10. Which stood only in meats and drinks, and divers washings and carnal ordinances, imposed on them until the time of reformation. 11. But Christ being come an high priest of good things to come, by a greater and more perfect tabernacle not made with hands; 12. Neither by the blood of goats and calves, but by his own blood; he entered in once into the holy place, having obtained eternal redemption for us. 19. When Moses had spoken every precept to all the people according to the law, he took the blood of calves and goats, with water, and scarlet wool, and hyssop, and sprinkled both the book, and all the people, 20. Saying, This is the blood of the testament which God hath enjoined unto you. 21. Moreover, he sprinkled likewise with blood both the tabernacle, and all the vessels of the ministry. 22. And almost all things are by the law purged with blood; and without shedding of blood is no remission. 23. It was therefore necessary that the patterns of things in the heavens should be purified with these; but the heavenly things themselves with better sacrifices than these. 24. For Christ is not entered into the holy places made with hands, which are figures of the true; but into heaven itself, now to appear in the presence of God for us: 25. Nor yet that he should offer himself often, as the high priest entereth into the holy place, every year with blood of others; 26. For then must he often have suffered since the foundation of the world; but now once in the end of the world hath he appeared to put away sin by the sacrifice of himself.

Heb. x. 1. For the law having a shadow of good things to come, and not the very image of the things, can never with those sacrifices, which they offered year by year, continually, make the comers thereunto perfect. 4. For it is not possible that the blood of bulls and of goats should take away sins. 5. Wherefore when he cometh into the world, he saith, Sacrifice and offering thou wouldst not, but a body hast thou prepared me: 6. In burnt offerings and sacrifices for sin thon

hast had no pleasure. 7. Then said I, Lo, I come to do thy will, O God. 8. Above, when he said, Sacrifice and offering, and burnt offerings, and offering for sin thou wouldst not, neither hadst pleasure therein (which are offered by the law), 9. Then said he, Lo, I come to do thy will, O God. He taketh away the first, that he may establish the second. 10. By the which will

we are sanctified, through the offering of the body of Jesus Christ once for all.

Heb. xiii. 11. For the bodies of those beasts whose blood is brought into the sanctuary by the high priest for sin, are burnt without the camp. 12. Wherefore

Jesus also, that he might sanctify the people with his own blood, suffered without the gate.

See also the 7th and 8th chapters of the Hebrews.

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Gal. iii. 16. Now to Abraham and his seed were the promises made. He saith not, And to seeds, as of many; but as of one, And to thy seed, which is Christ: 17. And this I say, that the covenant, that was confirmed before of God in Christ, the law, which was four hundred and thirty years after, cannot disannul, that it should make the promise of none effect. For if the inheritance be of the law, it is no more of promise; but God gave it to Abraham by promise. 19. Wherefore then serveth the law? It was added because of transgressions, till the seed should come, to whom the promise was made. 21. Is the law then against the promises of God? God forbid: for if there had been a law given which could have given life, verily, righteousness should have been by the law.. 22. But the Scripture hath concluded all under sin, that the promise by faith of Jesus Christ might be given to them that believe. 23. But before faith came, we were kept under the law, shut up unto the faith, which should afterwards be revealed.. 24. Wherefore the law was our schoolmaster to bring us unto Christ, that we might be justified by faith. 25. But after that faith is come, we are no longer under a schoolmaster. 26. For ye are all the children of God by faith in Christ Jesus.

39th Q.-In what did the moral part of the Law consist?

A. It is principally comprised in the ten commandments, which are as follow:

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1st. Thou shalt have no other Gods before

2d. Thou shalt not make unto thee any graven image, or the likeness of any thing, that is in heaven above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth. Thou shalt not bow down thyself to them, nor serve them: for I the Lord thy God am a jealous God, visiting the iniquities of the fathers upon the children unto the third and fourth generation of them that hate me and shewing mercy unto thousands of them that love me, and keep my commandments.

3d. Thou shalt not take the name of the Lord thy God in vain; for the Lord will not hold him guiltless that taketh his name in vain..

4th. Remember the sabbath-day, to keep it holy. Six days shalt thou labour, and do all thy work: But the seventh day is the sabbath of the Lord thy God: in it thou shalt not do any work, thou, nor thy son, nor thy daughter, thy man-servant, nor thy maid-servant, nor thy cattle, nor the stranger that is within thy gates. For in six days the Lord made heaven, and earth, the sea, and

all that in them is, and rested the seventh day: wherefore the Lord blessed the sabbath day, and hallowed it.*

5th. Honour thy father and thy mother: that thy days may be long upon the land which the Lord thy God giveth thee.

6th. Thou shalt not kill.

7th. Thou shalt not commit adultery.

8th. Thou shalt not steal.

9th. Thou shalt not bear false witness against thy neighbour.

10th. Thou shalt not covet thy neighbour's house, thou shalt not covet thy neighbour's wife, nor his man-servant, nor his maid servant, nor his ox, nor his ass, nor any thing that is thy neighbour's. See Exod. xx.

3-17.

Exod. xxxi. 18. And he [the Lord] gave unto Moses, when he had made an end of communing with him upon mount Sinai, two tables of testimony, tables of stone, written with the finger of God.

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Deut. iv. 12. And the Lord spake unto you out of the midst of the fire: ye heard the voice of the words, but saw no similitude; only ye heard a voice. And he declared unto you his covenant, which he commanded you to perform, even ten commandments, and he wrote them upon two tables of stone.

40th Q.-Are these commandments of universal obligation at the present day?

* In Deut. v. 15, a further reason assigned for a particular observance of the seventh day is, that it was to commemorate the departure of the Israelites out of Egypt, where they had been long detained in a state of cruel bondage..

A.-Those which relate to the moral law certainly are; but the fourth, being a part of the Jewish ritual, is abrogated by the coming of Christ. The day set apart by Christians, for the purposes of divine worship, and rest from their worldly occupations, is not the seventh, to which day only the commandment applies, but the first day of the week.

Matt. v. 17. Think not that I am come to destroy the law and the prophets: I am not come to destroy, but to fulfil.

Matt. vii. 12. Therefore all things whatsoever ye would that men should do to you, do ye even so to them for this is the law and the prophets.

James ii. 8. If ye fulfil the royal law according to the Scripture, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself, ye do well.

Rom. viii. 2. The law of the Spirit of life, in Christ Jesus, hath made me free from the law of sin and death. 3. For what the law could not do, in that it was weak through the flesh, God sending his own Son, in the likeness of sinful flesh, and for sin, condemned sin in the flesh: 4. That the righteousness of the law might be fulfilled in us, who walk not after the flesh, but after the Spirit.

Rom. iii. 21. But now the righteousness of God without the law is manifested, being witnessed by the law and the prophets; 22. Even the righteousness of God which is by faith of Jesus Christ unto all, and upon all them that believe; for there is no difference: 23. For all have sinned, and come short of the glory of God; 24. Being justified freely by his grace through the redemption that is in Jesus Christ. 27. Where is boasting then? It is excluded. By what law? of works? Nay: but by the law of faith. 31. Do we then make