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Rh made it to be excellently reasonable to be established into a law; and, therefore, God did so, and declared it, and did not trust man's reason alone with the conduct of it; but then it became an eternal law, when God made it so."

What was the Jewish code? What did it comprehend? Only the ceremonial law? or only the civil law? or only the moral law? An answer to these questions is, we think, given by our brother, when he says, (p. 4,) "And here we shall assume no ultra ground respecting our relations to the civil law of the Hebrew commonwealth. The books of Moses contain, it is well known, a moral law, summed up in the ten commandments, and a ceremonial law, which regulated the ceremonies and types of the Hebrew church, and a civil or judicial law, which preserved the peace of the commonwealth." Now, let it be remembered that all these laws, distributed by the Puritan into three classes, Jehovah, our Supreme Lawgiver, gave, by his servant Moses, to his ancient people, denominated, at one time, Hebrews, and at another, Jews. All were written by Moses in his five books. They constituted the Jewish code; not the moral law alone, nor the