What are the previous laws we’ve talked about? What did the assembly mean by “body politic”? What does it mean that those laws expired with that people? What is general equity? Are you a theonomist? How is the Westminster Assembly’s “general equity” different than Christian Reconstruction or Theonomy? What’s important about the word “may”? Often the discussion on this chapter revolves around the death penalty, can you discuss that? Tune in as Nathan, Shawn, Joel, and Kyle discuss WCF 19.4:
To them also, as a body politic, he gave sundry judicial laws, which expired together with the State of that people, not obliging any other, now, further than the general equity thereof may require
The Jerusalem Chamber 