limited, but left to the Effect, to the Confequence that Act of Grace would have upon each, in Proportion to the Degree it affected; to the Abilities and to the Gratitude of each ; and that, even to the Degrees of the Crimes that were forgiven in each; it was expected that those to whom much was forgiven, should love much: Nay the Inculcations to Love, Mercy, &c. were hinted, expected rather than enjoined. But thofe were not all, there was a mental Service required, frequently commanded by Words not to be mistaken, which was to attend to not only what they did themselves, but to what the Prieft did, what the Creatures fuffered, &c. and to attend to the Event, as you to hear, obey. w obferve. B. 673. Subft. plur. Ceremonies 720. 7 to keep. y Prov. vi. 21. ligare, to bind on, Bind them continually upon thine Heart. wy to do, Tay to ferve. So under feveral other Terms whereby the mental Service is expreffed; to lift up their Eyes, Voice, Heart, Hands, Soul, Prayers, Praife, &c. Deut. iv. 6. These were their on Wisdom, and лy Intelligence ver. 39. and ny thou shalt know to Day and confider it in thine Heart. iv. 10. xi. 18. xxxii. 46. ibid. vi. 7. And thou shalt teach them diligently unto thy Children, and fhalt talk of them when thou fittest in thine House, and when thou walkeft by the Way, and when thou lieft down, and when thou rifeft up. And thou shalt bind them for a Sign upon thine Hand and they fhall be as Frontlets between thine Eyes,

and

and thou shalt write them upon the Pofts of thine Houfe, and on thy Gates ver. 20. And when thy Son afketh thee in Time to come, faying, What mean the Teftimonies, and the Statutes which Jehovah our Aleim hath commanded you? Then thou fhalt fay unto thy Son, We were Pharaoh's BondMen in Egypt, &c. ver. 25. And it shall be our Righteoufnefs, if we obferve to do all thefe Commandments before Jehovah our Aleim, as he hath commanded us. Cap. vii. 6. xxvi. 16. ibid. vii. 12. Wherefore it fhall come to pass (and it shall be apy Reward,) if ye hearken to thefe Judgments, and keep and do them, that Jehovah thy Aleim hall keep unto thee, the very Berith, and the very Ton which he swore unto thy Fathers, and he will love thee, &c. viii. 6. Therefore thou shalt keep the Commandments of Jehovah thy Aleim, to walk in his Ways, and to fear him. ix. 5. not for thy Righteousness, or the Uprightness of thine Heart, doft thou go to poffefs their Land: But for the Wickedness of thefe Nations. X. 12. And now Ifrael what doth Jehovah thy Aleim require of thee, but to fear Jehovah thy Aleim, to walk in all his Ways, and to love him, andys to ferve Jehovah thy Aleim with all thy Heart, and with all thy Soul, to keep the Commandments of Jehovah and his Statutes, which I command thee this Day for thy Good? xii. 1. These are the Statutes and the Judgments, which ye shall obferve to do in the Land; Here they are expreffed, and the Words applied to the emblematical Statutes and Judgments. So Pro.

xxviii.

xxviii. 4. The Breakers of the Law praise the Wicked; but in the Keepers of the Law contend with them.

The Ifraelites were, and the Chriftians are, each to keep the Terms, which admits them to the Benefit of Purification; and avoid those Actions which exclude them; and partake of the Types or Memorials, as far as they were, or we are, admitted: But an Ifraelite in the Crowd, though he came there by Institution, had no more Share in the Action of facrificing or making Atonement for his Sins typically, than a Christian has now really; and vice verfâ, a Chriftian no more now, than an Ifraelite had then: The Aleim in Mercy left them and us the Freedom of Choice upon the Evidence each Side gives, of which Tree we shall eat. They may in Juftice give us Evidence of their Power, Goodness, &c. and it juftifies them in faving us, if we upon their Evidence choose their Tree, their Way: And the Ifraelites or we have no more to boast of in putting forth our Hand to take and eat of the fpiritual Food, than we have when we put forth our Hand to take and eat temporal Food: He at first gives us both; we may after we have got Strength contribute to getting more of either, and if our Soul had its original Faculties, as our Body ftill hath, He would hunger and thirst as much for the one, as the Body doth for the other: And each Soul will do fo in degree as he approaches in recovering thofe Faculties.

KINGS.

are either the תושיה,דת,תורה HE Words

T Dictates, Rules of one who has the fu

preme or a delegated Power to his Subjects in State, Church, or &c. Or they are Terms to be performed upon Conditions pursuant to a Covenant. In the Affair of the Covenant, the Aleim were Judges, fince that they committed all Judgment to Chrift.

Commandments, Branches or פקודים דברים

Divifions of the Law.

pn Statutes, are particular Appointments in reference to each Branch. So Pfal. lx. 9. Judah is 'ppnp my Law-giver; fo the Law of Mofes who was of the Tribe of Levi, was to be fulfilled and a new Law delivered.

yo A Decree published upon a special occafion.

Ty-Down Jer. xxx. 18. Ordinances, Directions for the Manner in which each of those Statutes are to be performed, kept, or observed. A Precept which feems to be about minuter Circumstances. Pfal. cxxxiii. 3. (for there hath Jehovah commanded the Bleffing of Lives.) Concerning the Place of the Birth of Chrift, fo of giving eternal Life:

777 The Way, as all thofe Shadows were to the Substance.

ערות

y Inftitutions, Evidence in Figures, or &c. of fomething done and fomething to be done, which carry a Sort of Law in them.

Down The Determination upon a Law, or Execution upon the Offender. Judgment confifts of Sentence for a Crime against some previous Law, and Execution of that Sentence by the Judge, and fuffering of that Execution by the Criminal, where one by Agreement ftands in the Place of the Criminal, by the Surety. The Defign of the Execution of Judgment is to fhew that the Judge is righteous and powerful, hates Injuftice, and can punish the Criminal: 'Tis a Vengeance upon the Perfon who denies his Juftice and Power, joins with his Enemies, and by Example encourages his Subjects to despise and desert him, and join with his Enemies; and in refpect to this Judge, to forfeit Happiness, and make themselves miserable; and for a Terror by Example to those who stand, to keep them from joining with such who cannot rescue themselves.

Chrift in the Mount gave Mofes political Laws, exhibited in Exodus, etal. for the People to obferve. to direct the Magiftrates to judge between Man and Man, to inflict their Judgments, Punishments upon Criminals, &c. among themfelves, which were binding to his Vice-Roys, &c. when appointed, which did not directly refer to Christianity, but confequently, to keep the Jews apart, to keep the Tribes apart, &c.

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