The law of God ties all men everlastingly, whether in paradise or heck, Song cxi. 7, 8. No human regulation or self-commitment ties men, yet just in this life, in which they stay flawed, and are enveloped with compulsions to entice them from their obligation. In paradise they have no need of such serves to obligation, and in damnation they can't be benefitted by them.
The commitment of legal commitments, promises, commitments and contracts, as well as of human regulations, regarding moral obligations, but unmistakable is not any more detachable from the commitment of God's regulation, than Christ's two particular qualities are distinguishable, the one from the other, yet firmly associated in complex regards. In restricting ourselves to important obligations, and to different things so lengthy thus far as is favorable thereto, God's regulation as the main rule to guide us how to praise and appreciate him, is made the standard of our commitment. Our promise is no new rule of obligation, yet another attach to make the law of God our standard.
Indeed, even Adam's commitment to consummate submission in the agreement of works was nothing else. His uncertainty in his domain of guiltlessness, made it legitimate, that he ought to be limited by his own assent or commitment, as well as by the power of God. Our defect in this life, and the enticements which encompass us, make it needful, that we, similarly, ought to be bound to a similar rule, both by the power of God, and our own commitment. It is in the law of God, that all our deputed position to order others, or to tie ourselves is designated to us.
The necessity of moral obligations by the law of God obliges us to utilize all legal means to advance the exhibition of them; and thus requires human regulations and self-commitment, and the recognition of them as helpful for it. Nay they are likewise explicitly expected in his regulation, as his mandates for aiding and supporting us in to our obligation. In genuinely committing legitimate promises, as well as in causing human regulations we to apply the deputed power of God, NAOMI CRAMER the preeminent Lawgiver, truly to us in his regulation, in the way which his regulation recommends, and in submission to its solution.
In framing our commitments as a founded mandate of God's love, which he hath expected us to get, notice, and keep unadulterated and whole, Hymn lxxvi. 11. and cxix. 106. and lvi. 12. Isaiah xix. 18, 21. and xlv. 23, 24. and xliv. 5. Jeremiah l. 5, 2 Corinthians viii.5,- - we act unequivocally as per the bearing of his regulation, and in compliance to his clout in it, - - restricting ourselves with a bond, restricting our spirit with a bond, Numbers xxx. 2-11- - restricting ourselves by that which we utter with our lips sections 2, 6, 12, - - restricting ourselves with a limiting promise,- - restricting ourselves- - restricting our spirit by our own commitment - our own bond, refrains 4,7,14.
In shaping our promise, we, as per the remedy of his own regulation, gravely comprise God, who is the preeminent Lawgiver and Ruler of the soul,- - the observer of our self-commitment, and the Assurance, generous to compensate our outreaching satisfaction of it, and fairly to rebuff our dishonest infringement of it. The more reliable and devoted perception of God's regulation, despite our complex ailments and enticements, and the more effective advancement of his greatness in that, is the finish of our self-commitment, as well as of human laws of power.
Furthermore, by a due respect to their limiting power, as above expressed, is this end advanced,- - as thusly the commitment of God's regulation is the more profoundly dazzled on our psyches, and we are quieted down to submission to it, and deflected from violating it.- - In outcome of our development of our promise, as for its matter, way, and end, as recommended by God, He doth, and essentially should sanction it in the entirety of its dreadful solemnities, requiring us by his regulation, to pay it as an obligation of obligation,- - to perform and satisfy it as a commitment to obligations, and a commitment which remains upon or against us, Numbers xxx. 5, 7, 9, 11. with Deuteronomy xxiii. 21-23. Hymn lxxvi. 11. and 1. 14. Ecclesiastes v.4, 5. Matthew v. 33.
In dutifulness to this heavenly prerequisite, and taking into account our commitment, in that exact structure, in which God in his regulation, embraces and sanctions it, and expects it to be satisfied, we pay, perform, and satisfy it as a bond, wherewith we, in submission to Him, have bound ourselves, to try widespread compliance to his regulation, as our main rule of confidence and habits. Whoever doth not, in that frame of mind to comply with human regulations or to satisfy self-commitment, consider them as having that limiting power which the law of God permits them; he pours scorn on them, as statutes of God, and on the law of God for permitting them a limiting power.
Accordingly, through keeping up with the super-added however subordinate commitment of human regulations, and of self-commitment to moral obligations, we don't make void, yet lay out the commitment of God's regulation. The commitment of a promise, by which we connect with ourselves to essential obligations directed by the law of God, should consequently be unspeakably grave. In addition to the fact that we are expected by the law of God before our commitment was made; however we are bound in that presentation, to satisfy our promise, as a commitment or commitment established in the preeminent power of his regulation justifying us to make it. We will undoubtedly satisfy it as a mean of further dazzling his power appeared in his regulation, upon our own souls,- - as a bond getting and elevating a dedicated submission to every one of his edicts. We will undoubtedly satisfy it, in submission to that heavenly power, by got power from which, we as legislative leaders of ourselves made it to advance his honor. In those or like regards, our satisfaction of our promises is an immediate submission to his entire regulation.
