romise, 272.--"A peculiar
treasure." "A kingdom and priests," 273.--The individual, and Church
order. "On eagles' wings," 274.--Israel consents. The Lord in the cloud.
Manifestations are transient, 275.--Precautions. The trumpet, 276. "The
priests." A plebiscite. Contrast between Law and Gospel: Methodius,
277.--Theophanies, 278.--None like this, 279.

CHAPTER XX.

THE LAW, xx. 1-17.

What the law did. It could not justify. It reveals obligation, 280.--It
convicts, not enables. It is an organic whole. And a challenge,
281.--The Spirit enables: love is fulfilment of law. Luther's paradox,
283.--Law and Gospel contrasted. Its spiritual beauty: two noble
failures, 283.--The Jewish arrangement of the Commandments. St.
Augustine's. The Anglican. An equal division, 284-6.

THE PROLOGUE, xx. 2.

Their experience of God, 286.--God and the first table. The true object
of adoration: men must adore. Agnosticism, 287.--God and the second
table, 288.--Law appeals to noble motives, 289.

THE FIRST COMMANDMENT, xx. 3.

Monotheism and a real God, 289.--False creeds attractive. Spiritualism.
Science indebted to Monotheism, 290.--Unity of nature a religious truth.
Strength of our experimental argument. 291.--Informal apostacy. Luther's
position. Scripture. The Chaldeans, 292.--Animal pleasure, 293.--The
remedy: "Thou shalt have ... Me," 294.

THE SECOND COMMANDMENT, xx. 4-6.

Imagery not all idolatry. The subtler paganisms, 295. Spiritual worship,
like a Gothic building, aspires: images lack expansiveness, 296.--God is
jealous, 297.--The shadow of love, 298. Visiting sins on children, 299,
300.--Part of vast beneficent law, 300-2.--Gospel in law, 302.

THE THIRD COMMANDMENT, xx. 7.

Meaning of "in vain," 302.--Jewish superstition. Where swearing is
wholly forbidden, 303.--Fruitful and free use of God's name, 304-5.

THE FOURTH COMMANDMENT, xx. 8-11.

Law of Sabbath unique. Confession of Augsburg. Of Westminster,
305.--Anglican position. St. Paul, 306.--The first positive precept.
Love not the abolition of the law, 307.--Property of our friends. The
word "remember." The story of creation, 305.--The manna. Isaiah,
Jeremiah, Ezekiel, 309.--Christ's freedom was that of a Jew. "Sabbath
for man," 310.--Our help, not our fetter. "My Father worketh," 311.

THE FIFTH COMMANDMENT, xx. 12.

Bridge between duty to God and to neighbour, 312.--Father and child,
313.--"Whosoever hateth not." Christ and His mother. Its sanction, 314