The Moral Law: what changed

What is the duty which God gave requireth of man? The duty which God requireth of man, is obedience to Adam a law, as a covenant of works, by which He bound him and all his posterity to personal, entire, exact, and perpetual obedience; promised life upon the fulfilling, and threatened death upon the breach of it: and endued him with power and ability to keep it.revealed will.

This law, after his fall, continued What did God at first reveal to be a perfect man for the rule of righteousness, and, as such, was delivered by his obedience? The rule which God upon Mount Sinai, in ten commandments, and written in two tables: the four at first commandments containing our duty towards God; and the other six our duty revealed to man for his obedience, was the moral law.

Beside this Wherein is the moral law commonly called summarily comprehended? The moral God was pleased to give to law is summarily comprehended in the people of Israel, as a church under age, ceremonial laws, containing several typical ordinances, partly of worship, prefiguring Christ, His graces, actions, sufferings, and benefits; and partly holding forth divers instructions of moral duties. All which ceremonial laws are now abrogated, under the new testament.ten commandments.

What is the sum of the ten commandments? The sum of the ten commandments is, To them also, love the Lord our God with all our heart, with all our soul, with all our strength, and with all our mind; and our neighbour as a body politic, He gave sundry judicial laws, which expired together with the State of that people; not obliging any other now, further than the general equity thereof may require.ourselves.

What is the moral law doth for ever bind all, as well justified persons as others, preface to the obedience thereof; and that, not only ten commandments? The preface to the ten commandments is in regard these words, I am the Lord thy God, which have brought thee out of the matter contained in it, but also in respect land of Egypt, out of the authority house of God the Creator, who gave it: neither doth Christ, in the Gospel, any way dissolve, but much strengthen this obligation.bondage.

Although true believers be not under What doth the law, as a covenant of works, preface to be thereby justified, or condemned; yet the ten commandments teach us? The preface to the ten commandments teacheth us, That because God is it of great use to them, as well as to others; in that, as a rule of life informing them of the will of Lord, and our God, and their duty, it directs, and binds them Redeemer, therefore we are bound to walk accordingly; discovering also the sinful pollutions of their nature, hearts, and lives; so as, examining themselves thereby, they may come to further conviction of, humiliation for, and hatred against sin; together with a clearer sight of the need they have of Christ, and the perfection of keep all his obedience. It is likewise of use to the regenerate, to restrain their corruptions, in that it forbids sin: and the threatenings of it serve to show what even their sins deserve; and what afflictions, in this life, they may expect for them, although freed from the curse thereof threatened in the law. The promises of it, in like manner, show them God’s approbation of obedience, and what blessings they may expect upon the performance thereof; although not as due to them by the law, as a covenant of works. So as, a man’s doing good, and refraining from evil, because the law encourageth to the one and deterreth from the other, is no evidence of his being under the law; and not under grace.commandments.

Neither are the forementioned uses of the law contrary to the grace of the Gospel, but do sweetly comply with it; the Spirit of Christ subduing and enabling the will of man to do that, freely and cheerfully, which the will of God, revealed in the law, requireth to be done.