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Rh could not be observed at the same time, it was his duty to observe the former.

This whole code was binding on the Jewish Church till the coming of Christ; and from no part of it was the Christian Church released, till the Head of the Church was pleased to repeal a part, and publish his will accordingly. So felt the first disciples of our Lord, both among the Jews and among the Gentiles. Even the apostles imagined themselves bound by the entire law of Moses, till they were taught, by the Spirit, that God had released his people from a burden formerly imposed on them. See Acts x. xi. xv. But where are we taught that the Levitical statutes under consideration have been repealed? Are Christians allowed to commit the acts of lewdness which they prohibit? Does not God require us to abstain from them, as He did formerly require the Jews to flee from them?

But to all this the Puritan will perhaps reply, that, by "the Jewish code," he meant the municipal code, and that this has been repealed. Allow this to be his meaning, and what was peculiar to the municipal code not binding on Christians, the repeal of this Levitical law will