Christ’s commandments, cannot be denied; and that it was reechoed by the apostles and carried out in the practice of the early Christians, is equally beyond contradiction. Yet, by all classes, it is ignored as much as if it had never been written. To what are we to attribute this deliberate disobedience of all ranks and classes of men, nominally professing subjection to Christ? Something of it is doubtless due to a wrong conception of the object of the commandments. It is commonly imagined that the