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The open secret, or, The Bible explaining itself
The open secret or The Bible explaining itself Author:Hannah Whitall Smith 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: BIBLE READINGS. rn. SUBJECT—THE LAW AND THE GOSPEL. Foundation Texts :—" For if that first covenan t had been faultless, then should no place have been so... more »ught for the second. For finding fault with them, He saith, Behold, the days come, saith the Lord, when I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel, and with the house of Judah: not according to the covenant that I made with their fathers, in the day when I took them by the hand to lead them out of the land of Egypt; because they continued not in my covenant, and I regarded them not, saith the Lord. For this is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel after those days, saith the Lord; I will put my laws into their mind, and write them in their hearts: and I will be to them a God, and they shall be to me a people: and they shall not teach every man his neighbour, and every man his brother, saying. Know the Lord: for all shall know me, from the least to the greatest. For 7 will be merciful to their unrighteousness, and their sins and their iniquities will I remember no more. In that He saith, A new covenant. He hath made the first old. Now that which decay- eth and waxeth old is ready to vanish aicay."— Heb. 8:7-13. The ;'old covenant," which is here declared to have been put away in order to make room for a "new covenant," is the covenant of an outward law, which in the very nature of things waxes old and vanishes away before the coming of the new covenant of an inward life. That is, as long as. a man is a thief at heart, he needs an outward law to keep him from stealing; but as soon as he becomes honest at heart, he no longer needs the outward law. " But if ye be led of the Spirit, ye are not under the law. But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, long- suffering, gentleness, goodnes...« less