High God, he will never utter it hastily or thoughtlessly. He will surely not use it at all, except he have occasion to speak of it seriously and carefully. It is needless to say how totally he will refrain from such wanton profanation as that of idly garnishing his common speech by using the Name, or referring to the doings of the Most High: still less, how impossible it would be for him to allege the sacred Name, literally or by implication, in support of falsehood;-nay, how impossible it would be that he should assert what is false at all, seeing that the Name of God is all around him, and that the most secularly sounding asseverations are nothing else than allegations of that Name. He will be much on his guard in prayers, lest while he utters the sacred Name and the words which belong to it his mind should wander away from the thoughts which ought to accompany it, and he should break the Commandment. He will not shrink from the seemly reverence which the Church orders to be paid to the Name of Christ.

As a doctrine, summed up in the form of Holy Baptism, commented upon and unfolded by the inspired developing powers of the apostles in the epistles, laid out in its heads in

the Apostles' Creed, guarded by carefully worded defences by the inheriting Church, he will surely regard it as a Divine limit, by which his thoughts and speculations on heavenly things must be bounded. He will feel that he is touching on forbidden ground, if he ventures to overstep it. He will regard the details of that sacred doctrine, its expressions, and its distinctions, as matters of reverent respect, which he must hold fast by and defend, for the Name's sake of God which is in them. He must not allow himself to speak, or to hear others speak lightly or slightingly of them. The books of Holy Scripture, as the express Word of God given by inspiration of the Holy Ghost, the creeds, and forms of prayer, have upon them in various degrees the holiness of the Divine Name. For its sake, the very forms of phrase, and turns of expression familiar in them are unfit matter of idle allusion, or light jesting.

As it is a name imparted, as from God to Christ, so from Christ personally to the Church His Body, so will the Christian man, desirous to keep sacredly the reverence of the Third Law, recognize the Name of God in all parts and portions of the Holy Catholic Church. In

the Body at large, even though the passions and sins of men have schismatically rent its exterior, and thereby diminished its blessing and greatly neutralized its witness to the world, even though they have not (God forbid!) disappointed the good purpose of God in calling it out from the world, and making it His own, -in the priests, in the poor, in the little ones, in the naked, the hungry, in the ignorant, and the sinners, and the prisoners, in the gatherings of prayer, in the holy prophesyings, in the rites which impart and strengthen His indwelling, in his own body and soul whereon the Name of Christ has been named, and wherein dwelleth, since that mysterious naming, the living power of the Holy Spirit—in the bodies of the baptized dead, asleep in Christ, and waiting in consecrated graveyards or wherever else until they shall live and stand up upon their feet, an exceeding great army,* instinct with their re-united souls never to be separated again; and, for the sake of those who are the living members of Christ, in the material structures, or instruments, or places, which minister in their degree and according to their powers in holy things and ordinances,

* Ezek. xxxvii. 10.

-in all these he will own a sanctity, and feel towards them a respect which is no otherwise theirs than as the Sacred Name of the Most High God has been named upon them. To that Sacred Name it is his heart's wish and intention to pay the truest and most unvarying reverence. Wherever it meets him in his life, in words, in truth, in men, in things, (and his path does lie in the midst of it, surrounded by it on every hand and at every time,) he endeavours to keep himself in a watchful and reverential mind towards it, as knowing that when God solemnly declareth that He will not hold him guiltless that taketh His Name in vain, He also designeth to express, (indirectly indeed, but very forcibly) the blessedness of such as cultivate under the Holy Ghost this third Fourth-Part of the Holy Love of God, the grace of sacred Reverence of His Name.

OBEDIENCE IN ORDINANCES,THE FOURTH LAW.

THE fourth Commandment again introduces us to a new subject. We are no longer to speak of the Piety or Faith with which God is to be worshipped, as under the first, or second Law, nor of the Reverence to be paid to His Name placed among men, as under the third Law; but of the loving obedience with which Christian men under the Gospel are to submit to the positive ordinances of God, of which the Sabbath rest is the most special and characteristic instance.

At the first sight, the Law of the fourth Commandment looks strangely small and narrow, considering that it stands as one of four, bearing relation of equality to the three great preceding Laws; and still more that the affection of heart belonging to it, and inculcated by it, should be (as has been represented in the

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