CRPC Podcast - Westminster Confession of Faith - Ch 19 Of the Law of God, I-V

CHAP. XIX.—Of the Law of God.
I. 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 (Gen. 1:26-27; 2:17; Rom. 2:14-15; 10:5; 5:12, 19; Gal. 3:10, 12; Eccl. 7:29; Job 28:28).
II. 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 (James 1:25; 2:8, 10-12; Rom. 13:8-9; Deut. 5:32; 10:4; Ex. 24:1): the first four commandments containing our duty towards God; and the other six, our duty to man (Matt. 22:37-40).
III. 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 (Heb. 11; 10:1; Gal. 4:1-3; Col. 2:17); and partly, holding forth divers instructions of moral duties (1 Cor. 5:7; 2 Cor. 6:17; Jude 23). All which ceremonial laws are now abrogated, under the new testament (Col. 2:14, 16-17; Dan. 9:27; Eph. 2:15-16).
IV. 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 (Ex. 21; 22:1-29; Gen. 49:10; 1 Peter 2:13-14; Matt. 5:17, 38-39; 1 Cor. 9:8-10).
V. The moral law doth for ever bind