MR. taylor's second reply. 127 



The Sabbath not " moral" because incorporated in the Decalogue. 



17; Seb. iv.), then did it pass away forever {Ueb. viii. 13 ; 

 ix. 11 ; John viii. 36) — 



" Established" and completed, — not ''made vold," 

 Its purpose " all fulfilled," but not " destroycd." 



It is still contended that the Sabbath law is moral, because 

 incorporated in the Decalogue. {p. 58.) In this J. N. B. re- 

 vives the non sequitur he but latel}^ so satisfactorilj exposed. 

 If no '"'incorporation" can make a cereinoiiiallsiw, equallj true 

 is it that no "incorporation" can make a moral law. ''The 

 seventh day'' is incorporated in the Decalogue, and yet my 

 friend has labored vigorously to explain it away. " The se- 

 venth day of the Decalogue I hold to be a part of the moral 

 law of the Sabbath, but not the mere circumstanco of its order or 

 mode of designation." (p. 59.)* Be it so; at least a ?6-eeZ:/y Sab- 

 bath is by this admitted as an integral part of the law ; indeed a 

 ^'weekly period" is very shortly afterward expressly asserted by 

 J. N. B. to be " requiredhj the Decalogue." (p. 60.) And he has 

 before informed us that a ''weekly Sabbath, rather than one 

 oftcner or more seldom, is iiot of itself ohvious !" (p. 15.) A 

 happy description of his ''moral law I" ^^ Moral precepts," says 

 Bishop Butler, " are precepts, the reason of which we see. 

 Moral duties arise out of the nature of the case itself, prior to 

 external command." {Anal. P. ii. ch. 1.) If, as J. N. B. con- 

 tends, the Sabbath is obligatory because commanded by the 

 Decalogue, then can it by no possibility be a moral law !f 



* "I suppose it to be unreasonable to say that althougb tbe seventh 

 day is not moral, yet that one day is — or at least that some time be 

 separate is moral ; for, that one day in seven should be separate can have 

 no natural, essential, and congenite reason, any more than one in ten or 

 one in six : for as it does not naturally follow that, because God ceased 

 from the creation on the seventh day, therefore ice must keep thai holy 

 day, so neither could we have known it without revelation ; and there- 

 fore what follows from hence must be by positive constitution." Bish- 

 op Taylor. [Duct. Duhitant. B. ii. ch. 2, rule vi. 51.) 



•j- If I " can set aside the moral nature of the fourth commandment," 



