Page:Larger catechism.pdf/32

30 The Larger Catechiſm. Obedience thereunty in the Frame and Diſpoſition of the whole Man, Soul and Body p, and in Per- formance of all thoſe Duties of Holineſs and Righ- teouſneſs which he oweth to God and Man q : pro- miſing life upon the Fulfilling, and threatning Death upon the Breach of it r. ped. N. 1, 2, 3, 34, 33. Luke x. 26, 27. Gal. 3. 10. 1 Theſſ. v 23. q Luke i. 75. Acts xxiv. 16. r Rom. x., Gal. 10, 12. Q. Is there any Uſe of the Moral Law to Man ſince the Fall? A. Altho' no Man, ſince the Fall, can attain to Righteouſneſs and Life by the Moral Law ſ; yet there is great Uſe thereof, as well common to all Men, as peculiar cither to the Unregenerate or Re- geocrate t. I Rom. viii. 3. Cal. l. 16. Tim 1. 8. Q. Of wat Uſe is the Moral Law to all Men? A. The Moral Law is of Uſe to all Men, to in- form them of the holy Nature and will of God and of their Duty, binding them to walk accor- dingly w; to convince them of their Diſability to keep it, and of the ſinful Pollution of their Nature, Hearts and Lives ; to humble them in a Senſe of their Sin and Miſery, and thereby help them to clearet Sight of the Need they have of Chriſt z, and of the Icifetin of t.is Obedience a. vm. xi. 44. 45, & xx 7. 8. Rom. vii. 12. W Alieb, .me. 19, 11. fol. 11, 12. Rom. ill. 20, 8 vii, 7. y Rom. i. 9, 23. z. Gal. lii. 21, 22. a Rom. x. Q. What faralar Uſe is there of the Moral Law to regenerate Men? A. The Moral Law is of Use to unregenerate Men, to awaken their Conſeiences to flee from Wrath to come b, and to drive them to Chriſt e ; or, up- on