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Show '.the Preface~ The • ufe them oft, not fo much for proot Old, the f~me, or gteater, are com-' as ornament. . manded in the New : And we fee 1 do often ufe th~ Authonty of the Antient Chrifl:ian Writers have tile Books either wntten or appro· u (ed the tefiimonies of the old Co ... ved by Men infpir' d. of God , rna· venant in the f4lme way. But, to un ·.king a difference 'cwtxt the old f .a" derfiand the meaning of the Books and the new. Some do urge the old belonging to the 018 Covenant, no LAW for the very Law of Nature: <:· little light may be borrowed, from / crroneoufly, no doubt: for many. the fl(brtw Writers* , thofe efpe- * ha fc;ntil: things in that proceed from the free cially who throughly knew the Lan- Caffiar~s ., will and pleafure of God, which yet guages and the Manners of their ~~~;~~.vm. never is contrary to t~e true Law ot own Countrey. Nature: and fo far ts an ~rgume~t The New Covenant I ufe to this rightly drawn thence, whtl~ we dl· end , that I may teach, what cannot fiinguifu accurately t~e Rtght of be learned elf where, what is lawfull God which God fomeumes execute! for Chrifiians: which yetj contrary ·by Men , and the Right of Men a· to the opinion of many men, I have mong themfelves. We have there- difiinguif!lt from the Law of Nafore to our power , avoyded bot~ ture ; betng affured, greater SanCl:ithis ~rrour , and another oppofite to many is commanded us in t.hat moft it , that thinks there is no ufe of the Holy Law, than the Law of Nature Old Covenant, fince the times of ~exa¢teth by it felf alone. Yet have ) the New. Our judgement is other· I not forgotten to obferve, what is wife both upon that gtound. now. rather commended to us than commentioned, and bec·aufe fuch Is the manded, that we may know, i:is imnature of the New Covenant, that pious and penal to decline from the the things pertaining to virtue and precepts ; to afpire unto the big heft good manner$, commagded in the pcr!ection, is the part of a generous Old, )f- * mind ~ ic . ' I - I • |
