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<P>THE NEW EARTH, OR, The True <HI>MAGNA CHARTA</HI> OF The pa&s;t AGES, and of the AGES or World to come: CALLED The JEWS COMMONWEAL. Written by an unworthy witne&s;s of the truth of the great God, <HI>JOHN BRAYNE.</HI></P>
<Q><BIBL><HI>I&s;a. 42.21.</HI></BIBL> The Lord is well plea&s;ed for his righteou&s;ne&s;s &s;ake: he will magnifie the law, and make it honourable.</Q>
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<P><HI>London,</HI> Printed for <HI>Richard Moon,</HI> at the &s;even &s;tars in <HI>Paul</HI>'s Church-yard, neer the great North-door. 1653.</P>
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<HEAD>To the Supreme Authority, THE PARLIAMENT OF THE Commonwealth of <HI>ENGLAND.</HI></HEAD>
<OPENER><SALUTE>Right Honourable,</SALUTE></OPENER>
<P>_THe men without law, that is, the Nations to whom God had not given the knowledge thereof, were a law unto them&s;elves, and made laws of their own, wherein one man became as a God to another; but we which have the law of God, and u&s;e it not as a law, are in|deed in a kind as tho&s;e Gentiles were, altoge|ther without it, or wor&s;e, who by our traditions (for &s;o indeed are humane laws) have made voide the laws of God, <HI>Mat.</HI> 15.6. <GAP LANG="grc" DESC="foreign" RESP="OXF">: thus the Phari&s;ees had un|authorized the law of God before us. Con|cerning
<PB REF="3">the ceremonial law, <HI>Mar.</HI> 7.8. and the moral law, <HI>v.</HI> 10, 11, 12. by which then, as now, the word of God was made of none effect, <HI>v.</HI> 13. and was committed in many things, be&s;ides the&s;e particulars that are &s;et down and expre&s;&s;|ed, when man and not God reigneth: nor doth God, whiles his laws judge us not, judge, but man; the law of the Nation, and not of God: un|till men are judged by Gods law, judgement is not the Lords, but <HI>Justinians, Gratians,</HI> or other mens; upon which the people imploy their time and &s;tudy: but if Gods laws were &s;et up among us, by his Bible or Statute book, every man would ea&s;ily become a lawyer; where no acts are ever to be repealed, but out|la&s;t tho&s;e of the <HI>Medes</HI> and <HI>Per&s;ians.</HI> No word mu&s;t be added or dimini&s;hed; there is therein no more or le&s;s then &s;hould be; &s;o full hath God made it, to govern by, <HI>Deut.</HI> 4.1, 2, 6, 8. the Ruler of the people was to have it alway by him, and not to turn from the right hand or the left, <HI>Deut.</HI> 17.18, 19, 20. It was the ex|cu&s;e of the Heathens, they knew not the law to make u&s;e thereof; it was the wickedne&s;s of the Papacy, that it was not u&s;ed therein, though
<PB REF="3">they knew it, they well &s;eeing, that both they and their practice were under the condemnati|on thereof; and that they had no authority thence to &s;et up them&s;elves, and Lord it over the world, putting them&s;elves in the place of God, without God.</P>
<P>But yee, O yee Princes of the people, into who&s;e hearts God put it to give a&s;&s;urances to the nation that your de&s;ire is to make it happy, which the Lord tells you con&s;i&s;ts in &s;etting up Gods law, <HI>Rom.</HI> 9.4. <HI>Deut.</HI> 4.6, 7, 8. God hath laid ingagements on you, as on his people of old, <HI>Deut.</HI> 4.24. though other alterations in the State were trouble&s;ome, God will pro|&s;per you in this and in your undertakings; for this, remember ye have the ingagements of men upon you, and of God on you, and of vows made to God on your own &s;ouls. O what &s;hall or can hinder! you need not fit a day to do it, it is done for you to a word, in the word: untill when, nationally we are not the people of God. <HI>Iam.</HI> 4.12. tells us there is but one law-giver; con&s;ider then what it is to give a law that is not according to Gods, e|&s;pecially when we have the law by us, and are not to go to heaven or beyond the Seas for
<PB REF="4">it; and I pray con&s;ider, that the Gentiles, <HI>Rom.</HI> 2. though they had laws of their own to judge by, yet not having Gods law, they are &s;aid to be without law: and ob&s;erve well thence what God may &s;ay of us, our law and judge|ment. Do, O do as <HI>Io&s;iah</HI> did, 2 <HI>Kings</HI> 23.2, 3. bring forth the law, do you and your people make a covenant, and all the people, with God, to re&s;tore and obey the law in the com|mands, the &s;tatutes, and judgements thereof; &s;o &s;hall no inju&s;tice nor oppre&s;&s;ion be u&s;ed in the land; this is the <HI>New Earth</HI> which the Saints even in the Apo&s;tles dayes dayes look|ed for, in which dwelleth righteou&s;ne&s;s, 2 <HI>Pet.</HI> 3.13. the Romans having de&s;troyed that government before, and hath laine hid to this day in the word; untill which, the foundations of judgement and ju&s;tice being out of cour&s;e, though you are never &s;o wi&s;e, ju&s;t, and willing to do the nation good, ye cannot, for the foundations are out of cour&s;e, and what can the righteous do? &s;aith <HI>David.</HI> And let not the cry of the Prophet take hold of you, <HI>P&s;al.</HI> 119.16. <HI>Vp, Lord, for men have made void thy law.</HI> Examine, I pray, if your
<PB REF="4">laws have not in &s;ome kinde made void Gods laws, which is the greate&s;t guilt of a nation that may be, under which we have layn ever &s;ince we had the knowledge of it among&s;t us. Give me leave to tell you, It is not enough you have put down the power and authority, but you mu&s;t put down the rule of the fourth Mo|narchy al&s;o, as the Apo&s;tle &s;aith, 1 <HI>Cor.</HI> 15.24. O that ye might be honoured of God, to put down that, and &s;et up the Lord, and not your own, when indeed ye &s;hall be healers of the nation, and re&s;torers of the paths to walk in; on which I be&s;eech you to look, as on that is Gods work, and your chiefe&s;t duty to &s;et up judges in the right place of judgement; that they judge according to the law, that judgement may be indeed the Lords, and they called gods; in which you &s;hall do more for the nation then all the Parliaments ever were; and deliver your own &s;ouls, make pro&s;perous the people, e&s;tabli&s;h authority and rule, compo&s;e the differences in being among us, and make the people one; for it mu&s;t be God that mu&s;t make tho&s;e of one hou&s;e, much more tho&s;e of one nation to agree,
<PB REF="5">whereby ye may onely do it: to which I leave you, and pray the Lord to help you and direct you therein, and remaine</P>
<CLOSER><SIGNED><HI>A faithful &s;ervant and well-wi&s;her of you all in the Lord,</HI> John Brayne.</SIGNED></CLOSER>
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<P>_THE foundation of all the gracious dealings of God with men, hath alwayes been laid and began in or with Covenants; in which God takes a people, as a man a woman, and e&s;|pou&s;eth them to him&s;elf, <HI>Exod.</HI> 19.8. &amp; 24.3. &amp; 7. where in &s;tead of the blood of the &s;acrifice, we have Chri&s;t to make it in.</P>
<P N="1">1. There is the fir&s;t covenant; the Medi|ator or Mini&s;ter thereof was <HI>Mo&s;es;</HI> which was legal, and made with all the people, That they &s;hould keep the commandments, the Statutes, and Judgements &s;et down in the books of <HI>Mo&s;es, Deut.</HI> 5.1, 2, 3, 5. &amp; <HI>ver&s;.</HI> 27. The ble&s;&s;ings of this covenant were temporal, for this life: when it was broken, tempo|ral ble&s;&s;ings were withdrawn. The Kings of I&s;rael, as <HI>Jo&s;iah</HI> (2 <HI>Kin.</HI> 23.2, 3.) renewed it, <HI>Deut.</HI> 29.10, 11, 12, 13. 2 <HI>Kings</HI> 11.17. And another then this legal covenant, was not made with the Nati|on or people of the Jews, by <HI>Mo&s;es, Jer.</HI> 7.22, 23, 24. <HI>Jo&s;h.</HI> 8. ult. 2 <HI>Cor.</HI> 3.14.15.</P>
<P N="2">2. There was a new covenant; in which, not <HI>Mo&s;es,</HI> but Chri&s;t is the Mediator; which is a <HI>better covenant,</HI> having not the law <HI>written in tables of &s;tone,</HI> but <HI>in the heart,</HI> Heb. 8.10. which had <HI>better promi&s;es,</HI> ver&s;. 6. and Chri&s;t &s;aid to be <HI>a Prie&s;t of good things to come:</HI> which was only made with believers in the Lord Je&s;us Chri&s;t, in whom the law is kept only and indeed; in &s;hadow of which, God, after covenanting with him in the Mo&s;aical
<PB N="2" REF="6">covenant, he gave <HI>Aarons</HI> Prie&s;thood, from <HI>Exod.</HI> 25. to the end.</P>
<P><HI>Note.</HI> As a Nation cannot &s;ub&s;i&s;t without rule and government, in any order, nor be without food and raiment, nor continue or re|maine, if God cur&s;e them, and ble&s;s them not; &s;o it is nece&s;&s;ary for the&s;e, that a National Covenant be made with God by us, for the binding our &s;elves to God, to keep his commandments, Statutes, and Judgements; and is as nece&s;&s;ary for us, as ever it was for the Jews: by which God becomes engagedly the God of a Nation, and they a|gain his people, and not nationally as before: for, by the new cove|nant, God is not the God of a nation, but of believers onely in a nation, joyned to Chri&s;t in the way of the Go&s;pel.</P>
<P>Object. <HI>The New covenant implyes, God hath made the fir&s;t Old; and that which decayeth and waxeth old, is ready to vani&s;h,</HI> Heb. 8.13.</P>
<P><HI>Re&s;p.</HI> As Chri&s;t and <HI>Mo&s;es</HI> de&s;troyed not one another, nor the Go&s;pel de&s;troyes not the law: &s;o nor doth one covenant de&s;troy an|other, nor is the fir&s;t covenant old, but to tho&s;e only that are in the &s;econd; in which the fir&s;t is as it were &s;wallowed up or received into: But to tho&s;e that are onely under the fir&s;t, To them the fir&s;t is &s;o, as if there were not a &s;econd; and tho&s;e under the &s;econd are &s;o under that, as if the fir&s;t were not.</P>
<P><HI>Note.</HI> Men are to be fir&s;t under the fir&s;t, or <HI>Sinai;</HI> and thence come to <HI>Sion, Heb.</HI> 12.18, 22. and &s;o <HI>Mo&s;es</HI> is <HI>a Schoolma&s;ter to bring us to Chri&s;t,</HI> Gal. 4.24. Rom. 9.4. Heb. 9.15. &amp; 12.18, 24.</P>
<P><HI>Illu&s;t.</HI> As in the beginning of the goverment of the Jews Com|monweal, there was a rule &s;et up for Judgement among the people, called judicial laws, to govern them by, in which was the Kingly goverment of God, and the law called the Royal: and there was like|wi&s;e the Levitical Law, which appertained to the &s;ervice of the taber|nal, in which Chri&s;ts Prie&s;thood was &s;et out, in things appertaining to God for the people; which di&s;tinct e&s;tates are in a kind re|&s;erved among us this day in the Church and State, As in <HI>Mo&s;es</HI> and <HI>Aaron:</HI> &s;o now &s;hould it be <HI>Mo&s;es</HI> and Chri&s;t.</P>
<P>But the <HI>Romans</HI> conquering <HI>Judea,</HI> according to the prophecie, <HI>Gen.</HI> 49.10. they put down their rule and government, that they could put no man to death. Judgement was now altered into the
<PB N="3" REF="6">cu&s;toms of the heathens, and there ever &s;ince it hath continued: and no nation in the world ever &s;ince taking God, or God taking them to be his people, as of old; though lately we (in a wrong way) &s;eemed to do it: for at the renewing of the covenant, the law and the &s;tatutes and judgements were only read, and the people ingaging them&s;elves to keep them a never did any Go&s;pel-Church do any &s;uch thing, nor &s;hall ever do it, nor were they the Church-paterns. Antichri&s;ts mark is &s;et down to be (2 <HI>The&s;.</HI> 2.8.) one that is <GAP LANG="grc" DESC="foreign" RESP="OXF"> <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 span"> <HI>without law;</HI> that is, he exerci&s;eth not the law of God <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 span"> up the covenant of the law; but brings all the world and <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 span"> to one e&s;tate: which if he had not done, or if we do not do, we &s;hall finde the one is as nece&s;&s;ary among men in the world, as the other in the Church. And hence Antichri&s;ts workings are called <HI>the my&s;tery</HI> <GAP LANG="grc" DESC="foreign" RESP="OXF"> <HI>of lawle&s;ne&s;s,</HI> by whom the laws admini&s;trations are de&s;troyed.</P>
<P>Object. <HI>If we have this covenant, we mu&s;t have circum|ci&s;ion.</HI></P>
<P><HI>Re&s;p.</HI> The Apo&s;tle clears it, <HI>Gal.</HI> 3.17. <HI>The covenant that was confirmed</HI> (in circumci&s;ion) <HI>before of God in Chri&s;t, the law which was four hundred and thirty yeers after, cannot di&s;annul.</HI> Now this covenant I &s;peak of, is di&s;tingui&s;hed from that, by <HI>Mo&s;es,</HI> thus, <HI>Deut.</HI> 5.3. <HI>The Lord made not this covenant with our fathers, but with us</HI> (in Horeb) <HI>even us, who are all of us alive this day.</HI> John 7.22. <HI>Mo&s;es gave you you circumci&s;ion, not becau&s;e it is of</HI> Mo&s;es, <HI>but of the fathers.</HI></P>
<P>Que&s;t. <HI>If this covenant be not &s;ufficient to make men ca|pable of bapti&s;m, and whether men were not circumci&s;ed by this?</HI></P>
<P><HI>Re&s;p.</HI> Men were not circumci&s;ed by this, but that other covenant &s;poke of <HI>Deut.</HI> 5.3. and was long before this.</P>
<P N="2">2. Bapti&s;m belongs to the &s;econd, not fir&s;t covenant; in which God becomes our God, not by doing, but believing; not by works, but grace; not in <HI>Mo&s;es,</HI> but Chri&s;t.</P>
<P>Object. <HI>The Apo&s;tles required not this in their time.</HI></P>
<P><HI>Re&s;p.</HI> 2 Pet. 3.13. They looked for <HI>a New Earth,</HI> that is, a re&s;toration of that admini&s;tration of the law to be; but not untill the fall of Antichri&s;ts rule and government, being of the fourth Mo|narchy.</P>
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<P N="2">2. The law was for the worlds government; that that they did, concerned the Church, and the new covenant onely, and not the world, 2 <HI>Chron.</HI> 15.12, 13, 14, 15, <HI>Nehem.</HI> 8.1, 2, 3, 4.</P>
<P><HI>Note.</HI> Both covenants are nece&s;&s;ary, when they may be had; and without the covenants, is no promi&s;e, <HI>Eph.</HI> 2.12. the heathens were <HI>Aliens from the civil e&s;tate of I&s;rael</HI> (Beza) <HI>and &s;trangers from the covenant of promi&s;e,</HI> &s;peaking of them both. And thus it is with us this day.</P>
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<HEAD>Of Judges.</HEAD>
<P><HI>Note.</HI> The Lord hath promi&s;ed he will <HI>re&s;tore Judges as at the fir&s;t,</HI> I&s;a. 1.26. and, in them, judgement: and it was the great wrath of God, that they were taken away out of the midde&s;t of the people, <HI>Amos</HI> 2.3. and would it not be a mercy if this people might have them, that never had them, as at the fir&s;t? The fir&s;t were of Gods in&s;titution, and be&s;t; tho&s;e of other forms &s;ince, of men, and far wor&s;e. O let our Judges be <HI>as at the fir&s;t.</HI></P>
<P><HI>Mo&s;es,</HI> the fir&s;t of Judges, by <HI>Jethro's</HI> advice, <HI>Exod.</HI> 18.16. di&s;&s;olved Monarchy in rule, laying it down, for his own and the peo|ples ea&s;e: God con&s;enting thereunto, gave the people laws to be go|verned, and Judges to govern them by; who are de&s;cribed to the people, <HI>Exod.</HI> 18.22. that they chu&s;e not ami&s;s: who in the be|ginning of the government, and after, were cho&s;en of the people, <HI>Deut.</HI> 1.13. &amp; 16.18. for which &s;ervice men may be ea&s;ily fit|ted, in that the law was daily read in the Synagogues, which was ex|pounded by the Prophets and wi&s;e men &s;ent of God to them; which cannot be done in our law: it was the Sabbath-work and &s;ervice of God to teach it daily in publike and private: and &s;hall this law be thus laid a&s;ide, neglected, and not &s;tudied, for the bramble-rule of the world? and was &s;ubverted, 1 <HI>Sam.</HI> 8.1.</P>
<P>Hear, ye Judges, <HI>Deut.</HI> 25.1. <HI>If the controver&s;ie come to judgement that they may judge, they mu&s;t judge; Luk.</HI> 12.58. ye mu&s;t judge the people with ju&s;t judgement. <HI>Judge righteou&s;ly between a man and his brother, and the &s;tranger that is with him,</HI> Deut. 1.16. ver&s;. 17. <HI>Ye &s;hall not re&s;pect per&s;ons. Ye &s;hall not take a gift, for a gift doth blinde the eyes of the wi&s;e, and
<PB N="5" REF="7">pervert the words of the righteous,</HI> 1 Sam. 12.3, 5. Exod. 23.3. <HI>thou &s;halt countenance a poor man in his cau&s;e</HI> ver&s;. 6. <HI>thou &s;halt not wre&s;t the judgement of thy poor in his cau&s;e,</HI> ver&s;. 9. <HI>thou &s;halt not oppre&s;s the &s;tranger,</HI> ver&s;. 7. <HI>keep thee far from a fal&s;e mat|ter; and the innocent and the righteous &s;lay thou not,</HI> Prov. 28.21.</P>
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<HEAD><HI>To the&s;e Judges &s;et up in every City,</HI> 2 Chron. 19.5. Deut. 16.18. <HI>&s;eventy two, called the</HI> Sanhedrin, <HI>were added, and joyned to them.</HI></HEAD>
<P N="1">1. While <HI>Mo&s;es</HI> lived, he &s;upplyed their place, <HI>Exod.</HI> 18.22. after him, <HI>Deborah, Samuel,</HI> and the re&s;t, &s;ucceeded <HI>Mo&s;es,</HI> judging I&s;rael in the difficult cau&s;es that others could not judge, being brought before them: God had eminently gifted and rai&s;ed up &s;ome to rule, untill the time of the kings, 1 <HI>Sam.</HI> 7.16, 17. or when the&s;e failed at any time.</P>
<P N="2">2. Then, as in <HI>Deut.</HI> 17.8, 9, 10, 11. &s;uch of the people as were thought to be mo&s;t able and fit to judge, were &s;et a part to judge the difficult ca&s;es of the people, <HI>Exod.</HI> 24.14. 2 <HI>Chron.</HI> 19.8, 10. though ordinary per&s;ons.</P>
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<HEAD>Tho&s;e that judge ju&s;tly for God,</HEAD>
<P N="1">1. He hath honoured before the people, <HI>Exod.</HI> 22.28. <HI>Thou &s;halt not revile the Gods, nor cur&s;e the ruler of thy people.</HI></P>
<P N="2">2. He e&s;tabli&s;heth that rule is according to his word, <HI>Deut.</HI> 17.12. <HI>The man</HI> (in the difficult ca&s;e) <HI>that will do pre&s;umptuou&s;ly, and not hearken to the Prie&s;t and Judge, that man &s;hall dye.</HI></P>
<P N="3">3. He encourageth them to go on, and fear not man, becau&s;e the <HI>judgement is the Lords.</HI></P>
<P><HI>Note.</HI> Herein is the ground of courage only.</P>
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<HEAD>If ye judge unju&s;tly, the cur&s;e of God and the people is on you.</HEAD>
<P><HI>Deut.</HI> 27.19. <HI>Cur&s;ed be he that perverteth the judgement of the &s;tranger, fatherle&s;s, and widdow,</HI> ver&s;. 25. <HI>Cur&s;ed be he taketh a bribe to &s;lay an innocent per&s;on,</HI> ver&s;. 26. <HI>Cur&s;ed be he confirmeth not all the words of this law to do them.</HI> Look what the Law &s;aith, God fulfils.</P>
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<PB N="6" REF="8">
<HEAD>Of Judgement.</HEAD>
<P><HI>WE are &s;ure the judgement of God is according to truth,</HI> Rom. 2.2. but not that mans is &s;o.</P>
<P><HI>Deut.</HI> 1.7. Judgement is <GAP LANG="heb" DESC="foreign" RESP="OXF"> to God, or is Gods, and is not mans: one man, of him&s;elf, cannot a&s;&s;ume the authority; but in the way God hath ordained, and under God: and when he hath the authority, he hath it not, but to put in execution Gods law, if he have it, and his judgement; for judgement is the Lords, <HI>Jam.</HI> 4.12. <HI>There is one law-giver, who is able to &s;ave and de&s;troy.</HI> Who art thou that judge&s;t another? <HI>Numb.</HI> 15.16.</P>
<P><HI>Note.</HI> The written word given the Jews for rule and government, is indeed the law; the rule and government of God and all Nations that rule not hereby, but by the work of that in their hearts, <HI>Rom.</HI> 2.15. As the effect depends on the cau&s;e, &s;o the work of the law, on the law; if there had been no law, there had been no work of the law in men: (O di&s;tingui&s;h between the&s;e:) our laws are but the work of the law, though the law hath wrought more &s;trongly on us then others, who had no knowledge of the letter of the law at all.</P>
<P><HI>Judgement &s;hall be one to the &s;tranger, and he that is of your own country,</HI> Lev. 24.22. and &s;o is no place for civil law, or mixt laws of Nations with us: the &s;mall are to be heard as well as the great, <HI>Deut.</HI> 1.17. every mans cau&s;e heard alike, <HI>ver&s;.</HI> 16. <HI>Levit.</HI> 19.15. <HI>Ye &s;hall do no unrighteou&s;ne&s;s in judgement: thou &s;halt not re&s;pect the per&s;on of the poor, nor honour the per&s;on of the mighty; but in righteou&s;ne&s;s &s;halt thou judge thy neighbour.</HI> They were not to take bribe or reward. 1 <HI>Sam.</HI> 12.3. Thus <HI>Mo&s;es, Numb.</HI> 16.15. &s;o that tribute and cu&s;tom, I &s;uppo&s;e, aro&s;e under the government of Kings, and was not under Judges, 1 <HI>Sam,</HI> 8.17.</P>
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<HEAD>That judgement might run down as a &s;tream, and be free to all as water, to every mans occa&s;ions, and uncorrupt,</HEAD>
<P N="1">1. It was given in the language of the people, having many pro|mi&s;es from God for obedience; which, by adhering to the law of
<PB N="7" REF="8">Nations, men lo&s;e: and it had many cur&s;es added to di&s;obedience, which had place in the hearts of men, to keep them from breaking the law, and keeping them in obedience. O what law is like this, to do a people good, which cannot puni&s;h di&s;obedience with cur&s;es, nor obedience with ble&s;&s;ings, as God doth!</P>
<P N="2">2. It was part of the wor&s;hip of God, to have it read and expound|ed to the people; which cannot be of mans laws. That none &s;hould be ignorant thereof, it was preached and taught at home and abroad, publike and private, <HI>Deut.</HI> 30. from <HI>ver&s;.</HI> 10. to 16. and pre&s;&s;ed on the con&s;cience daily, <HI>Joh.</HI> 7.49. <HI>This people that know not the law, are accur&s;ed.</HI></P>
<P N="3">3. It was to be free, and co&s;t nothing.</P>
<P N="4">4. <HI>Exod.</HI> 18.22. It was to be <GAP LANG="heb" DESC="foreign" RESP="OXF"> in all time; that is, when|ever occa&s;ion called on them to do ju&s;tice: So that after the &s;etting up of Judges, we have only two cau&s;es for which men were commit|ted to ward, <HI>Levit.</HI> 14.12. <HI>Numb.</HI> 15.34. which was onely for the difficulty of them, when that <HI>Mo&s;es</HI> dur&s;t not pa&s;s &s;entence before he had enquired of God what the judgement was; &s;o careful was he in the matter of judgement, that it might be Gods, and not his, <HI>Exod.</HI> 24.14.</P>
<P N="5">5. This cau&s;e is taken away now from us: for then the law was not revealed, but now it is, and we have the minde of God, &s;o as that not a word mu&s;t be added thereunto: and the Judge mu&s;t not decline from the law in judgement neither to the right hand nor to the left, <HI>Deut.</HI> 4.12. <HI>Gal.</HI> 3.15.</P>
<P N="6">6. Two Judges were appointed to be &s;et in all the gates of the Cities in the land, <HI>Deut.</HI> 1. &s;o that the people were not forced to go far for law, that was neer them, in the word; nor for ju&s;tice, it was at their doors.</P>
<P N="7">7. Every knowing man was a lawyer, he needed none to plead his cau&s;e, it was laid down &s;o plain, and &s;tated &s;o clear in the word by God for them.</P>
<P><HI>Ap.</HI> Who now would leave the pure &s;teams of ju&s;tice that came out from God, and ri&s;e in him, for the muddy &s;treams of <HI>Ju&s;tini|an, Gratian,</HI> and other blind and ignorant men! <HI>I&s;a.</HI> 10.1, 2, 3, 4.</P>
<P><HI>Ap.</HI> Who would not &s;ubmit rather to that judgement that is Gods, then to that that is mans; and do as <HI>Paul,</HI> appeal to the
<PB N="8" REF="9">&s;upream judgement, which is beyond <HI>Cae&s;ars,</HI> and above it, if he might be tryed by it, which <HI>Paul</HI> could not then be?</P>
<P N="3">3. What liberty would this bring to the nation! what freedome from expence in their e&s;tates, from impri&s;onments in their per&s;ons, from being deceived in their cau&s;es, and from being overborn in their judgement! which, by delay of judgement, great men have much advantage offered them to: corrupt judges hinder ju&s;tice, and get fal&s;e witne&s;&s;es; and many condemned per&s;ons e&s;cape puni&s;hment, and innocents by long impri&s;onment are undone in their e&s;tates, their fa|milies, and repute among men.</P>
<P N="4">4. Gods wrath for delay of ju&s;tice, lyeth heavy on the nations daily; and <HI>wicked mens hearts are &s;et in them to do evil, be|cau&s;e that judgement is not executed &s;peedily on tho&s;e that do wickedly,</HI> Eccle&s;. 8.11.</P>
<P N="5">5. <HI>Paul</HI> ob&s;erves, <HI>Heb.</HI> 10.28. <HI>He that de&s;pi&s;ed</HI> Mo&s;es <HI>law, dyed without mercy, under two or three witne&s;&s;es.</HI> Con&s;ider now, how &s;hall we, in keeping up another law then <HI>Mo&s;es,</HI> to Judge the Nation by, free our &s;ouls from de&s;pi&s;ing <HI>Mo&s;es</HI> law!</P>
<P N="6">6. Joh. 7.51. <HI>Doth our law judge any man before it hear him, and know what he doth?</HI></P>
<P N="7">7. <HI>Mo&s;es,</HI> in the higher and weightier cau&s;es he was to judge of, he would not proceed, if he had not heard what to do in the matter from God (all the judges of the world &s;hould take notice of this thing well) and con&s;ider if it be not a dangerous thing to judge of any ca&s;e contrary to the judgement God hath revealed in his law, or puni&s;h any man for a fault otherwayes then God hath &s;et down; and where they are not, to de&s;i&s;t from judgement untill they have con&s;ulted with God in his word what to do therein, as <HI>Mo&s;es</HI> did. If they do otherwayes, whether they are not to give account there|fore, as well as he, to God, <HI>Rom.</HI> 2.1.</P>
</DIV3>
<DIV3 TYPE="subpart">
<HEAD>For clearing of what I have before laid down, and that that followeth, con&s;ider with me four generals.</HEAD>
<P N="1">1. That tho&s;e are not under the rule and government of the law, in that way the law appoints, are tho&s;e the Scripture &s;aith are <HI>without law;</HI> that is, without the publike exerci&s;e thereof and rule among them.</P>
<PB N="9" REF="9">
<P N="2">2. There is a being <HI>without the law;</HI> that is, all the true know|ledge of the law; as infants, ignorants, Athei&s;ts; of which <HI>Paul</HI> him&s;elf &s;aid of him&s;elf, that he was <HI>without the law:</HI> and this is from the &s;ence and under&s;tanding of it. <HI>Rom.</HI> 7.9.</P>
<P N="3">3. There is a being under the law in the external government of it, in a Commonweal, and in the condition of the &s;oul, as it is in unbe|lief, <HI>Gal.</HI> 3.23. <HI>before faith came, we</HI> (even Jews and Gentiles) <HI>were &s;hut up under the law.</HI></P>
<P N="1">1. Tho&s;e under the law internally, are to be under the external form of the law, to be guided and in&s;tructed thereby, as by <HI>a Schoolma&s;ter to bring them to Chri&s;t.</HI></P>
<P N="2">2. Tho&s;e without the law, are not freed from the law, though they are judged by another law, <HI>Gal.</HI> 3.22. <HI>The Scripture hath &s;hut up all men under &s;in;</HI> that is, the law; even all tho&s;e which are without law, and tho&s;e under law al&s;o.</P>
<P N="3">3. All which prove the law of God to be the rule to judge by, that it is indeed the <HI>Magna Charta, Suprema Lex,</HI> and <HI>Salus Po|puli:</HI> and now only is judgement the Lords.</P>
</DIV3>
<DIV3 TYPE="subpart">
<HEAD>The &s;econd General to clear that that followeth, is</HEAD>
<P>Deut. 6.1. <HI>The&s;e are the Commandments, the Statutes, and the Judgements.</HI></P>
<P N="1">1. By the <HI>Commandments,</HI> I under&s;tand the 10 words given in two Tables by God to <HI>Mo&s;es</HI> on <HI>Sinai,</HI> Exod. 20. which was the ground of Statutes.</P>
<P N="2">2. The <HI>Statutes</HI> are the &s;everal ca&s;es depending on each <HI>Com|mand,</HI> and ari&s;ing out of them, and &s;et down to direct the Judges how to Judge according unto God, in the matters of God, laid down in the fir&s;t Tables; and in matter of men, in the &s;econd: they being the ab&s;olute decrees of God, Judges and Judged mu&s;t re&s;t in, from whence is no appeal; and is the ground of Judgement.</P>
<P N="3">3. The <HI>Judgement</HI> contains the &s;entence added to the breach of every law for puni&s;hment, or to obedience of the law, for courage|ment therein, the promi&s;es of good and mercy, and is only proper to Gods law: and cur&s;es added to his law, not mans; which is an empty law.</P>
</DIV3>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="part">
<PB N="10" REF="10">
<HEAD>Third General.</HEAD>
<P N="1">I. That though in the 4 la&s;t books of <HI>Mo&s;es</HI> is an oft repetition of the Statutes and Judgements, yet u&s;ually there is in&s;erted in each of them &s;ome weighty di&s;tinction, and not without great rea&s;on repeated: which, becau&s;e of my nece&s;&s;ity, and brevity of time of writing, with my other imployments, I have omitted to ob&s;erve, leaving it to your &s;elves to do, as being the &s;ole object of your &s;tudy and rule of life to live by.</P>
<P N="2">II. That as in the beginning God divided government, commit|ting &s;ome to <HI>Mo&s;es</HI> in the judicials, and other to <HI>Aaron</HI> in the cere|monials,</P>
<P N="1">1. <HI>Mo&s;es</HI> government in the law is not de&s;troyed, <HI>Mat.</HI> 5.17. and cap. 23.2.</P>
<P N="2">2. <HI>Aarons</HI> Prie&s;thood, and with that his government, cea&s;eth; and in the place thereof, Je&s;us Chri&s;t, by the Fathers appointment, is &s;et up. <HI>Heh.</HI> 7.11, 12, 15, 16.</P>
<P N="3">3. So that now as fir&s;t there was <HI>Mo&s;es</HI> and <HI>Aaron</HI> &s;o now there is to be, to the end of the World, <HI>Mo&s;es</HI> and Chri&s;t, to rule and go|vern the World by.</P>
<LIST>
<ITEM>1. <HI>Mo&s;es</HI> in the World or State, under the covenant of works, al&s;o the &s;ervant of Je&s;us Chri&s;t, ruling for him, becau&s;e he is not of he World.</ITEM>
<ITEM>2. Chri&s;t in the Church, among the Saints or believers, under the new covenant of grace, among whom the Lord him|&s;elf is, being one of them.</ITEM>
</LIST>
<P N="3">III. Tho&s;e words, <HI>Exod.</HI> 20.2. <HI>I am the Lord thy God,</HI> cannot be &s;aid of, nor applyed to, any in that way as the words are deli|vered, but to tho&s;e,</P>
<P N="1">1. That have covenanted with God in the way of the law, as the I&s;raelites did.</P>
<P N="2">2. That are under the rule and government of the commands, the Statutes and Judgements contained in that law.</P>
<P>Object. <HI>That was &s;poken only of tho&s;e God brought out of</HI> Egypt, <HI>and concerns not us.</HI></P>
<P><HI>Re&s;p.</HI> As the Jews were under the bondage of <HI>Egypt,</HI> and were re&s;trained from Gods &s;ervice, and were then not in covenant with him, nor had not his law to judge by; &s;o we have been under Anti|chri&s;t,
<PB N="11" REF="10">in Babel, and have been re&s;trained from Gods &s;ervice, and were then not in covenant with the Lord, as they were not; nor is his law &s;et up as a rule to judge by among us: &s;o that when God &s;hall have brought us out of Babel, and &s;et up his laws, and brought us into covenant with him&s;elf, according to <HI>Mo&s;es,</HI> it &s;hall then be as binding to us, that God brought us out of Babel, as to them, that he brought them out of Egypt, <HI>Jer.</HI> 16.14.15. <HI>They &s;hall no more &s;ay, The Lord liveth that brought them out of Egypt, but out of the north countryes,</HI> Jer. 23.7, 8, 9.</P>
<P><HI>Note.</HI> Under the fir&s;t covenant God was <GAP LANG="heb" DESC="foreign" RESP="OXF"> under the &s;econd, <GAP LANG="heb" DESC="foreign" RESP="OXF">, <HI>Ho&s;.</HI> 2.16.</P>
<P>In the one, God is as <HI>Abram</HI> to <HI>Hagar,</HI> who&s;e &s;on &s;he had by him was to be ca&s;t out under the Go&s;pel-e&s;tate; which was fulfilled in the ca&s;ting out of unbelievers from the &s;ociety of Saints, they being not to inherit the promi&s;e, that is Je&s;us Chri&s;t, <HI>Gal.</HI> 4.30. which work was then done, and &s;hall be mo&s;t certainly done againe in this age of ours. In the other, God is as <HI>Abraham</HI> to <HI>Sarah,</HI> who&s;e &s;on <HI>I&s;aac</HI> being born of the free-woman, &s;ignifieth the &s;tate of the Church under the Go&s;pel, under the name of <HI>Jeru&s;alem from a|bove,</HI> which are a &s;ociety of believers joyned to the Lord Je&s;us in the fellow&s;hip of the Go&s;pel, in whom the <HI>better promi&s;es</HI> are con|ferred, and made over to the Saints, <HI>born after the Spirit,</HI> Gal. 4.30.</P>
<P><HI>Conclu&s;ion.</HI> The covenant of works was after the covenant made with <HI>Abraham</HI> of grace; but being renewed in Chri&s;t, it is called <HI>new,</HI> and the new old, <HI>Gal.</HI> 3.17. The now fir&s;t covenant, though it hath not the be&s;t, yet, it hath many excellent promi&s;es nece&s;&s;ary for the life annexed to it; which we wanting, bodily are reduced to great nece&s;&s;ities; and the breaking thereof brought ruine and de&s;o|lation &s;uddainly to the Jews.</P>
<P>And though at this time it be not in e&s;teem among men, yet the prophe&s;ie of <HI>I&s;aiah</HI> 42.19, 21. incourageth me, that after Gods &s;ervant comes, who the blind world accounts blind, though God &s;aith he is his &s;ervant, and perfect, and which the Scripture before clearly &s;hews was to come after the grand Apo&s;tacy of Antichri&s;t; I &s;ay, after he comes, the Lord will magnifie the law, make it great, though all the world have endeavoured to make nothing of it, or of no u&s;e at all a long time, when they &s;hall againe judge by it, and
<PB N="12" REF="11">puni&s;h by it, and rule by it, <HI>&amp;c.</HI> yea, and more, the Lord will make it honourable al&s;o; they &s;hall never &s;et up traditions in the place thereof again. O Parliament, This God will do; but whe|ther God will do this by you or not, and honour you herein or not, I do not know: you &s;ee it is my de&s;ire, if it be his will, ye are witne&s;|&s;es, and God al&s;o, that the work may be yours, who have done much of the work of the Lord in the Nation; that the honour here, and reward thereof hereafter, may be yours: and let me &s;peak freely to you thus, that if you will not do it, God in few yeers will not want them that will do it; upon whom, and who&s;e po|&s;terity, the ble&s;&s;ings of God and the Nation will fall in great abun|dance, who did that in their generation for them, was never done; it being then, and never untill then, fulfilled, that of <HI>Paul,</HI> Rom. 10.19. <HI>I will provoke you to jealou&s;ie by them that are not a people;</HI> that is, &s;ome heathens, vvhich none never yet did do, &s;hould, as the Jews, nationally covenant with God in the covenant of <HI>Mo&s;es;</HI> with which the Jews, as awaked, begin to thinke that people <HI>Ja|cob</HI>-like &s;teal away, or God gives away his birthright from him: the not doing whereof, delayes their call. Now what Nation in all the world is like to do this, as <HI>England!</HI> O that it might be offered them who would not refu&s;e it.</P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="part">
<HEAD>The fourth General.</HEAD>
<P>That to the Elders, Heads, and Judges, were other inferior &s;ub|ordinate officers, to &s;erve in the &s;ame rule, who have their authority from the Seriptures, and from God, as the re&s;t, <HI>Jo&s;h.</HI> 23.2. <HI>Deut.</HI> 16.18.</P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 N="1" TYPE="commandment">
<HEAD>Command the Fir&s;t.</HEAD>
<EPIGRAPH>
<Q><BIBL><HI>Exod. 20.3.</HI></BIBL>
<P>Thou &s;halt have no other gods before me.</P></Q>
</EPIGRAPH>
<DIV3 TYPE="part">
<HEAD>Statutes.</HEAD>
<P>DEut. 6.5. <HI>Thou &s;halt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart,</HI> &amp;c.</P>
<PB N="13" REF="11">
<P>Chap. 10.20. <HI>Fear the Lord thy God; him &s;halt thou &s;erve, and to him &s;halt thou cleave.</HI></P>
<P>Exod. 34.12. <HI>Take heed to thy &s;elf, that thou make no cove|nant with the inhabitants.</HI></P>
<P>Ver&s;e 15. <HI>Le&s;t thou and they go a whoring after their gods, and one call thee, and thou eat of their &s;acrifice.</HI></P>
<P>Deut. 11.6. <HI>Take heed to your &s;elves, that your hearts be not deceived to turn a&s;ide to &s;erve other Gods, and wor&s;hip them.</HI></P>
<P>Deut. 8.19. <HI>If thou forget the Lord thy God, and walk after other Gods, and &s;erve and wor&s;hip them</HI> &amp;c.</P>
<P>Deut. <HI>Thou &s;halt not go after other gods, the gods of the people round about you.</HI></P>
<P>Exod. 23.24. <HI>Thou &s;halt not bow down to their gods, nor &s;erve them, nor do after their works: thou &s;halt utterly over|throw them, and quite break down their Images.</HI></P>
</DIV3>
<DIV3 TYPE="part">
<HEAD>Judgement for &s;erving &s;trange Gods.</HEAD>
<P N="1">I. On the earth.</P>
<P>Deut. 11.17. <HI>I will &s;hut up heaven, and the land &s;hall not give her fruit.</HI></P>
<P>1 <HI>Kings</HI> 17.1. This was fulfilled in the dayes of <HI>Ahab.</HI></P>
<P N="2">II. On the people or Nation.</P>
<P>Deut. 8.19. <HI>Ye &s;hall peri&s;h as the Nations god de&s;troyed before your face.</HI></P>
<P N="3">III. On particular per&s;ons.</P>
<P><HI>Numb.</HI> 25.3. Tho&s;e joyned to Baal-peor &mdash; <HI>ver&s;.</HI> 4. were hang|ed by the head again&s;t the Sun, <HI>Deut.</HI> 4.3.</P>
<P>Exod. 22.20. <HI>He that &s;acrificeth to any god &s;ave to the Lord alone, he &s;hall be utterly de&s;troyed.</HI></P>
<P>Deut. 17.2. <HI>If a man or woman have tran&s;gre&s;&s;ed the cove|nant, and hath &s;erved other Gods, and wor&s;hipped them, either the Sun, or Moon, or any of the hoa&s;t of beaven, which I have not commanded thee,</HI> ver&s;. 4. <HI>If it be told thee</HI> (that is, the judge) <HI>and thou ha&s;t heard of it, and inquired diligently; and behold, if it be true, and the thing certaine that &s;uch abomination is wrought in I&s;rael,</HI> ver&s;. 5. <HI>thou &s;halt bring him or her forth to the gates &mdash; and &s;tone them with &s;tones until they dye &mdash; and &s;o &s;halt
<PB N="14" REF="12">thou put away evil from among&s;t you.</HI> Note, &s;o by the executing this &s;entence, and not any other of thy own: then it abides with thee; for it was not the judges condemning, but the peoples execu|ting Gods command, <HI>Put away evil.</HI></P>
<P N="4">IV. <HI>Deut.</HI> 13.12. Contains judgement on a City for idolatry un|puni&s;hed.</P>
<P N="1">1. The inhabitants and cattel are to be &s;mitten with the &s;word.</P>
<P N="2">2. The &s;poile thou &s;halt gather into the midde&s;t of the City, and burn both City and &s;poile,</P>
<P N="3">3. There &s;hall nought of the wicked thing cleave to thy hand.</P>
<P N="5">V. Deut. 18.6. <HI>If thy brother, &s;on, daughter, wife, or friend, intice thee &s;ecretly, &s;aying. Let us go and &s;erve other gods which thou ha&s;t not known, nor thy fathers,</HI> ver&s;. 7. <HI>Thou &s;halt not con|&s;ent, hear, nor pity, nor &s;pare, nor conceal him;</HI> ver&s;. 9. <HI>The people &s;hall &s;tone him with &s;tones, that he dye.</HI></P>
<P N="6">VI. Deut. 13.2. <HI>If a prophet or dreamer give a &s;igne or won|der, and it comes to pa&s;s, and he &s;ay, Let us go after other gods thou ha&s;t not known (it is to try thee) thou &s;halt not hear him; he &s;hall be put to death.</HI> Deut. 18.20. <HI>If a Prophet pre&s;umes to &s;peak in my name, that I have not &s;poken, or &s;peaks in the name of another god, he &s;hall dye.</HI></P>
<P N="7">VII. <HI>Naboth,</HI> 1 <HI>Kings</HI> 21.13. <HI>Levit.</HI> 24.14. was &s;toned for and under the pretence of bla&s;phemy.</P>
</DIV3>
<DIV3 TYPE="part">
<HEAD>Rules to be ob&s;erved on the judgement.</HEAD>
<P N="1">1. That God required the execution thereof onely of tho&s;e that had tran&s;gre&s;&s;ed the covenant (which <HI>Mo&s;es</HI> renewed oft) as ap|pears in that &s;tatute, <HI>Deut.</HI> 17.2. who were to &s;uffer the &s;entence of the law, and none el&s;e; and &s;o in mo&s;t other ea&s;es.</P>
<P N="2">2. Though tho&s;e were hanged joyned to Baal-peor, were hanged after &s;trangled, contrary to our cu&s;tome; and was the mo&s;t ignomini|ous death, for joyning them&s;elves to Baal-peor or <HI>Priapus,</HI> that igno|mnious idol.</P>
<P N="3">3. The Lord being the Lord of life, is not left to any to take a|way the life of any but as God hath appointed; which for idolatry is generally &s;toning by the hands of all the people.</P>
<P N="4">4. It is ob&s;erved by &s;ome, that when it is &s;aid, <HI>His blood be on him,</HI> then &s;toning is meant; or otherwi&s;e when the death is not ex|pre&s;&s;ed,
<PB N="15" REF="12">then &s;trangling: but u&s;ually, though the death be not &s;et down in one place, it is in another.</P>
<P N="5">5. In &s;toning, the people were to &s;hew their hatred of the evil committed, that they and theirs might be free of the cur&s;e and judge|ment threatned again&s;t them for the &s;ame; one man not being able to do the &s;ame, by that or any other way of putting to death.</P>
</DIV3>
<DIV3 TYPE="part">
<HEAD>Judgement.</HEAD>
<P N="1">1. <HI>Jezebel</HI> and the Prie&s;ts of <HI>Baal</HI> &s;laine, 1 <HI>Kings</HI> 18.22. and 2 <HI>Kings</HI> 10.</P>
<P N="2">2. <HI>Ahazia</HI> &s;ends to <HI>Baal-zebub,</HI> and dyeth, 2 <HI>Kings</HI> 1.</P>
<P N="3">3. <HI>Bel&s;hazzar</HI> &s;laine prai&s;ing his gods, <HI>Dan.</HI> 5.4, 5 30.</P>
<P><HI>Numb.</HI> 25.2. The Moabites called the people to the &s;acrifices of their gods, and the people did eat, and bowed down to their gods; in which (<HI>ver&s;.</HI> 3.) they were &s;aid to be joyned to Baal-peor.</P>
</DIV3>
<DIV3 TYPE="part">
<HEAD>Statute.</HEAD>
<P>Levit. 17.7. <HI>They &s;hall no more offer their &s;acrifices to devils, after whom they have gone a whoring.</HI></P>
</DIV3>
<DIV3 TYPE="part">
<HEAD>Judgement.</HEAD>
<P>Ver&s;e 9. <HI>Shall be cut off from among the people.</HI></P>
</DIV3>
<DIV3 TYPE="part">
<HEAD><HI>The command binds affirmatively,</HI> Thou &s;halt have me to thy God.</HEAD>
<P>Now the way of Gods calling a people, and becoming a God to them nationally, is by giving them laws, and they taking them from him, and profe&s;&s;ing &s;ubjection to them, as to their Gods commands whom they ought to &s;erve.</P>
<P>To the keeping whereof, God adds by promi&s;e many ble&s;&s;ings; as <HI>David, P&s;al.</HI> 19.11. <HI>In keeping thereof is great reward.</HI></P>
<P>To the breach whereof, are added many cur&s;es of body, &s;oul, goods, name, family, earth, and heaven; all are &s;hut up to men for it.</P>
<P>The which giving of laws royally to his people, is the only work and prerogative royal of God; and therefore is the law moral cal|led the <HI>Royal law,</HI> Jam. 2.8. and thus the Scripture &s;aith, <HI>There is hut one law-giver, who is able to &s;ave and de&s;troy: who art thou that judge&s;t another?</HI> Jam. 4.12.</P>
<PB N="16" REF="13">
<P>And hence are all laws of heathens &s;aid to be no laws, and they <HI>without law;</HI> and all the ordinances, and the corrupt expo&s;itions of the law, made by ancient expo&s;itors, and received by their chil|dren among the Jews, called <HI>traditions;</HI> and they were &s;uch as <HI>made voide the law</HI> among them that had it. In which it appears, there is no law but Gods, nor no true law-maker but God; law, government, and judgement, among Gods people e&s;pecially, being his.</P>
<P>La&s;tly, As we mu&s;t not have another God, &s;o we mu&s;t not have o|ther laws then Gods: God will not govern by any other then his own laws.</P>
<P>Behold, I pray, by mens deelining Gods laws, what laws have been brought out &s;ince the reforming times; as in the 6 Articles in <HI>Hen.</HI> 8. time, the book of Sports, and many laws &s;ince repealed. What is become of the Judges, Ju&s;tices, and men, made and execu|ted tho&s;e laws &s;o contrary to the Lord and his law?</P>
<P><HI>Solomon</HI> brings in wi&s;dom, <HI>Prov.</HI> 8.15. &s;aying, <HI>By me kings raigne, and the princes</HI> (that is, tho&s;e of the &s;upreme councel) <HI>do de&s;cribe Ju&s;tice</HI> (that is, to tho&s;e judges con&s;ult with them about difficult ca&s;es, without whom the difficult ca&s;es would as well be hid to them as others.) Now if ju&s;tice be &s;o hard a thing to be executed by men who not only have the law, but u&s;e the law, and the help thereof to do ju&s;tice, by that, without wi&s;dom or Chri&s;ts help they cannot de&s;cribe it; how &s;hall tho&s;e de&s;cribe it, that u&s;e not the law to help them, which ought to be their help; and &s;o tempt God not to help them extraordinarily, for not u&s;ing the ordinary help of God? And that he &s;peaks here of the great councel, is clear, they being next to the king; and then he &s;peaks of the ordinary Juges in the ver&s;e following, to whom ju&s;tice was to be de&s;cribed: which is &s;ignificant|ly &s;et down, <HI>Deut.</HI> 17.11.</P>
<P>From <HI>Jeremiah</HI> 35.6. &s;ome there are contend to maintaine the law and cu&s;tomes we have in this Nation received from our fa|thers, becau&s;e the Rechabites &s;tuck &s;o clo&s;e to theirs. To which I an&s;wer,</P>
<P N="1">1. That the Rechabites were &s;ubject to the judicial law, as the other Jews were.</P>
<P N="2">2. The&s;e traditions of theirs were not forbid nor commanded of God, that the magi&s;trate could not forbid the doing what they did.</P>
<PB N="17" REF="13">
<P N="3">3. Nor were there any judiciary proceedings again&s;t &s;uch as &s;hould not have ob&s;erved tho&s;e traditions, they being indifferent things only; it had been no &s;in to them if they had drunk wine, or dwelt in hou&s;es, or planted fields with &s;eed.</P>
<P N="4">4. So that the&s;e not &s;tanding in competition with the law of God, they were not di&s;abled from ob&s;erving one, and doing the other al&s;o.</P>
<P N="5">5. The father of a family may ingage his &s;ons and &s;ervants to &s;uch-like duties, as depending immediately on his rule; but it may be unlawful to a Magi&s;trate to impo&s;e the like ordinances on a whole Nation.</P>
</DIV3>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 N="2" TYPE="commandment">
<HEAD>Command the Second.</HEAD>
<EPIGRAPH>
<Q><BIBL><HI>Exod. 20.4.</HI></BIBL>
<P>Thou &s;halt not make to thy &s;elf any graven image, <HI>&amp;c.</HI></P></Q>
</EPIGRAPH>
<DIV3 TYPE="part">
<HEAD>Statutes again&s;t idolatry.</HEAD>
<P>HAbac. 2.18. <HI>The idol is a teacher of lyes.</HI></P>
<P><HI>Deut.</HI> 4.16, 17 18. Is forbid any graven image or &s;imili|tude of any figure or likene&s;s of male or female, of bea&s;t, fowl, creep|ing thing or fi&s;h. Sun Moon. or hoa&s;t of heaven.</P>
<P>Exod. 20.23. <HI>Ye &s;hall not make with me gods of &s;ilver, nor &s;hall ye make unto you gods of gold.</HI></P>
<P>Levit. 26.1. <HI>Ye &s;hall make no idols nor graven images, nor rear up any &s;tanding image, nor &s;hall ye &s;et up any image of &s;tone to bow down.</HI></P>
<P>Exod. 34.17. <HI>Ye &s;hall make no molten gods,</HI></P>
<P>Levit. 19.4. <HI>Turn ye not to idols, nor make to your &s;elves molten Gods.</HI></P>
<P>Dout. 4.23. <HI>Take heed to your &s;elves lo&s;t ye forget the Cove|nant of the Lord which he made with you and make you a gra|ven image or the likene&s;s of any thing which the Lord thy God hath for bidden thee.</HI></P>
<P>Levit. 18.21. <HI>Thy &s;eed &s;hall not pa&s;s the fire to</HI> Moloch.</P>
</DIV3>
<DIV3 TYPE="part">
<PB N="18" REF="14">
<HEAD>Judgements on Idolatry.</HEAD>
<P N="1">I. On the Nation or people.</P>
<P>Deut. 9.12. <HI>They have made them a molten calf.</HI> ver&s;. 14. <HI>let me alone, that I may de&s;troy them, and blot out their name from under heaven,</HI> Exod. 32.27.</P>
<P>Deut. 4.16. <HI>If ye corrupt your &s;elves, and make a graven i|mage, or likene&s;s of any thing,</HI> Ver&s;. 26. <HI>I call heaven and earth to witne&s;s, ye &s;hall &s;oon utterly peri&s;h.</HI> Ver&s;. 27. <HI>ye &s;hall be &s;cat|tered among the nations,</HI> Ver&s;. 28. <HI>and &s;erve gods of wood and &s;tone.</HI></P>
<P N="2">II. On a per&s;on.</P>
<P><HI>Deut.</HI> 17.4. Man or woman wor&s;hipping the Sun Moon, or ho&s;t of heaven, <HI>Ver&s;.</HI> 5. was to be brought to the gates, and &s;toned to death.</P>
<P>Lev. 20.2. <HI>If an I&s;raelite or &s;tranger,</HI> who ever he be, <HI>giveth any of his &s;eed to Moloch he &s;hall &s;urely dye:</HI> the people of the land (not of the City only) <HI>&s;hall &s;tone him with &s;tones.</HI></P>
<P>Note. Ver&s;. 4. <HI>If the people of the land any way hide their eyes from that man and kill him not:</HI> ver&s;. 5. <HI>Then will I &s;et my face again&s;t that man and his family, and will cut him off, and all that go a whoring after him: I will &s;et my face again&s;t that &s;oul,</HI> &amp;c.</P>
<P N="2">II. Deut. 27.15. <HI>Cur&s;ed is that man that puts any graven or molten image in a &s;ecret place.</HI></P>
<P N="4">IV. On the idols.</P>
<P>Deut. 7.5. <HI>De&s;troy their altars, and break down their images: their groves &s;hall ye cut down, and burn their graven images with fire.</HI> Numb. 33.52. <HI>ye &s;hall de&s;troy all their pictures and molten images, and pluck down their high places.</HI> Numb. 32.52. <HI>and quite pluck down all their high places.</HI></P>
<P N="5">V. Judgement is on the places of idol-wor&s;hip.</P>
<P>Deut. 12.2. <HI>Ye &s;hall utterly de&s;troy all the places wherein the nations ye &s;hall po&s;&s;e&s;s &s;erved their gods, upon the high mountains and hills, and under every green tree.</HI></P>
<P>Ver&s;. 3. <HI>Ye &s;hall overthrow their altars, break their pillars, and burn their groves with fire: ye &s;hall throw down the graven images of their gods,</HI> Judg. 6.25. 2 <HI>King.</HI> 32. 2 Chron. 23.17.</P>
<PB N="19" REF="14">
<P N="6">VI. Judgements is one the names of the fal&s;e gods.</P>
<P>Deut. 7.25. <HI>Ye &s;hall de&s;troy the names of them out of that place,</HI> Zech. 13.2. the &s;ame &s;hall be done in time to come.</P>
<P N="7">VII. Judgement is on the idols of gold and &s;ilver.</P>
<P>Deut. 7.25. <HI>The graven images of their gods &s;hall ye burn with fire. Then &s;halt not de&s;ire the &s;ilver or gold that is on them, nor take it to thee, le&s;t thou be &s;nared therein: for it is an abomination to the Lord thy God.</HI></P>
<P>Ver&s;. 26. <HI>Thou &s;halt not bring in an abomination into thy hou&s;e, le&s;t thou be an accur&s;ed thing like it; but &s;halt utterly de|te&s;t it and abhor it; for it is an accur&s;ed thing,</HI> Vide Jo&s;hua 6.18, and Chapter 7.1, 15, 21. to the end of the Chapter.</P>
</DIV3>
<DIV3 TYPE="part">
<HEAD>Ob&s;ervations.</HEAD>
<P N="1">1. That metals were to be melted with fire; &s;tone, gla&s;s, and &s;uch-like fragil things, were to be broken with the hammer to powder.</P>
<P N="2">2. What work hath God to do yet for us, were we once joyned by covenant to the Lord! names of moneths, dayes of the week, and tho&s;e places we call Churches, Altars; the names of idols, fal&s;e gods, <HI>&amp;c.</HI> are daily and hourely in our mouths, as in our &s;wearing by the Ma&s;s.</P>
<P N="8">VIII. <HI>Judgement.</HI></P>
<P>It defiles a land.</P>
<P N="1">1. How this nation by wor&s;hipping of idols in the time of Anti|chri&s;t hath profaned that Scripture is the covenant, is clear; and in regard he is a jealous God, he is no le&s;s jealous of our apo&s;tatizing, then of our fathers; e&s;pecially &s;eeing we have done hitherto the work of the Lord negligently, not making our covenant in a right way; taking him to be our God, but not in his laws to judge and rule over us.</P>
<P N="2">2. He vi&s;iting the iniquity of the fathers on the children, you may &s;ee, without a &s;peedy covenanting with God according to his will, what provocation there remaines: for God, who&s;e hand is yet &s;tretch|ed out to de&s;troy us, we having been as idolatrous, &s;uper&s;titious, and profane a people as any in the world: O England, remember the blood&s;hed for the idol of the Ma&s;s, and its wor&s;hip, and that by
<PB N="20" REF="15">Statutes and Acts of Parliament; together with the other &s;ix bloody Articles made by King and Parliament in the time of <HI>Henry</HI> the eighth.</P>
<P N="3">3. It may be &s;aid, as tho&s;e in <HI>Jonah</HI> 3.9. <HI>Who can tell whether the Lord will turn and repent?</HI> &s;o, if the King had made this covenant, and &s;et up this law, this had been the way for to have re&s;tored him: but it was hid from his eyes. I be&s;eech you, O ye Parliament of <HI>England,</HI> be admoni&s;hed; do this great thing, that the Lord lay not you a&s;ide al&s;o: and if ye hinder herein, &s;ee what a command God hath given again&s;t all hinderances, <HI>E&s;a.</HI> 57.14. <HI>Ca&s;t ye up, ca&s;t ye up; prepare the way; take up the &s;tumbling-block out of the way of my people.</HI> God hath of late taken up many that were &s;tumbling-b ocks among your &s;elves &s;ince ye &s;ate, and will &s;pare none that indeed is &s;o this day to his peoples freedom and deliverance.</P>
<P>And that the judicial law ought to be &s;et up among us as well as the Jews, clearly was &s;ignified in this, that the law was to be one as well to the &s;tranger, as to tho&s;e home-born, which &s;hould not have been, if God had intended it only to have been a law to Jews, and nor the Gentiles al&s;o; there being the &s;ame ground for equity ju&s;tice, and for fellow&s;hip with God, with one, as with the other; with God there being no re&s;pect of per&s;ons, <HI>Levit.</HI> 24.10.22. <HI>Numb.</HI> 15.29, 33 31. <HI>Deut.</HI> 1.16. &amp; 5.14.</P>
</DIV3>
<DIV3 TYPE="part">
<HEAD>Objections made by Sir <HI>H. V.</HI></HEAD>
<P>Object. 1. <HI>To re&s;tore the rule of the law, is to Judaize.</HI></P>
<P><HI>Re&s;p.</HI> 1. To rule by our own law, is to heathenize.</P>
<P N="2">2. Having Gods law, and yet to rule by that, is much wor&s;e.</P>
<P N="3">3. We now Judaize, by making void the law of God by our Traditions.</P>
<P N="4">4. To Judaize is properly to continue in Gods wor&s;hip &s;ome ce|remony Chri&s;t by his death hath put an end unto.</P>
<P N="1">1. The law judicial hath nothing ceremonial in it.</P>
<P N="2">2. Chri&s;t put not an end to it, but e&s;tabli&s;hed it.</P>
<P N="3">3. The Law was not made for the Jew only, but All, and &s;aid in|definitely to be made for tran&s;gre&s;&s;ors thereof of all Nations, 1 <HI>Tim,</HI> 1, 9, 10.</P>
<P N="2">2. Object. <HI>We look for a better kinde of rule from Chri&s;t.</HI></P>
<PB N="21" REF="15">
<P N="1">1. <HI>Re&s;p.</HI> As there &s;hall never be another Go&s;pel, &s;o &s;hall there never be another law; God having &s;hut up all.</P>
<P N="2">2. As there cannot be a Go&s;pel more full of grace, &s;o nor can there be a law more full of ju&s;tice and righteou&s;ne&s;s.</P>
<P N="3">3. How can we expect that from God, which neither by him&s;elf, his Son nor Prophets, in all the book of God, was never promi&s;ed, no not by one word?</P>
<P N="4">4. If it were &s;uppo&s;ed a better law for goverment of the republike might be given, as can never be,
<LIST>
<ITEM><HI>Quere,</HI> 1. Whether we might receive it without warrant expre&s;ly given by God, whiles we have that of Gods, which he gave him&s;elf.</ITEM>
<ITEM>2. If be that gave it be not accur&s;ed, as he that &s;hould give another Go&s;pel, 1 <HI>Gal.</HI> 4.1, 9.</ITEM>
</LIST></P>
<P N="5">5. Whether it be not exceedingly to derogate from God, to e&s;teem of any rule like or above his.</P>
<P>Its objected by &s;ome <HI>That the Jews had &s;everal Synedries,</HI> viz. the &s;evnty, and twenty three.</P>
<P><HI>Re&s;p.</HI> From <HI>I&s;a.</HI> 1.26. God will re&s;tore councellors as at the be|ginning not councels; that is, but one; and the Synedrie is but one, <HI>Mat.</HI> 5.22. and not Synedries: &s;o that the Jews in &s;etting up more then one Synedrie, did a po&s;tatize from the rule.</P>
</DIV3>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 N="3" TYPE="commandment">
<HEAD>Command the Third.</HEAD>
<EPIGRAPH>
<Q><BIBL><HI>Exod. 20.7.</HI></BIBL>
<P>Thou &s;halt not take the name of the Lord the God in vaine, <HI>&amp;c.</HI></P></Q>
</EPIGRAPH>
<DIV3 TYPE="part">
<HEAD>Statute.</HEAD>
<P>DEut. 6.13. <HI>Thou &s;halt fear the Lord thy God, and &s;erve him, and &s;halt &s;wear by his name.</HI></P>
<P>Levit. 19.12. <HI>Ye &s;hall not &s;wear by my name fal&s;ly, nor pro|fane the name of thy God,</HI> Jer. 5.7. <HI>thy children &s;wear by them are no gods.</HI></P>
</DIV3>
<DIV3 TYPE="part">
<PB N="22" REF="16">
<HEAD>Judgements.</HEAD>
<P N="1">I. (<HI>Ho&s;ea</HI> 4. ver&s;. 2.3.) on a land,</P>
<P><HI>For oaths the land mourneth.</HI></P>
<P N="2">II. On a family, <HI>Dan.</HI> 3.29. <HI>He that bla&s;phemed God, his hou&s;e &s;hall be de&s;troyed, and him&s;elf cut in pieces.</HI></P>
<P>Zech. 5.4. <HI>The flying roul entred into the hou&s;e of him that &s;weareth fal&s;ly by my name, and it &s;hall remaine in the mid&s;t of his hou&s;e, and it &s;hall con&s;ume it, with the timber thereof, and the &s;tones thereof.</HI> Jezabel &s;wore by her gods, and is eaten by dogs, and her familly cut off, 1 <HI>Kin.</HI> 19. 2 <HI>Kin.</HI> 9.</P>
<P N="3">III. On a per&s;on.</P>
<P>Levit. 24.15. <HI>Whoever cur&s;eth his God, and he bla&s;phemeth the name of God, &s;hall &s;urely dye, as well the &s;tranger, as he that is born in the land: all the Congregation &s;hall &s;tone him.</HI></P>
<P><HI>Levit.</HI> 24.11. The &s;on of an I&s;raeliti&s;h woman bla&s;phemed the name of God, and cur&s;ed; and they brought him to <HI>Mo&s;es,</HI> and put him in ward, until the minde of the Lord were known.</P>
<P><HI>Ver&s;e</HI> 14. He is brought out of the Camp, and &s;toned.</P>
<P><HI>Illu&s;tr. Davids</HI> child dyed, becau&s;e he made the enemy bla&s;pheme, 2 <HI>Sam.</HI> 12.</P>
</DIV3>
<DIV3 TYPE="part">
<HEAD>Statute.</HEAD>
<P>Levit. 19.31. <HI>Regard not them that have familiar &s;pirits, nei|ther &s;eek after wizards to be defiled by them. I am the Lord.</HI></P>
<P>Ver&s;. 26. <HI>Ye &s;hall not u&s;e inchantments, nor ob&s;erve times.</HI></P>
<P>Deut. 18.10. <HI>There &s;hall not be found among&s;t you any that u&s;eth divination, or any ob&s;erver of times, or an enchanter, or a witch, or a charmer, or a con&s;ulter with familiar &s;pirits, a wiz|ard, or a Necromancer: all the&s;e are an abomination before the Lord.</HI></P>
</DIV3>
<DIV3 TYPE="part">
<HEAD>Judgements.</HEAD>
<P>Exod. 22.18. <HI>Thou &s;halt not &s;uffer a witch to live.</HI></P>
<P>Levit. 20.27. <HI>A man or woman that hath a familiar &s;pirit, or is a wizard, &s;hall &s;urely be put to death: they &s;hall &s;tone them with &s;tones; their blood &s;hall be upon them.</HI></P>
<P>Ver&s;. 6. <HI>The &s;oul that turneth after &s;uch as have familiar &s;pi|rits,
<PB N="23" REF="16">and after wizards, to go a whoring after them, I will even &s;et my face again&s;t that &s;oul, and will cut him off from among his people.</HI></P>
<P><HI>Note.</HI> God will cut him off by &s;ome judgement: this was not to be done by the Magi&s;trate, but left to God him&s;elf, 1 <HI>Sam.</HI> 28.31. in <HI>Saul.</HI></P>
</DIV3>
<DIV3 TYPE="part">
<HEAD>Statute.</HEAD>
<P>Levit. 20.22. <HI>Ye &s;hall keep all my Statutes and my judgements, to do them.</HI></P>
<P>Ver&s;e 23. <HI>Ye &s;hall not walk in the manners of the Nations.</HI></P>
<P>Levit. 18.3. <HI>After the doings of the land of Egypt &s;hall ye not do; after the doings of the land of Canaan where I bring you &s;hall ye not do, neither &s;hall ye walk in their ordinances.</HI></P>
<P>Ver&s;e 4. <HI>Ye &s;hall do my judgements, and keep mine ordinances.</HI></P>
<P>Levit. 19.27. <HI>Thou &s;halt not round the corners of thy head, nor war the corners of thy beard, nor make cuttings in thy fle&s;h for the dead nor print any markes on you.</HI></P>
<P>Deut. 18.9. <HI>Ye &s;hall not do after the abominations of the heathen.</HI></P>
<P><HI>Ob&s;ervation.</HI> The Lord bindes the people that have his Statutes, to make u&s;e of his, and not any other ordinances, laws, or manners.</P>
</DIV3>
<DIV3 TYPE="part">
<HEAD>Statute.</HEAD>
<P>Numb. 15.30, 31. <HI>The &s;oul that doth ought pre&s;umptuou&s;ly, whether he be born in the land, or a &s;tranger, the &s;ame reproach|eth the Lord, and that &s;oul &s;hall be cut off from among his people, becau&s;e he hath de&s;pi&s;ed the word of the Lord, and hath broken his commandment: that &s;oul &s;hall utterly be cut off; his iniqui|ty &s;hall be upon him.</HI></P>
<P>O ye Princes and Judges of the people, if men judge by other judgements then Gods, and have Gods judgements by them, to judge by; judge ye if they do not pre&s;umptuou&s;ly what they do, in &s;o doing, that they were to dye for it.</P>
<P><HI>Note.</HI> The Jews mixed fir&s;t heatheni&s;h cu&s;tomes in &s;acrifices, in the law: the Jews believers, in the time of the Go&s;pel mixed Jewi&s;h rites and the Go&s;pel-admin&s;trations together; the heathens their rites and the Go&s;pel: we now, Antichri&s;tian &s;uper&s;titions, and the way of
<PB N="24" REF="17">Gods wor&s;hip, in the Go&s;pel, who&s;e manners and cu&s;toms we ought to ab&s;taine from, as the Jews from the heathens, <HI>Rev.</HI> 14.9.10, 11. &amp; 18.4.8. They being a like abomination before the Lord.</P>
<P N="1">1. The excellency of &s;etting up of the commands and &s;tatutes, and the government of God by making a covenant with God doth ap|pear mo&s;t eminently in the national pre&s;ervation of the Jews from the witchcraft of <HI>Balaam,</HI> who cryeth out to <HI>Balack,</HI> and &s;aith, <HI>There is no divination again&s;t I&s;rael, nor enchantment again&s;t Jacob,</HI> Numb. 23.23. and the rea&s;on is, the Lord is his God (by co|venant) and he is with him: and <HI>ver&s;.</HI> 8. <HI>How &s;hall I cur&s;e whom God hath not cur&s;ed?</HI> Chap. 24.9. <HI>Ble&s;&s;ed is he that ble&s;&s;eth thee, and cur&s;ed is he that cur&s;eth thee:</HI> which &s;hews, had not God been his God, witchcrafts, inchantments, and cur&s;es, had con|&s;umed them.</P>
<P N="2">2. <HI>Balaam</HI> farther &s;aith, <HI>Numb.</HI> 23.9. <HI>The people &s;hall dwell alone, and not be reckoned among the Nations.</HI> When a people make a covenant with God, they are then a people, which before were not. O that in <HI>England</HI> might be fulfilled that of <HI>Rom.</HI> 10.19.</P>
<P N="2">2. They &s;hall dwell alone, being a peculiar people to God.</P>
<P N="3">3. Not reckoned among the Nations, but &s;eparated from them in their laws, goverment, wor&s;hip of God <HI>&amp;c.</HI> God ble&s;&s;ing them, when other nations are accur&s;ed.</P>
<P N="3">3. Then when we covenant rightly into the Lord, he &s;ets his name upon us, and we called the people of God, and not before. And to the&s;e and not others, is <HI>the name of God a &s;trong tower; the righ|teous fly unto it, and are &s;afe:</HI> they coming unto the Lord as to their God and refuge; God being their refuge and hiding place; which he is not to any other nation but the&s;e.</P>
<P>Trea&s;on, called <HI>crimen lae&s;ae maje&s;tatis,</HI> again&s;t God, is contain|ed in the&s;e three commands: and many traitors there are among&s;t us, 1 <HI>Sam.</HI> 2.25.</P>
</DIV3>
<DIV3 TYPE="part">
<HEAD>Concerning the Treati&s;e of the Sabbath.</HEAD>
<P N="1">1. From <HI>Adam</HI> to <HI>Mo&s;es</HI> the authority was by tradition, and the fir&s;t-born was prie&s;t.</P>
<P N="2">2. By tradition Chri&s;t was di&s;covered in the promi&s;e to <HI>Adam</HI> to many nations.</P>
<P N="2">2. The authority was from Scripture, in the ten com|mands, and other judicial precepts.</P>
<PB N="25" REF="17">
<P N="1">1. Under it, the traditional authority cea&s;ed.</P>
<P N="2">2. The prie&s;thood of the fir&s;t-born cea&s;ed, and was given <HI>Aaron.</HI></P>
<P N="3">3. Now &s;acrifices of other were offered to devils.</P>
<P N="4">4. This was only for the &s;eventh-day-Sabbath.</P>
<P N="5">5. This Sabbath was a part of, and &s;ign to the fir&s;t covenant.</P>
<P N="3">3. Chri&s;t comming, was the Angel of, and Mediator to a better covenant.</P>
<P N="1">1. The &s;ign whereof is the fir&s;t-day-Sabbath.</P>
<P N="2">2. As this is of the &s;econd covenant, &s;o it cannot be mixt with the fir&s;t; but are to be re&s;erved di&s;tinct, and not confounded: for as the two covenants cannot be one, &s;o nor can the Sabbaths.</P>
<P><HI>Appl.</HI> Hence then to force obedience of one on all, is to de&s;troy the other.</P>
<P N="2">2. To force the world to ob&s;erve the fir&s;t-day-Sabbath, is to de|&s;troy the u&s;e of the day, and make void the grace of God.</P>
<P N="3">3. In de&s;troying any of the Sabbaths, is to de&s;troy the covenant, and to take away the very &s;igne thereof; as at this day it is done by and among&s;t us.</P>
</DIV3>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 N="4" TYPE="commandment">
<HEAD>Command the Fourth.</HEAD>
<EPIGRAPH>
<Q><BIBL><HI>Exod. 20.8.</HI></BIBL>
<P>Remember the Sabbath day, to keep it holy.</P></Q>
</EPIGRAPH>
<DIV3 TYPE="part">
<HEAD>Statute.</HEAD>
<P>EXod. 23.12. <HI>Thou &s;halt re&s;t the &s;eventh day, that thy Ox and A&s;s may re&s;t; that the &s;on of thy handmaid and &s;trang|er be refre&s;hed.</HI></P>
<P>Numb. 28.25. Jer. 17.21. <HI>Carry no burden.</HI></P>
<P>Levit. 23.3. <HI>It is the Sabbath of the Lord in all their dwell|ings.</HI></P>
<P>Exod. 16.29. <HI>Let no man go out of his place on the Sabbath.</HI></P>
<P>Ver&s;. 26. <HI>Ye &s;hall finde no manna thereon.</HI></P>
<P>Deut. 31.16. <HI>The children of I&s;rael &s;hall keep the Sabbath, to ob&s;erve the Sabbath throughout their generations, for a perpe|tual</HI>
<GAP DESC="missing" RESP="OXF" EXTENT="2 pages">
<PB N="28" REF="18">continue untill Chri&s;t came, and carnal ceremonies were put to an end, <HI>Rom.</HI> 4.11.</P>
<P N="3">3. God in <HI>Horeb</HI> makes a covenant with all the people, <HI>Deut.</HI> 5.2, 3. and in <HI>Exod.</HI> 31.16. <HI>The children of I&s;rael &s;hall keep the Sabbath, to ob&s;erve the Sabbath throughout all their congrega|tions, for a perpetual covenant: it is a &s;igne between me and the children of I&s;rael for ever,</HI> Exod. 34.27.</P>
<P>Objected, <HI>This &s;eems to hold out three covenants; and the Scripture holds out but two.</HI></P>
<P><HI>An&s;w.</HI> That <HI>Abraham</HI> had, is the &s;ame with ours; and hence is <HI>Abraham</HI> called <HI>the father of the faithful:</HI> onely the admini|&s;trations thereof differs now, from what it had then.</P>
<P N="1">1. This covenant of the Law continuing, the &s;igne thereof mu&s;t al|&s;o continue, <HI>Ezek.</HI> 20.20. <HI>My Sabbath,</HI> as di&s;tinct from the Lords day.</P>
<P N="2">2. The Scriptures call after Chri&s;ts re&s;urrection the &s;eventh-dayes-Sabbath Sabbath, as well as the fir&s;t, if rightly tran&s;lated.</P>
<P N="3">3. The Apo&s;tles met with the Jews, and taught them that day u&s;ually.</P>
<P N="4">4. No Scripture &s;hews the aboli&s;hing thereof.</P>
<P N="5">5. It is nece&s;&s;ary tho&s;e under that covenant &s;hould have a day and time to &s;erve God in, as tho&s;e under the new.</P>
<P N="6">6. The Sabbath of the new mu&s;t not be to tho&s;e under the old covenant, nor the Sabbath of the old to tho&s;e under the new, <HI>Mat.</HI> 9.17. <HI>Men put not new wine into old bottles, nor peece an old gar|ment with a new peece of cloth.</HI></P>
<P N="7">7. In the e&s;tate of the Church, all things are become new: but then it is only with &s;uch as are of the Church: with others not of the Church, they are &s;o under the old covenant, as if there had never been any new. Mark, &s;aith the Apo&s;tle, <HI>what the law &s;aith, it &s;aith to them that are under the law,</HI> Rom. 3.13. &s;o that tho&s;e under the Law are commanded to work &s;ix dayes, and re&s;t the &s;eventh only.</P>
<P N="8">8. Thus not an iota or tittle of the law peri&s;heth: the morality of the &s;eventh-day-Sabbath is continued; and yet no Judaizing in the thing: for this was no part of the ceremonial law; the ground of the &s;eventh day being from the creation; but of the ceremonies, from the redemption of Chri&s;t.</P>
<P N="9">9. Thus Chri&s;t de&s;troyes not the law, but e&s;tabli&s;heth it; Je&s;us
<PB N="29" REF="18">Chri&s;t not taking unbelievers from being under the law, in which e|&s;tate they were, and &s;ubjection thereunto.</P>
<P N="10">10. God will judge them by the law, that are under the law. Now the law requires them that are under it, to keep the &s;eventh day Sab|bath, <HI>Rom.</HI> 2.12. and tho&s;e that are ri&s;en with Chri&s;t, and marryed to him, are under the Go&s;pel, and Go&s;pel-day: this truth &s;hines forth clearly, <HI>Rom.</HI> 7.1, 2, 3, 4. where untill the woman is married to Chri&s;t, &s;hee is under her fir&s;t husband <HI>Mo&s;es.</HI></P>
<P N="11">11. The one hath a re&s;t with God, and bea&s;t, and creatures, by <HI>Mo&s;es;</HI> the other hath a re&s;t with God, and Chri&s;t, and angels: &s;ouls of ju&s;t men made perfect on mount <HI>Sion. Heb.</HI> 12.</P>
<P><HI>Note. Mo&s;es</HI> and Chri&s;t are two, and do not de&s;troy each o|ther; Chri&s;t onely perfects <HI>Mo&s;es:</HI> the covenants are two, the Sab|baths two, the &s;tates two; one of the world, the other of the Church; one under the law, the other under the Go&s;pel: which e&s;tates are not to be confounded or made one.</P>
<P>Hence, <HI>Col.</HI> 2.16. <HI>Let no man judge you in re&s;pect of the Sab|bath dayes.</HI></P>
<P N="1">1. Keeping the &s;eventh day Sabbath while unbelievers.</P>
<P N="2">2. Being received by the Church, and now ob&s;erve the fir&s;t, and work on the &s;eventh, whereas before, he wrought on the fir&s;t, and &s;anctified the &s;eventh; ju&s;tly brings men to be judged and que&s;tion|ed for &s;o doing among men not knowing the truth, and the will of God therein.</P>
<P>A &s;trange confu&s;ion in the world for &s;ome time there was, if we may believe <HI>Socrates;</HI> who &s;aith, the Church of <HI>Rome</HI> ob&s;erved onely the fir&s;t day Sabbath, and all other Churches the &s;eventh. See into what divi&s;ion the lo&s;s of truth had brought the then world into; and ever &s;ince, in this darkne&s;s aro&s;e out of the bottomle&s;s-pit, <HI>Rev.</HI> 9.3. hath the world been &s;hut up.</P>
<P N="3">3. He that is under the law-day Sabbath, is to be puni&s;hed accor|ding to its law, if he ob&s;erve it not; and he that is under the Go&s;pel-Sabbath, is to be proceeded again&s;t according to the way of the Go&s;pel, by tho&s;e &s;everal powers &s;et up of God in them.</P>
<P>Object. <HI>God requires but one day of &s;even; this is two.</HI></P>
<P><HI>Re&s;p.</HI> One day is but ob&s;erved: for tho&s;e ob&s;erve the fir&s;t, are not bound to ob&s;erve the &s;eventh; and tho&s;e bound to ob&s;erve the &s;eventh, are not bound to ob&s;erve the fir&s;t.</P>
<PB N="30" REF="19">
<P>Object. <HI>Some would then be buying, &s;elling, merchandizing on both dayes, and no day ob&s;erved: which would be very gro&s;s confu&s;ion.</HI></P>
<P><HI>Re&s;p.</HI> This confu&s;ion in the Apo&s;tles dayes, if you call it &s;o: and the Apo&s;tle never tearmed it &s;uch at all, but &s;aith, <HI>Let no man judge you</HI> (much more let no man condemne you) <HI>in re&s;pect of Sabbath dayes,</HI> Col. 2.</P>
<P N="2">2. By this means the Apo&s;tles gathered the Jews and Judaizing Gentiles, teaching in the Synagogues on the &s;eventh, and after in the Churches on the fir&s;t.</P>
<P N="3">3. By this, as the Jews held a preparation to their Sabbath, &s;o now is the &s;eventh dayes Sabbath a preparation to the fir&s;t.</P>
<P N="4">4. There is no &s;in, where is no law, <HI>Mo&s;es</HI> gave no command to tho&s;e under the law, to ob&s;erve the fir&s;t day: Chri&s;t gave no com|mand to tho&s;e under grace, to ob&s;erve the &s;eventh day Sabbath.</P>
<P N="5">5. Anrichri&s;t could never have made the Church and the world one, but by de&s;troying tho&s;e ordinances that &s;eparated them; and making them one in Church-ordinances, it was ea&s;ie to per&s;wade the world to be one with the Church, but not the Church with the world.</P>
<P>Que&s;t. is, <HI>If the law-e&s;tate can be re&s;tored and not the &s;eventh dayes Sabbath.</HI></P>
<P N="2">2. Whether men, untill they are Evangelically called thence, are not of and under that e&s;tate, in re&s;pect of their vi&s;ible e&s;tate and con|dition in the world, <HI>Gal.</HI> 4.1.</P>
<P>Object. <HI>The Apo&s;tles gathered many from Pagani&s;me, and never were under the law at all.</HI></P>
<P><HI>Re&s;p.</HI> The legal external admini&s;tration was in a manner abo|li&s;hed.</P>
<P N="2">2. Tho&s;e were gathered, were under it, &s;piritually and inwardly, before they were gathered.</P>
<P N="4">4. If God effectually called them to be under the &s;econd, the fir&s;t was waxen old to them then only, and not before.</P>
<P>Object. <HI>Who &s;hall be Mini&s;ters of this admini&s;tration, &s;eeing</HI> Aarons <HI>prie&s;thood dyeth?</HI></P>
<P><HI>Re&s;p. Aaron</HI> was not the Mini&s;ter of this; this was mini&s;tred in the Synagogues: <HI>Aaron</HI> mini&s;tred in the temple onely.</P>
<P N="2">2. The Scribes or Lawyers, which were not Levites or Prie&s;ts, they
<PB N="31" REF="19">read the law in Synagogues, and are &s;aid to <HI>&s;it in Mo&s;es</HI> (not Aa|rons) <HI>chaire, Mat.</HI> 23.2, 3.</P>
<P>In the Synagogue it was common to read or teach, <HI>Luk.</HI> 4.16, 17. <HI>Acts</HI> 13.15. The ruler of the Synagogue I take to be none el&s;e but one de&s;igned in e&s;pecial to take care of the well-ordering of all things to be done therein.</P>
<P>In the word is no prie&s;thood after this admini&s;tration, but a &s;cribe, a writer of the law, that knew how to read it well. Hence the peo|ple are called a Kingdome of Prie&s;ts, every one being to be a law-prie&s;t, for expounding the judicial law, <HI>Exod.</HI> 19.6.</P>
<P>Object. <HI>What confu&s;ion would this bring forth in families!</HI></P>
<P><HI>Re&s;p.</HI> Is there more among&s;t us then was among Jews and Gen|tiles at the fir&s;t erecting of Churches?</P>
<P N="2">2. Did not Chri&s;t foretell as much, when he &s;aid there &s;hould in one hou&s;e be three again&s;t two, and two again&s;t three? <HI>Luk.</HI> 12.52.</P>
<P N="3">3. Doth not the Apo&s;tle &s;ay the &s;ervant then to the heathen was <HI>the Lords freeman?</HI> 1 Cor. 7. See how God plagued <HI>Pharaoh,</HI> for keeping his people from &s;erving him.</P>
<P>Object. Rev. 18.4. <HI>God calls his people out of Babel, or Rome, the fal&s;e Church onely.</HI></P>
<P><HI>Re&s;p.</HI> This is the fir&s;t &s;tep from her, to &s;eparate the world and Church.</P>
<P N="2">2. We are not to come out of Babels Church-practice onely, but her &s;tate-practices al&s;o; not in duties of the Go&s;pel only, but the law al&s;o. A people in civil &s;ociety cannot be without the law; as in the Church-&s;ociety they cannot be without the Go&s;pel, and be with and under God therein.</P>
<P>The fir&s;t-day-Sabbath is of the covenant of grace; the &s;eventh, of works. <HI>Mo&s;es</HI> is taught the &s;eventh, Chri&s;t the fir&s;t: natural men ob&s;erve one, believers the other; yet both &s;anctified, and Sabbaths, and to be kept holy.</P>
<P>Object. <HI>This would be exceeding lo&s;s to the Nation.</HI></P>
<P><HI>Re&s;p.</HI> Never man did lo&s;e by &s;erving God, but gaine.</P>
<P N="2">2. The godly man mu&s;t &s;ell all, If he will be a Chri&s;tian, and de|ny him&s;elf, and be dead to all.</P>
<P><HI>Note.</HI> The heathens &s;et apart &s;ome time to &s;erve their Gods of wood and &s;tone in, though they had no warrant to do the &s;ame:
<PB N="32" REF="20">&s;hall not tho&s;e are the people of God much more have &s;ome day to &s;erve him in? and what day, but that God in the laws in&s;tituted, from which before the <HI>Son hath made them free,</HI> they are not di&s;|charged from what &s;ervice the law requires, nor what penalty the law impo&s;eth on them for di&s;obedience: apply <HI>Mat.</HI> 5.19.</P>
<P>Hear what the law &s;aith to tho&s;e under the law, <HI>James</HI> 2.10. <HI>Who&s;oever keepeth the whole law, and yet offend in one point, is guilty of all.</HI> Rom. 3.19. <HI>that every mouth may be &s;topped, and all the world may become guilty before God.</HI> Gal. 3.10. <HI>Cur&s;ed be every one that continueth not in all things which are written in the book of the law, to do them.</HI></P>
<P><HI>Appl.</HI> This &s;eems to me, that men under the law are &s;trictly bound to the ob&s;ervation of the &s;eventh-day-Sabbath: of which number all unbelievers are, who are bound to &s;erve God for the crea|ture-comforts and mercies, though they know not Chri&s;t, but are in the &s;tate of the world.</P>
<P><HI>Appl.</HI> The Lords-day-Sabbath is only to be ob&s;erved in the Church, by men made free by Chri&s;t from the law, cur&s;e, and con|demnation thereof. <HI>Heb.</HI> 4.9. <HI>There remaineth a Sabbati&s;me to the people of God;</HI> called <HI>another day,</HI> ver&s;. 8. from the 7. Note <HI>ver&s;e</HI> 5. <GAP LANG="grc" DESC="foreign" RESP="OXF">.</P>
<P>This is of great concernment to be inquired into, that whiles we &s;trive to build up what we &s;hould not, we pull down what we ought not. I hope you would not for a world make a law to make void the law of God.</P>
<P>The Sabbath gave way to circumci&s;ion, though it were not of <HI>Mo&s;es,</HI> that is, <HI>Mo&s;es</HI> law. <HI>John</HI> 7.22, 23. that the law of <HI>Mo&s;es</HI> concerning circumci&s;ion might not be broken.</P>
<P>It is very remarkable, that in all the conflicts the Scribes and Pha|ri&s;ees had with Chri&s;t about the Sabbath, he never &s;pake of the abo|li&s;hing of it, nor condemned the right ob&s;ervance of it; though the Jews were more oft offended at Chri&s;t for this, then any thing; he curing more on that day, then any, becau&s;e looked on by the Lord as the work of the day; and they the more troubled at it, becau&s;e done thereon, which they judged to be a profanation thereof.</P>
<P><HI>Note.</HI> As the law was given by the found of Trumpet, &s;o the con|gregations of the Synagogues were to be called by trumpet, and not by bells, <HI>Numb.</HI> 10.7. <HI>Exod.</HI> 19.16. which minded them of gi|ving
<PB N="33" REF="20">of the law, and the covenant then made the believers by ri&s;ing of the Sun, that is, the time and call of them for their wor|&s;hip.</P>
<P><HI>Sabbath dayes journey,</HI> &s;ome under&s;tand one &s;ome to be two miles; which was no le&s;s to be ob&s;erved under the Go&s;pel, then un|der the Law-day-Sabbath. <HI>Jo&s;hua</HI> 3.4. <HI>Acts</HI> 1.12.</P>
<P>The Scriptures rightly expounded, will clear this Antichri&s;tian darkne&s;s. O take the vaile from our eyes and hearts.</P>
<P><HI>Mark.</HI> 16.1. The Sabbath being end, <GAP LANG="grc" DESC="foreign" RESP="OXF">.</P>
<P><HI>Ver&s;.</HI> 2. Early in the morn, <GAP LANG="grc" DESC="foreign" RESP="OXF">, and the fir&s;t of Sabbaths; it being the fir&s;t of the Lords-day-Sabbath, or the fir&s;t of the two Sabbaths; the Lords day being the fir&s;t, the &s;eventh day the la&s;t of the week, according to the Scripture, <HI>The fir&s;t &s;hall be la&s;t, and la&s;t fir&s;t.</HI> And for the ceremonial Sabbath, they are no more called Sabbaths, but the &s;eventh and fir&s;t day are called Sabbaths alway in the word.</P>
<P>The Scriptures &s;peaking of the Lords-day-Sabbath, mi&s;interpreted for the fir&s;t day of the week, and calls the &s;eventh day a Sabbath al|&s;o, are the&s;e: <HI>Mat.</HI> 28.1. <HI>Mark</HI> 16.2. <HI>Luk.</HI> 20.1. <HI>Acts</HI> 20.7. 1 <HI>Cor.</HI> 16.2.</P>
<P>That the Scriptures are mi&s;interpreted when read <HI>the fir&s;t day of the week,</HI> is clear; for when God &s;peaks of the fir&s;t day of the week, <HI>Mark</HI> 16.9. he &s;aith <GAP LANG="grc" DESC="foreign" RESP="OXF"> in the &s;ingular; no <GAP LANG="grc" DESC="foreign" RESP="OXF"> in the plural; and thus the Phari&s;ees, <HI>Luk.</HI> 18.12. fa&s;ted <GAP LANG="grc" DESC="foreign" RESP="OXF"> not <GAP LANG="grc" DESC="foreign" RESP="OXF">.</P>
<P N="1">1. After Chri&s;t, the Law-day-Sabbath was ob&s;erved by the Jews, men under the Law, among whom the Apo&s;tles taught, and never in one word reproved them. <HI>Acts</HI> 18 2. <HI>Paul, as his man|ner was, went into the Synagogue to the Jews, and three Sab|bath dayes rea&s;oned out of the Scriptures with them.</HI> Note, <HI>his manner was:</HI> and thus in many other Scriptures.</P>
<P N="2">2. The Lords-day-Sabbath was ob&s;erved among believers, <HI>Act.</HI> 20.7. <HI>On the fir&s;t,</HI> or one of the Sabbaths, <HI>when the Di&s;ciples came together to bread bread</HI> Paul <HI>preached to them,</HI> &amp;c. and that 1 <HI>Cor.</HI> 16.2. <HI>On every fir&s;t of Sabbaths</HI> (a command to the Church of <HI>Corinth) every one of you lay by him in &s;tore as God hath pro&s;pered him.</HI></P>
<P N="3">3. Having &s;hewed you, that both the fir&s;t and the &s;eventh day,
<PB N="34" REF="21">that under the covenant of the law, and that under the covenant of grace; <HI>Mo&s;es</HI> Sabbath day, and Chri&s;ts, conjunctly are called Sab|baths, and &s;o of divine authority alike; onely one is a command to men under the law, the other to men under grace: now I &s;hall &s;hew you how they are di&s;tinctly called Sabbaths.</P>
<P><HI>Heb.</HI> 4.4. He &s;peaks of the &s;eventh dayes re&s;t.</P>
<P><HI>Ver&s;.</HI> 5. In this againe of <HI>an other</HI> re&s;t, which is a dayes re&s;t, as the &s;eventh day was, is clear, from <HI>ver&s;.</HI> 7. and the 8.</P>
<P><HI>Ver&s;e</HI> 9. This other day is called <HI>Sabbati&s;mos,</HI> a &s;abbati&s;me; which is proper onely to the Church or people of God.</P>
<P><HI>Ver&s;.</HI> 10. This Sabbath-re&s;t men mu&s;t &s;trive to enter into; in the other, all men are compelled: in this, none but believers in the Kingdome of God injoy, into which men are bid to &s;trive to enter.</P>
<P>Object. <HI>Here they are &s;aid to enter into this &s;abbati&s;me, which is proper to the &s;tate of heaven to be entred into.</HI></P>
<P><HI>Re&s;p.</HI> Believers in Chri&s;t are &s;aid to enter into, or be <GAP LANG="grc" DESC="foreign" RESP="OXF">, in the law to Chri&s;t; or one in law, <GAP LANG="grc" DESC="foreign" RESP="OXF">, to Chri&s;t, 1 <HI>Cor.</HI> 9.21.</P>
<P>Object. <HI>Mark.</HI> 2.28. <HI>Luke</HI> 6.5. <HI>Chri&s;t is &s;aid to be</HI> Lord of the Sabbath: <HI>and in what was he &s;o, but in putting an end to it?</HI></P>
<P><HI>Re&s;p.</HI> That Scripture &s;aith not &s;o, and is contrary to many ex|pre&s;s Scriptures, where Chri&s;t &s;aith, <HI>A tittle of the law &s;hall not peri&s;h:</HI> and the Scripture is fal&s;ly rendered, the word is; <HI>The Lord is Son of man, and of the Sabbath;</HI> becau&s;e made of woman, and made under the law, <HI>Gal.</HI> 4.4.</P>
</DIV3>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 N="5" TYPE="commandment">
<PB N="35" REF="21">
<HEAD>Command the Fifth.</HEAD>
<EPIGRAPH>
<Q><BIBL><HI>Exod. 20.12.</HI></BIBL>
<P>Honour thy father and thy mother, <HI>&amp;c.</HI></P></Q>
</EPIGRAPH>
<DIV3 TYPE="part">
<HEAD>Statute.</HEAD>
<P>LEvit. 19.3. <HI>Ye &s;hall fear every man his father and mother.</HI></P>
<P>Ver&s;. 32. <HI>Ye &s;hall ri&s;e up before the hoary head, and honor the face of the old man.</HI></P>
<P><HI>Mark</HI> 7.10. <HI>Gen.</HI> 22.6. I&s;aac &s;ubmitteth to his father to dye. <HI>Luke</HI> 2.51. and thus Je&s;us Chri&s;t: the Rechabites obedience, <HI>Jer.</HI> 35. and Gods ble&s;&s;ing them.</P>
</DIV3>
<DIV3 TYPE="part">
<HEAD>Judgements.</HEAD>
<P><HI>Gen.</HI> 9.25, 26. <HI>Noah</HI> cur&s;eth <HI>Cham</HI> with bondage, and ble&s;&s;eth <HI>Japhet.</HI></P>
<P>Deut. 27.16. <HI>Cur&s;ed be he &s;etteth lightly by his father or mother.</HI></P>
<P>Levit. 20.9. <HI>Every one that cur&s;eth his father or mother, &s;hall &s;urely be put to death; his blood &s;hall be upon him,</HI> Exod. 21.17.</P>
<P>Exod. 21.15. <HI>He that &s;miteth his father or mother, &s;hall &s;ure|ly be put to death.</HI></P>
<P>Numb. 12.14. <HI>If her father had &s;pit in her face, &s;hould &s;he not have been a&s;hamed &s;even dayes?</HI> which was a thing of con|tempt, as in <HI>Deut.</HI> 25.9. and it may be either for di&s;obeying, or con|temning of him.</P>
<P><HI>Mark.</HI> 7.10. The Go&s;pel confirms it; <HI>Who cur&s;eth father or mother, let him dye the death.</HI></P>
<P>Prov. 30.17. <HI>The eye that mocketh at his father, and de&s;pi&s;eth to obey his mother, the ravens of the valley &s;hall pick it out.</HI></P>
</DIV3>
<DIV3 TYPE="part">
<HEAD>Statute.</HEAD>
<P>Deut. 4.9. <HI>Forget not the things thine eyes have &s;een.</HI> &amp;c. <HI>but
<PB N="36" REF="22">teach them thy &s;ons, and thy &s;ons &s;ons:</HI> Ver&s;. 10. <HI>E&s;pecially the day thou &s;toode&s;t before the Lord in Horeb:</HI> Ver&s;. 13. <HI>and he de|clared to you his covenant which he commanded you to performe, even the ten commandments.</HI></P>
<P>Deut. 6.7. <HI>Thou &s;halt teach them diligently thy children, and &s;halt talk of them when thon &s;itte&s;t in thy hou&s;e, when thou walke&s;t by the way, when thou lye&s;t down, and when thou ri&s;e&s;t up.</HI></P>
</DIV3>
<DIV3 TYPE="part">
<HEAD>Judgement.</HEAD>
<P>Deut. 21.18. <HI>If a man have a &s;tubborn and a rebellious &s;on that will not obey the voice of his father or his mother, and that when they have cha&s;tened him, he will not hearken unto them;</HI> Ver&s;. 19. <HI>Then &s;hall his father and mother lay hold of him, and bring him out to the Elders of his City and the gate of his place:</HI> Ver&s;. 20. <HI>They &s;hall &s;ay to the Elders of his City, This our &s;on is &s;tubborn and rebellious, and will not hear our voice: he is a drunk|ard and a glutton.</HI></P>
<P>Ver&s;e 21. <HI>All the men of his City &s;hall &s;tone him with &s;tones that he dye: &s;o &s;halt thou put away evil from among&s;t you.</HI></P>
<P><HI>Appl.</HI> Why is &s;o much rebellion again&s;t parents, is not becau&s;e the law of God is &s;ilent; this being executed, all <HI>England</HI> would hear and fear.</P>
<P N="2">2. Is there another way, be&s;ides this, to put away evil from a|mong us, appointed of God? Note, God &s;aith, <HI>So &s;halt thou put a|way evil,</HI> and no other way.</P>
<P N="3">3. Or is not the Law of God ju&s;t, the judgement true and righte|ous, that it is not &s;et up among&s;t us? or will it ever be well with us or ours, until it be &s;et up?</P>
</DIV3>
<DIV3 TYPE="part">
<HEAD>Statute.</HEAD>
<P>Parents marriage of their children, It was to be confined to &s;uch as were in convenant, <HI>Deut.</HI> 7.6.</P>
<P>Exod. 34.16. <HI>Thou &s;halt not take of their daughters to thy &s;ons, and their daughters go a whoring after their Gods, and make thy &s;ons go a whoring after their Gods.</HI></P>
<P>Deut. 7.3. <HI>Thou &s;halt not make marriages with tho&s;e nations God will de&s;troy; thy daughter &s;halt thou not give his &s;on, nor
<PB N="37" REF="22">his daughter &s;halt thou take to thy &s;on.</HI> The rea&s;on whereof is rendred, <HI>ver&s;</HI> 4.</P>
<P><HI>Appl.</HI> As men under the law were not to match with tho&s;e na|tions were not under the law; &s;o men under grace were not at liber|ty to match with any but &s;uch as were in Chri&s;t, 1 <HI>Cor.</HI> 7.39.</P>
<P N="2">2. Were we under the law, this would condemne all marriage with idolaters, more &s;trongly then the work of the law in us hath done. <HI>Numb.</HI> 25.6. 1 <HI>Kings</HI> 21.25. 1 <HI>Kings</HI> 11. from 1. to <HI>ver&s;e</HI> 9.</P>
<P N="3">3. See here the authority God hath given to men under the law, over their childrens marriage; they are &s;aid to give and take: <HI>E&s;au took a daughter of Canaan; Jacob obeyed his mother, and marri|ed Labans daughter.</HI></P>
<P>Exod. 21.9. <HI>If a man betroth his maid-&s;ervant to his &s;on, he &s;hall deal with her after the manner of daughters.</HI></P>
<P><HI>Note.</HI> Betrothing was the fathers work, in which he gave his daughter, or took the daughter of &s;ome other to his &s;on to wife.</P>
<P N="2">2. The Magi&s;trate or Elders are not to approve of marriage made with any out of covenant.</P>
<P>It is to be con&s;idered, that God (under this word <HI>Father</HI>) doth comprehend the Magi&s;trate; and obedience and honour hence due to him:</P>
<P N="1">1. Becau&s;e all authority and rule was fir&s;t in the father, <HI>Gen.</HI> 38.24.</P>
<P N="2">2. It came from him to the one Judge <HI>Mo&s;es.</HI></P>
<P N="3">3. To Judges in every City, who had laws from God to judge the people by: in which admini&s;tration only, 1 <HI>Sam.</HI> 12.12. the Lord God was &s;aid to be their King. And now againe, when this law is the rule of judgement to the nation, then is the Lord Chri&s;t &s;aid to raigne, which &s;hall be a thou&s;and yeers; God having com|mitted all judgement and authority to the Son, <HI>Mat.</HI> 28.18. <HI>Rev.</HI> 20.6. and who would not &s;trive to &s;et up Chri&s;ts rule?</P>
<P><HI>Note.</HI> As Judges were of God before Kings, &s;o if Kings be put down, ye mu&s;t return to Judges again; God &s;etting up but the&s;e two wayes of rule, and God him&s;elf ruling in that of Judges, and there|fore be&s;t: nor doth God rule by Judges as di&s;tinct from Kings, un|le&s;s they be &s;et up as in the beginning, to rule by the laws of God.</P>
<P N="4">4. The government came from Judges to Kings; in which the
<PB N="38" REF="23">people were &s;aid, in their asking for a King, to have <HI>committed great wickedne&s;s in the &s;ight of the Lord,</HI> 1 Sam. 12.17. yea, and God him&s;elf &s;aid, herein they had rejected him, and not <HI>Sa|muel,</HI> that he &s;hould not raigne over them. I be&s;eech you, what the government of Judges by the law God had &s;et up was then to God, and this day is no le&s;s with him, 1 <HI>Sam.</HI> 8.7.</P>
<P N="5">5. God had foretold of this by <HI>Mo&s;es, Deut.</HI> 17. and the thing oc|ca&s;ioned this, was con&s;iderable, 1 <HI>Sam.</HI> 8.3. which was <HI>Samuels</HI> age, and his &s;ons perverting Judgement, and taking bribes, and turning after lucre; yet <HI>Samuel, ver&s;.</HI> 6. is di&s;plea&s;ed at it, when they &s;aid, <HI>Give us a King;</HI> to which God bids <HI>Samuel</HI> hearken, and do for them: under whom aro&s;e tribute, cu&s;tome, and imperious commands, 1 <HI>Sam.</HI> 8.11. to the end of <HI>ver&s;.</HI> 18.</P>
<P N="6">6. This rule of Kings, God in the Go&s;pel e&s;tabli&s;hed by <HI>Paul,</HI> 13.1. <HI>the powers that be,</HI> (even <HI>Nero's</HI> and his deputies) were &s;aid to be <HI>ordained of God,</HI> in the Lords &s;etting up of <HI>Saul:</HI> which fourth Monarchies rule was authoritative, untill the time God had ordain|ed that it &s;hould be <HI>taken out of the way,</HI> for the wickedne&s;s thereof, 2 <HI>The&s;.</HI> 2.7. and the way how it &s;hall be taken away, is &s;et down, and by whom, even by the &s;tone cut out of the mountaine with|out hands: he brake in peeces the iron, bra&s;s, clay, &s;ilver, and gold, <HI>Dan.</HI> 2.44, 45. which puts an end to the fourth Monarchy, which &s;hall have its end by Je&s;us Chri&s;t. So that as the fourth Monarchy (or Roman) put down the law of God, Chri&s;t comes now to put down that in the rule, yea all the rule, authority, and power there|of, 1 <HI>Cor.</HI> 15.24.</P>
<P N="7">7. After all this, comes the <HI>ancient of dayes,</HI> which is not God, who is not of time nor dayes, but he comes by his law, and Judges and judgement, to &s;it and judge againe; God having foretold he would <HI>re&s;tore Judges as at the fir&s;t,</HI> I&s;a. 1.26. to whom government &s;hall be given of God, God having taken it from the Monarchy, that they may rule againe. And now as God is &s;aid to give, &s;o &s;hall it be given by men unto them; in which God is al&s;o &s;aid to give it, <HI>Dan.</HI> 2.27. and that their authority &s;hall not be que&s;tioned, as <HI>Mo&s;es</HI> once was, <HI>Exod.</HI> 2.14. <HI>Who made thee a prince and Judge over us?</HI> the people making them.</P>
</DIV3>
<DIV3 TYPE="part">
<PB N="39" REF="23">
<HEAD>Statute.</HEAD>
<P><HI>Exod.</HI> 18.21. Judges are &s;aid to be placed over the people, and are called gods.</P>
<P><HI>Exod.</HI> 21.6. The ma&s;ter was to bring the &s;ervant that would not go out free, <GAP LANG="heb" DESC="foreign" RESP="OXF"> unto the Gods, that is, unto the Judges.</P>
<P>Exod. 22.18. <HI>Thou &s;halt not revile the Gods, nor cur&s;e the ruler of thy people.</HI> P&s;al. 82.1. <HI>God &s;tandeth in the congrega|tion of the Gods.</HI></P>
<P><HI>Note.</HI> Great is the honour &s;et on Judges, they judging for and under God. I do not remember that it is &s;aid of any Judges but the&s;e, nor any other kind of rulers. <HI>Nero</HI> was not a God in this &s;ence, though his authority were of God. The &s;aying of Chri&s;t clears this, <HI>John</HI> 10.34. <HI>It is written in your law, I &s;aid ye are Gods,</HI> ver&s;. 35. <HI>If he called them Gods to whom the word of God came,</HI> &amp;c. &s;o that none are &s;o called, but &s;uch to whom the word of God came, that is, &s;uch as by the words of God judged men, as in the place of God, being &s;et up of God to judge thereby, that judgement may be the Lords.</P>
<P><HI>Heb.</HI> 10.28. He that de&s;pi&s;ed <HI>Mo&s;es</HI> law was to dye, <HI>Deut.</HI> 17.12. this in the judgement on <HI>Core, Numb.</HI> 16.11. they are &s;aid to be gathered together again&s;t the Lord, que&s;tioning <HI>Mo&s;es,</HI> whom God had &s;et up; and his government, which God had given as a law to that people. <HI>Ver&s;.</HI> 13. they &s;ay of <HI>Mo&s;es,</HI> he had made, not God, altogether a prince, and not a Judge over the people, <HI>ver&s;.</HI> 13. for which, they and theirs were de&s;troyed, <HI>ver&s;.</HI> 32.</P>
</DIV3>
<DIV3 TYPE="part">
<HEAD>Statute.</HEAD>
<P>I&s;a. 38.1. <HI>Command thy hou&s;e</HI> (or &s;et it in order) <HI>for thou &s;halt dye.</HI> Note, that the law had a rule in it, what men, and how they were to di&s;po&s;e of their goods and e&s;tates in a way of Ju&s;tice, and not according to their lu&s;ts; according to which rule, they were to divide their e&s;tates among them.</P>
<P N="1">1. There was a dowry of virgins, <HI>Exod.</HI> 22.16. fifty &s;hekels, <HI>Deut.</HI> 22.29.</P>
<P N="2">2. The fir&s;t-born, <HI>Deut.</HI> 21.17. was to have a double portion of all his father had; and the rea&s;on added was not for any cere|monial cau&s;e, but that he was <HI>the beginning of his &s;trength.</HI></P>
<PB N="40" REF="24">
<P N="3">3. <HI>Numb.</HI> 36.2. <HI>Mo&s;es</HI> would not make any law in the ca&s;e of <HI>Zelophehad,</HI> though he were as able as any living, but he would in|quire of God who &s;hould inherit: and it was re&s;olved, <HI>Numb.</HI> 27.8. <HI>If a man dye and have no &s;on then ye &s;hall cau&s;e his inheritance to pa&s;s unto his daughters: if he have no daughter, ye &s;hall give his inheritance to his brethren: if he have no brethren, ye &s;hall give it to his fathers brethren: if his father have no brethren, ye &s;hall give it to his kin&s;man is next unto him of his family; he &s;hall po&s;&s;e&s;s it: and it &s;hall be to the children of I&s;rael a &s;tatute.</HI></P>
<P><HI>Note.</HI> How contrary are the practices of this people and nation to Gods law!</P>
<P>Object. <HI>In doing thus, we &s;hould wrong the dead, and li|ving.</HI></P>
<P><HI>Re&s;p.</HI> In doing Gods will, ye can do no wrong.</P>
<P N="2">2. Tho&s;e that do ju&s;tice, do not do wrong. But tho&s;e do thus, do ju&s;tice: <HI>ergo.</HI></P>
<P N="3">3. The dead and living do wrong to them&s;elves and con&s;ciences, and others al&s;o, in doing that is forbid by Gods law to be done by them.</P>
<P N="4">4. Many holds and cu&s;toms nece&s;&s;arily by this law are to be changed.</P>
<P N="5">5. Many other laws do depend on this in civil contracts.</P>
<P N="6">6. How would this quench &s;trife and divi&s;ion among brethren, and prevent the ruine of many families, and e&s;tabli&s;h love, this being the righteous Judgement of God!</P>
<P N="7">7. How would this prevent that &s;hame in the nation, where one (the elde&s;t brother) hath all, and is a prince; and the re&s;t all poor, and he onely lords it over all the re&s;t!</P>
<P>Object. <HI>The&s;e holds are e&s;tabli&s;hed by law and cu&s;tome, and may not be changed.</HI></P>
<P><HI>Re&s;p.</HI> If a law of man be contrary to the law of God, it is no law, but a tradition: and men are bound to alter it, when they know Gods mind to be to the contrary in the ca&s;e.</P>
<P N="2">2. If a man keeps from him that hath right to a po&s;&s;e&s;&s;ion, his po&s;&s;e&s;&s;ion, it is no wrong to take it from him, and give it to whom it ju&s;tly pertains, but an act of Ju&s;tice, <HI>P&s;al.</HI> 24.11. <HI>The earth is the Lords, and the fulne&s;s thereof.</HI></P>
<P>Luk. 12.13. <HI>And one of the company &s;aid unto him, Ma&s;ter,
<PB N="41" REF="24">&s;peak to my brother, that he divide the inheritance with me.</HI></P>
<P><HI>Ver&s;.</HI> 14. And he &s;aid unto him, Man, who made me a Judge or a divider over you? <HI>Numb.</HI> 34.17.</P>
<P N="1">1. It &s;hews that inheritances were to be divided among&s;t brethren by the law.</P>
<P N="2">2. It was the work of the Judge to &s;ee it done, if complained of. That this was not at all, or not rightly (that is, ju&s;tly) done between this man and his brother.</P>
<P N="3">3. That there was u&s;ually to be a divider; they were not to di|vide it them&s;elves by the law, that occa&s;ions of inju&s;tice, and of jea|lou&s;ie, and di&s;content, may be removed, and occa&s;ion of probate of wills cea&s;e; only &s;et a part for paying the debts, and divide the re&s;t.</P>
<P N="4">4. It was the work of one made a Judge by the people in the way of the law, and not of others, which had not authority; which au|thority Chri&s;t a&s;&s;umed not, <HI>John</HI> 3.17. &amp; 8.15.</P>
<P>Ye children, judge ye if the way of the Lord be not good and &s;weet, better and &s;weeter then your fathers love unto you; and if he careth not more for you, then they.</P>
</DIV3>
<DIV3 TYPE="part">
<HEAD>Statute. In ca&s;e &s;ome were poor, and had &s;old their inheritance.</HEAD>
<P><HI>Ruth</HI> 4.4. There is none to redeem it be&s;ides thee, and I am after thee.</P>
</DIV3>
<DIV3 TYPE="part">
<HEAD>Judgement.</HEAD>
<P><HI>Note.</HI> Tho&s;e had right to redeem, came into it &s;ucce&s;&s;ively and in order, on the refu&s;al thereof, <HI>Jerm.</HI> 32.7. <GAP LANG="heb" DESC="foreign" RESP="OXF">.</P>
</DIV3>
<DIV3 TYPE="part">
<HEAD>Of &s;ervants.</HEAD>
<P><HI>Deut.</HI> 14.12. <HI>If thy brother &s;erve thee &s;ix years, the &s;eventh he &s;hall go out free.</HI></P>
<P>Exod. 21.2. <HI>If thou buy an Hebrew &s;ervaent, &s;ix yeers he &s;hall &s;erve: in the &s;eventh he &s;hall go out free for nothing.</HI></P>
<P><HI>Note,</HI> If a man would buy a &s;ervant, he could not buy him for a longer tearm.</P>
<P><HI>Deut.</HI> 21.5. If the &s;ervant will not go forth free, <HI>ver&s;.</HI> 6. he was
<PB N="32" REF="25">to bring him to the judges; to &s;hew, he kept him not by con&s;traint, but free con&s;ent. Note: this liberty &s;ervants now have, after &s;even yeers, to abide longer if they plea&s;e.</P>
<P><HI>Deut.</HI> 15.16, 17. Shews the ground of his &s;tay, that on experi|ence had of the &s;even yeers pa&s;t &s;ervice, that it was well with him, he loved him and his hou&s;e, he might remaine.</P>
<P>Deut. 15.13. <HI>When thou &s;ende&s;t him out free from thee, thou &s;halt not &s;uffer him to go away empty,</HI> ver&s;. 14. <HI>Thou &s;halt furni&s;h him liberally out of thy flock, out of thy flour and wine-pre&s;s, wherewith God hath ble&s;&s;ed thee.</HI></P>
<P>Ver&s;e. 18. <HI>It &s;hall not &s;eem hard unto thee, when thou &s;ende&s;t him away free,</HI> &amp;c. to which God promi&s;ed a ble&s;&s;ing.</P>
<P>Exod. 21.26, 27. <HI>If a man &s;mite out his man or maid-&s;er|vants eye or tooth, they &s;hall go out free therefore.</HI></P>
<P>Deut. 23.15. <HI>If a &s;ervant e&s;cape from his ma&s;ter, thou &s;halt not deliver him unto him: he &s;hall dwell with thee.</HI></P>
<P>To explain this &s;tatute, <HI>Levit.</HI> 25.46. God forbids ruling with rigor, for which cau&s;e the &s;ervant ran away, and was not by the Judge to be delivered his ma&s;ter: which is illu&s;trated, <HI>Gen.</HI> 16.6, 8. <HI>Sarah</HI> dealing hardly with <HI>Hagar,</HI> &s;he fled from her face: and in <HI>One &s;imus.</HI></P>
<P>Deut. 24.14. <HI>Thou &s;halt not oppre&s;s the hireling of his wages that is poor and needy, whether of thy brethren or &s;trangers; but &s;halt at his day give him his wages: nor &s;hall the Sun go down on it: for he is poor, and &s;ets his heart upon it,</HI> Levit. 19.13.</P>
<P>Exod. 21.20. <HI>If a man &s;mite his &s;ervant with a rod</HI> (a thing for correction, not a &s;word) <HI>and he or &s;he dye under his hand, he &s;hall be &s;urely puni&s;hed.</HI> Ver&s;. 21. <HI>If he continue a day or two, he &s;hall not be puni&s;hed, for he is his money.</HI></P>
<P><HI>Exod.</HI> 20. the &s;ervant was to re&s;t and &s;anctifie the Sabbath day.</P>
<P><HI>Exod.</HI> 21.32. If an Ox gore a man-&s;ervant or maid, the owner &s;hall pay the ma&s;ter thirty &s;hekels (and the Ox &s;hall be &s;toned) which was one pound &s;eventeen &s;hillings and &s;ix pence.</P>
<P><HI>Note.</HI> If this were for a law, how good were it for &s;ervants, who now are as &s;laves for ten yeers; and at the end, their ma&s;ters, in&s;tead of giving ought, &s;eek to ruine them? It would be good for ma&s;ters al&s;o; did they obey, God would ble&s;s them.</P>
</DIV3>
<DIV3 TYPE="part">
<PB N="43" REF="25">
<HEAD><HI>The manner of the Jews contracts, in the buying and &s;elling of their lands, is &s;et down,</HI> Jer. 32.7, 8, 9, 10.</HEAD>
<P N="1">1. There was a right of redemption in the next of kin, as be|fore.</P>
<P N="2">2. He &s;hould, if he could, buy it; if not, he mu&s;t have the refu&s;e, as <HI>Jeremiah</HI> had, though in the pri&s;on.</P>
<P N="3">3. <HI>Hananeel</HI> is nece&s;&s;itated to do it, it &s;eems, by crying, <HI>I pray thee buy it:</HI> and indeed, without great nece&s;&s;ity, the Jews, for the evil and reproach thereof, would not do it.</P>
<P><HI>Vid. Gen. <HI>23.</HI> Abraham <HI>purcha&s;ing</HI> Mamre.</HI></P>
<P N="4">4. This was onely in free purcha&s;es.</P>
<P><HI>Ver&s;.</HI> 9.1. He bought the field of the owner.</P>
<P N="2">2. He weighed the money; in which was much ju&s;tice: there was the number, &s;eventeen &s;hekles; and weight al&s;o: and in the contra|ry, much wrong may be done in payments, though not u&s;ed with us.</P>
<P N="3">3. He weighed to him, the man him&s;elf, the money.</P>
<P><HI>Ver&s;.</HI> 10. Is a repetition of that in the ninth, more fully &s;etting down,</P>
<P N="1">1. That he gave <HI>Hananeel</HI> an evidence, and &s;ub&s;cribed and &s;ealed it, to pay for the land &s;o much money; to which were wit|ne&s;&s;es had &s;ub&s;cribed their names to the conditions between them; who al&s;o were to &s;ee the payment of the moneys: and this as in the 11. <HI>ver&s;e</HI> was rolled up: none but the buyer, &s;eller, and witne&s;&s;es knew.</P>
<P><HI>Ver&s;.</HI> 11. Is another evidence, called the evidence of the purcha&s;e, which was given by <HI>Hananeel;</HI> which was open.</P>
<P><HI>Ver&s;.</HI> 12. The evidence of the purcha&s;e is not kept by the pur|cha&s;er, but by &s;ome officer intru&s;ted therewith, for the publike, then called Baruch, a Scribe. <HI>Jerem.</HI> 36.26.</P>
<P N="2">2. This was done in the &s;ight of him that &s;old it, <HI>Hananeel;</HI> which was a confirmation of the thing to the publike officer.</P>
<P N="3">3. To this book of the purcha&s;e al&s;o there were witne&s;&s;es had at|te&s;ted their hands for confirmation, as the former to that writing given <HI>Hananeel</HI> for payment of the money.</P>
<P N="4">4. The&s;e witne&s;&s;es &s;ub&s;cribed the book of the purcha&s;e, before
<PB N="44" REF="26">many Jews, in a judicial way called to fit in the Court of the pri&s;on.</P>
<P N="5">5. In the pre&s;ence of the&s;e, it was delivered to Baruch.</P>
<P N="6">6. After the payment of the money that he gave <HI>Hananeel,</HI> is re|turned him, and kept with the other of the purcha&s;e, for confirma|tion of his title: much is the con&s;ideration.</P>
<P><HI>Appl.</HI> Parents, &s;ee, I pray, what honour God requires of your children to give you, and to obey you, and to be put to death if they do not obey you. Oh, but again di&s;charge your duty, as <HI>Abraham</HI> and <HI>Jo&s;hua</HI> did, and as God commands you to do, that they may know their duty, and what in the law is commanded them concern|ing God and men in general, and you and them in e&s;pecial, as in <HI>Deuteronom.</HI> 4.8, 9, 10. <HI>Deuteronom.</HI> 11.19. the&s;e are the things you are to teach your children, &s;peaking of them when you are &s;itting in the hou&s;e, when ye walk by the way, when ye lye down and ri&s;e up: the&s;e ye are to write on the door-po&s;ts of your hou&s;es and gates; and not ballads, and &s;ongs, and la&s;civious pictures, <HI>ver&s;.</HI> 20. which lead them to di&s;obedience again&s;t God.</P>
<P N="1">1. <HI>Note.</HI> It is &s;aid (<HI>Deut.</HI> 21.21.) of the di&s;obedient child, that was a drunkard and a glutton, he &s;hould be &s;toned to death; and &s;o they &s;hould put away evil from among them.</P>
<P N="2">2. Signifying this, that unle&s;s this cour&s;e were taken with drunken di&s;obedient children, the evil of drunkenne&s;s and di&s;obedience to pa|rents would not be removed out of the land. And who are there that are accu&s;tomed to drunkenne&s;s in the time of their age, that were not accu&s;tomed to it in youth?</P>
<P N="3">3. For the neglect of doing ju&s;tice in this ca&s;e, &s;ee but how the&s;e &s;ins, like a lepro&s;ie or &s;preading evil, have as it were infected the poor and rich, old and young, in all parts of the Nation; and no other way but this is ever able to put away the evil thereof from among&s;t us.</P>
<P N="4">4. You mu&s;t do &s;o, that is, &s;tone him to death, and not put him to death any other way; and then all the men, even his own compani|ons, mu&s;t help &s;tone him to death, that are of the fame City: which could not but work &s;trangely on them.</P>
<P N="1">1. In Cities is u&s;ually mo&s;t exce&s;s and company-keeping.</P>
<P N="2">2. There is mo&s;t drunkenne&s;s, and con&s;equently mo&s;t di&s;obedi|ence: for drunken children are di&s;obedient children.</P>
<PB N="45" REF="26">
<P N="3">3. Here it &s;hould be done, for the greater terror to others.</P>
<P N="1">1. <HI>Note,</HI> That the Statutes and judgements expre&s;&s;ed in the word, are a rule for every Judge in each City to put in execution.</P>
<P N="2">2. But if ca&s;es fall out not clearly expre&s;&s;ed or &s;et down, called di&s;|ficult ca&s;es, <HI>Deut.</HI> 17.8.</P>
<P N="3">3. The&s;e ca&s;es are to be referred to the chief judicatory provided in that behalf, called the &s;eventy or Synedry. So that here is no &s;traitedne&s;s for rule in the way of God.</P>
<P N="4">4. They are not left to do what they will, for it mu&s;t be the &s;en|tence of the law, <HI>Deut.</HI> 17.11.</P>
<P N="5">5. They are to teach, to &s;hew, to tell the &s;entence, out of, or accor|ding to the law, as appears by comparing <HI>Heb.</HI> 10.28. with <HI>Deut.</HI> 17.12. hence called Councellors, not Judges.</P>
<P N="6">6. This was to be done by the Judge before whom it was fir&s;t brought; he was to &s;eek the re&s;olution thereof at the &s;upreme judica|tory or councel.</P>
<P>That of <HI>Exod.</HI> 18.21. rulers of tens to judge, was only proper to that time, before they came into Canaan; untill when, the rule was not &s;etled.</P>
</DIV3>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 N="6" TYPE="commandment">
<HEAD>Command the Sixth.</HEAD>
<EPIGRAPH>
<Q><BIBL><HI>Exod. 20.13.</HI></BIBL>
<P>Thou &s;halt not kill.</P></Q>
</EPIGRAPH>
<DIV3 TYPE="part">
<HEAD><HI>Statute.</HI> Gen. 9.6.</HEAD>
<P>LEvit. 24.17. <HI>He that killeth a man &s;hall &s;urely be put to death,</HI> Numb. 35.16. <HI>If any &s;mite his neighbour with an in&s;tru|ment of iron that he dye, he is a murtherer: he &s;hall &s;urely be put to death.</HI></P>
<P><HI>If he &s;mite him with throwing of a &s;tone,</HI> That he dye, he is a murtherer.</P>
<P><HI>If he &s;mite him with a hand-weapon of wood,</HI> That he dye, he is a murtherer.</P>
<P><HI>If he thru&s;t him of hate,</HI> That he dye, he is a murtherer.</P>
<P><HI>Or hurle at him by lying in waite,</HI> That he dye, he is a murtherer.</P>
<P><HI>Or in enmity &s;mite him with his hand,</HI> That he dye, he is a murtherer.</P>
<PB N="36" REF="27">
<P>Exod. 21.12. <HI>He that &s;miteth a man that he dye,</HI> &amp;c.</P>
<P>Ver&s;. 14. <HI>If any come pre&s;umptuou&s;ly on his neighbour, and &s;tay him with guile, then thou &s;halt take him from mine altar,</HI> &amp;c. 1 Kings 2.5 29, 30.</P>
<P>Ver&s;. 22. <HI>If men &s;trive and hurt a woman with child and hurt felloweth</HI> (that is, afterward &s;he lo&s;eth her life.)</P>
</DIV3>
<DIV3 TYPE="part">
<HEAD>Judgement.</HEAD>
<P>Gal. 5.21. <HI>Shall not inherit the Kingdom of God.</HI></P>
<P><HI>They &s;hall &s;urely dye,</HI> 2 Sam. 1. from ver&s;e 6. to the 16.</P>
<P>Exod. 21.14. <HI>Take him from the altar and put him to death.</HI></P>
<P N="1">1. <HI>Note.</HI> The executioner is to be the avenger of bloods; who was to do it when he met with him, being his near kin&s;|man.</P>
<P N="2">2. The avenger of blood pur&s;ued him, and &s;lew him where he met with him. This would not be &s;o convenient, families being di&s;per&s;t in another nature among us then them.</P>
<P>Que&s;tion is, If any other might be an executioner in this ca&s;e, and whether the revenge of blood be to be delayed at all.</P>
<P N="3">3. <HI>Numb.</HI> 35.24 27. If a man were &s;lain by one not his enemy, nor &s;ought his hurt, the Congregation were to judge between the &s;layer and revenger, and deliver the &s;layer out of the hand of the revenger: yet if the &s;layer come out of the borders of the City, and the avenger meet with him, and &s;lay him, he &s;hall not be guilty of blood.</P>
<P><HI>Note.</HI> This an&s;wered to our Jury; and in no ca&s;e was the Jury made u&s;e of, but this, as I know of; which was the whole congregation.</P>
<P N="1">1. Here was matter of life and death.</P>
<P N="2">2. The law was diver&s;e in this ca&s;e, according as it did ap|pear, whether the murder were wilful or not: they were to judge with the Judge; and the congregation, not the Judge, deliver him, as in <HI>Numb.</HI> 25.25.</P>
<P N="3">3. What warrant this is to their proceedings in other ca&s;es, I know not, from the law of God: for the law of God having expre&s;ly &s;et down in it the judgement of God, there needs no Jury, the fact being proved by the witne&s;&s;es that they might judge, or el&s;e not, <HI>Deut.</HI> 25.1, 2.</P>
</DIV3>
<DIV3 TYPE="part">
<PB N="37" REF="27">
<HEAD>Statute.</HEAD>
<P>Numb. 35.22, 23. <HI>If he thru&s;t &s;uddenly without enmity or ea&s;t any thing on him without lying in wait, or with any &s;tone wherewith a man may dye, &s;eeing him not, and was not his ene|my nor &s;ought his harme.</HI></P>
<P>Deut. 4.24. <HI>If he kill his neighbour unawares and hated him not in time pa&s;t</HI>&mdash;</P>
<P><HI>Deut.</HI> 19.5. An in&s;tance is &s;et down of a man killed by the head of an Ax falling ignorantly from the helve.</P>
</DIV3>
<DIV3 TYPE="part">
<HEAD>Judgement.</HEAD>
<P N="1">1. He &s;hall flye to the City of refuge, <HI>Jo&s;hua</HI> 20.4.</P>
<P N="2">2. He &s;hall &s;tay to the death of the high-Prie&s;t.</P>
<P N="3">3. The Congregation &s;hall judge between the avenger and the &s;layer, when the ca&s;e is not clear whether he &s;lew the man in malice or not.</P>
<P><HI>Deut.</HI> 19.11, 12. If he &s;lew him in malice, he was to be brought from the City of refuge, and delivered to the A|venger.</P>
<P N="2">2. If he did not, he was to abide in the City.</P>
<P>Exod. 21.13. <HI>If a man lye not in waite for his neighbor but God deliver him into his hand, I will appoint a place where he &s;hall flee.</HI></P>
<P>Que&s;tion is, whether &s;uch Cities, &s;eeing &s;uch ca&s;es are daily among us, are not to be &s;et up, to prevent &s;hedding of inno|cent blood.</P>
<P N="2">2. Whether that Ceremony of &s;taying in the City untill the death of the high-prie&s;t, do de&s;troy all morality in the re&s;t; or rather, that now Chri&s;t is dead, the congregation having ac|quitted the man &s;lew his brother unawares, he &s;hould be im|mediately free, by the blood and death of Chri&s;t.</P>
</DIV3>
<DIV3 TYPE="part">
<HEAD>Statute.</HEAD>
<P>Exod. 21.28. <HI>If an ox were wont to pu&s;h in time pa&s;t, and it hath been te&s;tified to his owner in time pa&s;t, and he hath not kept him, but he hath killed man or woman</HI>&mdash;</P>
</DIV3>
<DIV3 TYPE="part">
<PB N="48" REF="28">
<HEAD>Judgement.</HEAD>
<P N="1">1. The Ox &s;hall be &s;toned.</P>
<P N="2">2. His &s;le&s;h &s;hall not be eaten.</P>
<P N="3">3. His owner &s;hall be put to death.</P>
<P N="4">4. This &s;entence by a mulct was only in this ca&s;e to be taken off from the man: <HI>ver&s;.</HI> 30. <HI>If there be laid a &s;um of money on him, then he &s;hall give for the ran&s;om of his life what&s;oever is laid on him.</HI></P>
<P><HI>Note.</HI> Here is no benefit of Clergy granted, nor in no ca&s;e el&s;e is there any like thereunto in&s;tituted of God to be u&s;ed in judgement.</P>
<P N="2">2. The laying on him a &s;um was Arbitrary.</P>
<P N="3">3. The quantity of money was Arbitrary; he mu&s;t pay whatever it was, or dye. <HI>Job</HI> 2.4. <HI>All a man hath will he give for his life.</HI></P>
<P N="4">4. What is &s;aid of an Ox, may be &s;aid and done of like hurt|ful bea&s;ts.</P>
<P N="5">5. Why the Ox is to be killed, I think is, becau&s;e it is writ|ten, <HI>He that &s;heddeth</HI> (as well bea&s;t as man) <HI>mans blond, his blood &s;hall be &s;hed.</HI></P>
</DIV3>
<DIV3 TYPE="part">
<HEAD>Statute.</HEAD>
<P>Exod. 21.28. <HI>If an Ox gore a man or woman that they dye</HI>&mdash;</P>
</DIV3>
<DIV3 TYPE="part">
<HEAD>Judgement.</HEAD>
<P N="1">1. The Oxe &s;hall be &s;urely &s;toned.</P>
<P N="2">2. His fle&s;h &s;hall not be eaten.</P>
<P N="3">3. The owner &s;hall be quit.</P>
<P>Ver&s;. 31. <HI>Whether he hath gored &s;on or daughter, according to this judgement it &s;hall be done unto him.</HI></P>
<P N="4">4. This is the judgement of him who before had not wit|ne&s;&s;ed unto him that it would pu&s;h.</P>
<P><HI>Appl.</HI> To Judges: Whether ye can di&s;pence with the judge|ment of God, for the Ox, in his manner of death or fle&s;h.</P>
</DIV3>
<DIV3 TYPE="part">
<HEAD>Statute.</HEAD>
<P>Deut. 12.8. <HI>If thou build a new hou&s;e, thou &s;halt make bat|telments
<PB N="49" REF="28">on the roof, that thou bring not blood on thy hou&s;e.</HI></P>
</DIV3>
<DIV3 TYPE="part">
<HEAD>Judgement.</HEAD>
<P>Que&s;t. 1. Whether the hou&s;e were to be de&s;troyed. 2. Or a mulct to be laid thereon for the owner to pay.</P>
</DIV3>
<DIV3 TYPE="part">
<HEAD>Statute.</HEAD>
<P>Deut. 24.16. <HI>The fathers &s;hall not be put to death for the children, nor children for the fathers.</HI></P>
</DIV3>
<DIV3 TYPE="part">
<HEAD>Statute.</HEAD>
<P>Deut. 21.1. <HI>If a man be found &s;lain in the land, lying in the field, and not known who &s;lew him</HI>&mdash; ver&s;. 2. <HI>The Elders and the Judges &s;hall come forth, and mea&s;ure to the Cities that are round about him that is &s;laine: the Elders of the City that are next to him &s;hall take a red heifer,</HI> &amp;c.</P>
<P N="1">1. The ceremony of the heifer then, is the duty of humilia|tion now.</P>
<P N="2">2. The Ca&s;e is often, and &s;hews the dwellers between Cities were judged by the next City Judges, <HI>Jo&s;h.</HI> 18.28.</P>
<P N="3">3. The duty is nece&s;&s;ary, that judgement for innocent blood be not brought upon us.</P>
<P N="4">4. By this means God may be intreated to reveal the mur|derer, and men &s;hew their innocency and clearne&s;s in the thing.</P>
</DIV3>
<DIV3 TYPE="part">
<HEAD>Statute.</HEAD>
<P>Deut. 21.22. <HI>If a man hath committed &s;in worthy of death, and he be to be put to death</HI> (which was fir&s;t done) <HI>and thou hang him on a tree:</HI></P>
<P>Ver&s;. 23. <HI>His body &s;hall not remaine all night on the tree, but thou &s;halt in any wi&s;e bury him that day; for he that is hang|ed is accur&s;ed of God: that thy land be not defiled.</HI></P>
<P>Que&s;t. 1. Whether men may condemne by the law of God a man to be hanged before dead.</P>
<P N="2">2. Whether men may let a man hang one the tree all night.</P>
<P N="3">3. Whether a defilement of our land be not now, as well
<PB N="50" REF="29">as heretofore the Jews land thereby; and what ceremony there could be in that.</P>
<P N="4">4. Whether the judgement be Gods a man is judged by, and not the puni&s;hment; we u&s;ing not Gods, but the Roman puni&s;hments.</P>
<P>Note. <HI>Gal.</HI> 3.13. <HI>Cur&s;ed is every one that hangeth on a tree.</HI></P>
<P N="1">1. Fir&s;t, the &s;entencing any to death, was not of the ceremo|nial law, but the moral or judicial.</P>
<P N="2">2. The cur&s;e of the law to tho&s;e under the law, is as well &s;ince Chri&s;t as before.</P>
<P N="3">3. A Nation, as I remember, were never cur&s;ed through any ceremonies; they belonged to the ceremonial law. Now in this, not only Chri&s;ts, but all before and &s;ince are under the cur&s;e of the law judicial, in which was no ceremonies: Chri&s;t condemned by the law, by fal&s;e witne&s;&s;es.</P>
<P N="4">4. The condemnation was death.</P>
<P N="5">5. The cur&s;e was, after death to be hanged on a tree. Now &s;hall we put men under the cur&s;e of the law, God hath not put under the cur&s;e of the law? Is it not enough that many dye when God &s;aith they &s;hould not dye, as in ca&s;e of theft; but that they &s;hould be accur&s;ed by the law al&s;o, after death?</P>
</DIV3>
<DIV3 TYPE="part">
<HEAD>Statute.</HEAD>
<P>Levit. 24.18. <HI>He that killeth a bea&s;t &s;hall make it good, bea&s;t for bea&s;t.</HI></P>
</DIV3>
<DIV3 TYPE="part">
<HEAD>Statute.</HEAD>
<P>Exod. 21.18. <HI>If men &s;trive together, and one &s;mite another with a &s;tone, or with his fi&s;t; and he dye not, but keepeth his bed</HI>&mdash;</P>
</DIV3>
<DIV3 TYPE="part">
<HEAD>Iudgement.</HEAD>
<P><HI>Ver&s;.</HI> 19. If he ri&s;e againe, and walk abroad upon his &s;taffe, then &s;hall he that &s;mote him be quit.</P>
<P N="2">2. He &s;hall pay for the lo&s;s of his time.</P>
<P N="3">3. He &s;hall be throughly healed.</P>
<P>Que&s;tion is, whether a man walking abroad, and after in
<PB N="51" REF="29">twelve moneths and a day dying, or how long before he be quit, &s;ee|ing no time is &s;et down.</P>
<P N="2">2. This mu&s;t be with a &s;tone or fi&s;t.</P>
<P N="3">3. This ca&s;e is in ca&s;e a man dyeth not.</P>
<P N="4">4. That he keepeth his bed.</P>
<P N="5">5. That he ri&s;e again and recover.</P>
</DIV3>
<DIV3 TYPE="part">
<HEAD>Statute.</HEAD>
<P>Exod. 21.22. <HI>If men &s;trive, and hurt a woman with child' &s;o that her fruit depart from her, and yet no mi&s;chief follow</HI>&mdash;</P>
</DIV3>
<DIV3 TYPE="part">
<HEAD>Judgement.</HEAD>
<P N="1">1. He &s;hall be &s;urely puni&s;hed (or whipt) as the womans husband will lay on him.</P>
<P N="2">2. The Judge arbitrarily may lay a pecuniary mulct on him.</P>
<P N="3">3. If mi&s;chief follow, life &s;hall be for life, eye for eye, tooth for tooth, burning for burning, wound for wound, and &s;tripe for &s;tripe.</P>
</DIV3>
<DIV3 TYPE="part">
<HEAD>Statute.</HEAD>
<P>Levit. 24.19. <HI>If a man cau&s;e a blemi&s;h in his neighbour</HI>&mdash;</P>
</DIV3>
<DIV3 TYPE="part">
<HEAD>Judgement.</HEAD>
<P>As he hath done, &s;hall it be done unto him, eye for eye, tooth for tooth, breach for breach, <HI>Mat.</HI> 5.39, 40. do not de&s;troy this judicial law, the one being given by <HI>Mo&s;es</HI> for judgement to judge tho&s;e un|der the law by in the world; the other given by Chri&s;t to men in the Church to live by, who, <HI>ver&s;.</HI> 47, are required to do more then o|thers.</P>
</DIV3>
<DIV3 TYPE="part">
<HEAD>Statute.</HEAD>
<P>Deut. 25.11. <HI>When men &s;trive together, and the wife of the one draws neer to deliver her husband out of the hand of him that &s;miteth him, and putteth forth her hand, and taketh him by the &s;ecrets</HI>&mdash;</P>
</DIV3>
<DIV3 TYPE="part">
<HEAD>Judgement.</HEAD>
<P>Thou &s;halt cut off her hand.</P>
</DIV3>
<DIV3 TYPE="part">
<PB N="52" REF="30">
<HEAD>Statute.</HEAD>
<P>Deut. 24.16. <HI>No man &s;hall take the nether or the upper mil|&s;tone to pledge, for he taketh a mans life to pledge.</HI></P>
<P>Ver&s;. 10. <HI>If thou lend, thou &s;halt not go into his hou&s;e for a pledge; thou &s;halt &s;tand abroad: and he to whom thou lende&s;t, &s;hall bring it to thee.</HI></P>
<P><HI>If the man be poor, thou &s;halt not &s;leep with his pledge, but deliver it againe when the Sun &s;ets, that he may &s;leep in his own raiment.</HI></P>
<P>Ver&s;. 17. <HI>Shall not take the widdows raiment to pledge.</HI></P>
</DIV3>
<DIV3 TYPE="part">
<HEAD>Statute.</HEAD>
<P>Exod. 22.21. <HI>Thou &s;halt neither vex a &s;tranger, nor oppre&s;s him: ye &s;hall not afflict any widdow nor fatherle&s;s child.</HI></P>
</DIV3>
<DIV3 TYPE="part">
<HEAD>Statute.</HEAD>
<P>Levit. 19.14. <HI>Thou &s;halt not cur&s;e the deaf, nor put a &s;tumb|ling-block before the blind.</HI></P>
</DIV3>
<DIV3 TYPE="part">
<HEAD>Statute.</HEAD>
<P>Levit. 19.17, 18, <HI>Thou &s;halt not hate, but rebuke thy neigh|bour; and not &s;uffer &s;in upon him, nor avenge nor bear grudge again&s;t him.</HI></P>
</DIV3>
<DIV3 TYPE="part">
<HEAD>Statute.</HEAD>
<P>Numb. 35.31. <HI>Ye &s;hall take no &s;atisfaction for the life of a murderer which is guilty of death; but he &s;hall be &s;urely put to death.</HI></P>
<P>Of how much evil and blood-guiltine&s;s is this Nation guilty of! <HI>ver&s;.</HI> 34. defile not therefore the land by traditions of men. How hath this law been made void in times pa&s;&s;ed!</P>
<P><HI>Note.</HI> If the rule and government of God were re&s;tored, many occa&s;ions of murther would be prevented, all incouragements there|unto taken away, and the fear of God fall on men, to keep them from doing of it; and bloodguiltine&s;s from the land removed, and the cau&s;es of the many plagues of pe&s;tilence which u&s;ually came with the deaths of the former princes for defiling of the land with blood in
<PB N="53" REF="30">he time of their rule, with the famines of food, and judgements of un&s;ea&s;onable weather, and bla&s;tings, mildews, <HI>&amp;c.</HI></P>
<P>Which the Nation lyeth dyed with; not only with unrevenged blood for blood, but with blood of men put to death, which God would not have put to death; as precious Martyrs, and poor theeves: and many God would have had put to death, as adulterers, bla&s;phe|mers, <HI>&amp;c.</HI> and many God would not have put to death, as unmar|ryed men for ravi&s;hing maidens; all which that hath been commit|ted &s;ince the Nation hath had the word of God among them, and e&s;pecially &s;ince <HI>Henry</HI> the eighth's dayes, wherein hath been much more free u&s;e and abundant knowledge of it then before, crieth to God again&s;t us for our blood.</P>
<P><HI>Appl.</HI> Here &s;ee the nece&s;&s;ity of our making a covenant with God, of &s;etting up his rule and government, if ever we hope to be free from the wrath and judgement of God in our &s;elves or families.</P>
<P>Our land hath been greatly polluted in the way of puni&s;hments executed contrary to Gods laws, by impri&s;onments, hanging, and other tortures, for law and judgement, borrowed from the heathens: and here &s;ee the irregularity of mans nature, who rather would be led by the corrupt rule and practice of the heathens, and their law and judgments, then the pure, ju&s;t, and unque&s;tionable way and rule of Gods word.</P>
<P>If by the law there is no u&s;e for a Jury, but in that ca&s;e of tryal of murther, when it was not clear whether it was &s;o or man-&s;laugh|ter; and then not of any cho&s;en men, but the Congregation were to judge; this would be a great ea&s;e of expence to the Commonweal, if &s;ervice of Juries were removed.</P>
<P>The Judge, the plaintiff the defendant, and witne&s;&s;es, being all to &s;it publikely in the gate of the City, for all to hear,</P>
<P N="1">1. If the matter were by the witne&s;&s;es made clear, and the ca&s;e plainly &s;et down in the law, the Judgement was to be &s;et forth and &s;hewn out of the book of God to all, and the Judges to judge, <HI>Deut.</HI> 25.1.</P>
<P N="2">2. If the witne&s;&s;es made not the charge clear, then the Judges could not judge them.</P>
<P N="3">3. If there were but one witne&s;s, the Judges could not judge them in any ca&s;e.</P>
<P N="4">4. If the ca&s;e were not plainly &s;et down in the law to Judge by,
<PB N="54" REF="31">they were not to judge them, but to transfer it to the &s;upreme Judi|catory.</P>
<P N="5">5. In &s;tead of the pri&s;oners putting him&s;elf in his tryall on God and the country, every man by covenanting with God, if he tran&s;gre&s;s, puts him&s;elf on God and <HI>Mo&s;es.</HI></P>
<P N="6">6. Whereas Juryes are for di&s;patch of the multiplicity of cau&s;es and tryals in the &s;everal places of judgement, and joyned with the Judges, becau&s;e of the long di&s;tance of time between A&s;&s;ize and A&s;&s;ize, and then becau&s;e it is held but in one place of a &s;hire, whence ari&s;eth va&s;t charge to the Nation.</P>
<P N="1">1. Judgement being admini&s;tred daily, without delay.</P>
<P N="2">2. In every corner of the County being to be had, the Judges would not be &s;traitned in time for hearing of cau&s;es, nor would there be any need for any Juryes to help them.</P>
<P N="3">3. In &s;tead of the country, the man hath <HI>Mo&s;es;</HI> in &s;tead of mans law, he hath Gods to put him&s;elf on.</P>
<P>But that I am altogether unacquainted with what concern the law or its proceedings that is among us, I might &s;et more fully the nece&s;|&s;ity of the abrogating of the one, and the e&s;tabli&s;hing the other, di|ver&s;ly.</P>
</DIV3>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 N="7" TYPE="commandment">
<HEAD>Command the Sixth.</HEAD>
<EPIGRAPH>
<Q><BIBL><HI>Exod. 20.14.</HI></BIBL>
<P>Thou &s;halt not commit adultery.</P></Q>
</EPIGRAPH>
<DIV3 TYPE="part">
<HEAD>Statute.</HEAD>
<P><HI>LEvit.</HI> 20.10. The man that committeth adultery with another mans wife&mdash;</P>
<P><HI>Ver&s;.</HI> 11. He that committeth adultery with his neighbours wife&mdash;</P>
<P><HI>Ver&s;.</HI> 12. With his fathers wife, or daughter-law&mdash;</P>
</DIV3>
<DIV3 TYPE="part">
<HEAD>Judgement.</HEAD>
<P>Shall not inherit the kingdom of God, <HI>Gal.</HI> 5.</P>
<P>They both &s;hall be put to death; they have defiled them&s;elves
<PB N="55" REF="31">with each other. <HI>Numb.</HI> 25.1.6. <HI>Ezek.</HI> 16.38.40. <HI>Judges</HI> 19. &amp; 23. <HI>chap. Gen.</HI> 34.2, 25, 26, 27.</P>
</DIV3>
<DIV3 TYPE="part">
<HEAD>Statute.</HEAD>
<P>Deut. 22.22. <HI>If a man be found lying with a woman maried to a husband, they &s;hall both of them dye,</HI> Numb. 25.6.</P>
</DIV3>
<DIV3 TYPE="part">
<HEAD>Statute.</HEAD>
<P>Deut. 22.23. <HI>If a damo&s;el, a virgine that is betrothed to an husband, and a man finde her in the City, and lye with her.</HI>&mdash;</P>
</DIV3>
<DIV3 TYPE="part">
<HEAD>Judgement.</HEAD>
<P><HI>They both &s;hall be &s;toned at the gate of the City, the damo|&s;el, becau&s;e &s;he cryed not; and the man, becau&s;e he humbled his neighbors wife.</HI></P>
</DIV3>
<DIV3 TYPE="part">
<HEAD>Statute.</HEAD>
<P>Deut. 22.25. <HI>If a man finde a betrothed damo&s;el in the field, and the man force her and lye with her, he &s;hall dye; but to the damo&s;el ye &s;hall do nothing: for as when a man ri&s;eth again&s;t his neighbour and &s;layeth him, &s;o is this matter,</HI> ver&s;. 27. <HI>He found her in the field; &s;he cryed, and there was none to &s;ave her.</HI></P>
</DIV3>
<DIV3 TYPE="part">
<HEAD>Statute.</HEAD>
<P>Deut. 22.28. <HI>If a man finde a damo&s;el not betrothed, a vir|gine, and lay hold on her and lye with her, and they be found</HI>&mdash;</P>
</DIV3>
<DIV3 TYPE="part">
<HEAD>Judgement.</HEAD>
<P N="1">1. He laid hold on her, and lay with her: he &s;hall give her father fifty &s;hekels, three pound two &s;hillings and &s;ix pence.</P>
<P N="2">2. She &s;hall be his wife; he hath humbled her.</P>
<P N="3">3. He &s;hall not put her away all his dayes.</P>
<P>If any man &s;hould have dyed for fornication, this man &s;hould; but is not to dye.</P>
</DIV3>
<DIV3 TYPE="part">
<HEAD>Statute.</HEAD>
<P>Exod. 22.16. <HI>If a man intice a maid that is not betrothed, and lye with her</HI>&mdash;</P>
</DIV3>
<DIV3 TYPE="part">
<PB N="56" REF="32">
<HEAD>Judgement.</HEAD>
<P N="1">1. He &s;hall &s;urely indow her to be his wife.</P>
<P N="2">2. <HI>Ver&s;.</HI> 17. If her father utterly refu&s;e to give her to him to wife (as in this ca&s;e he might) he &s;hall pay money according to the dowry of virgins.</P>
<P N="1">1. Note, Before, a man <HI>laid hold</HI> on a maid; he here <HI>inticeth</HI> a maid; and the maid con&s;enting, the fifty &s;hekels are not paid her father, three pound two &s;hillings &s;ix pence.</P>
<P N="2">2. Here note, all ravi&s;hments do not de&s;erve death, as by our law: and though we &s;ay God would not have that &s;everity u&s;ed under the Go&s;pel as under the law, we in many ca&s;es u&s;e more.</P>
</DIV3>
<DIV3 TYPE="part">
<HEAD>Statute.</HEAD>
<P>Levit. 20.14. <HI>If a man take a wife and her mother</HI>&mdash;</P>
</DIV3>
<DIV3 TYPE="part">
<HEAD>Judgement.</HEAD>
<P><HI>He and they &s;hall be burned with fire.</HI></P>
</DIV3>
<DIV3 TYPE="part">
<HEAD>Statute.</HEAD>
<P><HI>Levit.</HI> 18.6. to <HI>ver&s;.</HI> 18. are expre&s;&s;ed the prohibited degrees of con&s;anguinity and affinity; within which men are not to marry.</P>
<P><HI>Chap.</HI> 20.21. <HI>If a man lye with his uncles or brothers wife, they &s;hall be childle&s;s.</HI></P>
</DIV3>
<DIV3 TYPE="part">
<HEAD>Judgement.</HEAD>
<P>That is, before the time of child-bearing, they both &s;hould be put to death: others, only a cur&s;e of barrenne&s;s, which cannot be.</P>
</DIV3>
<DIV3 TYPE="part">
<HEAD>Statute.</HEAD>
<P><HI>Levit.</HI> 20.18. If a man lye with a woman having her &s;ickne&s;s, and uncover her nakedne&s;s, <HI>&amp;c.</HI></P>
</DIV3>
<DIV3 TYPE="part">
<HEAD>Judgement.</HEAD>
<P><HI>They both &s;hall be cut off from among the people.</HI></P>
<P><HI>Que&s;t.</HI> If by death, or as <HI>Miriam,</HI> &s;hut out without the campe.</P>
<P>It is of great note, that the rea&s;on why the widdows portion was to be &s;o &s;mal of her husbands e&s;tate, was, becau&s;e her father was to
<PB N="57" REF="32">provide for her; or her husbands brethren, if &s;he had no children; and her children, if &s;he had any.</P>
</DIV3>
<DIV3 TYPE="part">
<HEAD>Statute.</HEAD>
<P><HI>Levit.</HI> 20.17. If a man take his &s;i&s;ter, his fathers or his mothers daughter, and &s;ee her nakedne&s;s, or &s;he &s;ee his &mdash;</P>
</DIV3>
<DIV3 TYPE="part">
<HEAD>Judgement.</HEAD>
<P N="1">1. <HI>It is a wicked thing.</HI></P>
<P N="2">2. <HI>They &s;hall be cut off from among the people.</HI></P>
</DIV3>
<DIV3 TYPE="part">
<HEAD>Statute.</HEAD>
<P>Levit. 19.29. <HI>Do not pro&s;titute thy daughter to cau&s;e her to be a whore.</HI></P>
</DIV3>
<DIV3 TYPE="part">
<HEAD>Statute.</HEAD>
<P>Levit. 18.22. <HI>Thou &s;halt not lye with man-kind as with woman|kind.</HI></P>
<P>Levit. 20.13. <HI>If a man lye with man-kind as with woman</HI>&mdash;</P>
</DIV3>
<DIV3 TYPE="part">
<HEAD>Judgement.</HEAD>
<P N="1">1. <HI>They both have committed abomination.</HI></P>
<P N="2">2. <HI>They &s;hall &s;urely be put to death, their blood &s;hall be upon them.</HI> This phra&s;e &s;hews the ground of the Jews cry, <HI>His blood be on us and our children,</HI> Mat. 27.25. when <HI>Pilate</HI> wa&s;hed his hands as innocent of Chri&s;ts death; which being innocent, he &s;hould have ju&s;tified.</P>
</DIV3>
<DIV3 TYPE="part">
<HEAD>Statute.</HEAD>
<P>Exod. 22.19. <HI>Who&s;oever lyeth with a bea&s;t</HI>&mdash;</P>
<P>Levit. 18.23. <HI>Thou &s;halt not lye with any bea&s;t.</HI></P>
<P>Levit. 20.15. <HI>If a man lye with a bea&s;t</HI>&mdash;</P>
</DIV3>
<DIV3 TYPE="part">
<HEAD>Judgement.</HEAD>
<P N="2">2. <HI>It is a defiling of a mans &s;elf.</HI></P>
<P N="2">2. <HI>The man &s;hall &s;urely be put to death.</HI></P>
<P N="3">3. <HI>The bea&s;t &s;hall be &s;lain.</HI></P>
</DIV3>
<DIV3 TYPE="part">
<PB N="58" REF="33">
<HEAD>Statute.</HEAD>
<P>Deut. 22.5. <HI>A woman &s;hall not wear that appertains to a man, nor a man that appertaines to a womans garment.</HI></P>
</DIV3>
<DIV3 TYPE="part">
<HEAD>Statute.</HEAD>
<P>Levit. 18.23. <HI>A woman &s;hall not &s;tand before a bea&s;t, to lye down thereunto.</HI></P>
<P>Levit. 20.16. <HI>If a woman approach to a bea&s;t, and lye down thereunto</HI>&mdash;</P>
<P>Levit. 18.26. Which the &s;tranger was forbid, as well as the home-borne.</P>
</DIV3>
<DIV3 TYPE="part">
<HEAD>Judgement.</HEAD>
<P N="1">1. It is &s;aid to be <HI>confu&s;ion or mixture of contrary natures.</HI></P>
<P N="2">2. <HI>The land and people are defiled thereby.</HI></P>
<P N="3">3. <HI>Thou &s;halt kill the woman, and the bea&s;t; their blood &s;hall be upon them.</HI></P>
<P N="4">4. God ca&s;t out and the land vomited out the heathens therefore, <HI>Levit.</HI> 18.24, 25. and would &s;pew them out al&s;o, if they did the like.</P>
</DIV3>
<DIV3 TYPE="part">
<HEAD>Statute.</HEAD>
<P>Levit. 21.7. <HI>Thou &s;halt not take a whore to wife.</HI></P>
<P>Deut. 22.20. <HI>If a man take a wife, and &s;he be not a virgine, and he accu&s;e her to the elders of the City, and her parents can|not &s;hew the tokens of her virginity</HI>&mdash;</P>
</DIV3>
<DIV3 TYPE="part">
<HEAD>Judgement.</HEAD>
<P N="2">2. <HI>They &s;hall bring her out to the door of her fathers hou&s;e.</HI></P>
<P N="2">2. <HI>There the men of her City &s;hall &s;tone her with &s;tones that &s;he dye, becau&s;e &s;he wrought folly in I&s;rael, to play the whore in her fathers hou&s;e.</HI></P>
<P N="3">3. <HI>So</HI> (and no otherwayes) <HI>&s;halt thou put away evil</HI> (that is, the Judge) <HI>from among you.</HI> Then, by doing this ju&s;tice on her, which would be a means of preventing much evil.</P>
<P N="1">1. <HI>Note.</HI> Elders, not Judges, had the ordinance of marriage referred to them: which were twelve. Vid. <HI>Top&s;el</HI> on <HI>Ruth.</HI></P>
<PB N="59" REF="33">
<P N="2">2. Adultery before marriage, as well as after, di&s;&s;olves marriage, and is puni&s;hed with death: which would make parents and chil|dren more careful of their childrens conver&s;ation and company in youth.</P>
<P N="3">3. A tradition u&s;ed among us, hath made void this law of God; we &s;aying, when a man married a woman, that he was to take her <HI>for better, for wor&s;e;</HI> &s;o as that though &s;he were a whore, &s;he was now to be his wife, and no remedy left him to deliver him&s;elf: which gave all manner of liberty and loo&s;ene&s;s to maidens before marriage, and occa&s;ioned loo&s;ene&s;s in their conver&s;ations afterward; which is a thing expre&s;ly again&s;t the law of God.</P>
</DIV3>
<DIV3 TYPE="part">
<HEAD>Statute.</HEAD>
<P>Deut. 22.13. <HI>If a man take a wife, and go in to ber, and hate her,</HI> ver&s;. 14. <HI>and give un occa&s;ion of &s;peech again&s;t her, and bring an evil name upon her, and &s;ay, I took this woman, and when I came to her, I found her not a maid;</HI> ver&s;. 15. <HI>The father and mother of the damo&s;el &s;hall bring forth the tokens of her virgi|nity to the Elders of the City, in the City, in the gate;</HI> ver&s;. 17. <HI>And they &s;hall &s;pread the cloth before the Elders of the City,</HI> &amp;c.</P>
</DIV3>
<DIV3 TYPE="part">
<HEAD>Judgement.</HEAD>
<P N="1">1. They &s;hall <HI>cha&s;ti&s;e,</HI> that is, whip <HI>the man:</HI> now in whip|ping, the man was to have but fourty &s;tripes; nor was he to &s;tand, but lye down.</P>
<P N="2">2. <HI>They &s;hall amerce him a hundred &s;hekels of &s;ilver, and give them the father of the damo&s;el;</HI> which is &s;ix pound five &s;hil|lings.</P>
<P N="3">3. <HI>She &s;hall be his wife; he may not put her away all his dayes.</HI></P>
<P N="1">1. A bill of divorce might be given others, but not this.</P>
<P N="2">2. Becau&s;e that by the report &s;he was defamed, another would not take her.</P>
<P N="3">3. Without this law, he would not keep her a day; he hated her before, but wor&s;e now.</P>
</DIV3>
<DIV3 TYPE="part">
<HEAD><HI>This ca&s;e is illu&s;trateed in &s;ome kind, by</HI> Jo&s;eph <HI>and</HI> Mary, <HI>Math.</HI> 1.18.</HEAD>
<P N="1">1. He e&s;pou&s;ed <HI>Mary.</HI></P>
<PB N="60" REF="34">
<P N="2">2. Before they come together, &s;he is found with child.</P>
<P N="3">3. He being a ju&s;t man, was not willing to make her a publike ex|ample (that is, to have her &s;toned) <HI>ver&s;.</HI> 19.</P>
<P N="4">4. He was minded to put her away (not to marry her) privately, to leave her and for&s;ake her.</P>
<P N="5">5. <HI>Ver&s;.</HI> 20. The Angel &s;aid, <HI>Fear not to take to thee</HI> Mary <HI>thy wife.</HI> Here by fear is &s;ignified <HI>Jo&s;ephs</HI> fearing to marry her a|gain&s;t Gods command, <HI>Levit.</HI> 21.17. he not knowing that what was conceived in her was of the Holy Spirit, untill revealed to him.</P>
</DIV3>
<DIV3 TYPE="part">
<HEAD>Here it is not ami&s;s to &s;peak of marriage, the means or|dained of God to prevent adultery.</HEAD>
<P N="1">1. This ordinance was not pertaining to the Prie&s;ts, for it was belonging to <HI>Mo&s;es</HI> and was before the Prie&s;thood of <HI>Aaron;</HI> and is lawful among heathens, 1 <HI>Cor.</HI> 7.10. <HI>Heb.</HI> 13.4.</P>
<P N="2">2. Nor to the Judges.</P>
<P N="3">3. It belonged to the Elders in the City. Now there were to be Judges and Elders in the Commonwealth-government: hence mat|ters pertaining to man and wife are u&s;ually referred to the Elders, that concern marriage, <HI>Deut.</HI> 25.7, 8, 9, &amp; 22.15, 17, 18. and not to the Judges.</P>
<P><HI>Ruth</HI> 4.2. <HI>Boaz</HI> took ten men of the Elders of the City, for number.</P>
<P N="2">2. They &s;ate down in the gate of the City, <HI>ver&s;.</HI> 1. for the place where civil affairs were di&s;cu&s;s'd of.</P>
<P N="3">3. <HI>Ver&s;.</HI> 9. He calls Elders and people to witne&s;s, he had pur|cha&s;ed <HI>Ruth</HI> to wife: the dowry of a widdow was twenty five, be|ing but half of a maids, which was fifty &s;hekels.</P>
<P N="4">4. <HI>Ver&s;.</HI> 11. The people and Elders &s;ay, <HI>We are witne&s;&s;es;</HI> and ble&s;s them both. <HI>Ver&s;.</HI> 12. The&s;e are not to be Elders of the Church, <HI>James</HI> 5.14. but of the Commonweal only.</P>
<P N="5">5. <HI>Ver&s;.</HI> 13. He took <HI>Ruth,</HI> and &s;he was his wife; and he went in unto her, and &s;he conceived and bare a &s;on.</P>
<P N="1">1. Conclu&s;ion. If the ordinance belong to <HI>Mo&s;es,</HI> then for any other, under what pretence &s;oever, to do it, it is high pre&s;umption.</P>
<P N="2">2. Tho&s;e that are married by them, are not joyned in the way of the Lord, nor by that authority God ordained among tho&s;e that have his law.</P>
<PB N="61" REF="34">
<P N="3">3. I &s;ay of this, as of acts done by Heathens, without law, that <HI>they are a law to them&s;elves:</HI> &s;o are our doings in this matter this day: It were good it were amended. Never did Prie&s;t, Levite, Chri&s;t, or Apo&s;tle, do it for any; and then by what authority do the mini&s;try now do it?</P>
<P>Here I de&s;ire leave to commend to your con&s;ideration that one branch in the Act made for adultery, <HI>May</HI> 10. 1650.</P>
<P><HI>If any man &s;hall have the carnal knowledge of the body of any virgine, unmarryed woman, or widdow, every &s;uch man and woman convict of &s;uch offence,</HI></P>
<P N="1">1. <HI>Shall be committed to common goale three moneths.</HI></P>
<P N="2">2. <HI>Shall give &s;ecurity to be of the good bahaviour for one whole yeer.</HI></P>
<P><HI>Note.</HI> 1. If the man be a young man or widdower, then he was to marry the maid, or unmarryed woman, or widdow, by the law of God, and not to be pri&s;oned, bound, <HI>&amp;c.</HI></P>
<P N="2">2. If he be a marryed man, then the ca&s;e is adultery, as in the womans before that was marryed to another man; and the judge|ment death.</P>
<P N="3">3. If you had put them to death by Gods law, ye would not have &s;aid it &s;hould be death after &s;uch a day; Gods law not taking be|ginning then, nor e&s;tabli&s;hment from us; or at lea&s;t until then, we were not under Gods law, nor was it declared to the nation in the name of Gods law, but mans, as an Act of Parliament onely.</P>
</DIV3>
<DIV3 TYPE="part">
<HEAD>Statute.</HEAD>
<P>Levit. 19.20. <HI>Whoever lyeth carnally with a woman that is a bondmaid</HI> (or apprentice) <HI>betrothed to an husband, and not at all redeemed, nor freedom given her</HI>&mdash;</P>
</DIV3>
<DIV3 TYPE="part">
<HEAD>Judgement.</HEAD>
<P N="1">1. <HI>She &s;hall be &s;courged.</HI></P>
<P N="2">2. <HI>They &s;hall not be put to death, becau&s;e &s;he was not free.</HI></P>
<P>This, nor many other ca&s;es, are not excepted in the late Act.</P>
</DIV3>
<DIV3 TYPE="part">
<HEAD>Statute.</HEAD>
<P>Levit. 20.11, 12. <HI>The man that lieth with his fathers wife or daughter-law</HI>&mdash;</P>
</DIV3>
<DIV3 TYPE="part">
<PB N="62" REF="35">
<HEAD>Judgement.</HEAD>
<P><HI>They are to be put to death; their blood &s;hall be upon them.</HI></P>
<P>In this law only adulterers dye: the man, becau&s;e he humbled his neighbours wife, whether betrothed onely or marryed: the woman, becau&s;e &s;he broke the covenant of her God. In which is much ju&s;tice.</P>
<P>In this law, ravi&s;hments of &s;uch as are unmarryed, and neither of them betrothed, are freed from death, either by marriage, or cor|poral or penal puni&s;hments: which is of exceeding mercy.</P>
<P>Who &s;hall do more in one, or le&s;s in the other, and be innocent before God? O where is law, or ju&s;tice, or mercy, or righteou&s;ne&s;s, but in this law of the Lord! how then &s;hall we yet ju&s;tifie and &s;et up our own, and condemne and &s;uppre&s;s the law of the Lord!</P>
<P>This command is broken by intemperance, or in&s;obriety, in meat, drink, and apparel; the evil whereof, e&s;pecially that of drunken|ne&s;s, abounds in this Nation, and is very great before the Lord.</P>
</DIV3>
<DIV3 TYPE="part">
<HEAD>Command.</HEAD>
<P><HI>Wo to him that giveth his neighbour drink, that putte&s;t thy bottle to him, and make&s;t him drunken, that thou maye&s;t look on their nakedne&s;s,</HI> Habac. 2.15, 16. deprived of his place in Church and world, as a ma&s;ter, an owner, <HI>&amp;c.</HI></P>
<P><HI>E&s;th.</HI> 1.8. In <HI>Aha&s;uerus</HI> great fea&s;t, the drinking was <HI>accord|ing to the law; none did compel,</HI> for <HI>the king had appointed to all the officers of his hou&s;e, that they &s;hould do according to eve|ry mans plea&s;ure.</HI> It is emphatical: God di&s;tingui&s;heth his law from the &s;tatutes of Kings: <GAP LANG="heb" DESC="foreign" RESP="OXF"> and &s;o <HI>Ezra</HI> 8.36. Yet this is to be ob&s;erved, though it &s;erves for a law with us, being &s;anctified, and become part of the word of God; in which it excells other kings laws, though it come &s;hort of Gods. By this word, the other com|mands of the King are &s;et forth.</P>
<P>I&s;a. 5.11. <HI>Wo to them ri&s;e up early in the morning that they may follow &s;trong drink, that continue until night that wine in|flame them; and the harp and pipe, and viol are in their fea&s;ts,</HI> &amp;c. Ver&s;. 22. <HI>Wo to them are mighty to drink wine, and men of &s;trength to mingle &s;trong drink.</HI> I&s;a. 56.12.</P>
<P><HI>Come ye, &s;ay they, we will fetch wine, and will fill our &s;elves with &s;trong drink.</HI></P>
<PB N="63" REF="35">
<P>Mat. 24.49. <HI>He was the evil &s;ervant eat and drank with the drunken.</HI></P>
</DIV3>
<DIV3 TYPE="part">
<HEAD>Judgement.</HEAD>
<P><HI>Quer.</HI> Whether <HI>the violence of Lebanon,</HI> a holy violence, <HI>Hab.</HI> 2.17. be not of <HI>Habakkuks</HI> drunkenne&s;s, that his e&s;tate be taken from him, and be&s;towed on tho&s;e are to inherit, to preven the evil on his family, the land, and City. Thus in <HI>Abigail,</HI> 1 <HI>Sam.</HI> 2 5.18.19.</P>
<P>Gal. 5. &mdash; Shall not inherit the kingdome of God. 1 <HI>Cor.</HI> 11.21. the Church-drunkards had the plague among them.</P>
<P><HI>Ho&s;.</HI> 4.11. Wine and drunkenne&s;s take away the heart, <HI>Deut,</HI> 29.19 20.</P>
<P>I&s;a. 28.3. <HI>The crown of pride, the drunkards of Ephraim &s;hall be troden under foot;</HI> have no imployment nor honor among men, but be as that ve&s;&s;el in whom is no delight.</P>
<P>Ver&s;. 4. <HI>Their beauty and glory</HI> (which con&s;i&s;ts in riches and greatne&s;s) <HI>&s;hall be as a fading flower, and ha&s;ty fruit, before &s;um|mer,</HI> Joel 1.5. God would have one generation tell another, that the plagues of palmer, canker, locu&s;t, were for drunkenne&s;s.</P>
<P>Ver&s;. 7. <HI>The prie&s;t and prophet err through wine and &s;trong drink, they err in vi&s;ion; and &s;tumble in judgement, and are out of the way.</HI></P>
<P>Ver&s;. 8. <HI>All tables are full of vomit and filthine&s;s, &s;o that there is no place clean.</HI> 1 Sam. 25.36.37. Prov. 23.20, 21, 29, 30.</P>
<P>Hab. 2.16. <HI>Thou art filled with &s;hame for glory: drink thou al&s;o, and let thy foreskin be uncovered.</HI>
<NOTE PLACE="marg">The word in the original &s;ignifieth the taking away of one out of his place.</NOTE> <HI>The cup of the Lords right hand &s;hall be turned to thee, and &s;hameful &s;pewing &s;hall be one thy glory.</HI> Ver&s;. 17. <HI>The violence of Lebanon &s;hall cover thee, and the &s;poile of hea&s;ts which made them afraid, becau&s;e of mens blood, and for the violence of the land, and the City, and all that dwell therein,</HI> Gen. 9.23.</P>
<P><HI>Jer.</HI> 13.13. This drunkenne&s;s brought forth, that in which King, Prie&s;ts, Prophets, inhabitants, fathers, and &s;ons, became drunk &s;piri|tually; and da&s;h one again&s;t another.</P>
<P><HI>Deut.</HI> 21.18. The &s;on on his fathers exhortation would not leave his drunkenne&s;s, was &s;toned, as in <HI>ver&s;.</HI> 20. by all the men of his City.</P>
</DIV3>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 N="8" TYPE="commandment">
<PB N="64" REF="36">
<HEAD>Command the Eighth.</HEAD>
<EPIGRAPH>
<Q><BIBL><HI>Exod. 20.15.</HI></BIBL>
<P>Thou &s;halt not &s;teal.</P></Q>
</EPIGRAPH>
<DIV3 TYPE="part">
<HEAD><HI>Statute.</HI> Levit. 27.28, 29.</HEAD>
<P>PSalm 76.12. <HI>Vow, and pay to the Lord, all ye that are round about him.</HI></P>
<P><HI>Deut.</HI> 12.17. <HI>Thou &s;halt not eat thy vows thou vowe&s;t to God.</HI></P>
<P><HI>Numb.</HI> 30. The ca&s;e of vows is handled, when lawful, when not, in a man, <HI>ver&s;.</HI> 2. a maid, <HI>ver&s;.</HI> 3. &amp; 5. a wife, <HI>ver&s;.</HI> 6, 7, 8. a widdow, <HI>ver&s;.</HI> 9. to the end.</P>
</DIV3>
<DIV3 TYPE="part">
<HEAD>Judgement.</HEAD>
<P>Jephthah, <HI>Judges</HI> 11.31, 36, 39.</P>
<P N="1">1. Not to pay, is &s;acriledge or theft from God.</P>
<P N="2">2. The puni&s;hment exemplary in <HI>Ananias</HI> and <HI>Sapphira,</HI> Acts 5. <HI>ver&s;.</HI> 1. to the 10.</P>
<P><HI>Appl.</HI> To Parliament, people, <HI>&amp;c.</HI> to remember the vows of God on your &s;ouls: they are not paid; God requires them.</P>
</DIV3>
<DIV3 TYPE="part">
<HEAD>Statute.</HEAD>
<P>Exod. 21.16. <HI>He that &s;tealeth a man, and &s;elleth him, or if he be found in his hand,</HI> &amp;c.</P>
<P>Deut. 24.7. <HI>If he be found making merchandi&s;e of an I&s;ra|elite, or &s;tealing of him, or &s;elling of him</HI>&mdash;</P>
</DIV3>
<DIV3 TYPE="part">
<HEAD>Judgement.</HEAD>
<P><HI>He &s;hall &s;urely be put to death.</HI></P>
<P>Prov. 28.24.</P>
</DIV3>
<DIV3 TYPE="part">
<HEAD>Statute.</HEAD>
<P>Levit. 19.11. <HI>Ye &s;hall not &s;teal nor deal fal&s;ly one with ano|ther.</HI></P>
<PB N="65" REF="36">
<P>Exod. 22.1. <HI>If he &s;teal an oxe, and kill or &s;ell it,</HI></P>
<P><HI>He &s;hall re&s;tore five oxen.</HI></P>
<P><HI>If he &s;teal a &s;heep, and kill or &s;ell it;</HI></P>
<P><HI>He &s;hall re&s;tore four &s;heep.</HI></P>
<P>Ver&s;. 4. <HI>If the theef be found in his hand certainly and alive, whether it be oxe, a&s;s, or &s;heep</HI>&mdash;</P>
<P><HI>He &s;hall re&s;tore double.</HI></P>
</DIV3>
<DIV3 TYPE="part">
<HEAD>Statute.</HEAD>
<P>Ver&s;. 7. <HI>If a man &s;hall deliver money or &s;cuff to keep, and it be &s;tollen out of the mans hou&s;e, and the theef be found,</HI></P>
<P><HI>Let him pay double.</HI></P>
<P>Ver&s;. 8. <HI>If the theef be not found, then the ma&s;ter of the hou&s;e &s;hall be brought to the Judges, to &s;ee whether he have put his hands to his neighbours goods.</HI></P>
</DIV3>
<DIV3 TYPE="part">
<HEAD>Statute.</HEAD>
<P>Exod. 22.9. <HI>For all manner of tre&s;pa&s;s, whether it be for ox, for a&s;s, for &s;heep, for raiment, or for any manner of lo&s;t thing which another challengeth to be his, the cau&s;e of both parties &s;hall come before the Judges; and whom the Judges &s;hall cou|demne,</HI></P>
<P><HI>He &s;hall pay double to his neighbour.</HI></P>
</DIV3>
<DIV3 TYPE="part">
<HEAD>Statute.</HEAD>
<P>Exod. 22.10. <HI>If a man deliver to his neighbour an a&s;s, an ox, or a &s;heep, or any bea&s;t to keep,</HI> and <HI>it dye, or be hurt, or driven away, no man &s;eeing it</HI>&mdash;</P>
</DIV3>
<DIV3 TYPE="part">
<HEAD>Judgement.</HEAD>
<P><HI>Ver&s;.</HI> 11. An oath of the Lord &s;hall be between them both, that he hath not put his hand to his neighbours goods.</P>
<P N="2">2. The owner &s;hall accept thereof.</P>
<P N="3">3. He &s;hall not make it good.</P>
<P><HI>Ver&s;.</HI> 12. If it be &s;tollen from him, he &s;hall make re&s;titution to the owner thereof.</P>
<P><HI>Ver&s;.</HI> 13 If it be torn in peeces,</P>
<P N="1">1. Let him bring it for witne&s;s.</P>
<PB N="66" REF="37">
<P N="2">2. He &s;hall not make good what was torn.</P>
</DIV3>
<DIV3 TYPE="part">
<HEAD>Statute.</HEAD>
<P>Exod. 22.2. <HI>If a theef be found breaking up, and he be &s;mit|ten that he dye</HI>&mdash;</P>
</DIV3>
<DIV3 TYPE="part">
<HEAD>Judgement.</HEAD>
<P><HI>There &s;hall no blood be &s;hed for him</HI> (no, not in the member he was wounded)</P>
</DIV3>
<DIV3 TYPE="part">
<HEAD>Statute.</HEAD>
<P>Exod. 22.3. <HI>But if the Sun be ri&s;en on him</HI>&mdash;</P>
</DIV3>
<DIV3 TYPE="part">
<HEAD>Judgement.</HEAD>
<P N="1">1. Blood &s;hall be &s;hed for him.</P>
<P N="2">2. He &s;hould have made &s;atisfaction.</P>
<P N="3">3. If he have nothing, he &s;hall be &s;old for his theft.</P>
<P>The Statutes Judicial, as from their <HI>Magna Charta,</HI> were dedu|ced from the ten commandments only; to which tho&s;e of tythes were not referred but depended on the prie&s;thood of <HI>Aaron,</HI> and law an|nexed thereunto.</P>
<P N="1">1. See, here is no hanging, burning, no nor whipping &s;et down by God, nor Clergy.</P>
<P N="2">2. Gods aime is &s;atisfaction of the lo&s;er, and not the lo&s;s of the goods of the hone&s;t man, nor life of the theef.</P>
<P N="3">3. The theef, if he have not to pay, his body will yeeld more to &s;ell beyond the &s;eas, then his death will do any man good: that yeelds nothing but trouble of minde.</P>
<P N="4">4. God would not value any mans life at the rate of any goods; and he is the Lord thereof, and not man: and how &s;hall we then dare do it?</P>
<P N="5">5. Note, The man that pro&s;ecutes, the Jury, the Judge, they have all cau&s;e to call on the Parliament for the &s;etting up of Gods law: for how &s;hall they an&s;wer when God &s;hall Judge?</P>
<P>Object. <HI>Men condemned for &s;tealing and relea&s;ed, after come to kill a man: who is guilty of that blood?</HI></P>
<P><HI>Re&s;p.</HI> To take away a mans life for &s;tealing goods, is to be guilty of his blood, becau&s;e God, the onely Judge, &s;aith he &s;hall not dye.</P>
<PB N="67" REF="37">
<P N="2">2. When the man &s;lew a man, his blood was on his own head: before he was not, now he was appointed to dye.</P>
<P N="3">3. As Chri&s;t to the man, &s;o may ye &s;ay to &s;uch, <HI>Go thy way, &s;in no more, le&s;t a wor&s;e thing happen unto thee.</HI></P>
<P>O let us remember we are men, and under a judgement: how &s;hall we do, if God mea&s;ure to us as we mea&s;ure to others? the mea&s;ure of the mans &s;in that &s;tole was not full, untill he had killed. Now God &s;aith to the man he will de&s;troy. <HI>Fill up the mea&s;ure of thy &s;in:</HI> and how &s;hall he do it, if we take him away before? 1 <HI>Sam.</HI> 2.23.</P>
</DIV3>
<DIV3 TYPE="part">
<HEAD>Statute.</HEAD>
<P>Exod. 22.5. <HI>If a man &s;hall cau&s;e a field or vineyard to be eaten, and &s;hall put in his bea&s;t, and &s;hall feed in another mans field</HI>&mdash;</P>
</DIV3>
<DIV3 TYPE="part">
<HEAD>Judgement.</HEAD>
<P><HI>Of the be&s;t of his own field, and the be&s;t of his own vinyard, &s;hall he make &s;atisfaction.</HI></P>
</DIV3>
<DIV3 TYPE="part">
<HEAD>Statute.</HEAD>
<P>Exod. 22.6. <HI>If fire break forth, and eatch in thornes, that the &s;tacks of corne or &s;tanding corne, or the field be con&s;umed there|with</HI>&mdash;</P>
</DIV3>
<DIV3 TYPE="part">
<HEAD>Judgement.</HEAD>
<P><HI>He that kindled the fire &s;hall &s;urely make &s;at is faction:</HI></P>
</DIV3>
<DIV3 TYPE="part">
<HEAD>Statute.</HEAD>
<P>Deut. 19.11. <HI>You &s;hall not &s;teal, nor deal fal&s;ty one with ano|ther.</HI></P>
<P>Ver&s;. 13. <HI>Thou &s;halt not defraud thy neighbour, nor rob him.</HI></P>
<P>Ver&s;. 35. <HI>Ye &s;hall do no unrighteou&s;ne&s;s in met-yard, in weight, or mea&s;ure: but a ju&s;t balance, weight, epha, hin, &s;hall ye have.</HI></P>
<P>Deut. 25.13. <HI>Thon &s;halt not have in thy hou&s;e divers mea&s;ures, a great and a &s;mal; nor in thy bag divers weights, a great and a &s;mall.</HI></P>
<P>Ver&s;. 15. <HI>But a perfect and ju&s;t mea&s;ure &s;halt thou have.</HI></P>
</DIV3>
<DIV3 TYPE="part">
<PB N="68" REF="38">
<HEAD>Judgement.</HEAD>
<P N="1">1. <HI>That thou maye&s;t live long in the land:</HI> God otherwayes will cut thee off.</P>
<P N="2">2. Tho&s;e that do &s;uch things, and do unrighteou&s;ly, are an abo|mination before the Lord.</P>
</DIV3>
<DIV3 TYPE="part">
<HEAD>Statute.</HEAD>
<P>Exod. 21.14. <HI>If a man borrow ought of his neighbour and it be hurt or dye, and the owner not with it</HI>&mdash;</P>
</DIV3>
<DIV3 TYPE="part">
<HEAD>Judgement.</HEAD>
<P N="1">1. <HI>He &s;hall &s;urely make it good.</HI></P>
<P N="2">2. <HI>But if the owner be pre&s;ent, he &s;hall not make it good.</HI></P>
<P N="3">3. <HI>If it be a hired thing, it came for his hire.</HI></P>
</DIV3>
<DIV3 TYPE="part">
<HEAD>Statute.</HEAD>
<P>Exod. 21.33. <HI>If a man open a pit, or dig a pit, and not cover it, and an ox or an a&s;s fall therein</HI>&mdash;</P>
</DIV3>
<DIV3 TYPE="part">
<HEAD>Judgement.</HEAD>
<P N="1">1. The owner of the pit &s;hall make it good.</P>
<P N="2">2. He &s;hall give him money for it.</P>
<P N="3">3. He &s;hall have the dead bea&s;t.</P>
</DIV3>
<DIV3 TYPE="part">
<HEAD>Statute.</HEAD>
<P>Exod. 21.35. <HI>If one mans ox hurt another that he dye</HI>&mdash;</P>
</DIV3>
<DIV3 TYPE="part">
<HEAD>Judgement.</HEAD>
<P N="1">1. <HI>They &s;hall &s;ell the dead ox, and divide the money.</HI></P>
<P N="2">2. <HI>They &s;ell the live ox, and divide the money.</HI></P>
</DIV3>
<DIV3 TYPE="part">
<HEAD>Statute.</HEAD>
<P>Exod. 21.36. <HI>If it be known the ox hath u&s;ed to pu&s;h in time pa&s;t, and the owner hath not kept him in</HI>&mdash;</P>
</DIV3>
<DIV3 TYPE="part">
<HEAD>Judgement.</HEAD>
<P N="1">1. <HI>He &s;hall &s;urely pay ox for ox.</HI></P>
<PB N="69" REF="38">
<P N="2">2. <HI>The dead one &s;hall be his own.</HI></P>
<P><HI>Note.</HI> Though the difference in goodne&s;s may be great between them, yet the penalty ju&s;tly falls on the ma&s;ter of the killing oxe, and the judgement not to be que&s;tioned.</P>
<P><HI>Prov.</HI> 22.28. &amp; 23.10.</P>
</DIV3>
<DIV3 TYPE="part">
<HEAD>Statute.</HEAD>
<P>Deut. 19.14. <HI>Thou &s;halt not remove thy neighbours landmark, which they of old time have &s;et in thine inheritance.</HI></P>
</DIV3>
<DIV3 TYPE="part">
<HEAD>Statute.</HEAD>
<P>Deut. 23.24. <HI>When thou come&s;t into thy neighbours vineyard, thou maye&s;t eat grapes thy fill at thine own plea&s;ure: when thou come&s;t into the &s;tanding corne of thy neighbours, thou maye&s;t pluck the ears with thy hand,</HI> jus charitatis.</P>
</DIV3>
<DIV3 TYPE="part">
<HEAD>Judgement.</HEAD>
<P N="1">1. <HI>Thou &s;halt not put any into thy ve&s;&s;el.</HI> This, jus proprietatis.</P>
<P N="2">2. <HI>Nor move thy &s;ickle to thy neigbours &s;tanding corne.</HI></P>
</DIV3>
<DIV3 TYPE="part">
<HEAD>Statute.</HEAD>
<P>Deut. 22.1. <HI>Thou &s;halt not &s;ee thy brothers ox or &s;heep go a|&s;tray, and hide thy &s;elf from them: thou &s;halt in any ca&s;e bring them to thy brother.</HI></P>
<P>Ver&s;. 2. <HI>If thy brother be not near, and thou know him not, it &s;hall be with thee until thy brother &s;eek after it; and then thou &s;halt re&s;tore it him again.</HI></P>
<P>Ver&s;. 3. <HI>In like manner &s;halt thou do with his A&s;s and Rai|ment, and all lo&s;t things of thy brothers,</HI> that thou ha&s;t found, <HI>Thou maye&s;t not hide thy &s;elf,</HI> Ver&s;. 4.</P>
<P>Exod. 23.4. <HI>If thou &s;ee thy enemies Ox or A&s;s going a&s;tray, thou &s;halt &s;urely bring it back to him again.</HI></P>
<P>Ver&s;. 5. <HI>If thou &s;ee the A&s;s of him that hateth thee lying un|der his burden, and would&s;t for bear to help him, thou &s;halt &s;urely help with him.</HI></P>
<P><HI>Note.</HI> In the laws of God is not holine&s;s and ju&s;tice onely, but goodne&s;s. To whom will a man obey, if not God? and who&s;e com|mands will he do, if not his? to which is promi&s;ed <HI>great reward</HI> to tho&s;e that keep them, <HI>P&s;al.</HI> 19.</P>
</DIV3>
<DIV3 TYPE="part">
<PB N="70" REF="39">
<HEAD>Statute.</HEAD>
<P>Deut. 23.19. <HI>Thou &s;halt not lend thy brother upon u&s;ury of money or victuals, or any thing is lent on u&s;ury.</HI></P>
<P>Ver&s;. 20. <HI>&V;nto a &s;tranger thou maye&s;t lend on u&s;ury.</HI></P>
<P>Exod. 22.25. <HI>If thou lend money to any of my people that is poor, by thee, thou &s;halt not be to them as an u&s;urer, nor &s;halt thou lay on him u&s;ury.</HI></P>
<P>Levit. 25.35. <HI>If thy brother be waxen poor, and faln into de|cay with thee, then thou &s;halt relieve him, though he be a &s;tran|ger or &s;ojourner with thee.</HI></P>
<P>Ver&s;e 36. <HI>Take no u&s;ury or increa&s;e of him. Thou &s;halt not give him thy money or lend him thy victual for increa&s;e.</HI></P>
<P>Note. <HI>Deut.</HI> 23.20. and <HI>Levit.</HI> 25.36. oppo&s;e one another &s;eemingly.</P>
<P N="1">1. The &s;tranger in <HI>Deuteronomy,</HI> is no pro&s;elyte, and not added to the Lords people: God permitted it there, as it were, as <HI>Mo&s;es</HI> for the hardne&s;s of heart gave a bill of divorce.</P>
<P N="2">2. The &s;tranger in <HI>Leviticus,</HI></P>
<P N="1">1. He is a brother, being in covenant with God, equally with him in the judicial, though not in the priviledges of the ceremonial law and wor&s;hip.</P>
<P N="2">2. It is on a &s;pecial ca&s;e of mercy; he is faln into decay, and waxen poor: to take u&s;e of &s;uch a one for money or victual, were biting indeed.</P>
<P N="3">3. If u&s;ury under the legal covenant were bad, and forbid, it is wor&s;e under grace.</P>
<P>It may be &s;aid, <HI>The Go&s;pel forbids it not.</HI></P>
<P><HI>Re&s;p.</HI> Chri&s;ts members need no &s;uch prohibition, if they were true members: they <HI>have not &s;o learned Chri&s;t,</HI> Acts 4.34. Mat. 5.42. Rom. 12.20.</P>
<P N="4">4. God under the law in the &s;tate of the world, is expre&s;ly again&s;t u&s;ury, and tolerates it not by his law.</P>
<P N="1">1. Que&s;tion is, Whether by toleration of u&s;ury, we make not that law of God voide by our traditions.</P>
<P N="2">2. Where is no penalty expre&s;&s;ed, nor cour&s;e &s;et down, whether we are not to leave men to God and his law.</P>
<P N="3">3. If men lend money on u&s;ury, and the borrower refu&s;e to pay,
<PB N="71" REF="39">and tendering the principal, e&s;pecially in the ca&s;e of a poor man, whether a Judge may force that man to pay intere&s;t: though it is true, by Gods law, a man is to keep his promi&s;e, though he lo&s;e thereby, but then it mu&s;t be in all ju&s;t things.</P>
<P N="4">4. Whether contracts made to colour U&s;ury, are not to be cen|&s;ured as theft, deceit, cozenage, fraud, by which they go beyond their brethren, and rob them oppre&s;s them, and devour them.</P>
<P><HI>Luk.</HI> 19,8 <GAP LANG="grc" DESC="foreign" RESP="OXF"> <HI>I will re&s;tore four-fold.</HI></P>
<P>They gave and took &s;ureti&s;hip for debts, <HI>Prov.</HI> 17.18. &s;hews manner, and 20.16. &amp; <HI>cap.</HI> 22.26, 27.</P>
</DIV3>
<DIV3 TYPE="part">
<HEAD>Statute.</HEAD>
<P>Deut. 15.2. <HI>Every creditor that lendeth ought to his neigh|bour, at &s;even yeers &s;hall relea&s;e it, and not exact it of his neigh|bour or brother: it is the Lords relea&s;e.</HI></P>
<P>Ver&s;. 3. <HI>Of a foraigner thou maye&s;t exact it againe; but that which is thine with thy brother, thy hand &s;hall relea&s;e.</HI></P>
<P><HI>Except.</HI> Save when there &s;hall be no poor among&s;t you.</P>
<P>Deut. 15.7. <HI>If there be a poor man among&s;t you, one of thy brethren, thou &s;halt not harden thy heart, nor &s;hut thy hand a|gain&s;t him.</HI> Ver&s;. 8. <HI>but &s;halt open it wide, and lend him &s;uffici|ent for his need.</HI></P>
<P>Ver&s;. 9. <HI>Take heed of the wicked thought in thy heart, &s;ay|ing, The &s;eventh yeer of relea&s;e is at hand, and thine eye be evil, and thou geve&s;t thy brother nothing, and he cry to God again&s;t thee, and it be &s;in unto thee.</HI> Ver&s;. 10. <HI>For the&s;e things the Lord thy God will ble&s;s thee.</HI></P>
<P><HI>Note.</HI> The word <HI>brother</HI> in the law &s;huts and opens many ca&s;es; which was then applyed to men joyned in the band of the legal co|venant to God and one another, as in the Go&s;pel it &s;ignifies tho&s;e are united by bapti&s;me and faith to Chri&s;t and one another, in fellow&s;hip of the Go&s;pel, and hou&s;e of God.</P>
<P>Now all tho&s;e that were not under the legal covenant with the Jews, were called <HI>&s;trangers.</HI></P>
<P N="1">1. If men will acknowledge any law, it is Gods, becau&s;e of his authority and power of the &s;oul, as well as body.</P>
<P N="2">2. None ever &s;tudyed the good and profit of a people as God, who is &s;aid to rule over us as a father over his children, and not
<PB N="72" REF="40">as a Tyrant over &s;laves, or ma&s;ter over &s;ervants.</P>
<P><HI>Appl.</HI> Hence, O ye princes of the people, for your own con&s;ci|ences, the peoples good, and Gods glory, and the ble&s;&s;ing of the earth, and men in their callings, &s;et up Gods law, and the nations in|crea&s;e will be great that will follow, if you will believe and obey: and the good ye &s;hall do in your generation for the Nation, will be &s;uch, as was never done for it by any or all your predece&s;&s;ors; in which onely the people will become a free people, and no other lords be&s;ides God rule over them.</P>
<P>Era&s;m. <HI>Nune adulterium lu&s;us magnatum e&s;t, pa&s;&s;im &s;aevitur in mi&s;eros fures, cum nec draconis leges, nec Romanae, nec ullae Gentilium &s;implex furtum &s;upplicio capitis vindicaverint, &s;ed avaritia no&s;tra facit ut ideo magnum malum exi&s;timemus fur|tum, quia pecuniam &s;ummus boni loco ducimus.</HI></P>
<P>Con&s;ider that of <HI>Deut.</HI> 23.24. and judge if a neighbour, not with any purpo&s;e to wrong his neighbour, or to make a cu&s;tome of it, but on &s;ome accidental occa&s;ion, go over his neighbours land, whether by the law of God one man in &s;uch a ca&s;e may arre&s;t, impri|&s;on &s;ue at law, or damnifie in any ca&s;e his neighbour.</P>
<P>Numb. 5.6, 7. <HI>When a man or woman commit &s;in, and the per&s;on be found guilty, they &s;hall confe&s;s their &s;in they have done: he &s;hall recompence his tre&s;pa&s;s with the principal thereof, and add unto it the fifth part thereof, and give it to him again&s;t whom they have tre&s;pa&s;&s;ed.</HI></P>
<P>Ver&s;. 8. <HI>But if the man have no kin&s;man to recompence the tre&s;pa&s;s to, let the tre&s;pa&s;s be recompenced unto the Lord, even to the Prie&s;t.</HI> &amp;c.</P>
<P>The variety of differences of the &s;ame mea&s;ure, <HI>viz.</HI> the bu&s;hel, <HI>&amp;c.</HI> give occa&s;ion to alter ours into the mea&s;ure of the Jews Ephah, that the mea&s;ure may be one in the whole nation, as theirs was; and &s;o that occa&s;ion of buying by one in one place, and &s;elling by ano|ther in another place, may be taken away: and &s;o for weights and mea&s;ures.</P>
<P>Object. <HI>The Jews had difference among them&s;elves in the&s;e things.</HI></P>
<P><HI>Re&s;p.</HI> That difference was ceremonial only, as in the &s;hekel of the Sanctuary, and of the Commonweal: but that cau&s;e is now taken away; and was in&s;tituted of God whiles that the temple
<PB N="73" REF="40">did remaine to continue onely, and then to cea&s;e with other cere|monies.</P>
<P><HI>Deut.</HI> 24.19. And in many other places, cour&s;e was taken that &s;omething in the harve&s;t &s;hould be left for the poor in the field, the vineyard, the oliveyard, for the poor, the &s;tranger, the fatherle&s;s, the widdow. <HI>Exod.</HI></P>
<P N="1">1. Note. Were this rule e&s;tabli&s;hed among men, the cau&s;e of much theft would be taken away from among men, which mens hard heart|edne&s;s occa&s;ions; and after with as much &s;everity put them to death oft-times for a &s;mal matter, as though God were not able to re&s;tore our lo&s;s, or we could not be without it.</P>
<P N="2">2. Many late and unu&s;ual offences as clipping and coyning of mo|ney and emba&s;ing of it, which is made trea&s;on by our law, would not be &s;o rife among us; the occa&s;ion thereof being removed from men in great part.</P>
<P N="3">3. Burning of hou&s;es, and &s;uch like effects of unnatural envy, would be removed, when oppre&s;&s;ion and ignorance of the law of God were removed from the &s;houlders of the poor.</P>
<P N="4">4. God would re&s;traine men, as now he doth of much evil, to admiration, that <HI>home non &s;it housini lup us;</HI> &s;o then he would do much more: the fear of God, though his law, and the ju&s;tice there|of be not &s;o extreme as mans in this ca&s;e, yet the after-judgement on the &s;oul, and cur&s;e of them and their families, falls far greater on men then theirs can do.</P>
</DIV3>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 N="9" TYPE="commandment">
<HEAD>Command the Ninth.</HEAD>
<EPIGRAPH>
<Q><BIBL><HI>Exod. 20.16.</HI></BIBL>
<P>Thou &s;halt not bear fal&s;e witne&s;s.</P></Q>
</EPIGRAPH>
<P>THis negative bindes in the affirmative, <HI>Thou &s;halt bear witne&s;s to the truth,</HI> &amp;c.</P>
<DIV3 TYPE="part">
<HEAD>Statute.</HEAD>
<P><HI>Deut.</HI> 17.6. The Idolater was not to dye at the te&s;timony of one, but of two or three witne&s;&s;es.</P>
<PB N="74" REF="41">
<P>Deut. 19.15. <HI>One witne&s;s &s;hall not ri&s;e again&s;t a man for any iniquity or &s;in.</HI></P>
<P>Levit. 19.11. <HI>Ye &s;hall not lye one unto another.</HI></P>
<P>Levit. 19.16. <HI>Thou &s;halt not go up and down as a tale-bearer among thy people, nor &s;halt thou &s;tand again&s;t the blood of thy neighbour,</HI> Ezek. 22.9. Prov. 21.18. <HI>He that heareth, &s;peak|eth con&s;tantly.</HI></P>
<P>Exod. 23.1. <HI>Thou &s;halt not rai&s;e a fal&s;e report: put not thy hand with the wicked, to be an unrighteous witne&s;s;</HI> as tho&s;e witne&s;&s;ed again&s;t <HI>Naboth,</HI> 1 Kings.</P>
<P>Ver&s;. 2. <HI>Thou &s;halt not follow a multitude to do evil, nor &s;halt thou &s;peak in a cau&s;e to decline after many to wre&s;t judgement.</HI></P>
<P>Ver&s;. 3. <HI>Nor &s;halt thou countenance a poor man in his cau&s;e.</HI></P>
<P>The witne&s;&s;es at the time of execution were to &s;tand at the right hand of him that was condemned, and to lay their hands on his head, and ca&s;t the fir&s;t &s;tone.</P>
<P><HI>Numb.</HI> 35.30. <HI>Prov.</HI> 24.28.29.</P>
</DIV3>
<DIV3 TYPE="part">
<HEAD>Judgement.</HEAD>
<P>Deut. 27.24. <HI>Cur&s;ed be he that &s;miteth his neighbour &s;e|cretly.</HI></P>
<P>Deut. 19.16. <HI>If a fal&s;e witne&s;s ri&s;e up again&s;t any man to te&s;tifie again&s;t him, that that is wrong;</HI></P>
<P>Ver&s;. 17. <HI>Then both the men between whom the controver|&s;ie is, &s;hall &s;tand before the Lord</HI> (as a &s;pecial ca&s;e referred to the chief Judges) <HI>the Prie&s;ts and Judges that &s;hall be in tho&s;e dayes.</HI></P>
<P>Ver&s;. 18. <HI>The Judges &s;hall make diligent inquiry, and be|hold, if the witne&s;s be a fal&s;e witne&s;s, and hath te&s;tifyed fal&s;ly again&s;t his brother;</HI></P>
<P>Ver&s;. 19. <HI>Then &s;hall ye do to him as he had thought to have done unto his brother: So</HI> (and no way el&s;e) <HI>&s;halt thou put a|way evil from among you: life for life, eye, tooth, &s;tripe for &s;tripe,</HI> &amp;c.</P>
<P><HI>Note,</HI> If Judges and Ju&s;tices were as (they ought) at all times &s;it|ting in all the chief places of the Nation,</P>
<P N="1">1. Witne&s;&s;es would not be &s;o chargeable for their journey and at|tendance to men as now they are.</P>
<PB N="75" REF="41">
<P N="2">2. Men might di&s;charge their con&s;ciences, who by the law-cove|nant were bound to witne&s;s freely one for other, as oft as occa&s;ion &s;erved.</P>
<P N="3">3. <HI>Subpaena's</HI> were utterly out of u&s;e, and the charge thereof taken away from men.</P>
<P N="1">1. If according to the law of God, that were exactly done on the fal&s;e witne&s;s, which was intended again&s;t the party that was pro&s;ecuted, men in the Nation would <HI>hear indeed, and fear to do any &s;uch wickedne&s;s.</HI></P>
<P N="2">2. If evil be &s;o to be put away, then by not doing &s;o, though to man it &s;eems to be a matter of never &s;o much &s;everity, the evil there-remaines in the land &s;till.</P>
<P N="1">1. In what was done or intended to be done by them pa&s;t.</P>
<P N="2">2. The evil practice thereof will never be done away by any o|ther means from among us, but by this.</P>
<P>On <HI>Deut.</HI> 2.24. The cur&s;e denounced again&s;t the fal&s;e, and &s;o the cur&s;es added to the breach of every command, note the difference be|tween Gods law and mans.</P>
<P N="1">1. Mans law onely extended to puni&s;h &s;in when proved by wit|ne&s;&s;es, again&s;t a man; by which men (as in ca&s;e of adultery) fear to commit it publikely, but will do it privately; and man he thinks cannot not cur&s;e him for it; or if he do, he cares not.</P>
<P N="2">2. Now God cur&s;eth &s;uch by his law: &s;o that though they may e&s;cape the publike puni&s;hment, they cannot the &s;ecret judgement or cur&s;e for it.</P>
<P N="3">3. So that this now will prevaile with men, when the other will not: in which the law of God doth far excell the mo&s;t ju&s;t and righ|teous ordinances of man.</P>
<P N="4">4. The&s;e cur&s;es are added to Gods laws, not mens, for fear be|fore, and a puni&s;hment after his laws are broken, and not mens; &s;o that the hand of God in the revealing and cutting off, and cur&s;ing of evil doers, will appear under his rule far otherwayes then under mens.</P>
<P N="5">5. Effect whereof is excellently &s;et down, <HI>Deut.</HI> 29.18. God &s;peaks of one not regarding the cur&s;e, and calls him <HI>the root of bitterne&s;s</HI> that bears gall and wormwood, who <HI>when he hears the words of this cur&s;e, he ble&s;s him&s;elf in his heart, &s;aying, I &s;hall have peace, though I walk in the imagination of
<PB N="76" REF="42">my heart to add drunkenne&s;s to thir&s;t,</HI> Ver&s;. 20. <HI>The Lord will not &s;pare him; the anger of the Lord, and his jealou&s;ie &s;hall &s;moak again&s;t him; and all the cur&s;es in this book &s;hall lye upon him: and the Lord will blot out his name from under heaven,</HI> ver&s;. 21. <HI>and the Lord will &s;eparate him unto evil out of all the tribes of I&s;rael, according to all the cur&s;es of the cove|nant that are writen in this book of the law.</HI></P>
</DIV3>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 N="10" TYPE="commandment">
<HEAD>Command the Tenth.</HEAD>
<EPIGRAPH>
<Q><BIBL><HI>Exod. 20.17.</HI></BIBL>
<P>Thou &s;halt not covet.</P></Q>
</EPIGRAPH>
<P N="1">1. S Search all the Statute-books of all the Nations in the world, they have no &s;uch law in them; nor take no notice of any &s;uch &s;in, <HI>Rom.</HI> 7.7.</P>
<P N="2">2. Nor have they any puni&s;hment for it.</P>
<P N="3">3. Under this law it is condemned as well as any. Hence the A|po&s;tle &s;aith, <HI>The law is &s;piritual.</HI></P>
<P><HI>Appl.</HI> O ye princes, &s;ee here, are not Gods laws more perfect then yours? you have no &s;uch law.</P>
<P N="2">2. Is not your law the work of the law of God in your hearts onely? would there ever have been a law of yours, had not God given a work of his in you?</P>
<P N="3">3. Hence &s;ee a nece&s;&s;ity of taking his, and leaving yours.</P>
<P N="4">4. Do not &s;ay the law is not &s;ufficient to judge by.</P>
<P N="1">1. Were not the Jews as great as we? and they had no o|ther.</P>
<P N="2">2. They fell into as many varieties of evil and &s;in as any.</P>
<P>Object. <HI>If thou &s;aye&s;t. No, we fall into more;</HI></P>
<P><HI>Re&s;p.</HI> The rea&s;on of that is, we have not the law of God to pre|vent it &s;et up among us, as they had: the law of man can never have that place among a people, as the law of God hath.</P>
<P N="3">3. It is not the lea&s;t evil again&s;t God, to &s;ay of the law, It is not &s;ufficient of it &s;elf to judge us by.</P>
<PB N="77" REF="42">
<P N="1">1. If the law is not perfect, God would not have &s;aid, <HI>Add not to, nor dimini&s;h a word from it.</HI></P>
<P N="2">2. This is indeed to <HI>de&s;pi&s;e</HI> the law, <HI>Heb.</HI> 10.28. which was <HI>death without mercy.</HI></P>
<P N="3">3. The law was the moral law, a law for all Nations that would be Gods people, as well as Jews, to be governed by.</P>
<P N="4">4. <HI>David</HI> &s;aith, <HI>Thy law is exceeding broad and large:</HI> but thou that knowe&s;t not the law, and art rude and ignorant of Gods wi&s;dome therein, which is a great deep, di&s;honoure&s;t God, and &s;ay|e&s;t it is onely for a foundation of a law, but it will not &s;erve for a law. At the la&s;t day it &s;hall judge thee and all el&s;e, for all their acts, words, and thoughts again&s;t God: and yet is it a narrow law?</P>
<P N="5">5. Say what you can, a Nation, untill it hath covenanted with God in this law, they are not the people of God nor is God the God of that nation, more then other heathens; whatever he may be by faith to them that believe.</P>
<P N="6">6. This would be a means to call in the Jews to acknowledge Chri&s;t in the Go&s;pel with believers, when they &s;ee we acknowledge God in the law with them.</P>
<P>Object. <HI>The&s;e are but few ca&s;es in compare of the Statute|book, that is more full, and large, and plaine: this is ob|&s;cure.</HI></P>
<P><HI>Re&s;p.</HI> 1. I have deduced but part of what is in the law, I having not &s;pent a weeks time in meditation thereon to this end.</P>
<P N="2">2. This hath more in one line, then the wit of men laid down for law in an hundred.</P>
<P N="3">3. That they have more then is in the law of God, mu&s;t be de|&s;troyed, and not acknowledged law, but traditions only.</P>
<P N="4">4. Much lyeth hid thereof to us, as yet being not &s;earched out.</P>
<P N="5">5. Judges in &s;pecial were ordained to judge the difficult cau&s;es, and that by the word al&s;o, which appeared not to the common judges to be in the word clearly.</P>
<P N="6">6. The laws being reduced to the command, we are to judge of ca&s;es according to the nature of the fact, and the command again&s;t which the &s;in is committed.</P>
<P N="1">1. The law is clear plaine, and full of light and clearne&s;s; and &s;o better then our corrupted, intricate, unknown law, which the Judges of the land know not them&s;elves. This needs no coun&s;el.</P>
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<P N="2">2. It is brief, and needs not &s;even yeers &s;tudy, to come to be able to &s;peak law.</P>
<P N="3">3. It is &s;o ea&s;ie, a man needs no &s;ollicitors: it &s;hews plainly what every man is to do or &s;uffer.</P>
<P N="4">4. It cannot be corrupted by demurs, nor delayed in proceedings.</P>
<P N="5">5. It is &s;o ju&s;t, no man &s;hall have wrong that is innocent, nor no man &s;hall e&s;cape that is guilty; <HI>Deut.</HI> 29.19, 20.</P>
<P N="6">6. It is &s;o free, it puts no man to a peny co&s;t.</P>
<P N="7">7. It is &s;o holy, it condems all evil in every man alike.</P>
<P N="8">8. It is &s;o good, that he is accur&s;ed that obeys it not, and he is ble&s;&s;ed that ob&s;erves it.</P>
<P N="9">9. It is free from oppre&s;&s;ion; it impri&s;ons none.</P>
<P>O ye men and lawyers of the world, bring forth that law that is like this law of the Lord: as <HI>Mo&s;es</HI> rod eat up the &s;orcerers: &s;o &s;hall this devour yours. Your law is as darkne&s;s, this as light; it will make it vani&s;h. In a word, all Rule and Government compared to Gods in the law, for a Nation, is but bramble-rule, <HI>Judg.</HI> 9.14. and who would call for that rule?</P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="conclusion">
<HEAD>Conclu&s;ion.</HEAD>
<P>PSalm 144.15. <HI>Happy is the people who&s;e God is the Lord:</HI> that is, that people onely who are in covenant with, and under the government of the Lord and his law: and thus with <HI>Mo&s;es, Deut.</HI> 4.5. <HI>Behold, I have taught you &s;tatutes and judgements, even as the Lord my God commanded me.</HI> Ver&s;. 6. <HI>Keep therefore and do them: for this is your wi&s;dome and under&s;tand|ing in the &s;ight of the Nations, which &s;hall hear all the&s;e &s;ta|tutes, and &s;ay, Surely this great nation is a wi&s;e and under|&s;tanding people.</HI> Ver&s;. 7. <HI>for what nation is there &s;o great, that hath God &s;o neer unto them as the Lord our God is in all things we call upon him for?</HI> Ver&s;. 8. <HI>and what nation is there &s;o great, that? hath &s;tatutes and judgements &s;o righteous as all this law which I &s;et before you this day?</HI> Who can &s;peak evil of that I have here written, and not &s;peak evil of the law? who can de&s;pi&s;e it, and not de&s;pi&s;e that law &s;hall judge him at the la&s;t day? God judg|eth by it, let therefore the Gods judge by it. In a word, who
<PB N="79" REF="43">are they, if any, that &s;hall condemne me for what I have written? God is he that will ju&s;tifie me, when he &s;hall ari&s;e and plead my cau&s;e with them. In a word, if I have erred, the law erreth not: let me be judged by that; to that I plead, and make my appeal un|to, profe&s;&s;ing before the mo&s;t high God, My aime onely is Gods glory, the re&s;toration of Gods rule and government, the peoples free|dome and happine&s;s, Judges freedom of con&s;cience from blood guil|tine&s;s, the deliverance of the Nation from the now wrath of God, the Parliaments eternal honour in advancing truth and righteou&s;ne&s;s: with the&s;e, and onely the&s;e de&s;ires of &s;oul, with <HI>E&s;ther,</HI> though &s;he knew the law of the king, to put to death any &s;hall come within the inner, who is not called, except &s;uch to whom the king holds out the golden Scepter, that he may live: <HI>But I have not been called to come in unto the king,</HI> E&s;ther 4.11. Ver&s;. 16. <HI>I will go in unto the king, which is not according to the law: if I peri&s;h, I peri&s;h.</HI> And as <HI>Mordecai,</HI> my &s;oul tells me, <HI>If I altogether hold my peace at this time, deliverance &s;hall ari&s;e to this people from another place, and I and my fathers hou&s;e &s;hall be de&s;troyed.</HI> The fear of God and his law that drove me, and the hope I had in you, as in men loving God, Ju&s;tice, Righteou&s;ne&s;s, and vowing to God and the people the &s;ame, with hands lifted up, to have your and the peoples freedome, being bound up in one, drew me to this &s;ervice; in which my hearts de&s;ire is to &s;erve you all, and be</P>
<CLOSER><SIGNED><HI>Your affectionately well-wi&s;hing &s;ervant in the &s;ervice of the Lord,</HI> John Brayne.</SIGNED></CLOSER>
</DIV2>
</DIV1>
<DIV1 TYPE="postscript">
<PB N="80" REF="44">
<HEAD>The Po&s;t&s;cript contains Objections and Re&s;olutions of what is &s;aid again&s;t the Rule of the Law.</HEAD>
<P><HI>Quer.</HI> _DOth not the Apo&s;tle &s;ay, <HI>Tho&s;e without law &s;hall be judged without law?</HI> Rom. 2.12. then what need the laws government?</P>
<P><HI>Re&s;p.</HI> 1. Some are without the letter and true &s;ence of the law, and the rule of it; as tho&s;e heathens, <HI>Rom.</HI> 2.14. <HI>Who became a law unto them&s;elves.</HI></P>
<P N="2">2. Others are without the true &s;ence only, and not the letter; as <HI>Paul, Rom.</HI> 7.9.</P>
<P N="3">3. Others without the rule, but not without the letter: and thus we are without the law this day.</P>
<P>If <HI>Paul</HI> only without the true inward &s;ence of the law,
<NOTE PLACE="marg">a Minori ad Maius.</NOTE> though not without the rule and government out-outwardly, and knowledge of the law, was yet &s;aid to be <HI>without law;</HI></P>
<P>How much more may tho&s;e Nations who have the letter, and yet have not the rule and government of it, be &s;aid to be <HI>without law?</HI></P>
<P>O remember, 2 <HI>Cor.</HI> 6.1. exhorted them <HI>not to receive the grace of God in vaine.</HI> You have the law in the Bible, which the heathens had not. O receive not &s;o great a grace in vaine, &s;o as not to rule by it: chu&s;ing rather to be a law unto our &s;elves, as tho&s;e heathens, who had not the knowledge of the law, then having the knowledge of the law, to have Gods will and law a law unto us.</P>
<P N="4">4. <HI>Tho&s;e without law are &s;aid to peri&s;h without law:</HI> &s;o that it is a &s;ad e&s;tate to be without the law.</P>
<P N="5">5. Though we are without the rule and judgement of the law, we
<PB N="81" REF="44">are not without the knowledge of the law; we are under that; which will nece&s;&s;arly bring Judges and judged at la&s;t to be by God our Judge judged according to that, and our own law: for our law is no law with God.</P>
<P>Object. <HI>This is to make one &s;hooe &s;erve for every foot.</HI></P>
<P><HI>An&s;w.</HI> Is there any &s;hooe will fit our foot as that, nay but that that of Gods making? will not that of mans be it made as well may be? yea though it had the &s;ame in it as Gods, yet it wanted by far of that Gods, becau&s;e God made it.</P>
<P N="2">2. Doth not that that fits one nation, fit another? are we not all of the &s;ame nature? the unfitne&s;s mu&s;t be either in re&s;pect of the law, or our &s;elves.</P>
<P><HI>Note.</HI> 1. The unfitne&s;s cannot be in the law; it hath all fitne&s;s of goodne&s;s, righteou&s;ne&s;s, judgeth us with perfection; and &s;o none is fit but this.</P>
<P N="2">2. Nor is the unfitne&s;s in the people. 1. They are &s;inful, and need a law. 2. They are rational to under&s;tand the law. 3. They have de&s;ires to &s;erve God according the law. 4. They are lyable to puni&s;hment, if they obey not; and to who&s;e more ju&s;tly then to Gods?</P>
<P>Object. <HI>Rom.</HI> 6.14. <HI>Ye are not under the law, but grace.</HI></P>
<P><HI>Re&s;ol.</HI> 1. Ye (that is, the believers at <HI>Rome,</HI> gathered out of the &s;tate of the world, into fellow&s;hip with Chri&s;t in the &s;tate of the Go&s;|pel, being by Chri&s;t redeemed from under the law) are not under the law.</P>
<P N="2">2. Saying <HI>ye are not,</HI> the Scriptures imply, all but they in that e&s;tate thus redeemed were under the law, or the work thereof in their hearts: yea and they al&s;o, in the outward man, <HI>Rom.</HI> 3.1.</P>
<P N="2">2. Object. <HI>Rom.</HI> 3.19. <HI>What the law &s;peaks, it &s;peaks to tho&s;e that are under the law.</HI></P>
<P><HI>Re&s;ol.</HI> Now if any &s;hall &s;ay we are under the law of God,</P>
<P N="1">1. Why do we not re&s;t in the law, without &s;etting up of laws of our own to judge by? <HI>Rom.</HI> 2.17.</P>
<P N="1">1. What other law, judgement, or puni&s;hment ought to be exe|cuted, but that, among tho&s;e are under the law?</P>
<P N="3">3. We never nationally covenanted with God in it, nor was it ever nationally acknowledged to be our national rule and govern|ment, nor its form &s;et up among us.</P>
<P N="4">4. If we are under the law, what heathens in the world ever were not?</P>
<PB N="82" REF="45">
<P N="1">1. They had law, which were the works of Gods law in their heart, as well as we.</P>
<P N="2">2. They had this, when they had not the written law by them, as we have.</P>
<P N="3">3. We having the law of God by us, to rule by, judge by, puni&s;h by; and yet ruling, judging and puni&s;hing by our own, we are wor&s;e then the heathens, and by our traditions make void the law.</P>
<P N="4">4. The heathens all had rule and government as we have, and laws as we have, and are yet &s;aid to be without law, becau&s;e they governed not by the law of God; and &s;o are we at this day.</P>
<P>Again, if any &s;hall &s;ay we are not under the law;</P>
<P N="1">1. Que&s;tion is, Whether of right we ought not to be (or no.)</P>
<P N="2">2. Or whether it be not prejudicious to Gods glory, and to his truth and the peoples pro&s;perity, that they are not.</P>
<P>If any &s;ay of right we ought not to be under the law;</P>
<P N="1">1. As well might that man &s;ay, God ought not to rule.</P>
<P N="2">2. People may do well enough without government, again&s;t that.</P>
<P N="3">3. And there are no &s;ins, &s;trifes, controver&s;ies, contentions among us; and &s;o we need no ju&s;tice, judgement, or puni&s;hment to be in|flicted.</P>
<P>If any &s;ay, Of right we ought not to be under the law of God, but out own;</P>
<P N="1">1. By your traditions ye make voide the law of God; Gods is the law that hath authority and command onely: and indeed, in it yours are but traditions at be&s;t, which like <HI>Hagar</HI> &s;et them|&s;elves up above <HI>Sarah.</HI></P>
<P N="2">2. You having Gods law, &s;hall be judged at la&s;t by it, and not your traditions: God will judge by it, and not yours.</P>
<P N="3">3. If our law be not according to Gods, we &s;hall at la&s;t be judged for our judgement.</P>
<P N="4">4. He that will not have Gods law to be his law, &s;hall not have God to be his God, <HI>Exod.</HI> 20. before and with the giving of the laws covenant, he in it &s;aith <HI>I am the Lord thy God:</HI> in the peo|ples taking of his law, they took him, and he them: and &s;o he deals with all.</P>
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<P>If thou &s;ay, Of right we ought not to be under the law, but our traditions; for we have a long time been under them, and they are the be&s;t in the world:</P>
<P N="1">1. The neerer they come to Gods, the better they are.</P>
<P N="2">2. But being not Gods, which onely is the Royal law;</P>
<P N="1">1. They are not &s;o good as his, nor to be compared with them.</P>
<P N="2">2. They are not to &s;tand in competition with the Lords: if they do, man a&s;&s;umes the place of God to him&s;elf, and de|thrones God: God will rule by none but his own: &s;hall men again &s;ay they will not rule by others but their own?</P>
<P N="3">3. To tho&s;e that &s;ay of this, or that, or any law, that its better then Gods, tell them it is bla&s;phemy to &s;ay &s;o; and that man, as <HI>James</HI> 4.11. he &s;peaketh evil of the law, and judgeth the law, <HI>If thou judge the law, thou art not a doer of the law, but a judge.</HI> Many &s;uch Judges there are, and but few doers.</P>
<P N="4">4. If thou &s;aye&s;t thy law is not &s;o good as Gods, why doe&s;t thou not chu&s;e the be&s;t?</P>
<P>O but we have been a long time under them.</P>
<P N="1">1. So long thou ha&s;t been without law.</P>
<P N="2">2. And without God in the way of the law.</P>
<P N="3">3. Ever &s;ince, many plagues have been heaped on the Nation, and multitudes of ble&s;&s;ings detained from them.</P>
<P N="4">4. And other lords be&s;ides <HI>Jehovah</HI> have tured over the Nation.</P>
<P N="5">5. The people have been under tyranny and oppre&s;&s;ion, and many unju&s;t traditions according to the will of men contrary to the will of God; as in the Acts repealed, and the mariage-money in <HI>Ireland</HI> and <HI>Scotland</HI> paid <HI>&amp;c.</HI></P>
<P>O the nation will be&s;t bear our own laws.</P>
<P N="1">1. The corrupter a law is, the better natural people can indeed bear it.</P>
<P N="2">2. Every people that will be Gods, mu&s;t bear his yoke,</P>
<P N="3">3. The people will be bettered by bearing Gods, more then by bearing our own. Gods law will make an <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 word"> among men.</P>
<P N="4">4. This objection agrees with that of God <HI>Ephraim is an heifer unaccu&s;tomed to the yoke;</HI> and &s;o would for a while kick again&s;t the pricks.</P>
<P N="5">5. That our evil nation will be&s;t bear our own laws, <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="4 letters">es not that the laws therefore are Gods; but again&s;t them, that they are therefore evil.</P>
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<P N="6">6. We are not to con&s;ider what our Nation <HI>will</HI> bear, but what they <HI>&s;hould</HI> bear; which is the law and yoak of God, and not men.</P>
<P>Object. Others &s;ay. <HI>Something may be dimini&s;hed from the &s;entence of the Law but nothing may be added.</HI></P>
<P><HI>Re&s;olv.</HI> The one is expre&s;ly forbid, as well the other, by the word and Law of God. <HI>Deut.</HI> 4.2. <HI>Jo&s;ua</HI> 23.6.</P>
<P>Others will &s;ay. <HI>This is to be under Mo&s;es, not Je&s;us Chri&s;t; and to revive the Law again.</HI></P>
<P N="1">1. The Law was never de&s;troyed; that is the Judicial and Mo|ral, though the Ceremonial be: for Chri&s;t <HI>came not to de&s;troy the Law, but to e&s;tabli&s;h it;</HI> which thou would&s;t have de&s;troyed.</P>
<P N="2">2. As in in the time of <HI>Mo&s;es,</HI> there was <HI>Mo&s;es</HI> rule in the Jews Commonweal, and <HI>Aarons</HI> in the Temple; and the&s;e were di&s;tinct: &s;o now.</P>
<P N="2">2. The like form we &s;till retain in our Church and State-govern|ment: the State-government ought to be that of <HI>Mo&s;es</HI> and that be|cau&s;e God he gave no other; and Chri&s;t &s;aith he de&s;troyed not that: the Church government now is changed from that of <HI>Aarons</HI> in Prie&s;thood. Mini&s;try. Admini&s;trations, and Rule; &s;o that now it is <HI>Mo&s;es</HI> and Chri&s;t: before, <HI>Mo&s;es</HI> and <HI>Aaron</HI> ruled.</P>
<P N="3">3. Tho&s;e under Chri&s;t are &s;o far from being without law as that the law is more excellently opened and taught, in a more &s;piritual way then <HI>Mo&s;es</HI> taught, or the people under <HI>Mo&s;es</HI> could bear. This is cleared Mat. 5.27. <HI>Ye have heard it hath been &s;aid to tho&s;e of old,</HI> (That is tho&s;e fir&s;t in <HI>Mo&s;es</HI> time covenanted with God in the law by <HI>Mo&s;es) Thou &s;halt not commit Adultery,</HI> ver&s;. 28. <HI>But I</HI> (that is, Chri&s;t) <HI>&s;ay unto you, He that looketh on a woman to lu&s;t after her, hath committed Adultery with her in his heart.</HI></P>
<P N="1">1. Hence under Chri&s;t in the Go&s;pel-e&s;tate, God is &s;aid to <HI>Judge the &s;ecrets of men according to the Go&s;pel</HI> Rom. 2.16.</P>
<P N="2">2. God by the law under <HI>Mo&s;es</HI> judgeth the acts of the out|ward man done in the fle&s;h again&s;t the law, and &s;ets downe the judgement and puni&s;hment thereof.</P>
<P N="3">3. Heace <HI>Paul</HI> 1 Tim. 5.27. <HI>The &s;ins of &s;ome are open before|hand and go before to Judgement;</HI> under <HI>Mo&s;es: others fol|low after;</HI> under the judgement of Chri&s;t.</P>
<P>Que&s;tion is, Whether law of God be not as ab&s;olutely nece&s;&s;ary to
<PB N="85" REF="46">rule and govern men in the civil E&s;tate, as in the other of the Eccle|&s;ia&s;tick.</P>
<P N="2">2. Whether it be not as unlawful to &s;et up a law contrary to God in the one, as in the other.</P>
<P N="3">3. Whether it be not the proper authority of God, to give laws to men in the one, as well as the other.</P>
<P><HI>Mo&s;es</HI> and the law &s;et men on doing, Chri&s;t on doing: and be|cau&s;e we cannot do the law, therefore to believe; a&s;&s;uring us that in that we &s;hall receive the promi&s;e, and be freed from the cur&s;e of the law likewi&s;e.</P>
<P N="1">1. <HI>Note,</HI> This Chri&s;t manife&s;ts, that Judgement of external acts again&s;t the law of <HI>Mo&s;es,</HI> was left to <HI>Mo&s;es, Luk.</HI> 12, 13, 14. the man that came to have the inheritance divided, to Chri&s;t, had this an|&s;wer, <HI>Who made me a Judge or a Divider?</HI></P>
<P N="2">2 In the woman taken in the act of Adultery. <HI>Ioh.</HI> 8.3, 4, 56. Chri&s;t he would not accu&s;e nor condemne her: for now when <HI>Shi|lo</HI> was come, the Scepter was departed. Again, the woman was <HI>di&s;|mi&s;&s;ed</HI> not <HI>ab&s;olved,</HI> becau&s;e there was no accn&s;ers.</P>
<P><HI>Object.</HI> Some &s;ay there is not the like &s;everity u&s;ed under the Go&s;pel as under the law in judgement again&s;t &s;in.</P>
<P><HI>Re&s;p.</HI> This was the fir&s;t ground of the Manichean Here&s;ie: for in making difference between the proceedings of Ju&s;tice under the Law and the Go&s;pel again&s;t &s;in, you lay a foundation for the &s;etting forth of two Gods; one &s;evere, the other merciful.</P>
<P N="2">2. The Go&s;pel doth not mitigate, but aggravate &s;in, and con&s;e|quently puni&s;hment.</P>
<P N="3">3. Chri&s;t did not de&s;troy the law, nor mitigate the puni&s;hment to any unbeliever, of what is &s;et down in the law: nay, if a believer fall into the&s;e &s;ins and he &s;uffer in the body, it is <HI>that his &s;oul may be &s;aved in the day of the Lord.</HI> The ince&s;tuous per&s;on was not put to death the Church having not that power.</P>
<P><HI>Note,</HI> The preventing grace of God keeps the believer from <HI>the &s;in that is unto death</HI> Joh. 15.17.</P>
<P N="4">4. If it be mitigated men &s;hould do well to &s;hew from the mouth of God in what it was mitigated to whom, and whether to all or &s;ome &s;inne onely; and why not to all, as well as &s;ome: and whe|ther it be in the command, or in the &s;tatute, or the puni&s;hment, or in all: and how it can be in any one of the&s;e, and not in all and
<PB N="86" REF="47">each of them: or how this can be under the Go&s;pel, and not be by Chri&s;t: and how he 1. e&s;tabli&s;heth the law, 2. and doth not de&s;troy it in part, more then many Iota's or tittles, though not in whole.</P>
<P N="5">5. If it be &s;trictly examined, there is more &s;everity then Gods law alloweth of in &s;ome of our now laws; and in &s;ome le&s;s: in which both there is inju&s;tice committed, according to the mea&s;ure we de|<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="4 letters"> from the law of God, either to the right hand or to the left.</P>
<P N="6">6. It is to be ob&s;erved, that the Judges de&s;igned to hear difficult cau&s;es, which were not clear to the other Judges, were not to give &s;en|teace of their owne; they were to do it according to the &s;entence of the law. <HI>Deut.</HI> 17.11. which &s;hews clearly this, that where the law is not expre&s;ly declared concerning a ca&s;e in hand, that it may be is unu&s;al among men, there,</P>
<P N="1">1. That ca&s;e is to be referred to the&s;e Judges.</P>
<P N="2">2. The&s;e Judges mu&s;t judge according to the &s;entence of the law, though not in &s;ome, yet in facts of the like nature with that.</P>
<P N="3">3. They were to &s;hew the &s;entence out of the law, and to teach it them, if they under&s;tood it not.</P>
<P N="4">4. Then, and not untill then, they were to put the &s;entence in ex|ecution.</P>
<P N="5">5. If upon all this, the man &s;hould pre&s;umptuou&s;ly refu&s;e to hearken and obey, and &s;ay he was not to do it, the man was to be put to death.</P>
<P N="6">6. This cour&s;e was not to be taken, but onely then and in that ca&s;e, when it was not clearly re&s;olved in the word to all.</P>
<P><HI>Applic.</HI> Is this; To tho&s;e which &s;ay many ca&s;es are not &s;et downe in the word, nor can it be a rule to judge by.</P>
<P><HI>Re&s;p.</HI> It is granted: yet is there provi&s;ion made to remedy that, by the Judges afore&s;aid.</P>
<P>Object. <HI>How is the law perfect then?</HI></P>
<P><HI>Re&s;p.</HI> The Judges &s;hall find the thing &s;entenced in the law, though not under that name, in &s;ome &s;in of the &s;ame kinde, from which they mu&s;t not decline: the law, like the <HI>&V;rim</HI> and <HI>Thummim,</HI> will tell them, and &s;hew the judgement to them; when they have a cau&s;e to require thereat.</P>
<P>Object. <HI>The Law &s;aith, men mu&s;t not turn from the right hand or left thereof.</HI></P>
<P><HI>Re&s;p.</HI> True: Tho&s;e that know the law in the known cau&s;es there|of,
<PB N="87" REF="47">are not to decline from that; nor are the Judges concerning the ob&s;cure ca&s;es to decline that &s;entence of the law that doth accord therewith in the book of God, though it be not particularly &s;et downe, and nominally expre&s;&s;ed, and added to that iniquity par|ticular.</P>
<P>Object. <HI>David committed Adultery and Murther, and was not &s;lain: which was a type of more mercy to be mini&s;tred un|der the Go&s;pel then under the Law.</HI></P>
<P><HI>Re&s;p.</HI> 1. Some will &s;ay. <HI>David</HI> being King and &s;upream Ma|gi&s;trate, there was none under that government then would judge him: but God did judge him in his hou&s;e, his wife, his children; as in the Story is &s;et forth abundantly after.</P>
<P N="2">2. And more truly, <HI>Davids</HI> Adultery and Murther was &s;o hid, that there were no witne&s;&s;es appeared to accu&s;e him; and though God knew it, few in the world el&s;e did, 2 <HI>Sam.</HI> 12.12. but the&s;e con|&s;ented thereunto.</P>
<P N="3">3. <HI>David</HI> marryed <HI>Bath&s;heba</HI> after; which indeed did &s;eem to be according to the law; but being a Whore, it was not, 2 <HI>Sam.</HI> 12.9, 10.</P>
<P N="4">4. <HI>David</HI> was a type of Chri&s;t in many things.</P>
<P N="5">5. God might di&s;pence with his law for wonderful &s;weet ends, and good for us, though by &s;uch wayes, as we under&s;tand not the ju&s;tne&s;s of them.</P>
<P N="1">1. If men writing the Scriptures had not had our fallings and been &s;ubject to our temptations, we could not have had that comfort now we may have in the Scriptures.</P>
<P N="2">2. God &s;uffering them to fall, would not with their fall take them away: that had not been a &s;upport, but terror.</P>
<P N="3">3. By this God would &s;hew, that though the bodies of tho&s;e (for &s;uch like &s;ins) &s;uffer, yet they believing and repenting, their &s;ouls may be &s;aved in the day of the Lord. So that the u&s;e hereof is good, ex|ceeding good to tho&s;e that do &s;uffer.</P>
<P N="4">4. Many of the Saints, as <HI>David,</HI> are guilty &s;ecretly of the&s;e fins; and were it not for <HI>David,</HI> would have &s;orrow without hope, as it were.</P>
<P N="5">5. By <HI>Nathan</HI> God having di&s;covered his &s;in, and he repenting, God is &s;aid to <HI>put away his &s;in,</HI> that he &s;hould not dye, 2 <HI>Sam.</HI> 12.13.</P>
<PB N="88" REF="48">
<P N="1">1. Here is the putting away of his &s;in, which upon repentance ma|ny others may do, and yet not be freed from death.</P>
<P N="2">2. Here expre&s;ly is not onely one, but the other al&s;o by the Pro|phet from God revealed, that it &s;hould be made good to him.</P>
<P N="3">3. God puni&s;hed him in his hou&s;e, his wives, his children, as be|fore.</P>
<P>Object. <HI>Gen.</HI> 49.10. <HI>The &s;cepter &s;hall not depart from</HI> Ju|dah, <HI>nor the Law-giver from between his feet,</HI> &amp;c. &s;o there was a Law-giver.</P>
<P><HI>Re&s;p.</HI> 1. This was &s;poken before the Law was given, where men made Laws.</P>
<P N="2">2. The word for <HI>Law-giver,</HI> &s;ignifies a Scribe. If any &s;hould give the Law, he had the Scepter, and not him, between his feet.</P>
<P N="3">3. This <HI>he</HI> between the Kings Feet, was but an a&s;&s;i&s;tant to him, to &s;hew him what the Law was in ca&s;es brought before him, out of the Law of God, which was to be alwaies by the King.</P>
<DIV2 TYPE="conclusion">
<HEAD>Conclu&s;ion.</HEAD>
<P>O that when the Covenant was &s;ent to the Nation, it had been done according to the minde of God! that is, as Covenants were when nationally by Kings and People made with God, <HI>viz.</HI> by taking the law, the Statutes and Judgements of God, to be our law, and to be ruled and judged by it onely; and take God with the law to be our God, and all other law to be laid a&s;ide and known no more of us: &s;o had we done the work of God, and a heavenly ble&s;&s;ing would have followed it. Since which, the effects of that ignorant blinde Covenant have been nothing but confu&s;ion, divi&s;ion, war, and trou|ble to our &s;elves and others. O ye Princes and People, though ye are in all the&s;e, yet if you will obey and receive the Lord and his law this day, ye &s;hall be healed of all your confu&s;ed di&s;tempers, and be &s;aved, 1 King. 8.57. <HI>The Lord our God be with us, as he was with our Fathers; let him not leave us nor for&s;ake us,</HI> ver&s;. 58. <HI>That he may incline our hearts unto him, to walk in all his ways, and to keep his Commandments and his Statutes, and his judge|ments which he commanded our Fathers.</HI> Deut. 5.29. <HI>That it may be well with us, and our children after us for ever,</HI> Amen.</P>
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<P>And ye, O ye Univer&s;ities of <HI>Oxford</HI> and <HI>Cambridge,</HI> a vi&s;itation from above is drawing near, to vi&s;it you; and the mo&s;t ju&s;t God the vi&s;itor, who will judge you according to the judgement of the great Where. Ye can now no longer delude nor captivate men with &s;pe|cious pretences: for God will take you away, and &s;et up wayes of learning of his own.</P>
<P N="1">1. Your ri&s;e was from the Pope, even <HI>Cele&s;tine,</HI> the Emperour <HI>Theodo&s;ious,</HI> twelve Cardinals, and multitudes of Arch-Bi&s;hops, Bi&s;hops <HI>&amp;c.</HI> about the year 423.</P>
<P N="2">2. You by being governed and advanced, and educated by his adherents, and &s;et up to accompli&s;h his ends, came to be the onely means to make void the order of the Church; who fir&s;t cho&s;e her Mini&s;try out of her owne &s;ocieties and members, but now are taken out of the Univer&s;ity, be they what they will, and put on them whether they will or not; to the utter extirpation of the Churches priviledge: by which encourgement to learning and know|ledge in all the Church-members, was taken away, to encourage &s;uch as made a trade of it in the Univer&s;ity, the Church-members re&s;ting on their teaching onely, and never re&s;pected any pow|er of teaching to be obtained by them&s;elves in the now Church-way, the Church being robbed of it.</P>
<P N="3">3. You plead for your practice the Scripture, as if it were your pattern. 2 <HI>King.</HI> 2.3. there were &s;ons of the Prophets at <HI>Bethel;</HI> and ver. 4. there were more at <HI>Iericho</HI> 1 <HI>Sam.</HI> 19.20. a company of Prophets are &s;tanding, and <HI>Samuel</HI> &s;tanding as appointed over them.</P>
<P N="1">1. The&s;e Sons of the Prophets were &s;uch as were educated in the writings of the Prophets, and read them and did more eactly di&s;cu&s;s the My&s;tereis thereof, then in the Synagogues. Tho&s;e bred in the&s;e, hou&s;es were immediately fitted for the Synagouge-xe hortation and reading.</P>
<P N="2">2. The fir&s;t of their education was reading, and well under&s;tand|ing of the word, as writing; and this fitted him as a Scribe.</P>
<P N="3">3. After this, they were taught the &s;ence and meaning of the word, either in the literal or hi&s;torical, the prophetical or typical part of it: and then they came to be di&s;puters of the law, or Pha|ri&s;ees; in which order <HI>Paul</HI> was.</P>
<P N="4">4. God u&s;ually ray&s;ed up of the&s;e (that faithfully gave them&s;elves to the &s;tudy of the Law, and taught it) Prophets to foretell things to come; as <HI>Elias</HI> and <HI>Samuel.</HI></P>
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<P>And tho&s;e other hundred Prophets mentioned 1 <HI>Kings</HI> 18.13. in which places, tho&s;e that were Prophets, for confirmation of their prophe&s;ies and call, did u&s;ually teach, as appears: <HI>Elias</HI> he is &s;ent to <HI>Bethel,</HI> 2 <HI>Kings</HI> 2.2. at <HI>Bethel</HI> it is without que&s;tion he taught in that School, and among the re&s;t told the Children of the Prophets, <HI>ver.</HI> 3. that the Lord would take him away (being <HI>Eli&s;has</HI> Ma&s;ter) from his head that day: and the &s;ame being &s;ent to <HI>Jericho,</HI> in ver&s;. 4.5. where the Jews received that tradition of his teaching in their Schools, that <HI>Elias &s;hall fir&s;t come,</HI> Matth. 17.10, 11.</P>
<P>That pa&s;&s;age of 1 <HI>Sam.</HI> 19.20, 24. was an extraordinary ca&s;e, to pre&s;erve <HI>David,</HI> in which <HI>Saul</HI> and his ine&s;&s;engers were changed; as before in <HI>E&s;au,</HI> when he came again&s;t <HI>Jacob;</HI> and that of <HI>Sauls</HI> meeting the Prophets, 1 <HI>Sam.</HI> 10.3, 5. which were given him for &s;ignes to confirm him by, in Gods electing of him.</P>
<P N="5">5. The&s;e Schools were in all Towns u&s;ually, as our Grammar-Schools are, having onely the reading of the Law and the Prophets u&s;ed among them; who were according to their &s;everal capacities taught and di&s;tingui&s;hed, as in our Schools by forms and places, one from the other.</P>
<P>In which, nor <HI>Cato,</HI> nor <HI>Virgil,</HI> nor <HI>Homer,</HI> nor <HI>Ari&s;totle,</HI> were not u&s;ually read; but the commands of God; by the know|ledge whereof God was honoured, and they &s;anctified.</P>
<P N="6">6. In this &s;tudy and &s;ociety, God would manife&s;t him&s;elf, when he would not in the ob&s;cene readings of <HI>Ovid,</HI> and the lying fables of the other Poets.</P>
<P N="7">7. In this teaching men were not devoted hereunto onely, but had other callings to employ them&s;elves in to live by; and were taught al&s;o in the&s;e Schools one part of the day: as <HI>Paul,</HI> brought up at the feet of <HI>Gamaliel,</HI> was by his profe&s;&s;ion a Tent-maker.</P>
<P N="8">8. Out of the Word, <HI>A&s;trologie</HI> and other natural Philo&s;ophy, may be deduced with Tropes, Metaphors, and Figures; <HI>Geogra|phie</HI> &amp;c. by which men may be better acquainted with the Word, then now they are. This is the wi&s;dom of a people, and not the knowledge of the cu&s;tom of Heathens, which onely tends to make men &s;uch, and ju&s;tifies them.</P>
<P N="9">9. Lawyers hereby may be made, and rightly fitted to judge ac|cording to the Lord.</P>
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<P N="10">10. Every man is rightly taught to live in their youth according to Gods law; as <HI>David, P&s;al.</HI> 11 9.9, &amp; 98, &amp; 99. ver&s;es.</P>
<P N="11">11. Now if they offend, they dye more ju&s;tly, being taught the &s;ence and &s;entence of the law.</P>
<P><HI>Appl.</HI> Ye Univer&s;ities, the wrath of God will break out upon you; your dayes are numbred, and your time neer come, in which you will &s;ee that it is not a reformation will &s;erve your turn, or &s;ave you from the decree.</P>
<P N="2">2. Ye princes of the people in Parliament, a people are rude without learning; O be intreated to convert &s;ufficient maintenance to the maintaining of &s;ome freely to teach in all towns.</P>
<P N="1">1. To teach the Hebrew reading to &s;ome.</P>
<P N="2">2. To teach the moral or judicial law to others.</P>
<P N="3">3. The prophets to others, and their meaning.</P>
<P N="4">4. To teach the Greek; and in tho&s;e &s;chools only read the Hi&s;to|ries of Je&s;us Chri&s;t, written by <HI>Matthew, Marke,</HI> &amp;c. with the E|pi&s;tles of the Apo&s;tles.</P>
<P N="1">1. As for Latine, and the long time &s;pent in obtaining thereof, the time is coming that the authors and learning laid up in their writings, will be of little or no u&s;e to the world: God will in&s;truct them with better of his own. The time is coming, knowledge &s;hall cover the earth, as water the &s;eas: and all tho&s;e mighty Libraries be but lo&s;t matter.</P>
<P N="2">2. It is as a bage of the Roman conque&s;t, which will cea&s;e with that Empire in a maner among&s;t us; the laws and true learning being turned into our own language.</P>
<P N="3">3. By this means, in the meetings on the &s;eventh day &s;abbath, the gifts and knowledge of every particular per&s;on, either in his exact reading of the law, or under&s;tanding of the my&s;tery or prophe&s;ie of the prophets, comes to be made u&s;e of and exerci&s;ed; they being herein a nation of Prie&s;ts, and &s;o would beget much wi&s;dome and e|mulation for knowledge in every man, and comfort in every man by &s;eeing and knowing the gifts and profittings of his children in the law, who would come to be &s;purs and goads to provoke the elder to a more diligent &s;earch of the law, and knowledge thereof that they may not be under the teaching of children that they &s;hall &s;peak, and them&s;elves be dumbe; they going beyond the elders in de&s;cribing the hi&s;tory, and in opening the my&s;teries of the law and prophets. In this
<PB N="92" REF="50">e&s;tate of <HI>Mo&s;es,</HI> or mens being under the law, was no prie&s;thood at all; yet <HI>is he preached every &s;eventh day,</HI> Acts 15.21. when and where the <GAP LANG="grc" DESC="foreign" RESP="OXF"> teaching, did what he could to make men from <HI>Mo&s;es</HI> to Je&s;us Chri&s;t in a right and true way, <HI>Act.</HI> 21.21. whence, though <HI>many are called few are cho&s;en.</HI></P>
<P>The prie&s;thood in the time of <HI>Mo&s;es</HI> belonged to the temple, and was conferred on <HI>Aaron</HI> and his &s;ons, who taught not the law in the Synagogues: tho&s;e that taught there, &s;ate in <HI>Mo&s;es,</HI> not <HI>Aarons</HI> chaire, or prie&s;tly &s;ucce&s;&s;ion, <HI>Mo&s;es</HI> being before <HI>Aaron, Jer.</HI> 7.22, 23.</P>
<P>The which prie&s;thood cea&s;ing, and another, even that of Chri&s;ts, being now in&s;tituted of God, and &s;et up in the place thereof in the Church, called from <HI>Mo&s;es,</HI> con&s;i&s;ting of believers; which was given to the Apo&s;tles and their true &s;ucce&s;&s;ors, to admini&s;ter under the Lord Je&s;us; which call no man was to take on him, but according to the Lords in&s;titutions; who were to attend on that place of mini&s;try: whereas Evangeli&s;ts, pa&s;tors, or teachers, as they were called to mi|ni&s;ter before the Lord under Je&s;us Chri&s;t, who were not to be cum|bred about any worldly occa&s;ions, 2 <HI>Tim.</HI> 2.4.</P>
<P>Luk. 9.33. <HI>Let us make three tabernacles; one for thee, one for</HI> Mo&s;es, <HI>one for</HI> Elias.</P>
<P>The tabernacle was the place God fir&s;t had his wor&s;hip &s;et up in, under <HI>Mo&s;es</HI> and <HI>Aaron,</HI> and here &s;ignifieth moveablene&s;s.</P>
<P N="1">1. The &s;ervice of God under <HI>Mo&s;es,</HI> and under the law, is meant, under tha<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> tabernacle for <HI>Mo&s;es.</HI></P>
<P N="2">2. The &s;ervice of God under Chri&s;t and grace, is meant by the tabernacle <HI>for thee,</HI> or Chri&s;t.</P>
<P N="3">3. Which admini&s;trations falling, in the hiding of the Church, are againe to be re&s;tored in our dayes by that <HI>Elias,</HI> in that taber|nacle is attributed to him.</P>
<P>How men came from <HI>Mo&s;es</HI> to Chri&s;ts admini&s;tration, is mo&s;t ex|cellently &s;et forth, <HI>Rom.</HI> 7.1, 6.</P>
<P><HI>Mo&s;es</HI> di&s;ciples were taught the letter of the ten commands: Chri&s;t taught his di&s;ciples the commands, in the &s;piritual part of it, as <HI>Mat.</HI> 5. which are called by Chri&s;t <HI>my commands;</HI> in which his di&s;ciples were to walk with God, in a more holy and more ac|ceptable way: which commands the world could not receive.</P>
<P>In the New Te&s;tament, three Scriptures re&s;pect Magi&s;trates &s;u|pream and &s;ubordinate.</P>
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<P N="1">1. The which are kings and their deputies, 1 <HI>Tim.</HI> 2.2. <HI>Rom.</HI> 13.1. <HI>The powers that be (viz.</HI> Nero's and his deputies) <HI>are or|dained of God.</HI> Thus 1 <HI>Pet.</HI> 2.13. <HI>to kings, as &s;upreme,</HI> ver&s;. 14. <HI>or to governors, as to them that are &s;ent by him.</HI></P>
<P N="2">2. God ordained no powers, but Kings and Judges; and the Kings of the Nations, from whom the Jews took their pattern came to receive a &s;tability in their place by it, during the time of the fourth, or the Roman Monarchy.</P>
<P N="3">3. When men de&s;troy Monarchy, they mu&s;t return to Judges a|gaine, as at fir&s;t, <HI>I&s;a.</HI> 1.26. or the power cannot be &s;aid, as the heathen power had &s;aid of it, <HI>that it was of God;</HI> God &s;etting up no other publike forme of Rule, but that, to govern a nation by, be|&s;ides Kings.</P>
<P><HI>Rom.</HI> 4.4.13. He &s;hews what the rule of Monarchy was, or was to be in their law.</P>
<P><HI>Ver&s;.</HI> 3. He &s;hews what the authority was in the rulers executi|on of their then law, <HI>ver&s;.</HI> 2. how the power, during its time of &s;tanding; by which authority and rule were kept alive, and not to be infe&s;ted until that time, 1 <HI>Cor.</HI> 15 24. when <HI>all</HI> of the then <HI>rule, authority, and power, is to be put down,</HI> by the &s;tone cut out of the mount without hands, <HI>Deut.</HI> 2.44 45. which is done in part, and now doing this day.</P>
<P N="5">5. On this onely ground, becau&s;e it was <HI>ordained of God,</HI> and <HI>an ordinance of God,</HI> though they were Gentiles, and <HI>without law,</HI> onely being <HI>a law to them&s;elves,</HI> ver&s;. 5. The Apo&s;tle &s;hews they &s;hould <HI>be &s;ubject, not only for wrath, but con&s;cience &s;ake,</HI> even to the laws called <HI>ordinances of men.</HI> 1 Pet. 2.13.</P>
<P N="6">6. To the&s;e Kings as to the Kings of I&s;rael, tribute and cu&s;tome were paid; which was not under the Judges: which &s;hows it the free&s;t government, and be&s;t for the people: which concerns you to con&s;i|der, in re&s;pect of the tru&s;t repo&s;ed in you.</P>
<P N="7">7. The renewing of the kingdom from Judges to kings, is to be done when from Kings to Judges, 1 <HI>Sam.</HI> 11.14. &amp; 8.10.</P>
<P><HI>Prov.</HI> 21.17. This law owns not &s;uits about hunting, hawking, killing of fowl, <HI>&amp;c.</HI> nor allows no &s;uch game to tre&s;pa&s;s other men, and appoints labour rather to all, and condemns &s;uch exerci&s;es be|gets idlene&s;s and beggery in a Commonweal, drunkenne&s;s, <HI>&amp;c.</HI> &s;o that it is as nece&s;&s;ary to de&s;troy tho&s;e vermin, the hawks and hounds,
<PB N="94" REF="51">as heretofore wolves: the one de&s;troyed cattel, the other men. And in &s;tead of &s;hooting at Pigeons, Oh how good were it the hou&s;es were &s;hot down! Here is no law for Tythes, nor offering, nor for a mans turning a&s;ide occa&s;ionally to pa&s;s over another mans ground; nor about Wills and Te&s;taments; nor to &s;atisfie mens revenge, to vex their neighbours with Law: but, as <HI>Prov.</HI> 25.8. <HI>Go not forth ha&s;tily to &s;trive le&s;t thou know not what to do in the end thereof, when thy neighbour hath put thee to &s;hame: debate thy cau&s;e with thy neighbour him&s;elf,</HI> &amp;c. Matth. 7.12. <HI>Do unto all men as you would men &s;hould do unto you; that is the law and the Prophets.</HI> So that great men by Law and Prophets are to do no other to the poor, then they would the poor &s;hould do to them: there mu&s;t be the &s;ame law and liberty to the one, as to the other, or it is not a Common-weal: one mu&s;t not keep any thing to oppre&s;s hurt, or hinder another man, much le&s;s many men, onely to &s;atisfie their lu&s;ts.</P>
<P>As for the State of <HI>Venice,</HI></P>
<P N="1">1. As other Gentiles, they are a Law to them&s;elves.</P>
<P N="2">2. Though the people chu&s;e their Judges, yet they judging by Laws of their own, their Government is not of God, nor is it e&s;ta|bli&s;hed of Gods, as that of Kings was among Gentiles.</P>
<P N="3">3. <HI>Bland us</HI> &s;ayth, that the liberty of the <HI>Venetians</HI> to govern by their own Laws, was granted them by the great and high Bi&s;hop of Rome, <HI>Charles.</HI></P>
<P N="4">4. That their Government is not of God, appears by their allow|ance of publike Stews in their Commonweal, wor&s;e then which the Heathens have not done; and the converting of the hire of whores to a publike u&s;e: a great abomination.</P>
<P N="5">5. Nor are their Judges, as Judges at the fir&s;t, &s;et up in the gates of every City: &s;o that that Government, with the re&s;t of the Papal powers, will cea&s;e and fall.</P>
<P>The fall of the Romane Monarchy under the &s;eventh Head, or feet mixt with Iron and Clay, as it was under Pope and Kings:</P>
<P N="1">1. The fir&s;t &s;tep began in <HI>Henry</HI> the eighth's de&s;troying the Su|premacie of the Pope, and ruling alone, <HI>anno</HI> 1531.</P>
<P N="2">2. In the United E&s;tates of <HI>Holland,</HI> ca&s;ting down of the Monar|chy of the King of <HI>Spain,</HI> but ruling by the States General and Pro|vincial, as by Lords and Commons: which al&s;o will be in its time di&s;|&s;olved.</P>
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<P N="3">3. In this Nation, this Parliament have depo&s;ed King and Lords, the Commons onely having the power of rule in their hands; and &s;o have made a &s;tep beyond them therein.</P>
<P N="4">4. The fourth is, that the Souldier take down the Law, Rule, or Government that is, and &s;et up God's, by <HI>Judges as at fir&s;t:</HI> in which, the grand Mutations of the worlds affairs come to centre, and receive fixedne&s;s under God, (the Kingdom being the Lords) and the earth becomes abundantly ble&s;&s;ed, with all therein, by the &s;ame thou&s;and yeers, when Tyranny &s;prings again; and Time quickly af|ter hath its end.</P>
<P>The main ground and rea&s;on why the four Monarchies are &s;et out by Bea&s;ts, ari&s;ing out of a nece&s;&s;ity occa&s;ioned by the con|tentions among men <HI>Dau.</HI> 7. by which the world, like another Sea, was fill'd full of troubles.</P>
<P N="1">1. The Babylonian, &s;et out by the Lion, ver&s;. 4.</P>
<P N="2">2. The Medes and Per&s;ian, by the Bear, ver&s;. 5.</P>
<P N="3">3. The Greek, by the Leopard, ver&s;. 6.</P>
<P N="4">4. The Romane is not expre&s;&s;ed by its <HI>form,</HI> but by its <HI>nature,</HI> to be a Bea&s;t dreadful, terrible, &s;trong, having iron teeth, devouring and breaking in pieces, and &s;tamping the re&s;t with her feet, and being diver&s;e from all bea&s;ts, lively &s;et out by <HI>John, Rev.</HI> 13.2. like a leopard in colour, having feet like a bear, the mouth of a lion; and the dragon gave him his power: from whence he takes the place, power, authority, and name of the dragon.</P>
<P>Note the name of Bea&s;t: for Government and Authority is not given them, but for the kinde of Rule and Law that they had among them&s;elves, which was according to their lu&s;ts, and not of God; they making their lu&s;ts a law, and &s;o become a law to them&s;elves, <HI>Rom.</HI> 2.14.</P>
<P N="2">2. Hence the Heathens, without the Law and rule of God, are &s;aid <HI>not to be a people.</HI> Deut. 32.21. Rom. 10.19.</P>
<P N="3">3. The Heathen Empires, &s;et out by the Bea&s;ts: 1. The Kings were the horns; the Councels of the kingdoms, the heads; the Laws and Lawyers, the teeth; the Executioners the feet; the common people, the body, and the Pope riding on them.</P>
<P N="4">4. The be&s;t allu&s;ion given the four Monarchies, was that of <HI>Da|niel,</HI> which is likened to a man: when that man that had the vi&s;ion, and who repre&s;ented the golden head, <HI>Dan.</HI> 4.33. was driven from
<PB N="96" REF="52">among men, lo&s;t his rea&s;on, feeds with bea&s;ts, <HI>&amp;c.</HI> in which is &s;et forth, what the men were, while without the rule of God, and what would be the end the Monarchs of the world at la&s;t would come unto: Thus the P&s;alm, <HI>Man that is in honour, and under&s;tands not,</HI> (that is, how to rule and govern according to God) <HI>is like the bea&s;ts that peri&s;h.</HI></P>
<P N="5">5. The Jewes were therefore called <HI>a People,</HI> becau&s;e they had a God, and were guided by his laws, and &s;ought the good of one another, and not the hurt, as the afore-mentioned bea&s;ts, who were &s;uch as lived by preying one on another: the wor&s;t of all which here|in, was the la&s;t of the Roman Monarchy; which under the autho|rity, rule, and power thereof, is &s;till the bea&s;t fore-&s;poken of.</P>
<P N="6">6. The que&s;tion is, whether a &s;ociety of men altering that law, and &s;etting up any other be&s;ides that of Gods under God and &s;et up other authority and power then that of Gods, as &s;et downe in the Scripture be not a bea&s;t in Gods account &s;till, though another bea&s;t from that which was before. Not that I &s;ay there &s;hall be any; for there are to be but four bea&s;ts or Monarchies: the fifth &s;hall be the dominion of Chri&s;t, when the Saints &s;hall rule the world.</P>
<P>Que. <HI>If the judicial law be not equally a rule to govern a Commonweal by as the Go&s;pel is to rule the Church by; on the &s;ame grounds and rea&s;ons.</HI></P>
<P>Que. <HI>If it be not an abomination before God while men have his law to &s;et up</HI> Jus humanum (<HI>if any &s;uch things were) in the place of</HI> Jus divinum <HI>being the act of Antichri&s;t</HI> 2 The&s;. 2. <HI>who was without law, &s;etting him&s;elf in place of God, making law of his owne.</HI></P>
<P>Que. <HI>If there can be any &s;afety to judge by our law &s;eeing God will judge all men by his owne that have his law, as we &s;ay we have,</HI> Rom. 2.12, 13.</P>
<P>As for war, it was</P>
<P N="1">1. Referred to men cho&s;en therefore; and the Judges took no cognizance of it in judgement.</P>
<P N="2">2. The laws and directions therefore were particular, and di&s;tinct from the judicial law.</P>
<P N="3">3. This war again&s;t Antichri&s;t being Gods, as that again&s;t <HI>Ama|lek,</HI> both having their time and fulne&s;s of &s;in expired; the rules for the one are rules for the other in an eminent way: which ought not by the General and the Councel of the Nation for war be pa&s;&s;ed by,
<PB N="97" REF="52">le&s;t it become our &s;in, and we in the end &s;uffer for it.</P>
<P N="4">4. Inquire into the rea&s;on why the plague is fallen &s;o heavy on the Souldiers in <HI>Ireland,</HI> and ye &s;hall find it is of God, for their not ful|filling his judgement.</P>
<P>This general po&s;ition is to be concluded on; <HI>That what&s;oever is not properly comprehended under one of the ten Commands, be|longs not unto the judicial law, but the ceremonial; as Tythes,</HI> &amp;c.</P>
<P N="2">2 <HI>That that is referred to any of the commands, mu&s;t be for judgement and rule.</HI></P>
<P>Quer. <HI>If now there be any ground to us, that the &s;ale of lands &s;hould be onely for</HI> 50 <HI>years to the Jubilce; or if that were meer|ly Ceremonial, or in a mixt law,</HI></P>
<P N="1">1. It did &s;hadow out the re&s;toration of mans fallen e&s;tate by Je&s;us Chri&s;t.</P>
<P N="2">2. Chri&s;t was to begin his mini&s;try then, under whom was to be a &s;pecial freedome of what was under the law or <HI>Mo&s;es.</HI></P>
<P>The Morality (&s;ay &s;ome) appears of this, in that,</P>
<P N="1">1. It is under the eighth Command, <HI>Thou &s;haltnot &s;teal.</HI></P>
<P N="2">2. Or under the tenth, <HI>Thou &s;halt not covet.</HI></P>
<P>Object. 1. <HI>The equity of this cea&s;eth, in that all had of that land part, but few have of this.</HI></P>
<P N="2">2. <HI>God laid a &s;pecial claim to that more then any.</HI></P>
<P>Que. If God layes not the &s;ame to the lands of others, becau&s;e judged of God, forfeited, ca&s;t out, <HI>&amp;c.</HI></P>
<P N="1">1. <HI>Pro.</HI> That Law God Judges by, is the fitte&s;t law for judgement.</P>
<P>But this is the law God judgeth by.</P>
<P><HI>Ergo,</HI> it is the fitte&s;t law for judgement.</P>
<P N="2">2. Where Judgement is not Gods, it is not true.</P>
<P>But where the law is not Gods, the judgement is not his, <HI>&amp;c.</HI></P>
<P>Q. If to make laws, when we have the law of God, be not again&s;t the law and God.</P>
<P N="1">1. Again&s;t God, taking away his prerogative.</P>
<P N="2">2. Again&s;t the law, making that void, having but the name of law.</P>
<P N="3">3. By this means men are in the place of God, and God hath no place among us.</P>
<P><HI>Pro.</HI> When men judge by the law of God, judgement is Gods, and not el&s;e: but in this Nation men judge not by the law of God.</P>
<P><HI>Pro.</HI> As the law and judgement &s;hould be Gods, &s;o the authority &s;hould be his.</P>
</DIV2>
</DIV1>
<DIV1 TYPE="postscript">
<PB N="98" REF="53">
<HEAD>Additional.</HEAD>
<P><HI>Two things I had forgot to clear.</HI></P>
<P N="1">1. Whether the Lawyers, as <HI>Zenas,</HI> in <HI>Titus</HI> 3.13. and tho&s;e others mentioned in <HI>Matthew</HI> and <HI>Luke,</HI> were of divine in|&s;titution and &s;erve at all to prove the Lawyers and their now-practice among us.</P>
<P><HI>Re&s;p.</HI> 1. <HI>Their in&s;titution is not in the law, as an officer of the court; but aro&s;e among the re&s;t of corruptions among the Jews.</HI></P>
<P N="2">2. <HI>They expounded the law in the Synagogues and not plead it in the gate of judicature before the Judge.</HI></P>
<P N="3">3. <HI>They cleared or interpreted difficulties in the divine law only, and &s;erves not to prove a practice of men undertaking to plead the laws of nature or of nations, but &s;hews that their law and pleadings make void Gods and its di&s;pen&s;ation.</HI></P>
<P N="4">4. <HI>As for</HI> Jo&s;eph <HI>the coun&s;ellor, he was a coun&s;ellor of the Jews republick, one of their &s;eventy, that coun&s;elled by the law of God, and not of men; in a way for publike &s;afety, not private gaine.</HI></P>
<P N="5">5. <HI>Or it may be he was a coun&s;ellor to the Roman e&s;tate becau&s;e in favour &s;o much with Pilate.</HI></P>
<DIV2 TYPE="part">
<HEAD>Second concerns widdows.</HEAD>
<P><HI>Que&s;t.</HI> Why in dividing the &s;tate, they had &s;o little of what was left by their decea&s;ed husbands.</P>
<P N="1">1. <HI>She was to return to her fathers hou&s;e again, as in</HI> Tamar, Gen. 38.10. Remain a widdow at thy fathers hou&s;e, <HI>Levit.</HI> 22.13. If the Prie&s;ts daughter be a widdow, or divorced, <HI>&amp;c.</HI> and is re|turned to her fathers hou&s;e, as in her youth, &s;he &s;hall eat of her fathers meat. <HI>Numb.</HI> 30.10. <HI>&s;peaks of the widdows vow and if &s;he vowed it in her husbands hou&s;e or dayes, as appears in the</HI> 11 ver&s;. <HI>and he heard it: which &s;hews, after his death &s;he left that was his hou&s;e, and went to her fathers; yet her children were
<PB N="99" REF="53">not to for&s;ake, but help her al&s;o, of &s;he needed.</HI></P>
<P N="2">2. <HI>If her father was living; if dead, &s;he had part if her fa|thers inheritance, that that came to her.</HI></P>
<P N="3">3. <HI>God made &s;pecial provi&s;ion for the de&s;olate or widdows by many &s;pecial laws</HI> Deut. 16.14. <HI>they had part of the harve&s;t,</HI> Deut. 24.19, 20.</P>
<P N="4">4. <HI>The widdows were provided for out of the &s;tore of Gods hou&s;e, that is, the tythes,</HI> Deut. 12, 26.13. &amp; 24.19. <HI>which was paid once in three yeers only; where they came and fetched it; and was a reproachful e&s;tate,</HI> I&s;a. 54.4.</P>
<P N="1">1. <HI>Que&s;t.</HI> If Mini&s;ters be not now &s;o to be maintained. Concern|ing which, I leave you to a particular Treati&s;e.</P>
<P N="2">2. <HI>Que&s;t.</HI> If widdows and orphans be not that way to be provi|ded for.</P>
<P>Re&s;p. <HI>Yea, by bringing in a &s;ufficient portion thereof every three yeers into &s;ome publike place, for relief of the poor widdow and orphans, and others, and &s;ome intru&s;ted to deliver it out to them as need requires.</HI></P>
<P><HI>Que&s;t.</HI> Is not other ways as good as this?</P>
<P>Re&s;p. <HI>No, becau&s;e this is commanded; which man is not to di&s;|pence with.</HI></P>
<P><HI>Que&s;t.</HI> If in ca&s;es of ju&s;tice, as an eye for eye tooth for tooth a man may not take 100 <HI>l.</HI> &s;atisfaction, and free his adver&s;ary.</P>
<P>Re&s;p. 1. <HI>The Judge is but an executioner of the wrath.</HI></P>
<P N="2">2. <HI>He is bound to do what the law &s;ays; that is his rule.</HI></P>
<P N="3">3. <HI>He is not to Judgo the law, and its equity or rigour.</HI></P>
<P N="4">4. <HI>He is not to decline the will of God, for expedients of men,</HI></P>
<P N="5">5. <HI>The law is for terror to others, as well as for doing right to whom wrong is done at pre&s;ent.</HI></P>
<P N="6">6. <HI>Gods ju&s;tice is to be &s;atisfyed on the offender, as well as the damage of the &s;ufferer &s;atisfyed: of which much more may be &s;aid; but this I conceive to be &s;ufficient to prove care herein mu&s;t be had, that men make not the law of God void by tradi|tions, or practices in judgement of their own, in which men actually for&s;ake God, and come to be for&s;aken of him; to the ruine of the generations of the world; which they that are wi&s;e
<PB N="100" REF="54">will fear, and be faithful to God: which the Lord make the men of this generation to do, and the people will be free and happy in the governors thereof, yea and in God: to whom be obedience and glory for ever.</HI> Amen.</P>
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