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The dead child — surrendered. Ishmael, and Isaac. The Law, and the Gospel. 



Truth is Trutli, alike wliether slie carries the balm of life, or 

 the weapon of death.'' (p. 181.) 



Indulging the modest hope that this encomium may not be 

 undeserved, I would remark that theprevious flattering figure is 

 not well chosen. The " child'^ is the dead one ! — stark cold ! It 

 will not require a Solomon to decide our controversy . So far from 

 ^' consenting to the division'' of the child in dispute, I cheer- 

 fully resign the whole corpse into my friend's awaiting arms — 

 cerements and all ! Alas ! however his mistaken affection may 

 for a while beguile him, his kindest nursing can never restore 

 it. The outcast son of Hagar cannot be heir with the living 

 son of Sarah. ''Truth is truth!'' whether she herald life or 

 death. 



'' Wherefore, my brethren, ye also are become dead to ' the 

 Law/ by the body of Christ/' being '' buried with him by 

 baptism into death/' '' wherein, also, ye are risen with him 

 through faith/' that ye " should serve in neicness of spirit, and 

 not in the oldness of the letter," which was but " a shadow of 

 things to come, whose body is of Christ.^' " Now, after that ye 

 have known God, or rather are known of Grod, how turn ye 

 again to the weak and beggarly elements, whereunto ye desire 

 again to be in bondage ?" " Know ye not, that to whom ye 

 yield yourselves servants to obey, his servants ye are to whom 

 ye obey ?" " Ye are not come unto the Mount that might be 

 touched, and that burned with fire ; nor unto blackness, and 

 darkness, and tempest, and the sound of a trumpet, and the 

 voice of words/' ''but ye are come unto Mount Sion, and 

 unto the city of the living Grod, the heavenly Jerusalem. '' 

 " Ye are not under ' the Law,' but under Grace." " Stand 

 fast, therefore, in the liberty wherewith Christ hath made you 

 free, and be not entangled again with the yoke of bondage." 



My friend, in trusting to the works of the ministration upon 



stones, instead of exclusively "looking unto Jesus as the 



author and Jinisher of the Faith," and "the mediator of a 



hefter covenant" than that of Horeb, has " stumbled at that 



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