162 ,_so._...._... The Old and Nerv Covenant. Chap. 2 3 TheJews were in a ftate of light compara - tive to Het- then. This is my blood in the New Tef ament Aed for you and for many for the remifon of inner : Where we fee an agreement either of both are Teftaments or Covenants either of both have their de- dication, either of both are dedicated in blood ; we fee anfwer- able difference and oppofition. i he firfl was the Old Tefta- ment to be antiquated. The fecond the New, to fucceed in place of the Old. The firft was dedicated in the blood of Bulls and Calves. The fecond in the blood of the Mediatour in my blood, faith Chrift. The firft had no poflible power to take away finne, as the Apoftle prefently thews, Chap. io. 4. But this is 'bed for many for the remigion of fans. The Apofile in the words immediate- ly before thefe quoted, gives the Covenant the name of a Tefta- ment; though a Covenant, and a mans laft Will and Teflament really differ, feeing herein they agree, that it had its validity as a Teftament by the death of the Teítator,.Heb. 9.16, 17. S. They differ in the way of exhibition of Chrifi the glory and grace of the Covenant , and upon a three -fold account here there is a difference. (r.) In the Old Covenant we have Chrift only in a Promife; to be incarnate, to fuffer, and to rife again and to be received unto glory. There light was by way of prophecie. In the New Covenant he is evidently fet forth as come in the flesh, having been dead and now alive, Rev. 1.18. Having fuffered in the flesh, rifen again and entred into glory. To us it is not a prophecie, but a Gofpel. (2.) In the Old Covenant, all was held out to the people un- der types, figures, íhadowes; all about the Tabernacle and ,Temple, perfons, utenfils, facrifices, did lead to Chrifr; all of thefe darkly holding him forth. They hada /hadawof goo d things to come, and not the image of the things thew. (elves Heb. r o. 1. a I little of reality in a great bulke of ceremony. In the New Tefta- ment the truth of it is clearly , and manifeilly (without figure or type) held forth unto us. (s.) In the Old Teftament;knowledge was dim and obfcure. It could be no other when it was wrapt up in prophecies and types. A prophecie is a riddle tilt it be unfolden ; and little is known of a mean by his fhadow, comparative to that which is feen in the man himfelf. Therefore though the ftate of the Jews in Old Teftament -times was a Bate of light comparative to the dark-i
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