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save sinful men,
or make
them holy
and happy
;
and
therefore
he
often warns them against trusting
'in
it for
salvation, and
assures them,
that
it
waxed old in
hi's
:day,
and
was
vanishing
away,
verses
7,
and
1.3i
and
that
a
new
covenant
is
now
introduced,
that
is,
the christiari
dispensation,
or the gospel
itself, in
the most
spiritual
manifestation
of
it.
Now
as Moses was
the Mediator
of
this covenant
of
Sinai,
and
Aaron the
priest obtained
the
ministry
thereof, as in the foregoing
chapters,
so
in my
text
the
Son
of
God,
being
manifest
in
the
flesh,
is
that
High
-
priest
who
"
hath obtained
a
niore
ekcellent mi-
nistry than Aaron, and
is
the
Mediator of
this
covenant,
which
is
better than
that
of
Moses
and
which
is
esta-
blished upon
better
promises."
Here let
it
be
observed
also,
that
this
christian dispen-
satiou
of
the covenant
of
grace, which
is
called
the
second
or new
covenant,
is
not
only
better than
the
mere
Outward
covenant
of
Sinai,
oí-
Jewish
law
Of
work,
by
the
observance
whereof
the
Jews
were to obtain
temporal
blessings
;
but
it
is
better
than
the whole
dispensation
of
Moses, even
as
including
in
it
the
spiritual 'constituton
or covenant
of
grace
;
it
is
better than
all the
former
dispensations
of
this
covenant
of
grace.
that God
ever
gave
to men
, änd
that
will
appear
in
the,
follovving
par-
ticulars
.
I, "
The
christian dispensation, or
the
New
Testa-
meht, though
it
be a
rich
discovery
of
grace,
yet
it
con-
tains the fairest and
fullest,
representation of the moral
lain,
That
law
which
is
of
eternal
obligation
upon
all
mankind,
is
more
particularly
explained here, than in
any
of the
former dispensations:
The
beauties
of
holi-
mess
Which
run through
this
law,
shine
with
a
fairer
light
tinder
the gospel
of
Christ.
The
duties
of
worship,
obe-
dience
and
submission, which
we owe
to
God
;
the du-
ties
of justice, truth,
and
love, which
we
ovre
to
our
neighbour; and the
duty
of
sobriety
and
temperance,
which
we
owe to ourselves, are
set forth more
at
large
in
the
New
Testament
by
the apostles
;
:
Jesus Christ
hav-
ing begun this
work,
in
his
excellent sermon
on
the
mount,
in
the
fifth, sixth,
and
seventh
chapters
'of
Mat
-
thew.
Here
the commands
of
the
law
of
God are
'repre-
sented
in
their full extent,
as
they
require
the obedience
of
the
heart
as well
as
of
the
life, as
they 'relate to pur