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158 the criteria laid down by Turrettin, to ascertain what portions of the Jewish civil code are, and what are not, binding on us; and by the application of these criteria, he thinks he has proved the Levitical law, in the eighteenth chapter, to have been repealed, and thus deprived of its binding authority. But, in opposition to our brother, we have endeavored to show, that he has not followed his guide, and that, by a correct application of Turrettin's criteria, these Levitical statutes are proved to be permanent and obligatory on the Christian Church.

It was also shown that this law is ecclesiastical and not municipal, and has not been repealed; and that, even admitting it does not relate to marriage, it must be unrepealed; because, according to the Puritan's own showing, it forbids lewd, unclean "acts of an incestuous character," and is, therefore, a natural and moral law.

In the seventh chapter, which contains remarks on the Puritan's reasoning and exposure of its fallacy, we have, among other things, endeavored, from the uniform judgment of the Church, both Jewish and Christian, to prove that this Levitical law relates to marriage.