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The Decalogue — specijically, abrogated. 



letter of the Record as decisively refuting this unfounded as- 

 sumption, and impressively rebuking its rasliness. It is "the 

 Decalogue'' which was "done away" by a more glorious minis- 

 tration. (2 Cor. iii. 7 — 11.) It is "the Decalogue'' from 

 which, as from a dead husband, "we are delivered.'^ {Rom. 

 vii. 2 — 7.) It is "the Decalogue" which "decayed''' and 

 "vanished away'^ before a better covenant. (Heh. viii. 9 — 13; 

 De2it. v. 2 — 6.) It is "the Decalogue" which was "blotted 

 out," and "nailed to the cross"* as being inseparably linked 

 with the "shadows" and " carnal ordinances imposed until the 

 time of the reformation," and which served unto the example 

 of more heavenly things under the new priesthood " of good 

 things to come." (Col. ii. 14 — 17; Heh. iv., ix. 10; Eom. 

 xiv.) In fine, it is "the Decalogue" which is ever placed in 

 contras t with the newer government of Mount Sion and the 

 spiritual Jerusalem. (^Heb. xii. 18 — 24.) 



But I "have not even attempted" to set aside "the argument 

 from Matt. v." Most true ! I should indeed regrct to see that 



'■^ An objection lias been raised to this (during the present Discus- 

 sion) by our respected seventh-day Baptist friends of the New York 

 "Sabbath Recorder," derived from propriety of metaphor, and the 

 inconvenience of "nailing'' a "table of stone" to a cross! It is suffi- 

 cient that it is not impossible. And Paul has told us most explicitly 

 that the nail has been driven dircctly through the fourth commandment! 

 [Col. ii.) However difl&cult this accomplishment, our friends will find 

 it vastly harder work to chisel away the balance of the tablet from its 

 crucified position! 



"The 'ordinances' of which the apostle spake to the Colossians," 

 says Macknight, "were ordinances, the blotting out of which was a 

 proof that God had forgiven the Colossians all trespasses. The proof 

 did not arise from the blotting out of the ritual, but of the moral pre- 

 cepts of the law of Moses, as sanctioned with the curse [&c.]. . . . 

 The moral precepts of the Law of Moses are called the Chirograph or 

 'handwriting of ordinances,' because the most essential of these pre- 

 cepts were written by the hand of God on two tables of stone." [Com- 

 ment. on Epistles, in loco.) "Facilis descensus.'" J. N. B. {p. 66.) 



