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One came and said unto him, good master what good thing shall I do that I may have eternal life? He said, If thou wilt enter into life keep the commandments. Then he asked him which? He cited him to the last part of what he called the second, loving his neighbor as himself. If he had cited him to the first table, as in the xxii, quoted above, he could not have replied
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Why? Because he would have already been perfect, for Jesus in reply to his question, what he should do to inherit eternal life, said he must
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Matt. xix: 16-20. Is not the Sabbath included in these commandments? Surely [19]it is! Then how absurd to believe that Jesus, just at the close of his ministry, should teach that the way, the only way, to enter into life, was to keep the commandments, one of which was to be abolished in a few months from that time, without the least intimation from him or his Father that it was to take place. I say again, if the Sabbath is abolished, we ask those who teach it to cite us to the chapter and verse, not to the law of rites and ceremonies which are abolished, for we have already shown that the Sabbath was instituted more than twenty-five hundred years before Moses wrote the carnal ordinances or ceremonies. God said,
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Abraham kept _my_ charge, _my_ commandments, _my_ statutes, and _my_ laws. Gen. xxvi: 5. This must include the Sabbath, for the Sabbath was the first law given, therefore if Abraham did not keep the Sabbath, I cannot understand what commandments, statutes and laws mean in this chapter. Jesus says,
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As I have kept my Father's commandments,
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Moses law,
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x: 34. Again,
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xv: 25. Here then we show that Jesus kept up a clear distinction between what God calls _my_ law and commandments and Moses law,
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Let us now look at the argument of the Apostles. Paul preaching at Antioc taught the Brethren that by Jesus Christ all who believed in him
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And they are informed of thee, that thou teachest _all_ the Jews which are among the Gentiles to forsake _Moses_ and the _customs_. xxi: 20, 21. Any person who will carefully read the eight chapters here included, must be thoroughly convinced that the Apostle's troubles were about the law of ceremonies written and given by Moses, and nothing to do with the ten commandments. For you see a little before he comes to Jerusalem, he had been preaching at Corinth every [20]Sabbath for eighteen months. xxiii: 4, 11. And this, be it remembered, was more than twenty years after the Jewish Sabbaths and ceremonies were nailed to the cross.--And you see that Paul was the man above all the Apostles to be persecuted on account of the abolition of the Jews' law of ceremonies, for he was the
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and if the
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Sabbath of the Lord our God was to have been abolished when the Saviour died, Paul was the very man selected for that purpose. It is clear, therefore, that he did not abolish the seventh day Sabbath among the Gentiles. This same Apostle tells the Romans
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x: 4. Again, that
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vi: 14. Once more: He says the Gentiles having not the _law_, are a _law_ unto themselves. Why? Because, he says in the next verse, it shows the _law_ written on their hearts. The law of ceremonies? No; that which was on tables of stone. ii: 14-16. We might quote much more which looks like embracing the whole law. Let us now look at a few texts in the same letter, which will draw a distinguishing line between the two codes of laws. Paul, in the vii ch. 9-13v. brings to view the carnal commandment, and the one unto life, and sums up his argument in these words:
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Wherefore the _law_ is holy, and the commandment holy and just and good. In the 7v he quotes from the decalogue. Again, he that loveth another hath fulfilled the _law_. How? Why thou shalt not steal, nor commit adultery, nor bear false witness, nor covet, thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself. Therefore _love_ is the fulfilling of the law. Rom. xiii: 8, 10.--This then is what the Saviour taught the young man to do to secure
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Matt. Once more, in concluding a long argument on the law in Rom. iii: 31, he closes with this language:
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Do we then make void the law through faith? God forbid ye, _we establish_ the _law_. --What _law_ is here established? not the law of rites and ceremonies. What then, for Paul means some _law_. It can be no other than what he calls the law of
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