SInce I am not 'master' of the WCF, my question appears easy to me, but perhaps it is not.

We read:

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.

I have seen some attempt to use this to show theonomy is correct. My question is what theonomist in their right mind would write it as such? NONE!!!! what has happened is a shift from the power of the words expired and not obliging as the driving force of this phrase, to the gray area of general equity. The gray has become the barometer over the clear. If we did this with all our theological thinking, we would be most miserable. It is as if that last unintelligable phrase is out their to soften the first clear part!!!! It is like using James 2 to prove salvation by works over the overwhelming evidence it is not by works but grace.

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N. Robert; Trinity Reformed Church RCA, Holland MI

Once in a while you can get shown the light, in the strangest of places if you look at it right."