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"The Decalogue" consigned to the grave, — under the gospel "colors." 



provision in the code.* And liaving proved, beyond the pos- 

 sibility of refutation, tbat the Fourtli commandment ^^is gone to 

 its grave with the ' signs' and ^sbadows' of the Old Testament/' 

 I might say, with the Roman poet, ^^ jamqiie opus exegi,'^ and 

 leave my friend to arrange his necklace (bereft of its '^ pearl 

 of days") as best he may. Having no desire for concealment, 

 however, I cannot slight his appeal, but must endeavor to 

 '^come out dearhjy I therefore take oecasion, ^^in the name 

 of Truth and Honesty,'' to announee that I am at present 

 såiling under the " colors" of Paul and of PauFs Master. And 

 I "mean to do with the Decalogue'^ just as they did with it — 

 leave it in the grave to which the Cross has consigned it, a 

 subject for the glass of the Antiquary, or the knife of the 

 theologic Anatomist. I shall '^eave it alone in its glory,'' 

 assured that '^if the ministration of death, written and en- 

 graven in stones, was glorious (so that the children of Israel 

 could not steadfastly behold the face of Moses, for the glory of 

 his countenance)," '^much more that which remaineth is glo- 



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* *' In its own nature," says Dr. Barrow, "it differeth from the rest 

 of the ten Laws, the obligation thereto being not discernibly to natural 

 light, grounded in the reason of the thing." {Worlts, vol. i. Exposition 

 of the Decalogue.) Hence it is the only provision of that code having 

 the injunctive "Remember!" It would have been impossible for the 

 Icgislator to have said, '■'- Rememher not to steal!" '■'■ Rememher not to 

 kill!" These precepts were addressed to the moral sense of his hear- 

 ers ; the Sabbath law alone, was addressed to their memory ! This 

 premonition was evidently iised, as Dr. Gill has well stated, "because 

 it was a command of positive institution, and not a part of the law of 

 nature, and therefore more liable to be forgotten and neglected ; for, 

 as a Jewish writer (Aben Ezra) observes, all the laws of the Decalogue 

 are according to the dictates of nature, the law and light of reason, 

 and knowledge of men, excepting this ; wherefore no other has this 

 word 'Rememher' prefixed to it." {Comment. on Exod. xx. 8.) Chrt- 

 sosTOM draws the same inference from this peculiarity of injunction, 

 and considers the Sabbath law a " local and teniporary" commandment. 



