MR. brown' S SECOND REPLY. 67 



The charge of "violation" marte by Pharisees: not by Christian Avriters. 



when thus understood, perfectly agree with his cliaracter, his 

 office, his uniform doctrine, and all the exigencies of the case ? 

 Thus understood, what a sublime dignity do they give to the 

 Sabbathj and to him as '^ the Lord of the Sabbath." But un- 

 derstand them as "VV. B. T. would have us, and every trace of 

 their glory vanishes. ^^The Son of Man is Lord/' of what? 

 Of a " strictly ceremonial and Jewish institute V ^' entirely 

 subservient to men V and vanishing away with other " sha- 

 dows I" '^ No great harm in breaking ^ shadows/ you know/' 

 says my friend gayly. Most true ; but take care that you do 

 not impinge upon something more substantial ! Take care 

 that you do not strike at foundation-stones in the great edifice 

 of religion and morals. " The truth is (to use his own lan- 

 guage in part, j^- 28), this much perverted quotation (^Marh 

 ii. 28) was pronounced not as a check upon [Sabbatarians], 

 but to counteract [bigoted Pharisees] ; and honesty requires 

 that it should not be employed for an opposite purpose." 



To conclude this part of the subject. My friend thinks the 

 passages in Matt xii. 2; 3Iarh ii. 24; Jolin\. 10, 16, 18; 

 and ix. 16, must have escaped my memory, when I observed, 

 on this Third Proposition, *' This is the first time I remember 

 to have seen ' him who knew no sin,' charged with a ' stu- 

 died and repeated violation of the law of God.' " {p. 29.) By no 

 means. I knew that Pharisaic Jews had brought the charge 

 l)efore ; but I meant (as my context shows) that it was the 

 first time I had found that charge indorsed by a Christian 

 writer. I had indeed read Paley; but I thought his language 

 was more guarded; and on recurring to Paley' s argument, I 

 am happy to acquit Mm of the charge in question ; nor do I 

 nov/ remember any professedly Christian writer, except the 

 author of these Propositions, who has indorsed it. That the 

 Jews did make the charge " with malice prepense," is mani- 

 fest; but I think too well of my friend W. B. T., in spite of all 

 his mistakes, to class him with men who had murder in their 

 hearts asfainst the " Lord of the Sabbath." 



