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Excerpt from Nephaleia: Or Total Abstinence From Intoxicating Liquors in Man's Normal State of Health, the Doctrine of the Bible, in a Series of Letters, With Addenda, to Edward C. Delavan, Esq. The sum and substance of the two tables of the moral law is expressive of this three-fold love: Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind, and with all thy strength: this is the first command ment; and the second is like namely, this: Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself. (mark xii, 30, Temperance built upon this immovable foundation, the law of God, in its three-fold character of love to Him, as the source of piety or goodliness; love to self, owing from the other, and forming with it the source of self-government or sobriety; and love to man owing from the two previous loves, and constituting with these the conjoint source of righteousness or justice, form a temple sacred to Jehovah, which is as Mount Zion, which cannot be moved, but abideth forever. It is at this point that there is a necessity for the introduction of the Cross of Christ, for who (amongst the sinful sons of Adam) is suffi cient for these things? But what man could not do has been perfectly accomplished by Him, who, although He was rich, yet for your sakes became poor, that ye, through His poverty, might be rich; who magnified the law and made it honorable; who, his own self, bare our sins in His own body on the tree, that we being dead to sins should live unto righteousness, by whose stripes ye were healed. 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 mis