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Show . 1111tl PeAte or to one people ; thrice to man~in~ ; 'prefendy after th.e creation , agam ~n the refiauration after the flott4, lafily .m thacmore JubJime reHauracion by Chnfl. All thefe Laws dousdets oblige all men, after they have infficient notice of 'hem, V lii. That the Law given to the He· • f ~rew.s ohlig-ednot other Nt<tions. l)eut. 4·'· Ji'f.I47· » Thefe pions men of the Genr dcs, as Maimo11tdts ofcen fa ith, <fuall be partakers of fu ture h.2ppinefs. THe Hebrews were the only · people in all the wor:d, to whom God pe· culiarly zave h1s Laws, as Mofes, and t-he PialmHl cell the~n. And certainly thole J cws are out (one is / rypho in his difjnttation with Juftm) who think all "ihanger5, if they will be 1aved,mufl take upon them the yoke of the ff~brew-Law. N o Law binds them to wh:nn it was not oiven; To whom this L·tw was gi· ven~the Law it felf fpeaketh, Huzr 0 Ifrae/! W1th them the Covenant is made1 They are taken for a peculi01 ,. people pf God, as .k.laimonide.s confeffeth, and proves out of '.Deut .J3·4· Among{~ the Hebrews indeed there alwaies lived iome lhanoers .. that feared G0d, fitch as Cor· nelu:, Af1.s I o. and the worlhipping Gree~s, AEf.s I 7, Thefe, as th~ Hebrew Matters fay, were bound to ob~erve the · Laws g1ven t~ Adam, and to Noah, namely to abfiain from Idols and from blood :but to the proper Laws of the Jfrael1tes Ifrael\tes they were not bound. · The Prophets. when they) P.teachc unto the,.. . Gent!les never liJlfP!~q on them a: ne':" ,. Antzqu.u;z.. ceffity to fubmit to c,J'vtofos Law. And J ~~yphfion . t h e Je ws m. * Jo Jr e. p hu .s ·1~a 1' d w_el l , t ha t Suiiun1 nifo/a tPc h:iul•r-. Goq IlJjght be wod]lipt and hii favour /tJphantli ratioobteind Witho~t circumcilion 'l. For nt lflan[iffes erat the re~ion why many firanoe;s wer; tib! reliqtla {pes . . . d d . . ·~ alzqu11 {laltJl cucu~cdt , an by 'ucum<;thon bound 1flelioris. themie.~ vcs Lo .theJ..,l}IV (as Paul explains Gal,f·3• ic) wa~ to pro~ure ,the P:ivilrges' o~ t·hat Cornmon-wea.th (fpr, ,,fuch Pi·oielytes * had the lame right wich native Itrat!.- *·]ullin. coli. lites) and to partake of thole promifes cum T, }ph .. w h'1 c h were not common to mankm. d, cPitwo~jfmlcyittftsM , t}pftoJ-but peculiar to the Heprew peo~le. .Yet flllo {e aggregaI deny not, in af~er tim~s it grew to an 'V~l par t{l ,~ .. erronious opinion in fome, as if without dtg(n.e. Judai1in were no ,fatvntiq_u, T-ha-t we arc bound by ub pare of. the Htbr.ew 1~ vv, as it is properly La.w, we· collect hence, bccaufe all qbi)gatio:n. J e:.:cept~ lly· the Law of natm:e, comes· from the will, of the L1w-giver: buc,..thatit was the will of God , others hefides the . Ifraelitcs lhould be ho~den by that Law; we have not the letl izHimatlon. Wllerefcrre, as t'O us, there is no ahrog iJtion of hat Ln w; fo; how could ir. be abrogated ~n ·.re(peet ot them whom 1t never obHocd ? Fl'om the Itra~litcs h'ldeed is the bond taken off, ~s t~ Rituals, prefently after the firfl: pubhcacwn of tho Gofpell (which was re.vealed, to PcNr AEfs 1 o.) and as to ' other ( |
