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Show " TheJecond Bookeofthe firstpart ( Cuar.q§.9 Of the Hiftorie ofthe World. called Cabala,or Receptio: precepts recciued-fromthe mouth oftheit Priefts and Elders:to which the Jewes afterthe law written, addedthe interpretation offectet miyfteries, refer. ued in the bofomes oftheir Prie/s,and ynlawfull to be vetered to the people. Butthetrue Cabalawas not tobe concealed from any ; a8 being indeed the diuine law reucaled to the Patriarks, and from themdeliuered tothe pofterity, whenas yer it was vnwritren; The Commandements which God gane vnto Adam in the beginning, were, that hee thould impofenamestoall beats; according §..VII. Of she written Law of GOD. | land natritall; the law Pofitive or impofedisthe next in order, which Asianwae but an addition, or ae explicationof the fermer, hath two kitides + Dinine and Humane. Againe, the diuine pofitiue law is double; the Olde and New' The Old was giuen vnto Add/es in Mount Sinai or Horeb, at {ach timeas the world torheir natures; to whofe perfection.of vnderftanding they were fuificiently knowne:For finding the reafon of his ownename Adim:or Aa ‘Aug, de Cinite hadftood25 13 ‘aac yeeres? and in the 67:day ofthis yeere, when as A/earades orf: Deisib.t. eddesgouernedithe Affyrians, Marathus the Syciowians, Triopus the Argines, Cecrops Ain i daméb,Earthorred Clay,hie gaue othernames fignificant, ea,and AchérresEgypt : to wit,afterthe promife'to Abraham, 43.yeeres. Andthis it feemes, wasthefirft written law which the world receiued. "Forthe very Word Noms, fignifying a law, was notthcn,norlong afterinuented by the Gratians no not in Homer} eimejwholidedafterthe fall of Troy So.yearesat leat : andTrovit felfewas caft downe 335 -yeeres,after'Azo/es led Y/racl our of Egypt. This Law, it pleafed God to ingrauein ro Children and Nephewes, which afterward hisiflues fiethsas fome take it,onc that was laid forthe ground or Priefts and people might haue,whereof to meditate, till the comming of Chrift:and that fothefe Children of 7/rae/, though bred among'an Idolatrouis people in Ezypt, might be ten Law,inftruét their owne Children :and yet as they increafed,fo doubtleffe they had} befides the law of Nature, many precepts from God, before the Law written. But now at length, forafinuch as the law ofNature did not define all kindes of good, andes uill-norcondemne euery finne in particular' nor fufficiently tertifie the con{eiences of offenders: nor foexpound diuine worfhip,as forthofe after-ages was required, Who gate euéry dayleffe authority than other to the naturall Law; Inthefe refpeéts it was necefla« ty; that the Law thould be written and fet before the eyes ofall men: which before,they might, bur would not reade;intheir owneconfciences. The schoolemen,and the Fathers -- pcs tare the caufes and neceflity, why the Law was written, whereof thele i arethecheefett, ; Thefirlt,forreftraining of finne, diteGily grounded vponthis place of Dawid, TH Theteftimonies ofthe Lord are faithfulg* wing wifedome tochildren. For the humane Law; faith Saint Axgu/tine, meeteth not with alloffences; either by way ofprohibition or punithment; feeing thereby it might rakes Way fomething feeming neceffary, and hinder common profit': but the dinine law wit lawiof the Lord ts undefiled, conuerting foules: ten; fotbiddedheuery euill, and therefore by Dauid itis called vndefiled. Secondly; it fertieth for the direction of our mindes.Forthe Lawes.of men can oniely foundation God him{elfe making it appear, greateft caufes ofthe deftrnétion ofmankinde bythe generall that it. was:one: of the food, For:God faid vara 20 Noa, Aniend ofallflelh z: come before me :for the earth 4s filled mitheruelty through them:and behold, Iwill deftroythem* fromthe earth. That offence thetefore;for which all petifheds * The cémon could notbe vnknownto all chat perithed : Gods mercy andinttice lnterpofing between /.* the vntaught,andreuehge. Thiscommandement.God repeated toea; after thewaters God did no! Were dried vp from theearth:who fo foeddeth tans bloodby man{ball his blondbe hed for, troy the tn the Image of God hath he made man. ; i Alfothe law ofhonouri og and reuerencing ourparents,was obferuedamong the faith: pre full,and the contrary punithed bythefathers curfe:.as, Curféd be Cansén,a feruantoffera (ps! nantsbalthe be vnto bis brethren. Againe, wefinde that the vaniturall fin of the Sedomites, whict was punifhied in the higheft degree, as withfire from heauen,'Fhe finneof Adultérie and 2<cor4 30 Rauithment, was beforethe law no lefle detefted thanthe reft}.as appeareth by. that re +.1; uenge,taken fot Dina's forcing: and by the iudgement which Jada gaue againit Tamar, &Dev 3 That the should bebutat:and by the repentance this {entetice was pronounced, Thou artbut dead, ofPharach 8 -Abimelechagaingt whout £°°c2l'y 1 ken :for {heis amans wife: To thefe we mayadde becanfe of therroman which thowhast ta wert the on of cleane andvacleane heafts: of Circumcifion, ordinanéeof Sacrifice; ofdittinai- cheea nig of the brotherto raife vp feed:to his faid, verie brother thar lefra widow-childle‘e,and diuers 4. other contftitutions; partly Morall,ind peeve horipartly Ceremonial, which beingdeliuered before the written law, were-after byit cons pengeet fitmed.So that this Disize Lawimpofed.of whichthe Law ofAdofes containeththat which: Gen.o.6. take knowledge of outward ations, but not of inrernall motions, or of Our difpofition aadwill sand yetit is required,that wee beno leffe cleanein the one, than in the othe, nor oncly to-bea fts, but. tohis imitated ;.as the natne ofSeth fighi- of ttie Church orrather, one given in compence forhel rharwas flaine: and Exh Sevifiertkinanor miferablej&c: Further; God commanded Adan to till the: ground,and ro litie by the labour thereof : God alfo gaue him the choife of all fruits but the forbidden: andiau Lem alfo Was mariage firftiniticuted:all men thence-after being commanded ro cohabit wich their Wines; rather than wich their Father or Mother. i That murtherand cruelty was alfo forbiddck: both before the law written,and before the flood irfelfe;itismanifett.. ftone,thatit might remaine a lafting booke ofhis expreft willin the Chutch;and thatthe withoutexcuft: theflight defences of ignorance being taken from them. «The reafon knowneto vs why this Law wasnotwrittetibefore, is, that when the ae ple were few,and their lives Tong,the Elders of Families might éafily without any writ-! iscalled The old 7 cfament may be faidsnot onely to haue beene written in the hearts of Gc?-9+52 ~ y*. « 42men, = vo befor e7it was a ay ° engran < re enin ftone, buralf ; o in fubfan * ", ce 4-25 to hane bene giten in precep t Gea.3 8.2 tothe Patriarks. ForasS. Pant witnefleth of himfelfe, sAnew notfinne,but by the Laws fo . euerthe Lawnaturally pre ceded,and went before offences, though written. after offences committed, Itistrue, tharall. the creatures of God were direéted by fome kinde of vawritcen Thirdly, sit leadeth vs tothe knowledge of truth, which by reafon' of diuerfitie of Opinion, and difference of peculiar Lawes amon g flindtie "Nations, wee canno t bee fured of; butthe Law of GO D bindeth all men, and is withouterrour ; and ther foréalfo {tid Dexia, ae- {aid 7 : Dawid, That the teflimony ofthe Law of God isccatiais wien, wifedom twee faithfull s gining §. VIN Of the vawritten Law ofGod,sine n to the Patriarkes by Tradition. N° W,that inaltthislon the law; the Aayels intuitiuely.;Men by reafon ; Beafts by fenfeand inftin@,with., out difcourfe; Plants by their vegetatine powers; and things inanimate by their aéceffary mouons, without fenfe or preceprion, a jo §. IX. Of the atorall, ludiciall,and Ceremonial Law, with anote prefixed, How the Scripture {peakerh not alway in one Senfe, whenit namet h the Liaw of Motes; Ne Wasthe word(zaw)in generall, as isaforefaid, hath diuers fignifications,andis & taken forall doGtrine which doth prefcribe and reftraine:fothe Law,calledthe Zew Reos. 3.19; of Mofesin Partic worldand ular,is taken by S.Paaé diuerfly; as fometi meforall the old Teftament, as, Now meknom whatfoewer the Lawfa ith jt [ith to them which are under the Law, i J Yeamanyparticular Commandements afterward written, were 600, forme) d delinered ouer by Tradition 3 Whichkin ; afrerwa™ de oF teaching the Zeomes alterwed Bz Whenitis oppofed, or differenced from the Propbets and Pfalmes, it isthere taken. fox the fiue Bookes of Mgfes. For {o S.Luk e hath diftinguifhed themas, Alwenft bee fulfilled Luc. 24.4 which are written of meinthe Law,inthe Prophets, andinthe Pfalmes. Aa 3 When |
