Excerpt from The Relations of the Kingdom to the World HE main or central mass of our Lord's teaching in this Sermon has been already considered by us.1 It consists in a republication of Mosaic Matt. V. 17 law under its fulfilled' form; that is, with its Vi 18 literal precepts translated into spiritual principles of virtue, resumed under one comprehensive canon of godlike love, and animated by the supreme religious motive of regard for the approval of our heavenly Father. In laying down for His new kingdom such a fulfilled edition of Hebrew. Morals, Jesus could not escape a running polemic against those accepted teachers Of His time who had done their best, not to fulfil, but to destroy, the ancient law of which they boasted to be the guardians, and were the recognised expositors. But the Spiritual kingdom, whose foundations our Lord was here laying, though it grew out of the bosom Of the Mosaic system, and, above all, drew from that system what had been its main glory its ethical law - was yet destined to attain an in. 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.