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much confidence In the flesh" al
some have today. But when Moses
came down again he found the people
dancing around a golden calf. And hi
threw down the tablets and broke
Them" Elk. 80. 10. So the law was
broken in Israel, but when Moses
went up again at Gods bidding to re
ceive other tablets, God told him t.
make an ark in which to keep the I'M
broken law.
Now the ark was a type OF Christ
and the nbroken tablets being kept
in 1t, spoke Of the law being kept in
Christ.
Our friends speak so much about
Christ's example in keeping the com
mandments,' and fulfilling and
establishing the law. and not ode
stroying" it. This is all right when
rightly applied. He kept the com.
mandments as no one else ever did
either before or since. "In Him was
no sim" He fulfilled and established
the law by taking the penalty it pro-
nounced on all others; for "all have
sinned and come short Of the glory OF
God" (Rom. 3. 23l. How could he
have destroyed" the law? Suppose
that in the garden Of Gethsemane.
when He knew His hour had come !;
when He faced the awful ordeal OF
dying, 'tthe just for the unjust, that He
might bring to us God" (Peter 3, lS)
OF being made sin for us-that we
might be made the Righteousness OF
God in Him" G. Cor. s, 21), and "of
being cursed for us-that He might
redeem us from the curse of the
law" (Gal. 8, 13). Suppose, then, that
he had faltered there and instead OF
saying, mot as l will, but as Thou
Wilt" he had said, II will not
drink the cup The law indeed, would
have been destroyed unless every one
of Adams race had been left to endure
the penalty due his own sins. But he
did not falter, "to redeem them that
were under the law, that we might re-
ceive the adoption Of sons" (Gal. 4,
81. This was pure grace. And now,
..by grace are We saved through faith,
and that not Of yourselves, it is the
gift of God, not of works, lest any man
should boast. (Eph. 2, 8, 81 salvation
is everywhere. since the gospel was
preached at Pentecost, spoken OF as a
gift" solely on the ground of the re-
demption work of Christ at Calvary.
might write pages and could not give
contrast between claw" and grace
as I find 1t in a booklet. Rightly d.
viding the Word Of Truth
Let me quote Law always has
place and work distinct and wholly d.
verse from that of grace. Law is God
prohibiting and requiring; grace IS
God beseeching and bestowing. Law is
a ministration of condemnation; grace
CT forgiveness. Law curses; grace re-
deems from that curse. Law kills;
grace makes alive. Law shuts every
mouth before God; grace opens every
mouth to praise Him. Law says &c
and live; grace says. believe and i've.
Law utterly condemns the best man;
grace freely justifies the worst. Under
law the sheep dies for the shepherd;
under grace the shepherd dies for the
sheep. The mingling of them III much
of the current teaching of the day
spoils both, for law is robbed of its ter
ror, and grace of its freeness
"B. A. S." devotes much of his sec
ond letter to an effort to make it ap-
pear that wouldbe law keeping Chris
tians have taken the place Of the Jews
in Gods purposes. In order to claim
that they are the remnant of Rev.
12. who keep the commandments OF
Cod and "the children OF Israel OF
Fix. 81. between whom and God, the
Sabbath was to be a perpetual coyei.-
anti" he says. that when the Jews re-
iected Jesus as an imposter, God re-
iected them from being his chosen peo-
ple;" and again, cat the same Tune
the Jews ceased to be Gods people.
'sBut what saith the scriptures?
say then, hath God cast away his peo-
pie? God forbid-God hath not cass
away His people which He forekneW.
(Rom. II, l, ~.
Here Seems to be a radical differ
ence Of opinion between "B. A. S.
and the apostle Paul. And might
say. between him and almost every BIZ
BILE writer; for if there is any one thlnS
more prominent than other in the BOOK
It is that, 'The Lord will have mercy on
Jacob, and will yet choose 1sreal, ana
set them in their own land (lsa.
14,1). The woman" of Rev. IL, is
not the church, but Isreal; and the
remnant Is IlOI luC
but the, remnant of Isreal according
to the election of grace (Rom. IL, 81:
It is amazing that those who would
usurp the place of the Jew, will even
take verse here and there from the
epistles to the Romans and the Gala
tians to substantiate their claims
first, that Christians are, under the
law and next that they are the true
[sreal." The letter to the Romans up
to the ninth chapter, sets forth the
plan of salvation under grace in sharp
contrast to what it was under law,
and finishes with that wonderful dec
aration that nothing shall be able TO
us from the love OF COD,
which is in Christ Jesus, our Lord"
The next three chapters are dispense.
.ional, with gospel mixed in) and
show that God yet will graft in the
natural branches into their own olive
rec" And that when the "fullness OF
he Gentle be come in-there shall
come out of Zion the deliverer, and
shall turn away ungodliness from
Jacob III. %. 26).
The letter to the Galatians was wit