Our SAVIOUR CHRIST is indeed set before us in Scripture as our great Exemplar[40]; and St. Paul calls upon us to be followers, or rather imitators, (μιμηταί), of himself; even as _he_ was of CHRIST[41]. But this walking by example, did not supersede the walking by precept; neither was it to endure, (GOD forbid!) (as Dr. Temple emphatically says it was), (pp. 26: 28-9,) only for about a hundred years: still less was "Example," (the second Teacher of the Human Race,) straightway to find itself supplanted by "the Spirit or Conscience" of Man,--"the third great Teacher, and the last." What need to say that until His Second Coming to judge the world, we shall have _no_ Teacher but CHRIST,--_no_ other way proposed to us to walk in, but that which the Gospel discloses? Neither is it true that the world has been old enough, for the last 1800 years, to be taught by "_seeing the lives of Saints_," (a sentiment worthy of the weakest of Romanists!) "_better than by hearing the words of Prophets_." (pp. 28-9.) The Church of CHRIST will for ever listen to the blessed accents of that "goodly fellowship," until she beholds Him by whose Spirit they spake[42], coming again to judgment. True that the object with which she will all along _inform_ her children, will ever be that they may become _conformed_ to the model of her Divine LORD. But "sound doctrine[43],"--embodied in a "form of sound words[44],"--constitutes that παρακαταθήκη, or "deposit," which is her proudest inheritance and her greatest treasure[45]: and impatience of it is a note of evil men, and of a season at which Prophecy points her awful finger[46].... "Lawlessness," (ἀνομία,) is discoursed of by the SPIRIT with a mysterious earnestness which it seems to me impossible to survey without mingled awe and terror lest one may become oneself involved in the threatened condemnation. I allude of course especially to what St. Paul says in his second Epistle to the Thessalonians; the language of which, to be understood, must be studied in the original[47].