7Hearken unto me, ye that know righteousness, the people in whose heart is my law (Isa. 51)

17All unrighteousness is sin. (1 John 5)

4Whosoever committeth sin transgresseth also the law: for sin is the transgression of the law. (1 John 3)

Rising, and fixing His eyes upon the plotting elders, Jesus said, "He that is without sin among you, let him first cast a stone at her." Verse 7. And, stooping down, He continued writing. {MH 88.4}
He had not set aside the Mosaic law nor infringed upon the authority of Rome. The accusers were defeated. Now, their robes of pretended holiness torn from them, they stood, guilty and condemned, in the presence of infinite purity. Trembling lest the hidden iniquity of their lives should be laid open to the multitude, with bowed heads and downcast eyes they stole away, leaving their victim with the pitying Saviour. {MH 88.5}

After the decision of the council at Jerusalem concerning this question, many were still of this opinion, but did not then push their opposition any farther. The council had, on that occasion, decided that the converts from the Jewish church might observe the ordinances of the Mosaic law if they chose, while those ordinances should not be made obligatory upon converts from the Gentiles. The opposing class now took advantage of this, to urge a distinction between the observers of the ceremonial law and those who did not observe it, holding that the latter were farther from God than the former. {6BC 1111.1} {ST, August 17, 1882 par. 4}

Tom, we've discussed this at length before, but I don't remember what you said about the difference between the moral law and the mosaic law. Ellen White makes it clear that the mosaic law is nothing more than a magnified version of the moral law.

IOW, the mosaic law is inherent in the moral law in the same way the moral law is inherent in the two great commandments.

The terms of the "old covenant" were, Obey and live: "If a man do, he shall even live in them" (Ezekiel 20:11; Leviticus 18:5); but "cursed be he that confirmeth not all the words of this law to do them." Deuteronomy 27:26. The "new covenant" was established upon "better promises"--the promise of forgiveness of sins and of the grace of God to renew the heart and bring it into harmony with the principles of God's law. "This shall be the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel; After those days, saith the Lord, I will put my law in their inward parts, and write it in their hearts . . . . I will forgive their iniquity, and will remember their sin no more." Jeremiah 31:33, 34.

The same law that was engraved upon the tables of stone is written by the Holy Spirit upon the tables of the heart. Instead of going about to establish our own righteousness we accept the righteousness of Christ.(PP 372)

I think the following sums up the difference between the two covenants nicely:

Moses was commanded to write, as God should bid him, judgments and laws giving minute instruction as to what was required. These directions relating to the duty of the people to God, to one another, and to the stranger were only the principles of the Ten Commandments amplified and given in a specific manner, that none need err. They were designed to guard the sacredness of the ten precepts engraved on the tables of stone. {PP 364.1}

He then came still closer to his people, and would not leave them, who were so readily led astray, with merely the ten precepts of the decalogue. He required Moses to write as he should bid him, judgments and laws, giving minute directions in regard to what he required them to perform, and thereby guarded the ten precepts which he had engraved upon the tables of stone. These specific directions and requirements were given to draw erring man to the obedience of the moral law which he is so prone to transgress. {3SG 299.1}

The ceremonial system was made up of symbols pointing to Christ, to His sacrifice and His priesthood. This ritual law, with its sacrifices and ordinances, was to be performed by the Hebrews until type met antitype in the death of Christ, the Lamb of God that taketh away the sin of the world. Then all the sacrificial offerings were to cease. {PP 365.1}

As the Bible presents two laws, one changeless and eternal, the other provisional and temporary, so there are two covenants. {PP 370.2}

Tom, we've discussed this at length before, but I don't remember what you said about the difference between the moral law and the mosaic law. Ellen White makes it clear that the mosaic law is nothing more than a magnified version of the moral law.

It seems clear to me that the "judgments and laws" are as eternal as the law itself;...They are universally binding. God writes them in the hearts and minds of those who convert to obeying everything Jesus commanded....

M: Of course, certain aspects of the "judgments and laws" required being under a theocracy (i.e. enforcing capital punishment).

t: well then i guess we better go back to stoning because that was one of the judgments.

M: Ellen White makes it clear that the mosaic law is nothing more than a magnified version of the moral law.

"These [judgments and laws] relating to the duty of the people to God, to one another, and to the stranger were only the principles of the Ten Commandments amplified . . ."

t: the "mosaic law" is not included in the quotes you provided.