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 law? Christ, the Son of God in person, the eternal Light and Life, the Master sent from heaven to teach us; but also, and equally, the Saviour who comes to our help and Who, as we have just seen, measures His graces by the task He sets us to do. Let us therefore consider like St Paul ' if the word, spoken by angels, became steadfast, [and every transgression and disobedience received a just recompense of reward,' how we shall avoid it if we neglect so wholesome a doctrine as that taught by Jesus Christ; Who, having begun by explaining it to us Himself, ' was confirmed unto us by them that heard him. God also bearing them witness by signs and wonders, and divers miracles, and distributions of the Holy Ghost according to his own will.'

And again, with the same saint: — ' If a man making void the law of Moses' — which was but the pedagogue — ' dieth without any mercy under two or three witnesses, how much more do you think he deserveth worse punishments who hath trodden under foot the Son of God; and hath esteemed the blood of the testament unclean, by which he was sanctified, and hath offered an affront to the spirit of grace? For