which all men believe, but that he doubted not him to be God, whose voice and promises he had heard, and that the _God_ of Abraham signified not simply _God_, but _that God which appeared unto him_; even as the worship, which Abraham owed unto God in that notion, was not the worship of _reason_, but of _religion_ and _faith_, and that which not reason, but God had _supernaturally_ revealed. [Sidenote: The laws to which Abraham was tied were no other, but those of nature and that of circumcision.] 5. But we read of no laws given by God to Abraham, or by Abraham to his family, either then or after, secular or sacred; excepting the commandment of _circumcision_, which is contained in the _covenant_ itself. Whence it is manifest, that there were no other laws or worship, which Abraham was obliged to, but the laws of nature, rational worship, and circumcision. [Sidenote: Abraham among his own was the interpreter of the word of God and of all laws.] 6. Now Abraham was the _interpreter_ of all _laws_, as well sacred as secular, among those that belonged to him; not merely naturally, as using the laws of nature only, but even by the form of the covenant itself; in which obedience is promised by Abraham, not for himself only, but for his seed also; which had been in vain, except his children had been tied to obey his commands. And how can that be understood, which God says (Gen. xviii. 18, 19): _All the nations of the earth shall be blessed in him; for I know him, that he will command his children and his household after him, and they shall keep the way of the Lord to do justice and judgment_: unless his children and his household were supposed to be obliged to yield obedience unto his commands? [Sidenote: Abraham’s subjects could not sin in obeying him.]