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PauPs triumphant refutation of the " Anti-nomian." " The Law" — dead. 



weak indeed the logic, that conceives it! How triumphantly 

 does the Apostle meet this ståle and trivial imputation : " What 

 then? Shall we sin, because 'we are not under the Law/ 

 but under Grace ? — God forbid V And why not ? Because 

 fi portion of the Law is still obligatory? Because we are still 

 under the " Decalogue V^ Never ! but because " his servants 

 ye are whom ye ohey !" — being not without law to God, but 

 under the law to Christ. " If ye love me," said he who su- 

 perseded the tutor, "keep my commandnients.'' The repeal 

 then of the Becalogue cannot disturb " one jot or one tittle'' 

 of the moral law : it leaves the whole subject of moral obliga- 

 tion just where it was before these hard-ridden " ten command- 

 ments" were enacted ; and just where it has ever been sinee. 

 Are the millions who have never heard of ^^the Becalogue,'' 

 nccessarily antinomians? Read Rom. ii. 14, 15, for your 

 answer. "Were those who lived during the thousands of years 

 before "the Becalogue" had existence, necessarily antinomians? 

 Bead Rom. v. 13, for your answer. Are we who live thou- 

 sands of years after " the Becalogue" is dead, necessarily an- 

 tinomians ? Bead Rom. vi. for your answer : and blush for 

 the silliness of the inference. 



" Before Faith came, we were kept under ^ the Law,' .... 

 but after that Faith is come, we are no longer under a school- 

 master." '^ Now, we are delivered from the ^ Law,' that 

 being dead wherein we were held ; that we should serve in 

 newness of spirit, and not in the oldness of the letter." [Rom. 

 vii. 6.) But, says J. N. B. (p. 173), " Paul does not say that 

 the Law is ' dead,' but its curse only, ' in which we were 

 held' by our guilt. — Gal. iii. 13." My friend has, in this un- 

 lucky assertion, compromised his scholarship no less than his 

 theology. Paul does not say that the " curse only" is dead. 

 It is "the Laio" which is dead /^ or rather, to which the 



" There is a grammatical variation in tlie ancient versions of tliis pas- 

 sage [verse 6th) — which, however, does not at all affect the present 



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