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heading of the Puritan's sixth chapter is thus expressed: "Historical view of the subject."

What was his subject? He aimed at proving two points:—I. That the Levitical law is not binding on us Christians, (chap. i.)&emsp;II. That it did not relate to marriage at all, but only to "single acts of an incestuous character," (chap, iii.)

1. We protest against his assertion in the second paragraph of this sixth chapter: "He (Christ) even allows that for the most part their expositions of the law were true and to be observed;" which he attempts to sustain by