tree, were grafted. When the Jews shall be converted and believe in Christ, they will, as "natural branches, be grafted into their own olive tree." Rom. 11:17–24. They will become members of the same church, adorned with greater light and enriched with greater privileges, from which, for the sin of unbelief, they have been expelled.
Now, this one Church of God is governed by all the laws that were ever given to it, excepting those which have been abolished by the Supreme authority that enacted them. It will not answer to assert, This and that law have been repealed; or, by a general remark, to sweep away a whole code of laws. It must be shown, from Scripture testimony, what laws the great Head of the Church has abolished.
We admit the ceremonial law of Moses to have been annulled; because prophetic intimation had been given that its authority would cease, and because the inspired writer of the epistle to the Hebrews has asserted and proved the fact. We admit, also, that what belonged purely to the Jewish civil or judicial code, does not bind Christians, unless it have been adopted as part
