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Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Aug 27, 1872

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 40, No. 11.

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As You Please.

By R. F. Cottrell

A young minister zealously laboring to make it appear that Christ came as a legislator, and gave a new law to supersede the law of ten commandments, said, “Jesus Christ was under the law of ten commandments, and kept it, if he was a mind to.”
We are subject to some law, either new or old, as all will admit. And Christ sets us an example of obedience, as is certain from his own words. Now if he kept the law he was under, if he pleased to do so, we are bound in duty to keep the law to which we are subject, if we please. It is easy to keep any law, either new or old, in this way; and it is a way that accords well with the teaching of those who say the law of the Most High has been abolished. It is a way that harmonizes with the carnal mind, which is enmity against God, is not subject to his law, neither indeed can be. R. F. COTTRELL.