and will sooner endure even the most exquisite kinds of torments, together with their kinsfolks and dearest friends, than call any mortal man their Lord._ [Sidenote: What laws were by God given to the Jews.] 10. The right of the kingdom being thus constituted by way of _covenant_, let us see in the next place, what _laws_ God propounded to them. Now those are known to all, to wit, the _decalogue_, and those other, as well _judicial_ as _ceremonial laws_, which we find from the twentieth chapter of Exodus to the end of Deuteronomy and the death of Moses. Now of those _laws_, delivered in general by the hand of Moses, some there are which oblige _naturally_, being made by God, as the _God of nature_, and had their force even before Abraham’s time. Others there are which oblige by virtue of the _covenant_ made with Abraham, being made by God as the God of Abraham, which had their force even before Moses’s time, by reason of the former _covenant_. But there are _others_ which oblige by virtue of that covenant only, which was made last with the people themselves; being made by God, as being _the peculiar_ king of the Israelites. Of the first sort are all the precepts of the decalogue which pertain unto manners; such as, _honour thy parents_, _thou shalt not kill_, _thou shalt not commit adultery_, _thou shalt not steal_, _thou shalt not bear false witness_, _thou shalt not covet_; for they are the laws of nature. Also the precept of not taking _God’s name in vain_; for it is a part of natural worship, as hath been declared in the foregoing chapter (art. 15). In like manner the second commandment, of not worshipping by way of any image made by themselves; for this also is a part of natural religion, as hath been showed in the same article. Of the second sort is the first commandment of the decalogue, _of not having any other Gods_; for in that consists the essence of the _covenant_ made with Abraham, by which God requires nothing else, but that he should be his God, and the God of his seed. Also the precept of _keeping holy the Sabbath_; for the sanctification of the seventh day is instituted in memorial of the six days’ creation, as appears out of these words (Exod. xxxi. 16-17): _It is a perpetual covenant_, (meaning _the Sabbath_), _and a sign between me and the children of Israel for ever; for in six days the Lord made heaven and earth, and on the seventh day he rested, and was refreshed._ Of the third kind are the _politic_, _judicial_, and _ceremonial laws_; which only belonged to the Jews. The _laws_ of the first and second sort written in _tables of stone_, to wit, the _decalogue_, was kept in the _ark_ itself. The rest written in the _volume_ of the whole law, were laid up in _the side of the ark_, (Deut. xxxi. 26). For these, retaining the faith of Abraham, might be changed; those could not. [Sidenote: What the word of God is, and how to be known.]