Madan on Article VII: Of the Old Testament

AR TFC LE: VII. Ot the Old Testament.

HE Old Teflament is nat contrary to the New

for boib in the Old and New Testament, ever laj?- ing Life is offered to Mankind by Christ, * who is the only Mediator bettween God and Man, being both God and Man; * wherefore they are not to be heard, which feign that the oli Fathers did lot only for trau—

fitory Promijes. 5 Although the Law given from God

by Moses, as touching Ceremonies and Rites, ds net bind Chrijtion Ain, nor the * civil Precepts there;

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are called moral,

• Feb. i. 1. Gop, who at sundry Times, and in divers Manners, spake in Time past unto the Fathers by the Prophets, hath in these last Days spoken to us by his Svn,—Ads iii. 22, 23, 24, 25. 6 Moses

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Moses truly said unto the Fathers, a Prophet shall the Lord your Gop raise up unto you of your Bre- thren, like unto me; him shall ye hear, in al! Things whatsoever he shall say unto you; and it shall come to pass, that every Soul which will not hear that Prophet, shall be destroyed from among the People. Yea, and all the Prophets from Sa— muel, and those that follow after, as many as have spoken, have likewise foretold of these Days. Ye are the Children of the Prophets, and of the Cove- nant which Gop made with our Fathers, saving unto Abraham, and in thy Seed shall all the Kindreds of the Earth be blessed.— Gal. iii. 16. Te Abraham and his Seed were the Promises made. He saith not, and to Seeds, as of many, but as of one, and to thy Seed which is Christ.— John v. 46, 47. Had ye believed Moeses, ye would have belived me, for he wrote of me. But if ye believe not his Writ- ings, how should ye believe my Words ?—Lute xxiv. 44. These are the Words which I spoke unto you, while J was yet with you, that all Things must be fulfilled, which were written in the Law of Moses, and in the Prophets, and in the Psalms concerning me. Then opened he their Under- itandings, that they might understand the Scrip- Lures.

2 1 Tim. ii. 5. For there is one Gor, and one Mediator between Gop and Man, the Man Christ sesus.

3 Vid. Art. II. No 4, 5

• Heb. xi. 13—17. These all died in Faith, not having received the Promises, but having seen them afar off, and were persuaded of them, and em- braced them, and confessed that they were Strangers and Pilgrims on the Earth. For they that say such 4 hings, declare plainly that they seck a Country,

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—And truly, if they had been mindful of that Countty, fom whence they came out, they might have had Opportunity to have returned. But now they desire a better Country, that is, an heavenly, Wheref re God is not ashamed to be called their God: For he hath prepared for them a City.— er. 35, latter Part. Others were tortured, not accepting Deliverance, that they might obtain a better Resurrection.

Cal. v. 1. Stand fast in the Liberty wherewith Christ hath made us free, and be not entangled again with the Yoke of Bondage. Cl. ii. 16, 17. Let no Man judge you in Meat or in Drink, or in respect of an holy Day, or of the new Moon, or of the Sabbath. Which are a Shadow of Things to come, but the Body is of Christ, Heb. vii. 12. For the Priesthood being changed, there is made of Necessity a Change also of the Law.

? Rom. iii. 31. Do we then make void the Law through Faith? God forbid: Yea, we establish the Law, I Cor. vil. 19. Circumcision is nothing, nor Uncircumcision is nothing, but keeping the Commandments of Gop. James ii. 8, 9, 10, 17. If ye fulfil the royal Law, according to the Scrip- tures, thou shalt love thy Neighbour as thyself, ye do well. But if ye have Respect to Persons, ye commit Sin, and are convinced of the Law as Transgressors. For whosoever shall keep the whole Law, and yet offend in one Point, he is guilty 1

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119 ] all. For he that said, do not commit Adultery; laid allo, do not kill, Now, if thou commit no Adultery, yet if thou kill, thou art become a Transgressor of the Law.

Notes

• Rom xiii. 1, &c. Let every Soul be subject to the higher Powers. I Pet. ii. 13, 14. Submit your- selves to every Ordinance of Man for the Lord’s Jake, whether it be to the King, as supreme, or unto Governors, as unto those that are sent by him, for the Punishment of evil Doers, and for the Praise of them that do well.