and that Faith is not a denial of the Universal reign of Law, but the perception of its widest generalisation, and therefore giving scope to its highest specialisation. The opposition between Faith and Law, of which St Paul so often speaks, is the opposition between this broad view of the ultimate Principle of the Creative Law and that narrower view of restriction by particular laws which prevents us from grasping the Law of Faith; but that he does not deny the Principle of Law --- that is, the relation between C and E --- is clear from his own statement in Rom. 8, where he says: "The Law of the Spirit of Life in Christ Jesus sets me free from the law of Sin and Death"; in other words, the Law of the Good sets us free from the Law of Evil; and for the same reason St James says that the perfect law is the law of Liberty (Jas. 1:25).

Of course, if we suppose that faith is something contrary to the law of the Universe, we at once import into our thought the negative quality which entirely vitiates our action. We rightly perceive that the laws of the Universe can never be altered, and if our notion of Faith be that it is an attempt to work in contradiction to these laws, the best definition we