [;.t7.1t her. a wri• ting of divorcement • Thou Jhalt not E forfwear thy [elf, hut fh~tlt perform ~Jto x.ao.1. the Lord thine oaths. An eye f.or an ~ye, Lev.a+ao. and a tooth for a toot-h (uiideHland tho/1. ma-,jf reqllite in the Court of j~.ttige- ~ent.) Thou fhalt love thy n'eighhou'r tev.i~.i8 .. (1. e. the Ifraelite) and haJe thine M~ >t t;, Wu£111iil 1»J (i.e. the fevch Nations * ro whom ~!TniiW •It t he y m1•g h !h ~ ' dl h,' • JI/HJ•TI'f!ifiius t not ew men 1p rlor p1~- ~b.7)an!tl . 1i21 ty : to thefe the AmalekJts are to be D(dr.f3.~i" added, a~ainH whom ,tHe , He~re~s. a{~ · Ex.,34.(l •• commanded to have VV~r for evet.)·D ut .. 7;1· But; to underHand thle WGilds 6f Chrrtt Ei.:.'l.l'; we muH ndte, that the Law gyv~ti b'y C 4 111ofe.r |