1 ~8 The Faith of the Church under tl1eOld Teflament tertobetheChrifithe Sonoftheliving God; butthe Father wh1ch· is in Heaven; ·fo he fi:ood in need of frefh ailiil:ance from the fame Almighty hand to believe that he fhould re– deem and fave his Church by his death. Arid therefore he did refufe the external Revelation and Propofition ofit, though / made by Chriil: himfelf, untill he received internal Aid from above. And tofuppofe that wehaveFaith now in Chrifi or his death, on any other Terms, is an evidence that we have ' no Faith at all. Wherefore the Faith ofthe Saints under the Old Tefl:ament did principally refpecr the PerfonofCbrifl, both what it was, and what it was to be in the fulnefs of time when he was to become the feed of theT1Ioman. What lfis efpecial work was to be, and the Myfiery of the Rede,rhption of the Church ther~by, they referred unto his own \)!ifd6m and Grace ; only they believed that by him they fl10tild be faved from the hand of all the1r Enemies, or all the·{)Vil that befell them on the account ofthejirft fin and Apoftacy from God. God gave them indeed Reprejentations and Prefigurations · of his Office and Work alfo. He did fo by the High Priefi of the Law, theia!Jernacle with all the Sacrifices and Services thereunto belonging All that Mofes did as ·a Faithful Ser– vant in the Houie ofGod, was but a iefiimony-of thofe things_ which were afterwards to be declared, I-ie!J.~·5· Howbeit the Apofile tells us that all thofe things had but a .fhadow of good things to come, andnot the very Image of the things themfelves, Heb. ro. r. And although they are now to us full of Light and Inll:rufrion, ev1:lently expreffing the principal Works of Chrill:s Mediation, yet were they not fo unto them. For the Vail is now taken offfrom them in their accompl~fhment,and . a declaration is made of the Counfels of God in th~m by the . Gofpel. · The meaneil: believer may now find out more of the Work of Chrifiin the 7jpesofthe Old Tefiarnent, than 1J
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