Confession Library / Westminster Confession of Faith
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God gave to Adam a law, as a covenant of works, by which he bound him and all his posterity to personal, entire, exact, and perpetual obedience; promised life upon the fulfilling, and threatened death upon the breach of it; and endued him with power and ability to keep it. 1
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This law, after his fall, continued to be a perfect rule of righteousness; and, as such, was delivered by God upon mount Sinai in ten commandments, and written in two tables; 1 the first four commandments containing our duty towards God, and the other six our duty to man. 2
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Beside this law, commonly called moral, God was pleased to give to the people of Israel, as a Church under age, ceremonial laws, containing several typical ordinances, partly of worship, prefiguring Christ, his graces, actions, sufferings, and benefits; 1 and partly holding forth…
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To them also, as a body politic, he gave sundry judicial laws, which expired together with the State of that people, not obliging any other, now, further than the general equity thereof may require. 1
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The moral law doth forever bind all, as well justified persons as others, to the obedience thereof; 1 and that not only in regard of the matter contained in it, but also in respect of the authority of God the Creator who gave it. 2 Neither doth Christ in the gospel any way dissol…
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Although true believers be not under the law as a covenant of works, to be thereby justified or condemned; 1 yet is it of great use to them, as well as to others; in that, as a rule of life, informing them of the will of God and their duty, it directs and binds them to walk accor…
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Neither are the forementioned uses of the law contrary to the grace of the gospel, but do sweetly comply with it: 1 the Spirit of Christ subduing and enabling the will of man to do that freely and cheerfully which the will of God, revealed in the law, requireth to be done. 2
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