ulfilled and had an end. "But before faith came, we were kept under the
law, shut up unto the faith which should afterwards be revealed. Wherefore
the law was our schoolmaster to bring us unto Christ, that we might be
justified by faith. But after that faith is come, we are no longer under a
schoolmaster." Gal. 3:23-25. This is plain, positive language. After faith
or Christ has come we are no longer under a schoolmaster, which is the
law. This accords with Rom. 6:14: "For sin shall not have dominion over
you: for ye are not under the law, but under grace."

As we have before mentioned, the law did not deliver us from the power of
sin; but after grace came by Jesus Christ we are not under the law, but
under grace, and where sin once abounded, that is, had power or dominion,
grace now much more abounds; therefore sin has no dominion over us. In
Rom. 7:4 the apostle tells us we have become dead to the law by the body
of Christ.

In the seventh verse, still speaking of this law, to which we become dead
by the body of Christ, he quotes one of the ten commandments, thereby
teaching us that by the body of Christ we are no longer under the
ten-commandment law. The ten-commandment law simply as the ten-commandment
law is no more in force and effect than if it were never given. Some of
the principles embodied in the ten commandments are embodied in the New
Testament. These are in effect, not because they are principles of the ten
commandments, but because they are principles of the New Testament. Must I
as a Christian refrain from committing adultery because it is forbidden by
one of the ten commandments? We answer, No. But as a Christian in this
dispensation of the gospel I must refrain from such acts because it is
forbidden in the New Testament. We must live in the spirit of the gospel.
We could live without violation of this seventh commandment, and yet
commit adultery according to the New Testament and be wholly destitute of
the grace of God. Jesus says that "whosoever looketh on a woman to lust
after her hath committed adultery with her already in his heart." Mat.
5:28. The salvation of the gospel removes such unholy desires from the
heart.

"Tell me, ye that desire to be under the law, do ye not hear the law? For
it is written, that Abraham had two sons, the one by a bondmaid, the other
by a freewoman. But he who was of the bondmaid was born after the flesh;
but he of the freewoman was by promise. Which things are an alle