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The Epistle to the ^ei!>rews ;— character and time of the "rest." 



friend. God grant that he niay have done with it too ! I re- 

 serve the examination of the Sixth to the next week, for fear 

 of crowding your eolumns. 



J. N. B. 



PART IV. 



"Whosoever therefore sliall break one of these Icast command- 

 ments, and shall teach raen so, he sliall be called the least in the king- 

 dom of heaven ; but whosoever shall do and teach them, the same 

 shall be called great in the kingdom of heaven." — Matthew v. 19. 



Yl. Only one more Proposition of W. B. T. remains to 

 "be considered. It is that ^^ the Epistles uniformly regard the 

 Sabbath as a provisional type, fulfilled and siiperseded by the 

 Gospel dispensation." 



It may seem a waste of time and strength to examine this 

 last Proposition minutely, after what has been said already. 

 And happily, it is unnecessary to follow in detail my friend's 

 argument from the Epistle to the Hebrews, as most of his re- 

 marks and reasonings are really sound and appreciating. I 

 give him credit for a very careful study of the Apostle's train 

 of thought, and exhaustive method of argument, on the pas- 

 sage quoted from Fs. xcv. 11. Only on two points of his con- 

 clusion, which indeed resolve themselves into one, do I see 

 cause to differ from him. The first is as to the character of 

 the " rest that remaineth to the people of God j" and the 

 sccond as to the time of entering into it. The first of these 

 he understands to be simply a spiritual sabbatism ; and the 

 second, an immediate, as well as complete entrance into it, by 

 faith, in the j^tresent world. A word on each of these. 



The first opinion of W. B. T. (and partially, not exclusively, 

 of Dr. Gill) rests on two grounds : 1. The general scope of 

 the FJpistle. This, I agree with my friend entirely, "is the Levi- 



