Sermons on the Ten Commandments, by EDMUND ROBERT LARKEN, M.A.
These sermons are ten in number ; the first ex- amining whether Christians are in any way or to any extent bound by the Mosaic laws ; and deciding in the negative, unless so far as they are, in the words of St. Pant, " written in the heart," and again, " imprinted in the fleshy tablets of the heart." The Commandments themselves are then considered seriatim in the nine following sermons ; and all found to fall under this category, except the Fourth,—the Sabbath, at least the rigid strictness with which it was kept by the Jews, being a positive enactment pecu- liar to that people, and not a moral rule of universal application. The only doubtful point in these conclusions seems the first ; and though the authority of PAUL can be clearly enough adduced to show that the directions of the ceremonial law may be safely dis- regarded, we fear the opinion of Mr. LARKEN, so far as his argu- ments go, is merely a " device of his own heart," resting on his own decision upon the Scriptural arrangement of the laws. In a literary view these sermons are in nowise remarkable.
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