make void the law by faith? God forbid! Yea, they establish the law, for they consent unto it that it is good. They delight in the law of God after the inward man, and they keep it in their outward life and conversation. It is the rule of their holy walking. They are free from the law, as to its condemning, killing power, but they are under the law to Christ. They know, that if the law had not been unalterable, and of indispensable obligation, Christ had lived and died in vain. And he did not come to give his people liberty to break the unalterable law, that would be a contradiction in terms; but he came to establish the law by restoring its honour and dignity, by his obedience to its precepts, and his suffering its pains and penalties, and then making it honourable in the confession of convinced sinners, and in the lives of his redeemed people." Blessed be God, that this way of recovery is provided for transgressors through the exceeding love of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ toward man, 'Not by works of righteousness which we have done, but according to his mercy he saves us, by the washing of regeneration, and renewing of the Holy Ghost, which he has shed on us abundantly through Jesus Christ our Saviour,' working in us those good fruits which are well-pleasing in his sight. How grateful should we be, for the clear light of the Scriptures, by which these truths are made manifest to the sinful children of Adam. "Not to the mount that burn'd with fire, Of trumpets, rising high and higher, "But to Mount Zion we are come, The courts by angel legions trod, "To God, the Judge of quick and dead, That pleads a Saviour's sacrifice, INDEX. Adoption, 142. Adultery forbidden, 365. Agriculture, 64. Altar for burnt offerings, 178. Altar, large, built under Herod, 193. Atonement, the great day of, 238. Beasts, distinguished as clean and Birds' nests, the dam not taken Bible, the value of, 155; 301; Blasphemy forbidden, 349. Blood, the eating of, forbidden, 306. Bondage in Egypt, deliverance Borrowed articles, laws respecting, Buildings for public worship, 258. Canaan, the Israelites settled in,386. Captivity in Babylon, referred to, Cattle, and Agriculture, 61. Cherethites and Pelethites, 424. Commandments, considered in their Corban, the vow respecting, 328. Covenant made by God with Noah, with Israel as a nation, 384. Creator, the, is the Sovereign Dis- Crucifixion, a Roman punishment, 411. Cutting asunder, an eastern pu- Cultivation of the land, 64. Daily Service of the Temple, 216. Dead bodies, customs as to, 147; Debts, laws relating to, 369. Dining in the east, 48. Diseases mentioned in Scripture, 146. Doctors of the law, 440. Dress of the Jewish priests, 211. Eating, mode of, 48. Maccabees, the government of, 393. Manslaughter, laws respecting, Manufactures, 79. Masters and servants, duties of, 313. Men-stealers, the punishment of, Mercy seat, described, 181. Mishna, the, formation of, 395. Moon, the new, observance of, 284. Mount Moriah, description of, 185. 220. Murder, punishable with death, 361. Music, 128; 219. Natural history, 100. Oaths, the obligations of, 416. Parchment used for writing, 121. Passover, the Jewish, described, Patriarchal government, 379. Pentecost, the feast of, 234. Picture writing, or hieroglyphics, |