CHAP. LIX. Of the place where it was given, and manner. (Book 59)
GOD gave the Law in Arabia: so wicked Mahomet gave his Law in Arabia; A worse and a better thing no one Country every afforded. God gave his Law in Sinai, a bushy place as it seems by * 1.1 the name, agreeable to the giving of so perplexing a matter. Carry along with thee (gentle Reader) as thou readest the Scripture, thus much care (at my request) as to mark that the Law of Moses was given in two places, Sinai, and the Tabernacle, as also to consider that some part of this Law did only con∣cern the Jews, and some part did also concern all the World. The Ceremonial Law that concerned only the Jews, it was given to Moses in private in * 1.2 the Tabernacle, and fell with the Tabernacle when the veil rent in twain. The Moral Law concerns the whole World, and it was given in sight of the whole World on the top of a mountain, and must endure as long as any mountain standeth. The Judicial Law (which is more indif∣ferent, and may stand or fall, as seems best for the good of a Common-wealth) was gi∣ven neither so publick as the one, nor so private as the other, but in a mean between both.
The Law on Sinai was with fire and trumpets, so shall Christ come with fire and trumpet at the latter day, to take an account how men have kept this fiery Law, as it is called, Deut. 33. 2. Fiery, because given out of the fire, as the Jerusalem and Babilonian