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Calamy on the three-fold division of the law

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[N]ow lest any should mistake, there was three sorts of Laws published in writing at Mount Sinai which were not written before, first, that eternal Moral Law in the 20. chap. of Exodus, now this was not only written for them but for us also, Rom. 15:4. I Cor. 10:11. yea for Saints and Angels eternally, Psal. 119:89; 103:20. not one title of this Law shall fail, and the Apostles do not seek to make void this Law, but do establish it, Rom. 3:31. but then at Mount Sinai there was the Judicial Law given in the 21, 22, 23. chapters of Exodus, and that Law belongs no more to us then our Laws of the Land belong to them any farther then they are grounded on the moral Law.

3. There was the Ceremonial Law given in the 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30, 31. now this ceremonial Law being in types and shadows of Christ to come were all ended when Christ was once offered to bear the sins of many, although the Priests stood daily ministering and offering oftentimes the same sacrifices, but when Christ had offered one sacrifice for sins, for ever sat down at the right hand of God, Heb. 9:28. 10, 11, 12.

Edmund Calamy, Two solemn covenants made between God and man: viz. the covenant of works and the covenant of grace (London: Thomas Banks, 1647), p. 11.