The True Question at Issue
By E. R. S.
Should be kept before the minds of honest inquirers after truth. It is not, Has God re-enacted his royal law? But has any precept of the decalogue been changed, or abolished? If not, then the whole law is still binding. I know that many professed Christians in these last days, have an idea that God is changeable like themselves. We know that God is unchangeable. His law is immutable and eternal as the one that made it; for he, himself, affirms that his covenant he will not break, nor alter the thing that has gone out of his lips. The condition of this covenant, on which the immortal inheritance was promised, are ten moral precepts, which God spoke with an audible voice, and he added no more. And to confirm this position, viz: The unchangeableness of his character, I will call another witness. Says the Preacher, [Eccl. iii, 14,] "I know that whatsoever God doeth, it shall be for ever: nothing can be put to it, NOR ANYTHING TAKEN FROM IT." Then we see that the law remains good yet, and every soul becomes guilty before God. And our only refuge from the gathering storm is to keep the commandments of God, and the faith of Jesus, while our High Priest is finishing up the work of the New Covenant, that we may be hid in the pavilion of the Almighty, when the overflowing scourge of the four sore judgments and seven last plagues shall fall upon this guilty generation, who have rejected all the light of truth which God has seen fit to develope in his last work of mercy. "Blessed are THEY that do his commandments that they may have right to the tree of life, and may enter in through the gates into the city." Then serve the Lord by keeping the commandments, and kiss the Son lest he be angry and you perish by the way when his wrath is kindled but a little.
Rochester, N. Y., June 22d, 1852. E. R. S.