continuing applicability of the civil law. As with the related question of natural law and civil law, the Reformed orthodox confessions and theologians examined here upheld and developed this consensus position. First, Reformed orthodoxy continued to affirm the threefold division of the Mosaic law into moral, ceremonial, and civil (or judicial) as a standard theological axiom. Turretin, for example, writes: “The law given by Moses is usually distinguished into three species: moral (treating of morals