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should believe on the name OF his Son Jesus
Christ and love one another So VIC find many
commandments beside the ten.
MIR. Hill said, He, Jesus, taught that every
jot and title OF the law should endure until
heaven and earth should pass away.
says, Matt. 5:1s. "Till heaven and earth pass,
one jot or one little shall in no wise pass from
the law till all be fulfilled" Then IL will scme-
I'm psss , .s ah nen AZ W - !, A sn
FILL" and in Luke 24:A after His resurrection
He SAID, These are the words spake unto you
while was yet with you, that all things must
be fulfilled which was written in the law of
Moses and in the prophets and IN the Psalms
and completion-the end of the law.
Again, Do we make void the law, or law
through faith? God forbid. YEA we estab-
lish the law or laws. Rom. 1881.
Ans Paul says, verse %: that God is 2 justi-
Boosting then? Excluded by the law OF faith,
| the law Of the faith in Jesus. SO He Is not the
God OF the jews only, ne reasons: The cir
uncircumcision through faith, but do we then
make void the law? God forbid Yea, we es-
tablish the law. Paul does not mean to be un-
| derstoTd as meaning that men should be 1usti-
| fled without obedience to any law. He had
just spoken OF the law of faith. and in 7:6 he
| says, But now being delivered from the law,
| Jewish, that being dead wherein we we're held.
| that we should serve in newness OF spirit and
not I'm the oldness OF the letter.
| In answer to other passages, Christ magni-
fed and hoDored the law, fulfilling 1t TO the
letter, and commanding others to obey II
while 1t was in force, which was, until ne
nailed 1t to the cross. After that time Jesus
nor an apostle never commanded II to be kept
| and apostles repeatedly affirmed that we are
not under the law The law that was nsiled u
the cross was the whole system OF the law,
with the decalogue included, as given at Sinai
the law OF commandments, not the law of GER
emones as Mr.. Hill stated. There Is no such
division or distinction made I'm the scriptures
as moral and ceremonial law. That Is mans
invention
Mr.. Hill quoted, All his commandments are
sure; they stand fast forever and ever. Ans
That proves too much for him, for In the cere
mopial, so called, there are eight-tenths of the
commandments, and those, he said, were done
away.
and referred as proof to James 2:1012, which
, reads For whosoever shall keep the whole law
and yet offend I'm one point. he Is guilty OF all
, This is Jewish law. In contrast, 18th verse, 81
speak we and so do as they that shall be judged
by the law of liberty. Gal. SCI says, STAND
fast, therefore, In the liberty wherewith Chris
with the yoke of bondage. So, the law BY
which we are to be judged Is the law of liberty
whercwitb Christ hath made us free.
J The Jews we're a distinct nation God wa!
l their lawgiver. Their state and church were
, united; their laws statutory and positive, ant
as such, liable to change or TO be dropped b!
) Limitation. Such was the case with the Jewish
law II was not made for the Christian dis
pensation. The new law, or Law of the Spiri
of Life was placed in the church. The statu
/: tory law was placed in the state. Titus 81, Pu
them in mind to be subject to principalitie
: and powers, to obey magistrates. LIST Pet 2:13
! Submit yourselves to every ordinance OF maj
J for the Lords sake, whether II be to the kim
as supreme or unto governors, as unto then
: that are sent by him for the punishment o
! evil doors. The powers that be are ordaine
J, of God. rom. 49, For rulers are not a terro
!, to good works but to the evil. These power
:, and laws are for the lawless, not for the RICH,
2 eous, and are placed in the state. So we d
l. not go back to Sinai, as did the Jews, for law
a with the penalty of death attached. That
!, spoken Of as that which was abolished" 2
Cor. 3:13.