Teftament, at ficndry times. I. The Difpenfation of the Tabernacle and the Judges: z. The Difpenfation of the Temple and the Kingdom. 3. That fad Difpenfation ofCaptivity in Babylon. 4. The Difpenfation of the fecond Temple after their Return. The fiat of thefe was fromMofes to the Temple. The fecond from the Temple to the Captivity in Babylon. The third from the Captivity to the Return. The fourth from the Return to the Meffiah. r. The fill part of the Lord'sDifpenfation to his People under the Lawwas - from Mofes to the building ofthe Temple : Mott of which time they were under the Government of Judges. What the Lord did for them, and how, and what he fpake ; what further Difcoveries of hirnfelf he gave them during this Period, you may fee in thefe five particulars. r. The Lord, in remembrance of his ancient Promife, delivered them out ofEgypt with a high Hand,, and with an outftretched Arm, with great Signs andWonders, and Plagues upon Pharaoh, and all his Holt, and all his Land, dividing the Sea before them : The Hiftory of all which is recorded in theBook of Exodus in the firit fifteen Chapters ofthat Book, and fo often celebrated with triumphing Praifes in the Pfalms and Prophets;. who often fpeak of all his Wonders in the Land of Egypt, which it is thought were within two months before their departure : And of his dividing the Sea of Edom,that his redeemed might pafs throe upondry ground : All which was a Type of Spiritual Redemption alfo ; and therefore it was a Difpenfation of much Myftery and Glory. 2. He gave them his Law ;By Word of Mouth from Heaven, and in Writing in the Tablesof Stone, and in the five Books of Mofes: Both, the Moral,udicial and Ceremonial Law. For theMoral Law, The Lord came down upon. Mount Sinai in much, Majefty and Terror with an Hoft of Angels; and thundred forth with an audible voice from Heavens thofe Ten Commandments, Exod. i 9. 9. that the people might bear : and cap. 20, 22. he talked with you from Heaven : And he wrote-them in two Tables of Stone, and in the five. Books of Mofes. The Ceremonial and Yudicial Laws were delivered in this lait way, viz, by Writing, being left upon Record in the Books of Alojes. This is celebrated as a choice Mercy, Pfal. 103..7. Hemade .known h;s ways unto Mofes, his Aîts unto the Childrenof Ifrael : yea as a peculiar and, diítinguifhing Mercy, Pfal. 147 2. last v. Hefhewetb his Word unto Jacob,. his Statutes and Yudgments unto Ifrael, be bath not dealt to with any Nation., And now feems to have been the' firft Invention of the Art of Writing. The firít mention we find ofit, is in Mofes his time. In 3acob's time it may Rem they had noknowledg;of it ; becaufe in theCovenant between him 37 s
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