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Show tMofes may be taken two ways: a,. cording to what it hath common with other Laws, made . by men, 1·ef.tr~in ing. the greater · offences with fear ot open punifhments , and hereby containing the f-:!ebrew people in the fiate of civil fociety ; in which fenfe it is called the Heh.7·I'· Law of a Clfrnal Commandement, and the ~om.J.2.7• Law of Work.!: Or, according to what is properto the divine Law,as it requires alto . purity of mind , and tome a6ls, vvhich may be omitted without ' tern· pora~l punHhment; in which fenfe it is 1tom.7. 14. called a fpiritual Law, rejoycing the ¥f.1S'• heart. N ow the ~awyers and Pharifees, contenting themfelves with the former part, neglected the fecond, which i1 • : 1 ~ the better part, nor did they inculcate .. . .. J • itinto the people. The truth of this a~· rears not only in our Books, 'but in Jo· _ fephm alfo and the Hebrew Mailers . Moreover, as to this fecond part, we .c.: .:.·· JllUfi know, the vertnes exacted at tne • hands of Chrifiians, are either commen· (lea or commanded to the Hebrews alfo, ~ J?g~egtc'uhs i~- but furely not commanded in the famt J.lrliDlS ry- .J • d J . d (oftom. locus -(legree an atttu e * as they are 10 de Virgitl. Chrillians. In both fenfes ChriA: 'J~· ~P· 44· ~li"!. poles his precepts to the old ones: t;anta nobJs Jll· ;unffu~litrat tJirtuti4 mtn(ura, (cd & vinditlttm [uTIItrt de injw ri•minftrtr~te, &c At po{t chri~i ttdventum multo ttreiior fa£14. ~ 'fJitt. Eo~.I.J.C 13. NDntttdtmvirtl&tismrn(tms4 'ob1s&ah1B1 esit,itur. · Idem in or:at. ilium Patri effr: :rqualem, air, in Evan· gelio eire, Pt ttctJl"Nm & inttnfi'.ntm & ~tdjtelsont'!l· 1• • • whemt whence it is manifcft, his wo1:ds contain more than a naked Interpretation. The · knowledge whereof conduces both co our prelent matter and to many other things, lcf!: we flreio the Authority. of the Hebrew Law beyond irs reach~ XIV. That War. is not afTtt.i11.ft the Gofpel-Law. ~ · · The.jirft Arg·ument. · .... t 0 Mm~ng Argt!ments of lefs value in . our judgement, uur firfl: and ·prin-. ctpal pr•of, that the Right of VVa1· is not .wholy taken away by the Law of Chr1fl:, 0-~a l1 be t~a t of PItt~/, to 1 lmo- 1 Tim. :.. r, thy .· ! e~hart there_fore, that firft of all, 2., 3· fuppltcattons, prayers, interceJ]ions, and J,iving ofth•mk.J 6e made for all fflcn: For Kings, and for all that: are i1J authority, that we may 'leadA quiet and a ""peace~bl~ life in all god/ineflatzd honefl:y. For thu u .._e:ocd and acceptahle in the * Sen.Ep.7J· f gbt of God our Saviotw : who 1'fl j/l have Phil o (o phi~ all men to 6e [aved, and to come unto fidchrer ded_i.: the ~non,/edue of the tr h H . tos, falfo a1t c. . ut • et e we arc contemrprc:s ta.ught three. thmgs; That it is plealing magi£haruun1 t~ God, .Ktngs fhould become· Ch· iGi- ac rrgum c:xi~ ihans : That being made CbnGians, fii~ari: E con. they fllould remain Kinos . Wee prav tl~ardzo "~7, n~l~ 1 . o ' / 1 a vcr1 tu z[. DJ.f.rat,ort.s (unt: nee immtrilo • null!!.t rnim pt1~J pr~flant, t}'tdllt: qubJ.btJ>l fntl tranq~itln otitJ l{ctt. D'g na c!b q1rz lr" uur Epifiola' tu 1 &.. ho.c ·• R.' ~.l '' 5p a.cu· be nt.;rl. W· •m, ad ()'m o~l pu tm1:> cnt u' ,. ali~ ad~, os pc,vtmt qrt, z.'ta bene rmmutr. •( Cra :~·r:: |