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join with those who might differ from him in many points in the defence of our common Church and common faith against the assaults of infidelity and rationalism, make his death a no ordinary loss to us in days like these. But beyond this, I own, had it so been possible, I should have liked to point out to him how his own statements, his own authorities, and his own reasoning had been the very means to lead me to the conclusion, that we find a very complete and sufficient explanation of the existence and meaning of the 18th verse of Lev. xviii., without any occasion to resort to so violent an over-riding one statement of Scripture by another, as he has advocated. And this too without having to question the ordinary translation of the verse, or to find any difficulty in the sense of the words, "in her lifetime." All this, at any rate for the sake of argument, I seem able to concede to Dr. M'Caul, to take his own account of an application of the passage, and only add, that it seems to me to be the application, and the only application needed. I cannot forbear adding, that if there be but a chance of this being so, it makes it a most serious thing for anyone to speak lightly of the restrictions in question—not merely of this one of the brother's wife, but of all those laid down in this chapter of Leviticus, or to think even of relaxing that code; for who shall say that we shall not thus "haply be found to fight against God," and be bringing ourselves and our country under the curse of His Word, denounced against all who defile themselves in these things: "Ye shall therefore keep My statutes and My judgments; and shall not commit any of these abominations, neither any of your own nation, nor any stranger that sojourneth among you: (for all these abominations have the men of the land done which were before you, and the land is defiled:) that the land spue not you out also, as it spued out the nations that were before you. For whosoever shall commit any of these
