8. In the _kingdom_ of God after this life, there will be _no laws_; partly, because there is no room for laws, where there is none for sins; partly, because laws were given us from God, not to direct us in heaven, but unto heaven. Let us now therefore inquire what laws Christ established not himself; for he would not take upon him any legislative authority, as hath been declared above in art. 6; but propounded to us for his Father’s. We have a place in Scripture, where he contracts all the laws of God published till that time, into two precepts. (Matth. xxii. 37, 38, 39, 40): _Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thine heart, with all thy soul, and with all thy mind; this is the greatest and first commandment. And the second is like unto it, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself. On these two commandments hang all the law and the prophets._ The first of these was given before by Moses in the same words (Deut. vi. 5); and the second even before Moses; for it is the natural law, having its beginning with rational nature itself: and both together is the sum of all laws. For all the laws of divine natural worship, are contained in these words, _Thou shalt love God_; and all the laws of divine worship due by the _old covenant_, in these words, _Thou shalt love thy God_, that is to say, _God_, as being the peculiar _King of Abraham_ and his seed; and all the laws natural and civil, in these words, _Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself._ For he that loves God and his neighbour, hath a mind to obey all laws, both divine and human. But God requires no more than a mind to obey. We have another place where Christ interprets the laws, namely, the fifth, sixth, and seventh entire chapters of St. Matthew’s Gospel. But all those laws are set down either in the _decalogue_ or in the _moral law_, or are contained in _the faith of Abraham_; as that law of not putting away a wife is contained in _the faith of Abraham_. For that same, _two shall be one flesh_, was not delivered, either by Christ first, or by Moses, but by Abraham, who first preached the creation of the world. The laws therefore which Christ contracts in one place, and explains in another, are no other than those to which all mortal men are obliged, who acknowledge the God of Abraham. Beside these, we read not of any law given by Christ, beside the institution of the sacraments of _baptism_ and the _eucharist_. [Sidenote: That these and the like forms, repent, be baptized, keep the commandments, are not laws.]