There is no doubt but they were made laws by God himself; but because a law obliges not, nor is law to any, but to them that acknowledge it to be the act of the sovereign; 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 God’s 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 (