Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1841-1853, 1847-08-12

piicatau or express enactnents Do we not multiply
repenish the earth, We do; where do get authority
To do IL In the law of Moses IT'S not there In the
the christian scripturess IT'S there. II do not
derive the authority for il in this Noachc code we arc do
ing without authority aliogeher But we have author
y f' it Tins code Then item Of this code IS still
an force.
Again, does the whole animal creation fear man now,
at this day, Most assuredy they do every daily
observation proves This Is matter that comes up TO the
DENOMINATION of our senses They fear man as much
they did the day after the giving Of This law or at
any other time between that and the present Did they
fear him beore5 No. For they played with him in
the garden Of Edenj they all came to him in the ark
without any apprehension and they III upon his hand
and pulled into the ark during the flood without
fear What put this fear them Them This word of
Cod And the fear IS still there, Is not ts c0rd q
God still there asO' opne il Then here Is another
item Of Ire code still in eriSteHce.
Again. does man at this day. hold property in, and
ercse domiaon the animal creation Where does
he get his authority Tor III la the christian scriptures
No, he does not In the Jewish scriPtUres' No. But
he does in the Noacbic scriptures, and partially IN the
AdanIic scriptures. Here IS third item then an force
Prov ed to us daily by our senses and observation.
Passing to The GIN and 10th items OF the code, Is the
against another flood still exisngs is II
ceed Does the sign of this covenant between God and
the earth still exist When God bring cloud the
earth is ''the bow "seen in the cloud"
days: Every child tell you il seven Yes, il is
plainly and legiby il the day after God
spoa. Noah and his This part Of the code IS also
then IA life. Icing, and existence
will return the 9th item. This grants animal
food to man. Ii was not before granted 10 him. lie was
restrained however, from eating blood with the flesh in
enjoying this grant. Does animal food ,
He does all the world over, Pagan Hndoo, Jew, Turk
and Christian DO they get their authority Tor It from
the christian scriptures? They do not; do they get il
from the Jewish scrpurese they do FOR they
ken out of the way and nailed to the of Christ
They allowed the eating of certain kinds OF animal food
only and pork the chief animal food used "a christen
dom excluded by that Iawj that f that had not
been taken it would been authority for
the praclre Of tins country. Authority must then be
got from this Noachc CODE have none for none is
found in the Adamc, Jewish, Christian scriptures
But the restraining clause in this item had under
consideration the christian college, and, Slightly mod
fled il declared be in force and binding. And
IL before decreed that what they bound earth
should be bound in heaven, done and thus is
the last have from there on the subject "For,
say this college, ' seemed good to The Holy Ghost and
to 10 lay upon you greater burden than these
Sary things That abstain iIom meats offered o idols,
aud from blood aud from things strangled, and from for
ncaon from WHICH We keep yourselves, we shall do
well " Acts, %, 20
| The question submitted to this college was, whether the
gentle CHRISTIAN should be crcumcised aud keep the law
of Moses This question they decide IN the negative
The law given to the Jews alone for particular pur
pose; that purpose then accomplished; il never had
been obligatory the gentIes and the inspired Peter
then SAID that neither they their fathers had been able
bear therefore, they declared that the gentle chris
lians bound to observe il. THIS then d.
vnely authorized declaration announcing that the rite
of circumcision given through Abraham, and the law
given through Moses finished abrogaied cancelled
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which would the gentle christians error, they
expressly them when giving their adjudication up
the questions prOpounded, that Notwithstanding this is
circumcision aud the law of Moses yet there
Unnecessary things for you 10 observe, which, matter
of course necessary because they also in
other law than that Of Moses which decaF-
ing is obligatory upon You. This is what lawyers
call excluding conclusion. II nothing had been said,
the christians Antioch might have concluded, those
who take the ground that this Noachc code is abro-
gated try get conclude that had been declared
that the law of Moses, in which incorporated some
Of the Noacic precepts obligatory upon Them
therefore we'll that which Moses recorded being
gwen through Noah all that given through him.
repealed but 10 exclude that conclusion the college
said that What given Noah and his sons having
always been obligatory gentIles toe the Je5rs
is still Unnecessary taking away of the law Of Mo-
does take that away; and having horty do
so, modify it and say that you only abstain
from blood aud from things flesh with The blood
thereof, the language of the Noachic code but you
abstain from meats offered to idols These ''hc
cessary things notwithstanding the law of Moses an
end. Why? Because being part of the law lad NoaI
and his sons, and you being of the of Noah
bound by il.
4 Thus the latest moulh-peces of God to have au
horitaiivey said that this part Of the Noachie code is still
IA force. Stick pin there
With much regret, find that | conclude th.
branch of the argument in this number will there
fore desis,. Very respectfully &c. s.
July 81, 1917.