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Assuredly, whatever may be the difficulties of 

 Christianity, this is not one of them, — that it calls 

 on us to believe in any exception to the universal 

 prevalence and power of Law. Its leading facts 

 and doctrines are directly connected with this 

 belief, and directly suggestive of it. The Divine 

 mission of Christ on earth — does not this imply 

 not only the use of means to an end, but some 

 inscrutable necessity that certain means, and these 

 only, should be employed in resisting and over- 

 coming evil ? What else is the import of so many 

 passages of Scripture implying that certain con- 

 ditions were required to bring the Saviour of Man 

 into a given relation with the race He was sent 

 to save ? " It behoved Him .... to make the 

 Captain of our Salvation perfect through suffer- 

 ing." " It behoved Him in all things to be made 

 like unto His brethren, that He might be" &c. — 

 with the reason added : " for in that He himself 

 hath suffered being tempted, He is able to succour 

 them that are tempted." Whatever more there 

 may be in such passages, they all imply the 

 universal reign of Law in the moral and spiritual, 



as well as in the material world : that those laws 



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