The Christian dispensation, (the scheme of Man's Justification by Faith in CHRIST,) is the fulfilment, (St. Paul says,) of the covenant which GOD once solemnly made with Abraham. The Mosaic Law, (which was not given till 430 years after the time of Abraham,) is powerless to cancel that earlier covenant of Faith. What was the use of the Law, then? some one may ask. It was a supplementary, parenthetical, superadded thing, which came in, as it were, accidentally, for certain assignable purposes. But now that the original covenant of Faith has at length found fulfilment in the person of CHRIST, it were monstrous (argues the Apostle) to revert to Judaism: which was a species of prison-house where we suffered bondage until MESSIAH came to set us free. We were _as prisoners_, says the Apostle. We were also _as children_, (who, anciently, from the age of six to fourteen, used to be consigned by their father to the care of a slave called a 'pædagogus;' who was neither qualified nor allowed to teach them anything; but whose office it was _to conduct them to school_.) So _brought to the School of CHRIST_, where learning comes _by Faith_, (such is his argument,) let men beware how they revert to the carnal ordinances of the Jewish Law. How different a view of our true state is thus discovered, from that which Dr. Temple describes! A glorious liberty is _in reserve_ for us indeed[38]: a precious freedom is ours already. But it bears no resemblance whatever to that _lawlessness_ (ἀνομία) with which Dr. Temple seems to be enamoured. It is the correlation of _slavery_, not of obedience. It implies emancipation from the _Levitical_ Law, not from the sanctions, however strict, of the _Christian Church_. The Doctrines of Christ's kingdom are the Christian's crown and joy. _His_ "service is perfect freedom," and imparts to life all its sweetness.--Not only, therefore, (according to St. Paul's view of the matter,) were men _not_ released from school at "the meeting point of the Law and the Gospel," (p. 24,) but they only _began_ to go to School _then[39]_!