as to designe in their heart the doing of any injury one to another.” The question now is, Who it was that gave to these written Tables the obligatory force of Lawes. There is no doubt but that they were made Laws by God himselfe: But because a Law obliges not, nor is Law to any, but to them that acknowledge it to be the act of the Soveraign, how could the people of Israel that were forbidden to approach the Mountain to hear what God said to Moses, be obliged to obedience to all those laws which Moses propounded to them? Some of them were indeed the Laws of Nature, as all the Second Table; and therefore to be acknowledged for Gods Laws; not to the Israelites alone, but to all people: But of those that were peculiar to the Israelites, as those of the first Table, the question remains; saving that they had obliged themselves, presently after the propounding of them, to obey Moses, in these words (Exod. 20.19.) “Speak them thou to us, and we will hear thee; but let not God speak to us, lest we die.” It was therefore onely Moses then, and after him the High Priest, whom (by Moses) God declared should administer this his peculiar Kingdome, that had on Earth, the power to make this short Scripture of the Decalogue to bee Law in the Common-wealth of Israel. But Moses, and Aaron, and the succeeding High Priests were the Civill Soveraigns. Therefore hitherto, the Canonizing, or making of the Scripture Law, belonged to the Civill Soveraigne.
# De la ley judicial y levítica
La Ley Judicial, es a saber, las Leyes que Dios prescribió a los Magistrados de Israel para la regla de su administración de Justicia, y de las Sentencias o Juicios que debían pronunciar en los pleitos entre hombre y hombre; y la Ley Levítica, es a saber, la regla que Dios prescribió tocando a los Ritos y Ceremonias de los Sacerdotes y Levitas, les fueron entregadas a todos ellos por Moisés únicamente; y por tanto se convirtieron también en Leyes en virtud de la misma promesa de obediencia a Moisés. Si estas leyes fueron entonces escritas, o no escritas, sino dictadas al Pueblo por Moisés (tras sus cuarenta días de estar con Dios en el Monte) de viva voz,