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Here's hoping that made you feel better.Yes. I do know Reformed Baptists have adopted this teaching and why.
The 1689 London Baptist Confession of Faith copied the Westminster Confession almost word-for-word, except in the area of baptism.
The Baptists corrected the sections on baptism, but ignored many other errors in the document.
The term "New Covenant" is not found in either document.
Both documents have invented the term "the moral law" in an attempt to hang onto the Old Covenant, and ignore the New Covenant.
The documents claim "the moral law" was given to Adam in the garden, even though Adam could not have committed adultery, and he had no mother to honor.
These "Reformed" documents also claim we are still under the 4th commandment, even though Colossians 2:16-17 says otherwise.
They ignore the fact that Paul told the Galatian believers to "cast out" the Sinai Covenant of "bondage" in Galatians 4:24-31.
They also ignore the fact that the New Covenant has made the Old Covenant "obsolete" in Hebrews 8:6-13.
They also ignore that we are not come to Mount Sinai in Hebrews 12:18, but are come instead to the New Covenant of Mount Sion in Hebrews 12:22-24.
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Westminster Confession of Faith
Chapter 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.
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: the first four command- ments containing our duty towards God; and the other six, our duty to man.
III. Besides 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; and partly, holding forth divers instructions of moral duties. All which ceremonial laws are now abrogated, under the New Testament.
IV. To them also, as a body politic, He gave sundry judicial laws, which expired together with the State of that people; not obliging under any now, further than the general equity thereof may require.
V. The moral law does forever bind all, as well justified persons as others, to the obedience thereof; 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. Neither does Christ, in the Gospel, any way dissolve, but much strengthen this obligation.
VI. Although true believers be not under the law, as a covenant of works, to be thereby justified, or condemned; 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 accordingly; discovering also the sinful pollutions of their nature, hearts and lives; so as, examining themselves thereby, they may come to further conviction of, humiliation for, and hatred against sin, together with a clearer sight of the need they have of Christ, and the perfection of His obedience. It is likewise of use to the regenerate, to restrain their corruptions, in that it forbids sin: and the threatenings of it serve to show what even their sins deserve; and what afflictions, in this life, they may expect for them, although freed from the curse thereof threatened in the law. The promises of it, in like manner, show them God's approbation of obedience, and what blessings they may expect upon the performance thereof: although not as due to them by the law as a covenant of works. So as, a man's doing good, and refraining from evil, because the law encourages to the one and deters from the other, is no evidence of his being under the law: and not under grace.
VII. Neither are the fore mentioned uses of the law contrary to the grace of the Gospel, but do sweetly comply with it; 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, requires to be done.
(emphasis by bold text is mine)
from www.reformed.org/documents
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See the following "Reformed" source for the truth about the origin of your doctrine.
Augustine’s Calvinism: The Doctrines of Grace in Augustine’s Writings – by C. Matthew McMahon – Puritan Publications
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