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Twelve discourses upon the law and the Gospel
Twelve discourses upon the law and the Gospel Author:William Romaine Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: UPON THE CEREMONIAL LAW, DISCOURSE III. The Song of Solomon, iv. 6. Jnt'il the day break and thejhadoiusjlee away'y I "will get me to the mountain of... more » myrh, and fo the hill offrankincenfe. FTER man had broken the moral law, and had fallen into a help- lefs ftate of guilt and mifery, it pleafed God to reveal the covenant of grace. As foon as the way to falvation was ftopt by the law, he opened a new and living way by the gofpel. The Mefliah was promifcd, and the rites and ceremonies were inftitu- ted, which were to reprefent what he was to be, and to do for the falvation of men, " Which things were a fhadow, but the bo- " dy, or fubftance was Chrift." They were expreffive figures and fhadows of his actions and fufferings, and in them the religion of the gofpel was delineated to the fenfes of the faithful. This law of ceremonies was revealed upon the fall, and afterwards repu- blifhed in writing by Moje s. It had God for its author, and was eftablifhed by hia divine authority, and therefore it deferveSi our particular confideration, .In my lafl difcourfe I endeavoured to plain the fcope and defign of the moral la and to prove that by its works no flem caa be juftified in the fight of God. The next body of law is the ceremonial, which preached falvation from the pains and penalties incurred by the breach of the moral law. It held forth this doctrine under a great variety of types and figures, and taught it in many plain paffages. The words, which I have read, contain the Memah's own fen- timents of this fubjec5l. The commentators allow him to be the fpeaker, and he is ad- drefTing himfelf to the faithful, with whom. lie hold.s fweet and fpiritual difcourfe inthis divine treatife. He particularly informs them, -where he vouchfafed his prefence, and would be found o...« less