The Golden Gate Author:Sabine Baring Gould General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1869 Original Publisher: Frome [printed] Notes: This is a black and white OCR reprint of the original. It has no illustrations and there may be typos or missing text. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can... more » select from more than a million books for free. Excerpt: IIL DUTY. || E are told in Holy Scripture that, if we would enter into life eternal, we must keep the commandments. a And Christ also says, "If ye love Me keep My commandments. b And S. John tells us that we can prove whether we love God by seeing how we obey Him. " We know that we know Him, if we keep His commandments." c And again : " This is the love of God that we keep His commandments."'1 2. In the beginning, God impressed upon the heart of man a sense of right and wrong, or a conscience, and this is called the light of nature. By disregarding the light of nature men became so wicked that God destroyed them in the Deluge, saving only righteous Noah and his family. After the Deluge, men soon became wicked as before ; so that again the earth was filled with violence, and the voice of conscience was deadened by habitual indulgence in crime. As a means of preserving the sense of right and wrong amidst the general corruptions, God wrote the commandments on tables of stone. These are the same laws as those which the light of nature indicate as necessary tothe well-being of man and the progress of civilization. 8. Matt. xix. 17. b S. John xiv. 15. 1 8. John ii. 3. d 1 S. John v. 3. Gen. vi. 7,13. ' Exod. xut.« less