f  ''Not  only  the  ceremonial  law,  but  the  moral,  and  even  the  moet  holy  deca*
logue  of  God's  eternal  oommanda,  is  the  letter,  and  the  trudition  of  the  letter,  neither
giving  life  nor  righteousnesB^  as  St  Augustine  abundantly  proves,  but  killing,  and
causing  sin  to  abound."— LuTHEB,  In  OalcU.  i.  14.
t  "Where  there  is  no  vision,  the  people  perisheth,"  Proyerbs  zxix.  18.
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500       INSPIRATION   AND  EXPERIENCE.      RELIGIOUS  TRUTH.
not  bind  tliem  to  magnify  anything  beyond  what  it  may  be  in
the  eye  of  the  holiest  truth,  so  they  win  by  the  grace  of  God,
and  with  the  mind  of  Christ,  a  great  freedom  for  human  reason,
yet  subject  mere  waywardness  to  authority.     You  can  now  ap-
prehend, how  the  living  Church  is  divinely  free,  and  yet  the
record  of  experiences  of  her  byegone  members  is  historically
precious  to  her,  both  on  the  side  of  providence  and  of  grace.
