MR. brown' S SECOND REPLY. 57 



JeAvish motive assigued. The Law not therefore ccremonial and Jewish. 



monial law of the Jews. The fact is clear. Therefore 

 Marriage is a ^' strictly ceremonial and Jeivi&h institution V 

 Will my friend W. B. T. accept this inference ? It is just as 

 sound as his own; and he is bound either to accept it iili hotJi 

 cases, or to reject it in both. 



His next argument is drawn from the incorporation of a 

 motive from Jewish history into the reasons for its observance. 

 — Dent. v. 15. {p. 10.) But this is explained by the fact that 

 Moses is here rehearsing the Decalogue in a vfSij pecidiarli/ 

 applicahle to the Jewish people. No such motive is found in 

 the Decalogue itself, as originally delivered by Grod ; although 

 very proper to be added afterwards to enforce its observance 

 upon them. 



But suppose it were found appended to the original reason 

 given in Ex. xx. 11 ; how does this prove the Second Proposi- 

 tion? That grand ^^republication of the law of nature/' 

 the Decalogue, was given to mankind through that nation, 

 till the Messiah should come. {Dent. xviii. 15; Rom. v. 20 ; 

 Gal. iii. 19.) Though universal in its nature, it was of course 

 particular in its application. It was all for the time incorpo- 

 rated both with their ceremonial and civil code. Was it all 

 therefore '^ strictly ceremonial and Jetuishf Will W. B. T. 

 really affirm this ? Much of his reasoning implies it, yet I 

 am unwilling to impute to him a conclusion so immoral, as well 

 as illogical. 



Yery different, it seems to me, is the language of our Lord 

 in the opening of his Sermon on the Mount. ^^Think not 

 that I am come to destroy the law or the prophets ; I am come 

 not to destroy, but to fulfil. For verily I say unto you, till 

 heaven and earth pass, one jot or one tittle shall in no wise pass 

 from the law, till all be fulfilled.'' {Matt. v. 17, 18.) And 

 lest any of his own disciples, in consequence of the abrogation 

 of the strictly Jewish code, should suppose and teach any re- 

 laxation of the moral code, he adds the solemn warning which 

 I have prefixed as a motto to these articles. ^^ Whosoever 



