MR. TAYLOR' S THIRD REPLY. 277 



'•' If ye love me, keep My commandments." 



that he taught authoritatively !* impressing upon them 

 the importance undet his kingdom, of serving no longer in the 

 oldness of tlie letter, hut in entire newness of spirit! 



Such is an epitome of "the argument from Matt. Y.f 

 and he will indeed be bold, who even "atte7npts to set it aside." 

 "If any man speak, let him speak as the oracles of Grod!" 



"Whosoever therefore shall break one of these least com- 

 mandments, aud shall teach men so, he shall be called the 

 least in ^the kingdom of heaven.' . . . Whosoever heareth 

 these sayings of Mine and doeth them, I will liken him unto 

 a wise man, which built his house upon a rock; and the rain 

 descended, and the floods came, and the winds blew, and beat 

 upon that house ; and it fell not : for it was founded upon a 

 rock. f And every one that heareth these sayings of Mine, 

 and doeth them not, shall be likened unto a foolish man which 

 built his house upon the sand : and the rain descended, and 

 the floods came, and the winds blew, and beat upon that house; 



lying, robberj, and murcler, are no longer sins under the Christian 

 dispensation!" <'There remains no moral obligation on Gentile 

 Christians!" J. N. B. (pp. 74, 75.) My friend cannot distinguish be- 

 tween " Neonomianism" and " Antinomianism !" 



" We utterly mistake the matter," says Chalmers, ''if we think 

 that because emancipated from the relation in which we formerly 

 stood to the Law, we are therefore emancipated from all service. The 

 wife owes a du ty to her second husband, as well as her first. The one 

 has claims upon her obedience, and her dutiful regards, as well as the 

 other. . . And thus it is with the Law on the one hand, and with Christ 

 on the other. Under the Law we were bidden to do and live : under 

 Christ, we are bidden to live and do." (Lectures on the Epistle to the 

 Romans. Leet. xxxviii.) 



* "He hath delivered his precépts after the most perfect manner, 

 with the greatest authority ; not like Moses and the prophets, saying 

 Thus saith the Lord; but ' I say unto you ;' not like the interpreters of 

 Moses, for he taught them as one having authoj-ityJ' Bishop Pearsoi». 

 (Ezposition of the Creed, art. ii. on ^'C/irist.") 



■f Ephesians ii. 20. 



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