them as conformable to itself; and in that sense the righteousness of the law is fulfilled in those, “who walk not after the flesh but after the Spirit,” Rom. 8:4. XLIII. Upon these ten words or commandments God entered into a covenant with Israel. “The Lord our God made a covenant with us in Horeb,” Deut. 5:2. So that the ten words are called the “words of the covenant,” Exod. 34:28; and the “covenant itself,” Deut. 4:13; nay the tables on which they were written are called the “tables of the covenant,”
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