through the operation of the Spirit, to instruct and build up the elect in faith in the promised Meffiah', by whom they had full remiffion of fins, and eternal salvation; and is called The Old Testament m. VI. Under the gospel, when Chrift the substance was exibited, the ordinances in which this covenant is dispensed are the preaching of the word, and the administration of the facraments of Baptifm and the Lord's Supper; which, though be not circumcised; that righteousness might be imputed unto them alfo. Col. ii. Ir. In whom also ye are circumcifed with the circumcifion made without hands, in putting off the body of the fins of the fleth by the circumcifion of Chrift: V. 12. Buried with him in baptifm, wherein also ye are rifen with him through the faith of the operation of God, who hath raised him from the dead. I Cor. v. 7. Purge out, therefore, the old leaven, that ye may be anewlump, as ye are unleavened. For even Chriftour paffover is facrificed for US. 1 1 Cor. x. 1. Moreover, brethren, I would not that ye should be ignorant, how that all our fathers were under the cloud, and all pafled through the fea; V. 2. And were all baptized unto Mofes in the cloud, and in the fea; V.3. And did all eat the fame fpiritual meat; V. 4. And did all drink the same spiritual drink; for they drank of that spiritual Rock that followed them; and that Rock was Chrift. Heb. xi. 13. These all died in faith, not having received the promises, but having seen them afar off, and were perswaded of them, and embraced them, and confeffed that they were strangers and pilgrims on the earth. John viii. 56. Your father Abraham rejoiced to fewer see my day: and he saw it, and was glad. m Gal. iii. 7. Know ye, therefore, that they which are of faith, the fame are the children of Abraham. V. 8. And the scripture foreseeing that God would juftify the Heathen through faith, preached before the gospel unto Abraham, faying, In thee shall all nations be bleffed. V.9. So then, they which be of faith-are blessed with faithful Abraham. V.14. That the bleffing of Abraham might come on the Gentiles through Jesus Chrift; that we might receive the promise of the Spirit through faith. VI. Col. ii. 17. Which are a shadow of things to come; but the body is of Chrift. • Mat. xxviii. 19. Go ye, therefore, and teach all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost: V.20. Teaching them to observe all things whatsoever I have commanded you: and, lo, I am with you alway, even unto the end of the world, Amen. 1 Cor. xi. 23. For I have received of the Lord that which also I delivered unto you, That the Lord Jesus, the fame night in which he was betrayed, took bread: V. 24. And, when he had given thanks, he brake it, and faid, Take, eat; this is my body, fewer in number, and adminiftered with more fimplicity and less outward glory, yet in them it is held forth in more fulness, evidence, and spiritual efficacy, to all nations, both Jews and Gentiles; and is called The New Teftament, There are not, therefore, two covenants of grace differing in substance, but one and the fame under various difpenfations". CHAP. body, which is broken for you: this do in remembrance of me. V. 25. After the fame manner also he took the cup, when he had fupped, faying, This cup is the new teftament in my blood: this do ye, as oft as ye drink it, in remembrance of me. P Heb. xii. 22. But ye are come unto mount Sion, and unto the city of the living God, the heavenly Jerufalem, and to an innumerable company of angels, V. 23. To the general assembly and church of the first born, which are written in heaven, and to God the Judge of all, and to the fpirits of just men made perfect, V. 24. And to Jefus the Mediator of the new covenant, and to the blood of sprinkling, that fpeaketh better things than that of Abel. V. 25. See that ye refuse not him that speaketh: for if they escaped not who refused him that spake on earth, much more shall not we escape, if we turn away from him that speaketh from heaven: V. 26. Whose voice then fhook the earth: but now he hath promised, saying, Yet once more I shake not the earth only, but alsoheaven. V. 27. And this word, Yet once more, fignifieth the removing of those things that are shaken, as of things thing's that are made, that those things which cannot be shaken may remain. Jer. xxxi. 33. But this shall be the covenant that I will make with the house of Ifrael, After those days, faith the Lord, I will put my law in their inward parts, and write it in their hearts; and will be their God, and they shall be my people. V. 34. And they shall teach no more every man his neighbour, and every man his brother, faying, Know the Lord: for they shail all know me, from the leaft of them unto the greatest of them, faith the Lord: for I will forgive their iniquity, and I will remember their fin no more. Mat. xxviii. 19. [See letter immediately foregoing.] Eph. ii. 15. Having abolished in his, flesla the enmity, even the law of commandments, contained in ordinances, for to make in himself of twain one new man, fo making peace: V.16.Andthather might reconcile both unto Godin one body by the cross, having flain the enmity thereby: V. 17. And came and preached peace to you which were afar off, and to them that were nigh. V. 18. For through him we both have an access by one Spirit unto the Father. V. 19. Now, therefore, ye are no more strangers and foreigners, but fellow-citizens with the faints, and of the household of God. Luke xxii. 20. Likewise alfo the cup after supper, saying, This cup is the new teftament in my blood, which is shed for you. $ Gal. iii. 14. Tha the bleffing of Abraham might come on the Gentiles CHAP. VIIJ. Of Christ the Mediator. T pleased God, in his eternal purpose, to choose and ordain the Lord Jesus, his only begotten Son, to be the Mediator between God and man; the Prophet, Prieft, Gentiles through Jesus Christ; that we might receive the promise of the Spirit through faith. V. 16. Now to Abraham and his feed were the promises made. He faith not, And to feeds, as of many; but as of one, And to thy feed, which is Christ. Acts xv. 11. But we believe that through the grace of the Lord Jesus Chrift we shall be faved even as they. Rom. iii. 21. But now the righteousnefs of God without the law is manifefted, being witnesled by the law and the prophets: V. 22. Even the righteousness of God, which is by faith of Jesus Christ, unto all and upon all them that believe; for there is no difference: V. 23. For all have finned, and come short of the glory of God. V. 30. Seeing it is one God which shall juftify the circumcifion by faith, and uncircumcifion through faith. Pfalm xxxii. 1. Bleffed is he whose tranfgreffion is forgiven, whose sin is covered. With Rom. iv, 3. For what faith the fcripture? Abraham believed God, and it was counted unto him for righteousness. V. 6. Even as David also describeth the blessedness ofthe man unto whom God imputeth righteousness without works. V. 16. Therefore it is of faith, that it might be by grace; to the end the promise might be fure to all the feed; not to that only which is of the law, but to that also which is of the faith of Abraham, who is the father of us all; V. 17. (As it is written, I and have made thee a father of many nations,) before him whom he believed, even God, who quick, eneth the dead, and calleth those things which be not as though they were. V. 23. Now, it was not written for his fake alone that it was imputed to him; V. 24. But for us alfo, to whom it shall be imputed, if we believe on him that raised up Jefus our Lord from the dead. Heb. xiii. 8. Jesus Chrift the fame yesterday, and to day, and for ever. delighteth: I 1.a Ifa. xlii. 1. Behold my fervant whom I uphold, mine elect in whom my foul dek have put my Spirit upon him, he fhall bring forth judgment to the Gentiles. Pet. i. 19. But with the precious blood of Christ, as of a lamb without blemish and without spot: V. 20. Who veri y was foreordained before the foundation of the world, but was mae nifest in these laft times for you. John iii. 16. For Cod fo loved the world, that he gave his only be gotten Son, that whofoever believeth in him should not perith, but have everlasting life.. i Tim. ii. 5. For there is one God, and one Mediator between God and. men, the man Chrift Jefus. un b Acts iii. 22. For Mofes truly faid unto the fathers, A prophet shall the he Lord Lord your God raise leup upu un to you of your brethren, like unto me; him shall ye hear in all things whatsoever he shall say unto you. Heb. v. 5. So also Chrift glo rified not himself to be made an : and King; the Head and Saviour of his Church, the Heir of all things, and Judge of the world: unto whom he did from all eternity give a people to be his feed, and to be by him in time redeemed, called, juftified, fanctified, and glorified II. The Son of God, the second person in the Trinity, being very and eternal God, of one substance, and equal with the Father, did, when the fulness of time was come, take upon him man's nature, with all the essential properties and high prieft; but he that faid unto him, Thou art my Son, to-day have I begotten thee. V. 6. As the faith alfo in another place, Thou art a prieft for ever, after the order of Melchifedec. Pfal. ii. 6. Yet have I fet my King upon my holy hill of Zion. Luke i. 33. And he shall reign over the house of facob for ever, and of his kingdom there shall be no end. Eph. v. 23. For the husband is the head of the wife, even as Chrift is the head of the church: and he is the faviour of the body. f Heb. i. 2. Hath in these last days spoken unto us by his Son, whom he hath appointed heir of all things, by whom alfo he made the worlds. Acts xvii. 31. Because he hath appointed a day in the which he will judge the world in righteoufBess, by that man whom he hath ordained; whereof he hath given affurance unto all men, in that he hath raised him from the dead. John xvii. 6. I have manifest ed thy name unto the men which thou gavest me out of the world: thine they were, and thou gavest them me; and they have kept thy word. Pfal. xxii. 30. A feed shall serve him, it shall be accounted to the Lord for a generation. Ifa. lii. 10. Yet it pleased the Lord common to bruise him, he hath put him to grief: when thou shalt make his foul an offering for fin, he shall fee his feed, he shall prolong his days, and the pleasure of the Lord fhall profper in his hand. ir Tim. ii. 6. Who gave himfelf a ranfom for all, to be teftified in due time. Ifa. Iv. 4. Behoid, i have given him for a witness to the people, a leader and commander to the people. V. 5. Behold, thou shalt call a nation that thou knowest not; and nations that knew not thee shall run unto thee, because of the Lord thy God, and for the holy One of Ifrael; for he hath glorified thee. Cor. i. 30. But of him are ye in Chrift Jefus, who of God is made unto us wisdom, and righteousness, and sanctification, and redemption. II, John i. 1. In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. V. 14. And the Word was made fleth, and dwelt among us, (and we beheld his glory, the glory as of the only begotten of the Father,) full of grace and truth. 1 John v. 20. And we know that the Son of God is come, and hath given us an understanding that we may know him that is true: and we are in him that is true, even in his Son Jesus Chrift. This is the the laws, and did perfectly fulfil it; endured most grievous torments immediately in his foul, and most painful fufferings in his body; was crucified, and died; was buried, and remained under the power of death, yet faw no corruption. I delight to do thy will, O my Delight God; yea, thy law is within my heart. With Heb. x. 5. Where fore, when he cometh into the world, he faith, Sacrifice and offering thou wouldest not, but a body haft thon prepared me: V. 6. In brent-offerings and facrifices for fin thou haft had no pleafure. V. 7. Then faid I, Lo, I come (in the volume of the book it is written of me) to do thy will, O God. V.8. Above, when he faid, Sacrifice, and offering, and burnt-offerings, and offering for fin, thow wouldest not, neither hadst pleafure therein, (which are offered by the law;) V. 9. Then faid he, Lo, I come to do thy will, O God. He taketh away the first, that he may establish the fecond. V. ro. By the which will we are sanctified through the offering of the body of Jesus Christ once for all. John x. 18. No man taketh it from me, but I lay it down of myself: I have power to lay it down, and I have power to take it again. This command. ment have I received of my Father. Phil. ii. 8. And being found in fashion as a man, he humbled himself, and became obedient unto death, even the death of the erofs. Gal iv. 4. But when the fulness of the time was come, God fent forth his Son made of a woman, made under the law. 2 Mat. iii. 15. And Jefus, anfwering, faid unto hint, Suffer it to be fo now: for thus it becoameth us to fulfil all righteousineis. On Then he fuffered him. Mat. v. 17. Think not that I am come to destroy the law or the prophets: I am not come to deftroy, but to fulfil. * Mat. xxvi. 37. And he took with him Peter, and the two fins of Zebedee, and began to be forrowful, and very heavy. V. 38. Then faithhe unto them, My foul is exceeding forrowful, even unto death: tarry ye here, and watch with me. Luke xxii. 44. And, being in an agony, he prayed more earnestly and his sweat was as it were great drops of blood falling down to the ground. Mat. xxvii. 46. And about the ninth hour Jefus cried with a loud voice, faying, Eli, Eli, lama fabachthani? that is to fay, My God, my God, why haft thon forfaken me? Matthew, Chapters xxvi. and xxvii. C • Philip. N. 8. [See the loft fcripture in immediately foregoing.] dActs in. 23. Him, being delivered by the determinate counfel and foreknowledge of God, ye have taken, and by wicked hands have crucified and flain: V.24. Whom God hath raised up, having loofed the pains of death; because it was not poffible that he fhould be holden of it. V. 27. Because thou wilt not leave my foul in hell, neither wilt thou fuf. fer thine holy One to fee corruption. And Acts xiii. 37. But he whom God raised again saw no corruption. Rom. vi. 9. 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