THE LAW, xx. 1-17.
What the law did. It could not justify. It reveals obligation, 280.--It convicts, not enables. It is an organic whole. And a challenge, 281.--The Spirit enables: love is fulfilment of law. Luther's paradox, 283.--Law and Gospel contrasted. Its spiritual beauty: two noble failures, 283.--The Jewish arrangement of the Commandments. St. Augustine's. The Anglican. An equal division, 284-6.
THE PROLOGUE, xx. 2.
Their experience of God, 286.--God and the first table. The true object of adoration: men must adore. Agnosticism, 287.--God and the second table, 288.--Law appeals to noble motives, 289.
THE FIRST COMMANDMENT, xx. 3.
Monotheism and a real God, 289.--False creeds attractive. Spiritualism. Science indebted to Monotheism, 290.--Unity of nature a religious truth. Strength of our experimental argument. 291.--Informal apostacy. Luther's position. Scripture. The Chaldeans, 292.--Animal pleasure, 293.--The remedy: "Thou shalt have ... Me," 294.
THE SECOND COMMANDMENT, xx. 4-6.
Imagery not all idolatry. The subtler paganisms, 295. Spiritual worship, like a Gothic building, aspires: images lack expansiveness, 296.--God is jealous, 297.--The shadow of love, 298. Visiting sins on children, 299, 300.--Part of vast beneficent law, 300-2.--Gospel in law, 302.
THE THIRD COMMANDMENT, xx. 7.
Meaning of "in vain," 302.--Jewish superstition. Where swearing is wholly forbidden, 303.--Fruitful and free use of God's name, 304-5.
THE FOURTH COMMANDMENT, xx. 8-11.
Law of Sabbath unique. Confession of Augsburg. Of Westminster, 305.--Anglican position. St. Paul, 306.--The first positive precept. Love not the abolition of the law, 307.--Property of our friends. The word "remember." The story of creation, 305.--The manna. Isaiah, Jeremiah, Ezekiel, 309.--Christ's freedom was that of a Jew. "Sabbath for man," 310.--Our help, not our fetter. "My Father worketh," 311.
THE FIFTH COMMANDMENT, xx. 12.
Bridge between duty to God and to neighbour, 312.--Father and child, 313.--"Whosoever hateth not." Christ and His mother. Its sanction, 314.
THE SIXTH COMMANDMENT, xx. 13.
Who is neighbour? Ethics and religion, 315-16.--Science and morals, 317.--A Divine creature. Capital punishment, 318.
THE SEVENTH COMMANDMENT, xx. 14.
Justice forbids act: Christ forbids desire. Sacredness of body, 319.--Human body connects material and spiritual worlds. Modifies, while serves, 320.--Marriage a type, 321.
THE EIGHTH COMMANDMENT, xx. 15.
Assailed by communism, by Rome. Various specious pleas, 322.--Laws of community binding, 323.--None may judge his own case, St. Paul enlarges the precept, 324.
THE NINTH COMMANDMENT, xx. 16.
Importance of words. Various transgressions, 325.--Slander against nations, against the race. Love, 326-7.
THE TENTH COMMANDMENT, xx. 17.
The list of properties, 328.--The heart. The law searches, 329.
THE LESSER LAW, xx. 18-xxiii. 33.
A remarkable code. The circumstances, 331.--Moses fears: yet bids them fear not, 332-3.--Presumption v. awe. He receives an expanded decalogue, an abridged code, 334.--Laws should educate a people; should not outrun their capabilities, 335-6.--Five subdivisions, 337.
I. THE LAW OF WORSHIP, xx. 22-26.
Images again forbidden, 337.--Splendour and simplicity. An objection, 338.--Modesty, 339.