and to have no Light P: Yet are they never utterly deftitute of that Seed of God and Life of Faith, that Love of Chrift and the Brethren, that Sincerity of Heart and Confcience of Duty; out of which, by the Operation of the Spirit, this Affurance may with him, and walk in darkness, we lie, and do not the truth. v. 7. But if we walk in the light, as he is in the light, we have fellowship one with another, and the blood of Jefus Chrift his Son cleanseth us from all fin. IV. P Cant. 4. 2. I fleep, but my heart waketh: it is the voice of my beloved that knocketh, faying, Open to me, my fifter, my love, my dove, my undefiled; for my head is filled with dew, and my locks with the drops of the night. v. 3. I have put off my coat, how fhall I put it on? I have washed my feet,how fhall I defile them? v.6. I opened to my beloved, but my beloved had withdrawn himself, and was gone: my foul failed when he fpake; I fought him, but I could not find him; I called him, but he gave me no anfwer. Pfalm 51. 8. Make me to hear joy and gladness; that the bones which thou haft broken,may rejoice. v.12. Reftore unto me the joy of thy falvation; and uphold me with thy free Spirit. v.14.Deliver me from bloodguiltinefs, O God, thou God of my falvation; and my tongue fhall fing aloud of thy righteousness. Eph.4. 30. "And grieve not the holy Spirit of God, whereby ye are fealed unto the day of redemption. v.31. Let all bitterness, and wrath, and anger, and clamour, and evil speaking be put away from you, with all malice. Pfalm 77. 1. I cried unto God with my voice: even unto God with my voice, and he gave ear unte I in v.3. me. v. 2. In the day of my trouble I fought the Lord; my fore ran in the night, and ceased not: my foul refused to be comforted. remembred God,and was troubled: I complained, and my fpirit was overwhelmed. Selah. υ 4. Thou holdeft mine eyes waking: I am fo troubled that I cannot speak. v.5. I have confidered the days of old, the years of ancient times. v. 6. I call to remembrance my song in the night: I commune with mine own heart, and my spirit made diligent fearch. v.7. Will the Lord caft off forever? and will he be favourable no more? v.8. Is his mercy clean gone for ever? doth his promife fail for evermore?! v. 9. Hath God forgotten to be gracious? hath he in anger shut up his tender mercies? Selah. v. 1o. And I faid, This is my infirmity, but I will remember the years of the right hand of the moft High. Matth. 26. 69. Now Peter fat without in the palace; and a damfel came unto him, faying, Thou alfo waft with Jefus of Galilee. v. 70. But he denied before them all, faying, I know not what thou fayeft. v. 71. And when he was gone out into the porch, another maid faw him, and faid unto them that were there, This fellow was also with Jefus of Nazareth. v. 72. And again he denied with an oath, I do not know the man. Pfalm 31. 22. Forl faid in my hafte, I am cut out from before thine eyes: nevertheless thou heard. in due time be revived, and by the which in the mean time they are supported from utter Despair *. CHAP. XIX. Of the Law of God. NOD gave to Adam a Law as a Covenant of Works, by which he bound him and all his Pofterity to perfonal, entire, exact and perpetual Obedience; promifed Life upon the fulfilling, and heardeft the voice of my fupplications, when I cried unto thee. [ Pfal. 88. throughout] Ifai. so. 10. Who is among you that feareth the Lord, that obeyeth the voice of his fervant, that walketh in darkness, and hath no light? let him truft in the name of the Lord, and stay upon his God. 91 John 3.9. Whofoever is born of God, doth not commit fin: for his feed remaineth in him, and he cannot fin, because he is born of God. Luke 22 32. But I have prayed for thee, that thy faith fail not; and when thou art converted, ftrengthen thy brethren. Job 13.15. Though he flay me, yet will I truft in him: but I will maintain mine own ways before him. Pfalm 73.15. IfI fay, I will speak thus: behold, Ifhould offend against the generation of thy children. Pfalm 51. 8, 12. [ See letter immediately before. ] Ifaiah so. 10. [See letter P immediately foregoing.] Mic. 7.7. Therefore I will look unto the Lord: I will wait for the God of my falvation: my God will hear me. v. 8. Rejoice not against me, O mine enemy; when I fall, I fhall arife; when I fit in darkness, the Lord fhall be a light unto me. v. 9. I will bear the indignation of the Lord, because I have finned a threat gainst him, until he plead my cause, and execute judgment for me: he will bring me forth to the light, and I fhall behold his righteousness. Jer. 32. 40. And I will make an everlasting covenant with them, That I will not turn away from them, to do them good; but I will put my fear in their hearts, that they fhall not depart from me. Ifa. 54.7. For a fmall moment have I forfaken thee; but with great mercies will I gather thee. v. 8. In a little wrath I hid my face from thee, for a moment; but with everlasting kindness will I have mercy on thee, faith the Lord thy Redeemer. v. 9. For this is as the waters of Noah unto me: for as I have fworn that the waters of Noah should no more go over the earth; fo have I fworn that I would not be wroth with thee, nor rebuke thee. v. 10. For the mountains fhall depart, and the hills be removed, but my kindness shall not depart from thee, neither fhall the covenant of my peace be removed, faith the Lord, that hath mercy on thee. Pfal. 22.1. My God,my God, why haft thou forfaken me? why art thou fo far from helping me, and from the words of my roaring? [ Pfal. 88. throughout.] I. Gen. threatned Death upon the Breach of it; and indued him with Power and Ability to keep it ". II. This Law after his Fall, continued to be a perfect Rule of Righteousness, and as fuch was delivered by God upon Mount Sinai in Ten Commandments, and written in Two Tables; the Four I. Gen. 1. 26. And God faid, Let us make man in our image, after our likeness: and let them have dominion over the fish of the fea, and over the fowl of the air, and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth. v. 27. So God created man in his own image, in the image of God created he him: male and female created he them. With Gen. 2. 17. But of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, thou shalt not eat of it: for in the day that thou eatest thereof, thou shalt furely die. Rom. 2. 14. For when the Gentiles which have not the law, do by nature the things contained in the law, these having not the law, are a law unto themselves: v. 15. Which fhew the work of the law written in their hearts, their confcience alfo bearing witness, and their thoughts the mean while accufing, or else excufing one another. Rom. 10. 5. For Mofes defcribeth the righteousness which is of the law, that the man which doth those things, fhall live by them. Rom. 5. 12. Wherefore, as by one man fin entred into the world, and death by fin; and fo death paffed upon all men, for that all have finned. v. 19. For as by one mans difobedience many were made finners: fo by the obedience of one, fhall many be made righteous. Gal. 3. 10. For as many as are of the works of the law, are under the curfe for it is written, Curfed is every one that continueth not in all things which are written in the book of the law, to do them. v. 12. And the law is not of faith: but, the man that doth them, shall live in them. Eccl. 7.29. Lo, this only have I found, that God hath made man upright: but they have fought out many inventions. Job 28. 28. And unto man he said, Behold, the fear of the Lord, that is wisdom, and to depart from evil, is understanding. II. b James 1. 25. But whofo looketh into the perfect law of liberty, and continueth therein, he being not a forgetful hearer, but a doer of the work, this man shall be bleffed in his deed. Fam. 2. 8. If ye fulfil the royal law, according to the fcripture, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thy felf, ye do well. v. 1o. For whofoever fhall keep the whole law, and yet offend in one point, he is guilty of all. v. 11. For he that faid, Do not commit adultery; faid alfo, Do not kill. Now if thou commit no adultery, yet if thou kill, thou art become a tranfgreffor of the law. v. 12. So fpeak ye, and fo do, as they that shall be judged by the law of liberty. Rom. 13. 8. Owe no man any thing, but love one another: for he that loveth another, hath fufilled the law. v. 9. For this, Thou shalt not commit adultery, Thou shalt not kill, Thon Four firft Commandments containing our Duty towards God, and the other Six, our Duty to Man . III. Befide this Law commonly called Moral, God was pleased to give to the People of Ifrael, as a Church under Age, ceremonial Laws, containing feveral typical Ordinances, partly of Worship, prefiguring Chrift, his Graces, Actions, Sufferings and Benefits; and partly holding forth divers Inftructions of Moral Duties. All which ceremonial Laws are now abrogated under the New Teftament f Thou shalt not fteal, Thou shalt not bear falfe witness, Thou shalt not covet; and if there be any other commandment, it is briefly comprehended in this faying, namely, Thou fhalt love thy neighbour as thy felf. Deut. 5. 32. Ye fhall obferve to do therefore as the Lord your God hath commanded you: you fhall not turn afide to the right hand or to the left. Deut. 10. 4. And he wrote on the tables, according to the first writing, the ten commandments, which the Lord fpake unto you in the mount, out of the midst of the fire, in the day of the affembly: and the Lord gave them unto me. Exod. 34. 1. And the Lord faid unto Mofes, Hew thee two tables of ftone like unto the firft; and I will write upon these tables the words that were in the first table which thou brakeft. Matth. 22. 37. Jefus faid unto him, Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy foul, and with all thy mind. v. 38. This is the firft and great commandment. v. 39. And the fecond is like unto it, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thy self. v. 40. On thefe two commandments hang all the law and the prophets. IV. To III. [Heb. 9. Chapter ] Heb. 10, I. For the law having a fhadow of good things to come, and not the very image of the things, can never with thofe facrifices which they offered year by year continually, make the comers thereunto perfect. Gal. 4.1. Now I fay, that the heir as long as he is a child, differeth nothing from a fervant, though he be lord of all; v. 2. But is under tutors and governors, untill the time appointed of the father. v.3. Even fo we, when we were children,were in bondage under the elements of the world. Col.2.17. Which are a fhadow of things to come; but the body is of Chrift. e 1 Cor. 5.7. Purge out therefore the old leaven, that ye may be a new lump, as ye are unleavened: for even Christ our paffover is facrificed for us. 2 Cor. 6, 17. Wherefore come out from among them, and be ye feparate, faith the Lord,and touch not the unclean thing; and I will receive you. Jude 23. And others fave with fear, pulling them out of the fire; hating even the garments spotted by the flesh. f Col. 2. 14. Blotting out the hand writing of ordinances, that was a gainft IV. To them alfo, as a Body politick, he gave fundry Judicial Laws, which expired together with the State of that People, not obliging any other now, further than the general Equity thereof may require 8. V. The Moral Law doth for ever bind all, as well juftified Perfons as others, to the Obedience thereof; and that not only in regard of the Matter contained in it, but alfo in refpect of the Authority gainst us, which was contrary to us, every ordinance of man for the and took it out of the way, nailing Lords fake, whether it be to the it to his crofs. v. 16. Let no man king, as fupreme; v. 14. Or unto therefore judge you in meat or in governors, as unto them that are drink, or in respect of an holy day, fent by him, for the punishment of or of the new moon, or of the fab- evil doers, and for the praise of bath-days. v. 17. Which are a fha- them that do well. Mat. s. 17. dow of things to come, but the bo- Think not that I am come to dedy is of Chrift. Dan. 9. 27. And he ftroy the law, or the prophets I fhall confirm the covenant with ma- am not come to deftroy, but to fulny for one week: and in the midst of fil. With v. 38. Ye have heard, that the week, he fhall cause the facrifice it hath been faid, An eye for an eye, and the oblation to cease; and for and a tooth for a tooth: v. 39. But the overspreading of abominations, I fay unto you,that ye refift not evil: he fhall make it defolate, even until the confummation, and that determined shall be poured upon the defolate. Eph. 2. 15. Having abolifhed in his flesh the enmity, even the law of commandments, contained in ordinances, for to make in himself, of twain, one new man, fo making peace; v. 16. And that he might reconcile both unto God in one body by the cross, having flain the enmity thereby. IV. [Exod.21. chapter. Exod. 22. 1. to the 29. verse: See both in the Bible.] Gen. 49. 10. The fceptre fhall not depart from Judah, nor a lawgiver from between his feet, until Shiloh come; and unto him shall the gathering of the people be. With Pet. 2. 13. Submit your felves to but whofoever fhall fmite thee on thy right cheek, turn to him the other alfo. 1 Cor. 9. 8. Say Ithese things as a man? or faith not the law the fame alfo ? v. 9. For it is written in the law of Mofes, Thou fhalt not muzzle the mouth of the ox that treadeth out the corn; Doth God take care for oxen? v. 10. Or faith he it altogether for our fakes for our fakes, no doubt, this is written, that he that ploweth fhould plow in hope; and that he that thresheth in hope, fhould be partaker of his hope. h V. Rom. 13. 8, 9. [ See above in letter b.] v. 1o. Love worketh no ill to his neighbour: therefore love is the fulfilling of the law. Eph. 6. 2. Honour thy father and mother, |