Excerpt from The Eclectic Magazine of Foreign Literature, Science, and Art: September to December, 1857 But our main inquiry now is to ex amine into this distinction between moral and positive precepts, which degrades the Fourth Commandment from its apparent equality with the other commandments of the Decalogue to a level with the cere monial statutes which regulated the modes of Jewish worship. To make the meaning of the quotations we have given above, and of our answers, as clear as possible, we must try to attach tolerably exact conceptions to the words moral and positive, which have originated the controversy. We first quote a de scription of their respective meanings from Dr. Whately, and then a definition of them from Bishop Horsley. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.