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<P>Here all may &s;ee A Clear Di&s;tinction BETWEEN THE OLD Covenant &amp; OLD Te&s;tament, And the NEW Covenant and NEW Te&s;tament. And how that CHRIST hath aboli&s;hed and taken away the FIRST COVENANT and TESTAMENT, and E&s;tabli&s;hed the SECOND. By <HI>G. F.</HI></P>
<Q>But even unto this day when <HI>Mo&s;es</HI> is read, the Vail is upon their Heart; which Vail is done away in Chri&s;t, <BIBL><HI>2 Cor. 3.14, 15.</HI></BIBL></Q>
<Q>If any man be in Chri&s;t, he is a New Creature; Old Things are pa&s;&s;ed away, behold all things are become new, <BIBL><HI>2 Cor: 5.17.</HI></BIBL></Q>
<Q>Having therefore, Brethren, Boldne&s;s to enter into the Ho|lie&s;t, by the Blood of Je&s;us, by a New and Living Way, which he hath con&s;ecrated for us, <BIBL><HI>Hebr. 10.9, 10.</HI></BIBL></Q>
<Q>And he that &s;its upon the Throne &s;aid, Behold I make all things new: and he &s;aid unto me, Write; for the&s;e words are true and faithful, <BIBL><HI>Revel. 21.5.</HI></BIBL></Q>
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<HEAD>Now concerning the <HI>New Covenant</HI> and <HI>New Te&s;tament,</HI> and the <HI>New</HI> and <HI>Living Way:</HI> They are not ac|cording to the <HI>Old Covenant</HI> and <HI>Te&s;tament;</HI> nor the <HI>Old Way,</HI> which was call'd the <HI>Good Old Way</HI> among&s;t the <HI>Jews.</HI></HEAD>
<P>FOr in <HI>Jer.</HI> 31.31. it is &s;aid, <HI>Behold the day cometh, &s;aith the Lord, that I will make a New Covenant with the Hou&s;e of</HI> I&s;rael, <HI>and the Hou&s;e of</HI> Judah. Mark, This was a Prophecy, which they were to behold and take notice of; the&s;e dayes were to come, and the&s;e are the dayes of Chri&s;t, who came above &s;ixteen hundred years &s;ince.</P>
<P>For the Lord &s;aith, <HI>I will give thee for a Covenant to the Peo|ple, and for a Light to the</HI> Gentiles, <HI>to open their blind Eyes, &amp;c.</HI> So this new Covenant is to the <HI>Gentiles,</HI> as well as to the <HI>Jews, I&s;a.</HI> 42.</P>
<P>And again, the Lord &s;aith, <HI>I will give thee for a Covenant to the People, to e&s;tabli&s;h the Earth, to cau&s;e to inherit the De&s;olate Heritage, that thou may'&s;t &s;ay to the Pri&s;oners, Go forth; to them that are in Darkne&s;s, Shew your &s;elves; and they &s;hall feed in their Wayes, and in their Pa&s;tures,</HI> I&s;a. 49.</P>
<P><HI>And in that Day there &s;hall be a Root of</HI> Je&s;&s;e, <HI>which &s;hall &s;tand for an En&s;ign of the People, and unto it the</HI> Gentiles <HI>&s;hall &s;eek, and his Re&s;t &s;hall be Glorious. And he &s;hall &s;et up an En&s;ign for the Nations, and &s;hall a&s;&s;emble the Out-ca&s;ts of</HI> I&s;rael, I&s;aiah 11.</P>
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<P>And further he &s;aith, <HI>The</HI> Gentiles <HI>&s;hall come to his Light, and Kings to the Brightne&s;s of his Ri&s;ing, &amp;c.</HI> I&s;a. 60.</P>
<P>Now it is clear according to the&s;e Promi&s;es and Prophecies, that the new Covenant is not only to the <HI>Jews,</HI> but to the <HI>Jews, Gentiles</HI> and <HI>Nations,</HI> according to <HI>I&s;a.</HI> 42. <HI>Behold, or take no|tice, the former things are come to pa&s;s, and new things do I declare, before this &s;pring forth I tell you of them.</HI> This did <HI>I&s;aiah</HI> &s;peak by Prophe&s;ie concerning the dayes of Chri&s;t; who &s;aith in the &s;ame Chapter, <HI>That he &s;hall &s;et Judgment in the Earth, and the I&s;les &s;hall wait for his Law, and he &s;hall bring forth Judgment to the</HI> Gentiles.</P>
<P>Now the Law from <HI>Sinai</HI> the <HI>Jews</HI> had before; but this is the Law of Life, in the new Covenant, which Law of Life goes from Heavenly <HI>Sion,</HI> and the Word from Heavenly <HI>Jeru&s;alem,</HI> in the new Covenant.</P>
<P>So the&s;e are new things, which were declared before they came to pa&s;s; for the old things of the old Covenant they had already, when he declared the&s;e new things.</P>
<P>And therefore the Lord &s;aith by <HI>Jeremiah, Behold, the day &s;hall come, that I will make a new Covenant with the Hou&s;e of</HI> I&s;rael; <HI>not according to the Covenant that I made with their Fathers, when I brought them out of the Land of</HI> Egypt: <HI>But this is the Cove|nant that I will make with the Hou&s;e of</HI> I&s;rael <HI>after the&s;e dayes, &s;aith the Lord, I will put my Laws in their Inward Parts, and write them in their Hearts; and I will be their God, and they &s;hall be my People: And they &s;hall not need to teach every man his Bro|ther, and every man his Neighbour, &s;aying, Know the Lord; for they &s;hall all know me, from the lea&s;t of them unto the greate&s;t of them, &s;aith the Lord: for I will forgive their Iniquity, and I will remember their Sin no more.</HI></P>
<P>So this is the new Covenant, in which all &s;hall know the Lord, that was promi&s;ed and prophe&s;ied of before it came to pa&s;s, which is not according to the old, <HI>Jer.</HI> 31.</P>
<P>And in <HI>Hebr.</HI> 8. the Apo&s;tle &s;heweth the fulfilling of <HI>I&s;aiah</HI>'s, and <HI>Jeremiah</HI>'s, and <HI>Ezekiel</HI>'s Prophecy; and how the new Co|venant was come, and he preached up the new Covenant, and preach't down the old; and how that all &s;hould be taught of
<PB N="5" REF="3">God in the new Covenant: &s;o in that he faith, the new Cove|nant, he hath made the fir&s;t old Covenant as a thing decayed, and ready to vani&s;h away.</P>
<P>And in <HI>Hebr.</HI> 9. he &s;aith, how the fir&s;t Covenant had <HI>Or|dinances of Divine Services, and a Worldly Sanctuary, and Ta|bernacle, and Candle&s;tick, and Table, and Shew-Bread, and Cen&s;ers, and Pot of Manna, and</HI> Aaron<HI>'s Rod,</HI> and many other outward things.</P>
<P>But in the new Covenant Chri&s;t hath aboli&s;hed all the&s;e out|ward things, who will <HI>Rule all Nations with his Rod of Iron,</HI> which is beyond <HI>Aaron</HI>'s Rod.</P>
<P>And &s;o it is clear, that the new Covenant is not according to the old: For in the old Covenant, the Prie&s;ts Lips were to pre|&s;erve the Peoples Knowledge. And <HI>Ezra</HI> had a Pulpit of Wood to read the Law to the People upon: and the Law was written in Tables of Stone. But in the new Covenant and Te&s;tament Chri&s;t ends this Prie&s;thood, who&s;e Lips were to pre&s;erve the peoples Knowledge; and they are to look unto Chri&s;t Je&s;us, who is the Trea&s;ure of Wi&s;dom and Knowledge in the new Covenant.</P>
<P>And God writes his Laws in their Hearts, and puts them in their Minds in the new Covenant, by which all may know him from the greate&s;t to the lea&s;t of them.</P>
<P>And in the old Covenant they had Sanctuaries, and Taberna|cles, and Temple, and the High-Prie&s;t was to lighten the Can|dles and Lamps in them. But in the new Covenant, Chri&s;t, who ends the fir&s;t Prie&s;thood, and the old Covenant, and aboli&s;hes the Sanctuary, Tabernacle, and outward Temple and Lamps, inlightens every man's Spirit that cometh into the World, in his Tabernacle or Temple, with his Heavenly Light, which is the Life in him&s;elf, Chri&s;t Je&s;us, the High-Prie&s;t, made higher than the Heavens. So he was made by the Oath of God, and fulfils it; &s;o were not the Prie&s;ts in the Law and old Co|venant.</P>
<P>So the New Covenant is not according to the Old; for the Old Covenant, and the Law commanded Offerings and Sacri|fices; but Chri&s;t in the New Covenant, offered up him&s;elf
<PB N="6" REF="4">once for all the Offerings and Sacrifices, and Ended them all, and the Old Covenant al&s;o.</P>
<P>And in the Old Covenant, the Blood of the Clean Bea&s;ts the Prie&s;t with it made Attonement for his own Sins, and the Sins of the People: But in the New Covenant, Chri&s;t, with his own Blood, hath made Attonement for the <HI>Sins</HI> of the whole World; <HI>and by the Grace of God hath ta&s;ted Death for every man; which Grace of God, that brings Salvation, hath appear|ed to All Men, to teach them,</HI> and bring their Salvation, <HI>&amp;c.</HI> And he <HI>hath given him&s;elf a Ran&s;om for all men, to be te&s;tified of in due time,</HI> in the New Covenant; which the dayes thereof are come above Sixteen Hundred Years &s;ince.</P>
<P>So in the New Covenant of Light, Life and Grace, there is no need of offering Rams and Bea&s;ts, and other Creatures for Sins; nor the Blood of Bulls and Goats, nor the A&s;hes of a Heifer to clean&s;e; nor outward Lights nor Lamps, in the out|ward Tabernacle; for <HI>Chri&s;t Je&s;us hath offered up him&s;elf once for All:</HI> And He, the <HI>One Offering,</HI> is a &s;ufficient Attonement in the New Covenant, and for the Sins of the whole World. And his Blood, the Life of him, the clean Lamb of God, with|out Blemi&s;h, <HI>who takes away the Sins of the World,</HI> is &s;ufficient to clean&s;e from all Sin. And his Light, that is the Life in him, <HI>the Word, by which all things were made,</HI> is &s;ufficient to light every mans Spirit, that cometh into the World. And the <HI>Oyl</HI> from Him, the <HI>Heavenly Man,</HI> is &s;ufficient for every mans Lamp to keep it burning.</P>
<P>So the <HI>New Covenant</HI> is not according to the <HI>Old;</HI> nor the <HI>New Te&s;tament</HI> is not as the <HI>Old.</HI> For the <HI>New Te&s;tament</HI> is in the Blood of Chri&s;t, which clean&s;eth from all Sin; and in him, the <HI>One Offering, who offered up him&s;elf once for all the Offerings,</HI> &s;ince the World began; <HI>who is the Lamb of God that takes away the Sins of the World.</HI> And the <HI>New Te&s;tament</HI> is in the <HI>Light</HI> of <HI>Chri&s;t,</HI> which is the <HI>Life</HI> in him. And the <HI>Old Te&s;tament,</HI> in the <HI>Old Covenant,</HI> was for the Outward <HI>Light,</HI> and <HI>Lamps</HI> and <HI>Temple, Tabernacle</HI> and <HI>Sanctuary,</HI> and <HI>the Prie&s;ts Lips, which pre&s;erved the Peoples Knowledge:</HI> But the <HI>New Te&s;tament,</HI> in the <HI>New Covenant</HI> is, <HI>That Chri&s;t is the Trea&s;ure of Wi&s;dom and Knowledge; and he is the Everla&s;ting High-Prie&s;t, who hath offered up him&s;elf for them,
<PB N="7" REF="4">and is ri&s;en, and is alive again, and lives for evermore;</HI> and is their Light and Life.</P>
<P>And in the Old Te&s;tament and Old Covenant, the Prie&s;thood continued after the Order of <HI>Aaron:</HI> But in the New Covenant and Te&s;tament Chri&s;t is after the Order of <HI>Melchizedech;</HI> and not after the Order of <HI>Aaron,</HI> nor came not of that Tribe, but of the Tribe of <HI>Judah.</HI> And in the New Te&s;tament and New Covenant, all the Believers in it, their Bodies are the Ta|bernacles and Temples of God and Chri&s;t, and Chri&s;t the High-Prie&s;t dwells in them:</P>
<P>But in the Old Covenant and Te&s;tament the Prie&s;ts had Cham|bers in the Temple; which Chambers and Prie&s;thood Chri&s;t hath aboli&s;hed, and made his Chamber in the Hearts of his People.</P>
<P>And in the Old Covenant and Te&s;tament there was a Covenant of <HI>Salt,</HI> with which the Sacrifices were to be &s;alted, and the Prie&s;ts were to &s;alt them: But in the New and Everla&s;ting Covenant and Te&s;tament, Chri&s;t the High and Ever|la&s;ting Prie&s;t, doth &s;alt and the Spiritual Sacrifices of his People, and makes them Savory, and makes his Followers the Salt of the Earth, and the Light of the World; &s;o that they need not have the outward Salt and Light, and Lamps in the Old Covenant, which Chri&s;t hath aboli&s;hed.</P>
<P>And in the Old Covenant the <HI>Jews</HI> were to keep their Fea&s;ts of Tabernacles, and the Fea&s;t of Pa&s;&s;over through|out all their Generations; and they ate of this Pa&s;&s;o|ver when they came out of <HI>Aegypt:</HI> But in the New Covenant and Te&s;tament, the <HI>Jews</HI> in Spirit, that pa&s;s out of the Spiritual <HI>Aegypt,</HI> &s;eed upon Chri&s;t their heavenly Pa&s;&s;over, and keep the heavenly Pa&s;&s;over throughout all their Generations in the New Covenant; &amp; keep their heavenly Spiritual Fea&s;t of Tabernacles, dwelling in the green Booths of the green Tree, <HI>Chri&s;t Je&s;us,</HI> the heavenly Man, the Second <HI>Adam,</HI> who&s;e Leaf never Withers, Fades nor Falls, but is alwayes Green. And Chri&s;t aboli&s;hes the Fea&s;ts and Pa&s;&s;overs of the Old Covenant: &s;o the New Co|venant is not according to the Old.</P>
<P>And the <HI>Jews,</HI> in the Old Covenant, brought all their fir&s;t Fruits, and offered them to the Prie&s;ts: &s;o there was a Fea&s;t of the fir&s;t Fruits. But in the New Te&s;tament and Covenant of
<PB N="8" REF="5">Light and Grace they do offer the fir&s;t Fruits of the Spirit, that which the Spirit in&s;pires them with, or reveals to them; which Spirit hath ploughed up the Fallow Ground of their Hearts, and &s;o &s;ows to the Spirit, and of the Spirit reaps Life; which Crop goes into God's Garner, which the heavenly High-Prie&s;t gathers into his heavenly Garner, his heavenly Wheat, that is thre&s;hed out with his heavenly Spiritual Flail. For the Prie&s;ts, in the Old Covenant, had their fir&s;t Fruits brought in|to the outward Garner, which Chri&s;t aboli&s;hes: So the New Covenant is not according to the Old.</P>
<P>And in the Old Covenant and Te&s;tament, there was but one Tribe of twelve, that was made a Prie&s;thood, and they were to have no Portion nor Lot in the Land, but <HI>Tythes</HI> and <HI>Offerings</HI> was their Portion and Salary. But Chri&s;t in his New Co|venant and Te&s;tament makes <HI>all his Believers Prie&s;ts,</HI> as <HI>Peter</HI> &s;aith, <HI>and to offer up Spiritual Sacrifices:</HI> And &s;aith in his <HI>Gone|ral Epi&s;tle, Ye are a Holy Nation, a Royal Prie&s;thood, a Pecu|liar People, offering up Spiritual Sacrifices, having one High Prie&s;t,</HI> Chri&s;t Je&s;us, <HI>that lives forever; who Sanctifies his People, his Church, and Wa&s;hes and Clean&s;es them with the heavenly Wa|ter of his Word.</HI> So his People are a Nation of Prie&s;ts, of Men and Women; for all mu&s;t offer up to the Lord their <HI>Spi|ritual Sacrifices</HI> in his New Covenant; both Male and Female are all one in Chri&s;t Je&s;us. And &s;o he ends the fir&s;t Prie&s;thood, and aboli&s;hes him, with all his outward Water and Wa&s;hings, and ends all his Offices, and changes the Law, by which he was made, and the Commandment that gave him his Tythes and Offerings. For by the Law he was to have no Lot of the Land: But now that Law being changed, he may take up Land where he will.</P>
<P>And Chri&s;t &s;aith in the New Covenant and Te&s;tament to the Followers and Learners of him, <HI>Freely you have received, Free|ly give:</HI> And bid them, <HI>Go without a Bag or Staff: And into what City or Town they came, they were to enquire, Who was Worthy? and to eat &s;uch things as was &s;et before them: For the Work-man was worthy of his Meat.</HI> So the New Covenant is, <HI>Freely you have received, Freely give:</HI> And they need neither
<PB N="9" REF="5">Bag nor Staff: for Chri&s;t the great Prophet and Prie&s;t will &s;up|ply and uphold them.</P>
<P>And &s;o its clear, the New Covenant and Te&s;tament is not ac|cording to to the Old, nor the New and Living Way according to the Old Way among the <HI>Jews;</HI> which Old Covenant and Te|&s;tament, and Old Law, and Old Way among the <HI>Jews</HI> &s;erved, until the Seed <HI>Chri&s;t</HI> came, who is the New and Living Way in his New Covenant and New Te&s;tament; and hath aboli&s;hed that Old Way, Old Te&s;tament, Covenant and Law.</P>
<P>And in the Old Covenant, their <HI>Circumci&s;ion</HI> was in the Fle&s;h, and in that they were to obey and &s;erve God; and he that was not Circumci&s;ed, was not to eat of the Sacrifice, but to be cut off; and the <HI>Prie&s;t</HI> and <HI>Levite</HI> was to Circumci&s;e them. But in the New Covenant and Te&s;tament, <HI>Chri&s;t,</HI> the <HI>High Prie&s;t</HI> is the Mini&s;ter of the Circumci&s;ion of the Spirit; which Circumci|&s;ion of the Spirit puts off the Body of Death, and the Sins of the Fle&s;h, which is got up in Man and Woman by Tran&s;gre&s;&s;ion. For <HI>Adam</HI> and <HI>Eve</HI> had not a Body of Sin and Death before they Tran&s;gre&s;&s;ed. So the <HI>Chri&s;tians</HI> in the New Covenant of Grace and Light, are the Circumci&s;ion of the Spirit, which &s;erve and wor&s;hip God in the Spirit: And &s;uch eat of the heavenly Pa&s;&s;over and Supper <HI>Chri&s;t Je&s;us:</HI> and if they be not Circumci|&s;ed with the Spirit, they are cut off from keeping that heavenly Fea&s;t of the Pa&s;&s;over, <HI>Chri&s;t Je&s;us.</HI> So the New Covenant and Te&s;tament is not according to the Old; for Chri&s;t hath aboli&s;h|ed both the <HI>Jewi&s;h Pa&s;&s;over</HI> and <HI>Circumci&s;ion</HI> of the Old Co|venant.</P>
<P>And in the Old Covenant and Te&s;tament, they that did re&s;i&s;t the High Prie&s;t, and gain-&s;aid <HI>Mo&s;es,</HI> dyed an outward Death by the hands of two or three Witne&s;&s;es. But in the New Cove|nant, they that do neglect to hear the great Prophet and high Prie&s;t, <HI>Chri&s;t Je&s;us,</HI> whom God hath rai&s;ed up, like unto <HI>Mo&s;es,</HI> and will not have him to reign over them, nor hear him that &s;peaks from Heaven, a more &s;evere Puni&s;hment comes upon them, than they that dyed by the hands of two or three Wit|ne&s;&s;es, that did re&s;i&s;t <HI>Mo&s;es:</HI> for that was a Natural Death in the Old Covenant; but this this is an Eternal Death in the New
<PB N="10" REF="6">Covenant. And therefore hear the Son of God in the New Covenant, &amp; ye &s;hall live; <HI>&amp; while&s;t it is called to day hear his Voice,</HI> for ye may be dead before to morrow. I &s;ay, Hear him that &s;peaks from Heaven, who&s;e Voice &s;hakes the Earth, &s;o all that appertains to the Earth or Earthly; and not the Earth only, but the Heavens al&s;o, that that may appear, which cannot be &s;haken, to wit, <HI>the &s;eed of Life.</HI> So People was to hear <HI>Mo&s;es</HI> and the High Prie&s;t in the Old Covenant and Te&s;tament: But now they are to hear <HI>Chri&s;t,</HI> their High Prie&s;t and Prophet, that God hath rai&s;ed up in the New Covenant, in his Grace, Light and Spirit. <HI>For the Law came by</HI> Mo&s;es, in the Old Covenant; and all the People of the <HI>Jews</HI> was to hear the Law in the Old Covenant, and do it, and live: <HI>But Grace and Truth is come by</HI> Je&s;us <HI>Chri&s;t,</HI> in the New Co|venant and Te&s;tament of Light, Life and Grace. And &s;o all the Children of the New Covenant are to hear Chri&s;t in his Grace, and to be under the Grace, and Truth's Teaching, which will bring their Salvation.</P>
<P>Now you may Object, and &s;ay, <HI>Do not the</HI> Scribes <HI>and</HI> Pha|ri&s;ees <HI>&s;it in</HI> Mo&s;es<HI>'s Seat or Chair? And all that they bid you do, are ye not to do and ob&s;erve it?</HI></P>
<P>This Chri&s;t &s;pake before he was offered; for before he was offered up, he bid the People, whom he had clean&s;ed, <HI>Go and offer a Sacrifice to the Prie&s;t for their Clean&s;ing.</HI> And before he was offered up, he told them, <HI>They ought to pay Tythe of</HI> Mint <HI>and</HI> Ani&s;e <HI>to the Prie&s;t, &amp;c.</HI> But when he had offered up him|&s;elf once for all the Offerings, he put down all the Prie&s;ts and their Offerings; and &s;ent his Di&s;ciples into all Nations to preach the Go&s;pel: And then he did not bid them go and hear the <HI>Scribes</HI> and <HI>Phari&s;ees,</HI> that &s;ate in <HI>Mo&s;es</HI>'s Chair; and go to the Prie&s;ts for their Clean&s;ing, and give them their Tythes: But by the offering up him&s;elf once for all, he had ended the Prie&s;ts and their Services, and the Old Covenant, and its Works. [Mark, <HI>An Offering once for All, for the Sins of the whole World.</HI>] Then there was no need of the Prie&s;ts in the Old Law, to offer Lambs and Rams, and the Blood of the Creatures, for the Clean&s;ing of the Sins of the People, <HI>&amp;c.</HI> But the Prie&s;t, in the Old Covenant, his Works were fini&s;hed; and his Wages
<PB N="11" REF="6">and Salary, his Tythes and Offerings were taken away al&s;o. So he took away the fir&s;t old Covenant, Te&s;tament &amp; Prie&s;thood, &amp; e&s;tabli&s;hed the Second. So <HI>Tythes</HI> in the Old Covenant and Te|&s;tament to the Prie&s;ts we grant; but Chri&s;t hath aboli&s;hed both it and them. And the New Covenant is not according to the Old; in which Chri&s;t &s;aith, <HI>Freely you have received, Freely give.</HI></P>
<P>And in the Old Covenant and Te&s;tament, the <HI>Jews</HI> were to appear three times a Year at the outward Temple, and there to Wor&s;hip the Lord: And there was another place of Wor&s;hip, where <HI>Jacob</HI>'s Well was, at the Mountain near <HI>Samaria.</HI> But Chri&s;t &s;aith in his New Covenant and Te&s;ta|ment, in <HI>John</HI> 4. <HI>That God is not Wor&s;hipped, neither at the Mountain of</HI> Samaria, <HI>nor yet at</HI> Jeru&s;alem; <HI>For the Hour cometh and now is,</HI> [Mark, <HI>now is</HI>] <HI>that the True Wor&s;hippers &s;hall Wor|&s;hip the Father in Spirit and Truth, for the Father &s;eeks &s;uch to Wor&s;hip him. For God is a Spirit, and they that Wor&s;hip him, mu&s;t Wor&s;hip him in Spirit and Truth</HI> So this Wor&s;hip in the New Covenant and Te&s;tament, is a New Wor&s;hip, which Chri&s;t Je&s;us, the Heavenly Spiritual Man, the Second <HI>Adam,</HI> &s;et up above Sixteen Hundred Years ago; and then put down and aboli&s;hed the Wor&s;hip at the Mountain, and the Wor&s;hip at <HI>Jeru&s;alem,</HI> when he &s;et up this Wor&s;hip in Spirit and in Truth. And this Spirit and Truth mu&s;t every Man and Woman &s;eel in their Hearts, by which they may know the God of Truth, who is a Spirit. And &s;o the <HI>Jew</HI> inward wor&s;hips in the Temple, his Body being the Temple of the Lord. And the <HI>Jew</HI> outward, in the Old Covenant and Te&s;tament, they Sung and Prayed in the Temple, at outward <HI>Jeru&s;alem:</HI> But the <HI>Jew</HI> inward, in the Spirit, in the New Covenant and Te&s;tament, and New and Living Way Sings, and Rejoyces and Prayes in the holy Gho&s;t, their Bodies being Temples of the Holy Gho&s;t.</P>
<P>And &s;o its clear, the New Covenant and Te&s;tament, and the New and Living Way, is not according to the Old.</P>
<P>And in the Old Covenant and Te&s;tament <HI>God poured out of his Spirit upon the Hou&s;e of</HI> I&s;rael, that by it they might &s;erve God in his Law. But in the New Covenant of Light and Grace, and
<PB N="12" REF="7">the New Te&s;tament <HI>God poures out of his Spirit upon all Fle&s;h,</HI> as was prophe&s;ied of in <HI>Joel</HI> 2. And the Apo&s;tle preach't the ful|filling of it, in <HI>Acts</HI> 2. So that with the Spirit all Fle&s;h might &s;ee the Glory of God, and &s;ee Chri&s;t, <HI>who gave him&s;elf a Ran&s;om for them all, and ta&s;ted Death for every man.</HI></P>
<P>And &s;o in the new Covenant the Holy Gho&s;t, which proceeds from the Father and the Son, leadeth the Servants of God and Chri&s;t into all Truth, and reproves the World for their Unbe|lief, and their fal&s;e Judgment and Unrighteou&s;ne&s;s. So that they need not have the Prie&s;ts Lips of the old Covenant to pre|&s;erve their Knowledge, nor the Prie&s;t to kill the clean Bea&s;ts, to offer up for their Sins, to clean&s;e them with the Blood of the clean Bea&s;ts; and they need not have the clean Bea&s;ts to dye for them: For Chri&s;t, the Lamb without blemi&s;h, hath ta&s;ted Death for every man, and dyed for the Sins of the whole World, and &s;o not only for the <HI>Jews.</HI></P>
<P>And &s;o God pouring out his Spirit upon the Hou&s;e of <HI>I&s;rael,</HI> that by it they might under&s;tand the Law of Works, and do it.</P>
<P>But in the new Covenant, as was &s;aid before, God pours out of his Spirit upon all Fle&s;h, that by it they might under&s;tand the Law of Life, which is in Chri&s;t Je&s;us, to make them free from the Law of Sin and Death.</P>
<P>And as all the outward <HI>Jews</HI> in the old Covenant were to walk in the Law of Works; &s;o in the new Covenant of Light and Grace, and new Te&s;tament, they are to walk in the Light, and Spirit, and the Law of Life in Chri&s;t Je&s;us, as every one hath received him.</P>
<P>And as the outward <HI>Jews</HI> in the old Covenant and Te&s;tament received the Law from Mount <HI>Sinai;</HI> &s;o the inward <HI>Jews</HI> in the Spirit in the new Covenant and Te&s;tament receive the Law of Life in Chri&s;t Je&s;us, laid in Heavenly <HI>Zion.</HI></P>
<P>And &s;o it is clear, the new Covenant and Te&s;tament is not ac|cording to the old.</P>
<P>And the old Covenant and Te&s;tament did forbid the outward <HI>Jews</HI> the eating of &s;everal &s;orts of Creatures; but in the new Covenant and Te&s;tament, and new and living Way Chri&s;t &s;aith,
<PB N="13" REF="7"><HI>He that made that without, made that within; and that all things are clean; and what&s;oever goeth into the Mouth, doth not defile the man; for it goeth into the Belly, and &s;o into the Draught, the Pur|ger of all Meats.</HI></P>
<P>But Chri&s;t Je&s;us is the Purger of the Con&s;cience, Mind, Heart and Soul, with his Blood, his Life, the clean Lamb without Blemi&s;h, and with his Bapti&s;m with Fire and the holy Gho&s;t: For he &s;aith, <HI>The&s;e Evils, that come out of a mans Heart, de|file a man.</HI> And &s;o the&s;e Evils came into man by Tran&s;gre&s;|&s;ion; for <HI>Adam</HI> and <HI>Eve</HI> had them not, when God made them.</P>
<P>And the Apo&s;tle &s;aith, <HI>What&s;<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">ever is &s;old in the Shambles, that eat.</HI></P>
<P>This he &s;peaks to the <HI>Corinthians,</HI> who were <HI>Gentiles</HI> before their Conver&s;ion: And &s;o the&s;e things &s;old, were in the <HI>Gen|tiles</HI> Shambles; not in the <HI>Jews</HI> Shambles, where only the clean Bea&s;ts and Fowls were &s;old, but at <HI>Corinth,</HI> or among&s;t the <HI>Corinthians</HI> Shambles, where both were &s;old, 1 <HI>Cor.</HI> 10 25. For the Earth is the Lord's, and the fulne&s;s thereof; <HI>And God &s;aw everything that he had made, and behold, it was very good:</HI> Mark, every thing that he had made, he &s;aw it was very good, <HI>Gen.</HI> 1.31.</P>
<P>And the Apo&s;tle in the new Covenant and Te&s;tament, and in the New and Living way &s;aid, <HI>Every Creature of God was good, and nothing to be refu&s;ed, if it be received with Thanks|giving; for it is Sanctified by the Word of God, and Prayer:</HI> For by the Word of God were all things made, and by his Word and Power are all things upheld: And the Apo&s;tle &s;aith to <HI>Ti|mothy, If thou put the Brethren in mind of the&s;e things, thou &s;halt be a good Mini&s;ter of Chri&s;t Je&s;us,</HI> 1 Tim. 4.4.</P>
<P>And moreover the Apo&s;tle &s;aid, <HI>The Kingdom of God &s;tood not in Meats and Drinks, but in Righteou&s;ne&s;s, and Peace, and Joy in the holy Gho&s;t.</HI></P>
<P>And when <HI>Peter</HI> &s;aw in his Vi&s;ion a <HI>Sheet let down from Hea|ven, wherein were all manner of four-footed Bea&s;ts of the Earth, and wild Bea&s;ts and creeping things, and Fowls of the Air;</HI> and there came a Voice to him in the New Covenant and Te&s;tament, and &s;aid, <HI>Ari&s;e</HI> Peter, <HI>Kill and eat;</HI> And <HI>Peter</HI> having been a
<PB N="14" REF="8"><HI>Jew</HI> of the Old Te&s;tament and Covenant, his Voice was accord|ing to it, when he &s;aid, <HI>But not &s;o Lord; for I have neither eaten any thing that is Common or &V;nclean.</HI> And the Voice &s;pake unto him the &s;econd time, and &s;aid, <HI>What God hath clean|&s;ed, that call not thou common.</HI> Now the occa&s;ion of this was, when <HI>Peter</HI> was to go and Preach the Go&s;pel to <HI>Cornelius</HI> a <HI>Gentile,</HI> as in <HI>Acts</HI> 10.</P>
<P>So he <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 word"> clear, that the New Covenant and Te&s;tament, and New and Living way is not according to the Old Covenant and Te&s;tament, and Old way among&s;t the <HI>Jews:</HI> For Chri&s;t doth Reconcile in one, all things both in Heaven and in Earth.</P>
<P>And in the Old Covenant and Te&s;tament, and the <HI>Jews</HI> Old way, they did ob&s;erve Dayes, Moneths, Times and Years; and this they were commanded by the Law. But in the New Covenant and Te&s;tament, and New and Living way the Apo&s;tle (that preached the New Covenant, and the New Te&s;tament, &amp; the New &amp; Living way) brought them off from the ob&s;erving of Dayes, Times, Moneths and Years: And &s;ome after they were come from the ob&s;erving of them, were turning again to the weak and beggarly Elements, wherein they again de&s;ired to be in Bondage: For &s;aith he, <HI>Ye ob&s;erve Dayes and Moneths, Times and Years.</HI> And the Apo&s;tle &s;aid, <HI>I am afraid of you, le&s;t I have be&s;towed my Labour in vain upon you.</HI> So he was afraid of them, who had laboured to bring them out of the ob&s;erving of them to Chri&s;t, and his everla&s;ting Kingdom of Light, Life and Grace: and they to go back again into the ob&s;erving of Dayes, Times, Moneths and Years, they went into that which he had laboured to bring them out of; for which he was afraid, le&s;t he had be&s;towed Labour upon them in vain.</P>
<P>So it is clear here, that the New Covenant, and New Te&s;ta|ment, and the new and Living way is not according to the old.</P>
<P>For in the old Covenant and Te&s;tament the outward <HI>Jew</HI> had his Dayes, Times, Moneths, and Years and Fea&s;ts. But in the new Te&s;tament and New Covenant of Light, and Life, and Grace, they came to the heavenly Fea&s;t, and to the Day of Chri&s;t, and are talled Children of his Day; and &s;o have their Bread from Heaven, and keep the heavenly and everla&s;ting
<PB N="15" REF="8">Fea&s;t in Chri&s;t Je&s;us, who aboli&s;hes the <HI>Jews</HI> Fea&s;ts of the old Covenant.</P>
<P>And in the old Covenant and Te&s;tament, God gave unto the <HI>Jews</HI> his Sabbath as a Sign, after he brought them out of <HI>Egypt,</HI> though he had not given it to <HI>Adam,</HI> nor to the old World, nor to <HI>Abraham, I&s;aac</HI> and <HI>Jacob</HI> by command to keep, but to the <HI>Jews,</HI> and they were to keep it Holy: and they were not to do their own Work; no, not &s;o much as to make a Fire to dre&s;s their Meat, nor to think their own Thoughts; For &s;ix dayes they were to Labour, and to do all their Work. And this Law that commanded this Sabbath, which God gave unto the <HI>Jews</HI> as a Sign, &s;erved till the Seed Chri&s;t the Sub&s;tance came; and when he was come, they accu&s;ed him and his Di&s;ciples, as being Sabbath-breakers, becau&s;e his Di&s;ciples gathered &s;ome Ears of Corn on the Sabbath day to eat. And he healed on the Sabbath day.</P>
<P>And Chri&s;t &s;aid unto his Accu&s;ers the <HI>Jews, The Sabbath was made for man, and not man for the Sabbath: Therefore the Son of man is Lord of the Sabbath, the Sign, who was the Sub&s;tance of it,</HI> Mark 2.23, 27, 28.</P>
<P>And this &s;aying of Chri&s;t troubled the <HI>Jews,</HI> that profe&s;&s;ed the old Covenant and Te&s;tament, and had the Sabbath, the out|ward Day, which was the Sign in the old Covenant. Now that outward Day was the &s;ign of the Eternal Re&s;t and Day of Chri&s;t, in his new Covenant. For Chri&s;t in his new Cove|nant doth End all the <HI>Jews</HI> Signs and Shadows, and &s;aith, <HI>Behold I make all things New.</HI> And as is &s;aid before, the Apo&s;tle's la|bour was to bring them off the Ob&s;ervation of Dayes, &amp;c. And faith to the Saints in the new Te&s;tament and new Covenant of Light and Grace, <HI>Let no man Judge you in Meats or in Drinks, or in re&s;pect of an Holy day, or of the new Moon, or of the Sab|bath, which were Shadows of things to come; but the Body is of Chri&s;t.</HI></P>
<P>So it is clear, that the Apo&s;tle brought the Saints to Chri&s;t, the Sub&s;tance of the Shadows. For the Sabbath, and the new Moons, and tho&s;e outward things among&s;t the <HI>Jews</HI> were but Shadows and Signs: And when the Sub&s;tance was come, the Shadows flie away, <HI>Col.</HI> 2.</P>
<PB N="16" REF="9">
<P>So the Apo&s;tle in another place &s;peaks of another Day, then the &s;eventh day, the <HI>Jews</HI> Sabbath, which is the day of Chri&s;t, and &s;aith, <HI>We which have believed, do enter into his Re&s;t.</HI> And again he &s;aith, <HI>He that hath entred into his Re&s;t, is al&s;o cea&s;ed from his own Works, as God did from his.</HI> So the Believers Re&s;t in the new Covenant and new Te&s;tament, and new and Living way is Chri&s;t Je&s;us, the Sub&s;tance, <HI>Hebr.</HI> 6.</P>
<P>And the <HI>Jews</HI> were to keep the outward Sabbath-day and Sign holy, and not to gather their Meat, nor kindle a Fire, nor bear a Burthen, nor do their own Work, nor think their own Thoughts upon the Sabbath-day, the &s;ign in the old Covenant and Te&s;tament.</P>
<P>So the true <HI>Chri&s;tians</HI> and Children in the new Covenant of Light and Grace, that do enter into the Re&s;t by belief in the Light, which is the Life in Chri&s;t, do cea&s;e from their own Works; and in Chri&s;t, their Sabbath, their Re&s;t, they bear no Burden; and in him they do not think their own Thoughts; and in him they are not kindling their own Fires; and in Chri&s;t they are not gathering their own Meat; for he is their Bread of Life from Heaven; &s;o that in him they &s;hall not hunger. And he de&s;troyes the Devil and his Works, which hath burdened Man and Bea&s;t, yea, even the whole Creation; and in Chri&s;t people are over and above their own Thoughts. So all are to keep the Eternal Sabbath, the Eternal Re&s;t by Belief in the Light, which is the Life in Chri&s;t, this Holy Day, this Holy Re&s;t and Sabbath, which ends the Sign, that was to be kept holy in the old Covenant. For if the <HI>Jews</HI> in the old Covenant and Te&s;tament did not keep the Sabbath Ho|ly, they were to be &s;toned to Death with outward Stones: But they that do not keep in Chri&s;t by Belief in the Holy Re&s;t, He the Top and Corner-Stone falls upon them, and grinds them to Powder, and &s;tones them to Death with the Heavenly Stone, that keep not in Chri&s;t, the Holy, Eternal, Everla&s;ting Re&s;t and Sabbath.</P>
<P>So here the New Covenant is not according to the Old; for the Old had an Outward Temporal Day; but they in the New Covenant have the Sub&s;tance, Chri&s;t, and his Eternal Day,
<PB N="17" REF="9">and enter into his Everla&s;ting Re&s;t, by Belief in his Light, which is the Life in him.</P>
<P>And the <HI>Jews</HI> in the old Covenant, and Te&s;tament, and in their old Way had outward Helmets, Shields, and Swords, and Carnal Weapons, and Armour. But Chri&s;t in his new Covenant and Te&s;tament, who is the new and living Way, he &s;aith, <HI>He came not to de&s;troy mens Lives, but to &s;ave them.</HI> Though he was the King of Kings and Lord of Lords, yet he was far off from gi|ving any Precept or Command to his Di&s;ciples to de&s;troy mens Lives: when &s;ome would have had Fire to come down from Hea|ven, to con&s;ume them that would not receive him; he turned about, and rebuked them, and &s;aid, <HI>He came not to de&s;troy men's Lives, but to &s;ave them.</HI></P>
<P>And &s;uch men as would have been plucking up the Tares, Chri&s;t the King of Kings would give them no Commi&s;&s;ion, no not &s;o much as a Licen&s;e; but &s;aid, <HI>Let the Wheat and Tares grow together till the Harve&s;t, which was the End of the World; and then his Father would &s;end forth his Angels, which &s;hould be the Reapers, and they &s;hould &s;ever the Wheat from the Tares, &amp;c.</HI> And Chri&s;t gave a Rea&s;on, wherefore he would not give a Com|mi&s;&s;ion to men to pluck up the Tares, Le&s;t they in their blind Zeal &s;hould pluck up the Wheat al&s;o with the Tares.</P>
<P>And &s;o Chri&s;t in his New Te&s;tament, and new Covenant, who &s;ent forth his twelve Di&s;ciples, and after his &s;eventy to preach the Go&s;pel, he did not &s;end them with any Carnal Weapons or Armour, or any Carnal Set Maintenance, or Tythes, as was in the old Covenant; nay, they were not &s;o much as to take a Bag or Staff to defend them.</P>
<P>So the King of Kings was far off from giving them Commi&s;|&s;ion or Licen&s;es, to beat People into his Religion, Way and Wor&s;hip, Church or Belief with Carnal Weapons; but &s;aith, <HI>He that believes, is &s;aved; and he that doth not, is condemned al|ready;</HI> and that was puni&s;hment enough. And therefore the A|po&s;tle <HI>Paul</HI> &s;aith, <HI>The Weapons of our Warfare are not Carnal, but Spiritual:</HI> Mark, Spiritual in the new Covenant and new Te|&s;tament, and new and living Way; but Carnal in the old
<PB N="18" REF="10">Covenant and old Te&s;tament to the outward <HI>Jews</HI> in the old Way.</P>
<P>And the Apo&s;tle plainly &s;aith, we in the new Covenant and new Te&s;tament, and new and living Way in Chri&s;t Je&s;us, wre&s;tle not with Fle&s;h and Blood, who came not to de&s;troy men's Lives, but to &s;ave them; but they wre&s;tled with &s;piritual Wickedne&s;s, and Rulers of Darkne&s;s, &amp;c.</P>
<P>And in another place the Apo&s;tle tells the Saints in the new Covenant, That their Weapons and Armour was the Shield of Faith, which is the Gift of God, which Chri&s;t is the Author and Fini&s;her of, that &s;aves men's Lives; and the Sword of the Spirit, the Word of God; and the Helmet of Salvation, that pre&s;erved their Head; and the Brea&s;t-plate of Righteou&s;ne&s;s, that kept Evil out of their Brea&s;t and Hearts; and their Loyns were to be girt with Truth; and to be &s;hod with the Preparati|on of the Everla&s;ting Go&s;pel of Peace.</P>
<P>And the&s;e are Chri&s;t's Mini&s;ters of the Spirit, and Believers, and true <HI>Chri&s;tians,</HI> that &s;tand in this Armour, and have the&s;e Weapons, and follow Chri&s;t, and fight under his Banner of Love, with his &s;piritual Armour and Weapons, in his new and living Way, and new Te&s;tament, and new Covenant of Grace and Light, and follow not the <HI>Jews</HI> in their Carnal Armour and Weapons, and Signs, and Shadows; for the Sub&s;tance is come.</P>
<P>So the new Covenant and Te&s;tament, and new and living Way is not according to the <HI>Jews</HI> old Covenant and Te&s;tament, and old Way, which &s;erved till the Seed Chri&s;t came: and all tho&s;e Signs and Shadows in the old Covenant, upheld with their outward Weapons and carnal Armour, have done their Service to hold up their Signs and Shadows; but Chri&s;t is come, and hath aboli&s;hed them.</P>
<P>And &s;o it is clear, that the new Covenant and new Te&s;tament, and new and living Way, is not according to the old Covenant, and old Te&s;tament, and old Way among&s;t the <HI>Jews,</HI> as was &s;aid before.</P>
<P>And in the old Covenant, and Te&s;tament, and old Way the
<PB N="19" REF="10"><HI>Jews</HI> were to Swear, and to perform their Oaths unto the Lord; and not to Swear Fal&s;ly.</P>
<P>But in the new Covenant, and Te&s;tament, and new and living Way, Chri&s;t the Son of God &s;aith, <HI>Swear not at all; but let your Yea be Yea, and your Nay, Nay; for what&s;oever is more than the&s;e, cometh of Evil,</HI> Matth. 5.</P>
<P>And the Apo&s;tle <HI>James</HI> in the new Covenant, in his general Epi&s;tle &s;aith, <HI>Above all things,</HI> [Mark, above all things] <HI>my Brethren, Swear not, &amp;c.</HI> So the&s;e are the Brethren in the new Covenant, and Te&s;tament, and new and living Way, that are not to Swear at all. And further he faith, <HI>They were not to Swear by Heaven, nor by Earth, nor any other Oath; but let your Yea be Yea, and your Nay, Nay, le&s;t ye fall into Condemnation.</HI></P>
<P>So it is clear, the Command in the old Covenant and Te&s;ta|ment, which Chri&s;t calls the <HI>Old Time,</HI> in which they were not to For&s;wear them&s;elves, but to perform their Oath to the Lord, &s;o they did not go into Evil and Condemnation that did &s;wear truly, and perform their Oath to the Lord in the old Time, and old Covenant; but they go into Evil and Condemnation, that Swear at all in the time of the new Cove|nant and Te&s;tament: For Chri&s;t, who is the Oath of God, he ful|fils the Oaths of the old, and takes away and aboli&s;hes the Oaths of the old Covenant, and &s;ets up <HI>Yea</HI> and <HI>Nay</HI> in&s;tead of them.</P>
<P>And now, if you &s;hould object, <HI>That</HI> Abraham, <HI>and</HI> Jacob, <HI>and</HI> Jo&s;eph, <HI>and</HI> Mo&s;es, <HI>and the</HI> Prophets, <HI>and the</HI> Angels <HI>Swore:</HI> Chri&s;t the Son of God is greater than <HI>Mo&s;es;</HI> who &s;aid, <HI>Before</HI> Abraham <HI>was, I am;</HI> and he reigns over the Hou&s;e of <HI>Jo&s;eph</HI> and <HI>Jacob,</HI> and fulfils the Prophets; and he &s;aith, <HI>Swear not at all:</HI> and Chri&s;t the great Prophet, whom God hath rai&s;ed up, is to be heard in all things.</P>
<P>And as for the Angels &s;wearing, it is &s;aid, <HI>I bring forth my fir&s;t begotten into the World, let all the Angels wor&s;hip him,</HI> to wit, the Son of God, who &s;aith, <HI>Swear not at all;</HI> and <HI>This is my be|loved Son,</HI> &s;aith God, <HI>hear ye him.</HI></P>
<P>And in the old Te&s;tament its &s;aid, <HI>That unto me every Knee &s;hall bow, and every Tongue &s;hall Swear, &s;aith the Lord,</HI> in the old Co|venant and Te&s;tament, <HI>I&s;a.</HI> 45.23.</P>
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<P>But in the new Covenant and Te&s;tament the Apo&s;tle quotes <HI>I&s;aiah,</HI> and &s;aith, <HI>Every Knee &s;hall bow, and every Tongue &s;hall confe&s;s to God,</HI> Rom. 14.10.</P>
<P>So here it is clear, that which was Swearing in the old Co|venant and old Time, is Confe&s;&s;ing in the new Covenant and new Time.</P>
<P>And it is manife&s;t, that Chri&s;t hath taken away all Swearing in his new Te&s;tament and Covenant: For all Swearing hath been &s;ince man fell from the Image of God; and Chri&s;t renews man and Woman up into the Image of God again, and &s;ets up <HI>Yea, Yea,</HI> and <HI>Nay, Nay,</HI> in&s;tead of an Oath.</P>
<P>And Chri&s;t &s;ets up in his new Covenant in&s;tead of <HI>Swearing, True Witne&s;s bearing;</HI> and that <HI>in the Mouth of two or three Wit|ne&s;&s;es every thing &s;hall be e&s;tabli&s;hed:</HI> He doth not &s;ay, that in or by the Mouth of two or three Swearers every thing &s;hall be e&s;ta|bli&s;hed.</P>
<P>And the Apo&s;tle &s;aith, <HI>Let every man &s;peak the Truth to his Neighbour;</HI> which &s;peaking Truth is &s;et up by Chri&s;t and his A|po&s;tles in&s;tead of Swearing, which was commanded in the old Time, and under the old Covenant and Te&s;tament, which in it the Law commanded people to &s;wear, which Oath was to end the Controver&s;ie and Strife among&s;t men, which &s;erved till Chri&s;t the Seed came. But when Chri&s;t came, he aboli&s;hed the Law, that commanded Swearing, and Swearing al&s;o.</P>
<P>And &s;o it is clear, that the new Covenant, and new Te&s;tament, and new and living Way, is not according to the old Covenant, and Te&s;tament, and the <HI>Jews</HI> old Way.</P>
<P>And the Apo&s;tle <HI>Paul</HI> writes to the <HI>Galatians,</HI> and to &s;uch as were going back again into Circumci&s;ion and the Law, and he &s;aith to them, <HI>As many as are for the Works of the Law, are un|der the Cur&s;e: For it is written, Cur&s;ed is every one that conti|nueth not in all things, which are written in the Book of the Law to do them.</HI></P>
<P>And again he &s;aith, <HI>That no man is ju&s;tified by the Law in the Sight of God, its evident; for the Ju&s;t &s;hall live by Faith; and the Law is not of Faith.</HI></P>
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<P>And again he &s;aith, <HI>Chri&s;t hath redeemed us from the Cur&s;e of the Law, being made a Cur&s;e for us,</HI> Gal. 4.</P>
<P>And here it may be &s;een, what Labour the Apo&s;tle had, to bring people into the Faith in the new Covenant and Te&s;tament, and from under the Works of the Law in the old Covenant and Te&s;tament, and from under the Cur&s;e.</P>
<P>And again the Apo&s;tle &s;aith, <HI>Before Faith came, we were kept under the Law, &s;hut up unto the Faith, which &s;hould afterward be revealed; even &s;o when we were Children, we were in Bondage un|der the Elements of the World: But when the Fulne&s;s of time was come, God &s;ent forth his Son made of a Woman, made under the Law, to redeem them that were under the Law,</HI> Galat. 3, and 4. Chapters.</P>
<P>So they that are redeemed from under the Law, are redeemed from under Bondage, and outward Elements of the World, which Elements of the World the Law commanded to be ob&s;er|ved: For the Law commanded the Prie&s;ts Garments to be di&s;tinct from others.</P>
<P>And the Law commanded an Outward Temple and Taberna|cle, and a Worldly Sanctuary, and Outward Altars, and Can|dles, and Candle&s;ticks, and Outward Dayes, and Moneths, and Times, and Years, and Fea&s;ts, and Outward Trumpets were blown at &s;uch times; and Sacrifices and Offerings of Bea&s;ts, and Fowls, and other Creatures.</P>
<P>And the Law commanded the Prie&s;ts Tythes, and Offerings, and the Store-hou&s;e; and the&s;e outward things with many o|thers, were Elements of the World, which kept them in Bon|dage, in the old Covenant and old Te&s;tament, before Chri&s;t was revealed: And where Faith is revealed by Je&s;us Chri&s;t, who is the Author and Fini&s;her of it, he is the End of that Law to every one that believeth, which Law commanded the&s;e Out|ward Worldly Elements; and <HI>&s;uch are not under the Law, but under Grace,</HI> Rom. 6.</P>
<P>And here the new Covenant and new Te&s;tament, and the new and living Way is not according to the old Te&s;tament and Co|venant.</P>
<P>For the new Covenant &amp; new Te&s;tament is Heavenly &amp; Spiri|tual.
<PB N="22" REF="12">And the Law of Life, that is in Chri&s;t Je&s;us, is not accor|ding to the Law received upon Mount <HI>Sinai,</HI> which commanded all the&s;e Outward Elementary things to the <HI>Jews;</HI> and they were to ob&s;erve and do them. And the Law &s;erved till the Seed came; which the Seed Chri&s;t is come; and hath aboli&s;hed them all, and changed the Law, and Covenant, and Prie&s;thood, and the old Te&s;tament.</P>
<P>And they that are Believers, are come into the new Covenant of Light, and Life, and Grace; and do receive the Spirit of Chri&s;t, and the Law of Life, that is in Chri&s;t Je&s;us, that makes them free from the Law of Sin and Death.</P>
<P>And &s;o as I &s;aid before, it is clear, that the new Covenant and Te&s;tament, and the Law of Life is not according to the old Covenant, and the old Te&s;tament, and the Law from Mount <HI>Sinai,</HI> that was written in Tables of Stone.</P>
<P>And now al&s;o, are not the Prie&s;ts Garments, their Surplice, and white Sleeves, and their other di&s;tingui&s;hing Garments a Work of the Law, though they do not offer Sacrifices and Of|ferings, as the outward old <HI>Jews</HI> Prie&s;ts did?</P>
<P>Likewi&s;e are not Tythes, Tenths, Fir&s;t Fruits and Offerings, which were to be given to the Prie&s;ts, a Work of the Law? though now they do not do all the Prie&s;t Work under the Law. And &s;ome of the Prie&s;ts now have Lots of the Land al&s;o, contra|ry to the Law in the Old Covenant.</P>
<P>And is not &s;etting up Lights and Candles in Temples a Work of the Law and the Prie&s;ts&mdash;under the Law, though they do not burn Incen&s;e like them?</P>
<P>And is not Swearing truly by the Lord a Work of the Law, which the Law commanded, by which they ended the Differen|ces among&s;t men in the old Time of the Law? And &s;o none of the&s;e are Works of the Go&s;pel or Works of Faith in the time of the New Te&s;tament &amp; Covenant, which prohibiteth all Swearing, and &s;aith, <HI>Men mu&s;t not Swear at all, or take any Oath; but their Yea mu&s;t be Yea, and their Nay, Nay, le&s;t they go into Evil,</HI> and &s;o into Condemnation.</P>
<P>And &s;o the Law commanded <HI>Swearing;</HI> but the Go&s;pel, and new Covenanty, and Te&s;tament commands every man to <HI>&s;peak
<PB N="23" REF="12">Truth to his Neighbour; and in the Mouth of two or three Witne&s;|&s;es every word &s;hall be e&s;tabli&s;hed.</HI></P>
<P>And the Apo&s;tles in the Go&s;pel-time and new Covenant, to whom Chri&s;t &s;aid, <HI>Freely you have received, freely give;</HI> did not go in di&s;tinct Garments from other People; For <HI>Peter</HI> had his Fi&s;hers Coat, after Chri&s;t was ri&s;en: and <HI>Paul</HI> bid them bring his Cloak, which he had left at <HI>Troas,</HI> &amp;c.</P>
<P>So the Apo&s;tle &s;aith, and tells them plainly; <HI>As many as are under the works of the Law, are under the Cur&s;e.</HI> And if ye do &s;ome things of the Law, and not continue in all things <HI>written in the Book of the Law, ye are Cur&s;ed; and no man is Ju&s;tified by the Law in the &s;ight of God: And the Law is not of Faith, which the Ju&s;t do live by; for God doth ju&s;tifie the</HI> Heathen <HI>through Faith;</HI> and they are Ju&s;tified by that Faith which Chri&s;t is the Author of: <HI>For by the Works of the Law no Fle&s;h &s;hall be Ju|&s;tified,</HI> Gal. 2.10.</P>
<P>And the Prie&s;ts Pulpits is a Work of the Law; for <HI>Ezra</HI> had his Pulpit to read the Law, in the Time of the Law and Old Covenant; and the Tenths of the Increa&s;e, with the Tythes and Offerings were a Work of the Law, and not a Work of the Go|&s;pel; for Chri&s;t &s;aid to his Go&s;pel-Mini&s;ters, <HI>Freely you have re|ceived, Freely give.</HI></P>
<P>And to kill Bla&s;phemers and Sabbath-breakers, and to Stone them to Death, or put to death with outward Weapons about Religion, is a work of the Law, and not of the new Covenant and new Te&s;tament. For Chri&s;t, though his Name was bla&s;|phemed, and the Apo&s;tles, and their Doctrine and Teaching bla&s;phemed and evil &s;poken of; yet he the King of Kings, and Lord of Lords, and his great Apo&s;tles did not command, nor put any to Death with any Carnal Weapons: But Chri&s;t &s;aid, <HI>They that Bla&s;pheme again&s;t the Son of Man, it might be forgiven; but they that did Bla&s;pheme again&s;t the holy Gho&s;t, were not to be for|given, neither in this World nor in the World to come;</HI> which was Puri&s;hment enough. And further he &s;aid in the New Covenant and his Go&s;pel-Day, <HI>He came not to De&s;troy Mens Lives, but to Save them.</HI></P>
<P>So all they that wre&s;tle with Fle&s;h and Blood, and with Carnal
<PB N="24" REF="13">Weapons about Religion, it is a Work of the Law and the Old Te&s;tament, and not a Work of the New Te&s;tament and New Co|venant.</P>
<P>For the Apo&s;tle &s;aid, <HI>Their War-fare were Spiritual, and their Weapons were Spiritual, and not Carnal;</HI> and they did not wre&s;tle with Fle&s;h and Blood, but with Spiritual Wickedne&s;s, and Rulers of Darkne&s;s.</P>
<P>So the Apo&s;tles were of Faith in the new Covenant and Te|&s;tament, and not of the Law, wre&s;tling with their Works and Weapons of the old Te&s;tament: And the Law was added be|cau&s;e of Tran&s;gre&s;&s;ion, and &s;erved till the Seed Chri&s;t came, who Redeems from under the Law, Chri&s;t Je&s;us, by whom the World was made: So he was before man fell into Tran&s;gre&s;&s;ion, by rea&s;on of which the Law was added, which &s;erved till the Seed came, which Seed is Chri&s;t, who doth fulfill the Promi&s;es and the Law, and &s;o redeems his People from under the works of the Law and from under the Cur&s;e.</P>
<P>And the Apo&s;tle &s;aith, That <HI>the Law is fulfilled in one Word, even in this, to love thy Neighbour as thy &s;elf: And if ye be led by the Spirit of God, ye are not under the Law,</HI> &amp;c. Gal. 5. <HI>For I through the Law am dead to the Law, that I might live unto God</HI> Gal. 2. <HI>And they that love one another, fulfill the Law,</HI> Rom. 13.</P>
<P>And further the Apo&s;tle &s;aith, <HI>The Righteou&s;ne&s;s of God is without the Law, being witne&s;&s;ed by the Law and the Prophets, even the Righteou&s;ne&s;s of God, which is by the Faith of Chri&s;t Je&s;us, unto all and upon all that believe; for there is no difference.</HI></P>
<P>So this Righteou&s;ne&s;s in the new Te&s;tament is larger, then the Righteou&s;ne&s;s of the Law, which the Lord gave unto the <HI>Jews,</HI> which he had not given the like to other Nations. So this is lar|ger then the old Covenant.</P>
<P>And therefore the Apo&s;tle concludes, <HI>That a Man is Ju&s;tified by Faith, without the Deeds of the Law,</HI> Rom. 3.</P>
<P>For the Promi&s;e that was to <HI>Abraham</HI> and his Seed, that he &s;hould be Heir of the World, was not through the Law, but through the Righteou&s;ne&s;s of Faith, before he was Circum|ci&s;ed, and before he gave Tythes to <HI>Melchizedech,</HI> as in <HI>Gen.</HI> 12. where the Lord &s;aid to <HI>Abraham, I will make of thee a great Na|tion;
<PB N="25" REF="13">and I will ble&s;s thee, and make thy Name great, and thou &s;halt be ble&s;&s;ed; and I will ble&s;s them that ble&s;s thee, and Cur&s;e him that Cur&s;eth thee: And in thee &s;h<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">ll all the Families of the Earth be ble&s;&s;ed.</HI> So before he was Circumci&s;ed, and before Tythes were paid, the Promi&s;e was to <HI>Abraham:</HI> And &s;o, who are of Faith, are of <HI>Abraham,</HI> and walk in the &s;teps of our Fa|ther <HI>Abraham,</HI> which he had, being yet Uncircumci&s;ed, yea, and before he gave Tythes to <HI>Melchizedech, Gen.</HI> 12. &amp; <HI>Rom</HI> 4. <HI>Therefore it is of Faith, and by Grace, to the end that the Pro|mi&s;e may be &s;ure to all the Seed.</HI> And therefore the Apo&s;tle &s;aith, <HI>But now are we delivered from the Law, that being dead wherein we were held, that we might &s;erve God in the Newne&s;s of the Spirit, and not in the Oldne&s;s of the Letter,</HI> Rom. 7. <HI>For what the Law could not do, in that it was weak through the Fle&s;h, God &s;endeth forth his own Son in likene&s;s of Sinful Fle&s;h, and for Sin condemned Sin in the Fle&s;h, that the Righteou&s;ne&s;s of the Law might be fulfil|led in us, who walk not after the Fle&s;h, but after the Spirit: For the Law of the Spirit of Life in Chri&s;t Je&s;us,</HI> &s;aith he, <HI>hath made me free from the Law of Sin and Death,</HI> Rom. 8. For Chri&s;t is the end of the Law for Righteou&s;ne&s;s &s;ake, to every one that believeth.</P>
<P>Now this was the Law of Works, and the Law of the Old Covenant and Te&s;tament, that Chri&s;t was the end of, and which the Apo&s;tle laboured to bring People out of, into the Law of Faith, and Law of Love, in the New Covenant and Te&s;tament, and New and Living Way, and to e&s;tabli&s;h People upon Chri&s;t, the Sub&s;tance, who is the End of the Law. For the Apo&s;tle &s;aith, <HI>When the Fulne&s;s of Time</HI> [Mark, <HI>The Fulne&s;s of Time</HI>] <HI>was come, God &s;ent forth his Son made of a Woman, made under the Law, to redeem them that were under the Law, that they might receive the Adoption of Sons: And becau&s;e ye are Sons of God, he hath &s;ent forth the Spirit of his Son into your Hearts, crying,</HI> Abba Father. So no more Servants under the Law, and Old Covenant and Te&s;tament, but Sons in the New Covenant and Te&s;tament, and New and Living Way, through the Redemp|tion in Chri&s;t Je&s;us, and through his Spirit, that he hath &s;ent into their Hearts.</P>
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<P>So here the New Covenant and Te&s;tament, and New and Living Way, is not according to the Old Te&s;tament and Cove|nant, and the <HI>Jews</HI> Way in their Old Time; nor the Old Law from Mount <HI>Sinai</HI> is not according to the Law of Life, which is in Chri&s;t Je&s;us.</P>
<P>And <HI>Mo&s;es</HI> was Faithful in all his Hou&s;e, as a Servant for a Te&s;timony of tho&s;e things which were to be &s;poken after; that is, all the&s;e Signs, Shadows and Figures: But Chri&s;t, as a Son over his own Hou&s;e, who&s;e Hou&s;e we are, to wit, in the New Cove|nant and Te&s;tament, and New and Living Way. So Chri&s;t is over his Hou&s;e, the <HI>Jews</HI> in the Spirit in the New Covenant and Te&s;tament, and New and Living Way; and they enjoy him, the Sub&s;tance, who makes all things New.</P>
<P>And <HI>Mo&s;es</HI> was faithful in all his Hou&s;e, in the Old Cove|nant and Te&s;tament, in the Old Time, over the outward <HI>Jews</HI> with the outward Shadows and Signs, which were command|ed by the Law, and &s;erved till Chri&s;t the Seed came; and when he came, he aboli&s;hed them. So as <HI>Mo&s;es</HI> was to be heard in his Hou&s;e in the Old Covenant concerning his Shadows, Figures and Signs; &s;o Chri&s;t is to be heard in his Hou&s;e in the New Cove|nant, who is the Sub&s;tance, and aboli&s;hes all the Figures and Signs of the Old Covenant. And God &s;aith, <HI>This is my Belo|ved Son, hear ye him.</HI></P>
<P>And the High-Prie&s;t, in the Time of the Law and Old Co|venant, once a Year went with the Blood of the clean Bea&s;t, into the holy place, which he offered for him&s;elf and the Sins of the People. But Chri&s;t being come a High-Prie&s;t, by his own Blood he hath entered once into the holy Place, to wit, Hea|ven it &s;elf; and hath obtain'd Eternal Redemption for us.</P>
<P>So the Blood of the clean Bea&s;ts clean&s;ed from Sin in the Time of the Old Covenant and Te&s;tament: But in the Time of the New Covenant and Te&s;tament the Blood of Chri&s;t Je&s;us, the Lamb without Blemi&s;h, clean&s;es us from all Sin.</P>
<P><HI>And Chri&s;t is the Mediator of the New Te&s;tament, by means of Death, for the Redemption of the Tran&s;gre&s;&s;ions that were under the Fir&s;t Te&s;tament, that they which are called, might receive the Promi&s;e of Eternal Inheritance,</HI> Heb. 9.</P>
<P>So as the Prie&s;t entered into the holy place made with hands,
<PB N="27" REF="14">with the Blood of Bulls and Goats, for the clean&s;ing of him&s;elf and the People in the Old Te&s;tament and Covenant, which were Figures: But Chri&s;t, in the New Te&s;tament, is entered into Heaven it &s;elf, now to appear in the pre&s;ence of God for us.</P>
<P>So all are to look unto Je&s;us in the new Covenant and new Te|&s;tament, which is not according to the old; for in the old the People was to look unto the Prie&s;t for their clean&s;ing, and to the outward Blood and Water, by which they were clean&s;ed: but in the New Covenant and Te&s;tament they are to look unto Chri&s;t Je&s;us, his Blood, hi<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> Life, and unto the heavenly Water of Life, by which they are clean&s;ed.</P>
<P>So the New Covenant and New Te&s;tament is not according to the Old: For Chri&s;t, the High Prie&s;t in his New Covenant and Te&s;tament, and New and Living Way, and in his <HI>New Jeru&s;a|lem,</HI> and he, the Offering, and his Blood is not of the building of the Old Covenant and Old Te&s;tament, and Old Prie&s;t-hood with their Offerings of the outward Blood of Bea&s;ts, and their clear&s;ing with the outward Water; I &s;ay, Chri&s;t is of a far Greater and more Perfect Tabernacle, &amp;c. not made with hands, than that outward Tabernacle, which is built and made with hands: So he is not of the Old Covenant and Te&s;tament building.</P>
<P>And in the Old Covenant and Te&s;tament, it was the Old Way to Anoint the Prie&s;ts, the Prophets and the Kings with outward Oyl. But in the New Covenant and New Te&s;tament, and New and Living Way, Chri&s;t, the Great Prophet and High Prie&s;t, who is made higher than the Heavens, and the King of Kings, God hath anointed him with the holy Gho&s;t, and he doth anoint his <HI>Jews</HI> in the Spirit, and his true Believers and Followers with his Spirit in his New Covenant and New Te&s;ta|ment. So the Anointing in the New Covenant and New Te&s;ta|ment, and New and Living Way is not according to the Old.</P>
<P>For the Apo&s;tle &s;aith, <HI>He which e&s;tabli&s;heth us and you in Chri&s;t. and hath Anointed us, is God,</HI> 2 Cor. 1.21</P>
<P>And &s;o, the manner of the Anointing is al&s;o different in the New Covenant and Te&s;tament, and New and Living Way, from the
<PB N="28" REF="15">manner of the Anointing in the Old Covenant; in which the <HI>Prophets, Prie&s;ts</HI> and <HI>Levites</HI> did Anoint the Prophets, and the Prie&s;t; and the Kings: But in the New Covenant God and Chri&s;t Anoints his People with his Spirit, which God hath poured out upon all Fle&s;h. And &s;o that Outward Anointing among&s;t the <HI>Jews</HI> in the Old Covenant Chri&s;t hath aboli&s;hed, which was with Outward Oyl.</P>
<P>And in the Old Covenant the Lord bid <HI>Mo&s;es, Go and lead the Outward Jews</HI> (which he brought out of <HI>Aegypt</HI>) <HI>unto the Place which I have &s;poken of unto thee, &amp;c.</HI> But in the New Covenant and Te&s;tament the Lord &s;aith, <HI>I have given thee for a Witne&s;s, and for a Leader and Commander to the People; and thou &s;halt call Nations, that knew not thee; and they &s;hall run unto thee, becau&s;e of the Lord thy God, the Holy One of</HI> I&s;rael; <HI>for he hath glorified thee,</HI> I&s;a. 55.</P>
<P>So <HI>Mo&s;es</HI> was the Leader of the Outward <HI>Jews</HI> in the Old Covenant in his Day, with his Types, Figures, Signs and Shadows; &amp; the Rock Chri&s;t followed them But in the New Co|venant and Te&s;tament Chri&s;t is the Leader &amp; Commander of his People; &amp; is the good Shepherd, that hath laid down his Life for his Sheep, and goes before them (who is the Sub&s;tance) and not after them, as he did after the Old <HI>I&s;rael</HI> in their Shadows: And his Sheep do know his Voice in the New Covenant, and they do follow him into the Pa&s;tures of Life, that are alwayes green; and to the Living Springs, that are alwayes fre&s;h.</P>
<P>And Chri&s;t, the Commander and Leader of his People, his Call is larger than <HI>Mo&s;es</HI>'s; <HI>For he &s;hall call and lead Nations, that knew not God, and they &s;hall follow him.</HI> So, he not only calls and lead, the <HI>Jews,</HI> but <HI>Nations.</HI></P>
<P>And &s;o its clear, that the New Covenant and Te&s;tament, and New and Living Way is not according to the Old in this al&s;o.</P>
<P>And in the Old Covenant they had Carnal Ordinances, and a Worldly Sanctuary, though the Sanctuary was called <HI>Holy</HI> in its Time; and all the&s;e Meats and Drinks, and Sacrifices, and Outward Wa&s;hings with Outward Water, which were impo|&s;ed upon them by Carnal Ordinances, until the Time of Re|formation, that is, until the Time of Chri&s;t in his New Cove|nant;
<PB N="29" REF="15">and the Prie&s;ts were made after the Law of a Carnal Commandment, and had their Carnal Store hou&s;e, and Carnal Tythes and Offerings; and &s;o, <HI>the Carnal Mind is Death:</HI> And &s;o it is called, <HI>The Mini&s;tration of</HI> DEATH, in the Old Te&s;ta|ment, <HI>Written and Engraven in Stone,</HI> 2 Cor. 3. &amp; Rom. 8. &amp; Heb. 7.9. But Chri&s;t in his New Covenant and Te&s;tament, <HI>is not made after the Law of a Carnal Commandment, but after the Power of an Endle&s;s Life,</HI> Heb. 7.16.</P>
<P>And &s;o his Ordinances and Commandments are Spiritual; <HI>and to be spiritually minded is Life and Peace,</HI> Rom. 8.6.</P>
<P>So all the&s;e Carnal Worldly Things in the Old Covenant, and Carnal Ordinances, and Worldly Sanctuary, and the Law, which was after the Law of a Carnal Commandment, &s;erved till Chri&s;t the Seed came, to Reform them out of tho&s;e Carnal Worldly Things, Figures, Sign, and Shadows, into the Spiritual Things, and to Chri&s;t the Sub&s;tance. For when the Sub&s;tance is come, the Shadows fly away. And &s;o, the New Covenant and New Te&s;tament is not according to the Old.</P>
<P>And in the Old Covenant and Te&s;tament they had an Out|ward <HI>Ark,</HI> and in it they had the Pot of Manna, and <HI>Aaron</HI>'s Rod that budded, and outward Altars; and in the Ark they put the Te&s;tament. But Chri&s;t in his New Covenant puts his Te&s;tament, his Spirit, in the Hearts of his People; and the Altar is Spiritual, upon which the Saints do offer up their Spi|ritual Sacrifices; and they have their heavenly Bread in their Hearts, which gives them Life: For they that ate of the Manna, dyed in the Wilderne&s;s; but they that eat of this heavenly Bread, it gives them Life Eternal.</P>
<P>And as <HI>Aaron</HI>'s Prie&s;thood was tryed by the budding of his Rod in the Ark, when all the re&s;t of the outward Rods, that were laid in the Ark with his, did not: So are Chri&s;t's Mini&s;ters in the New Covenant, by the budding of the Spiritual Rod in their Tabernacle, and bringing forth Spiritual Fruits; which Spirit God hath poured upon all Fle&s;h; which Fruits of the Spirit they bring forth, and that which they have profited by the Spirit, they come to mini&s;ter.</P>
<P>So the New Covenant is not according to the Old, with its
<PB N="30" REF="16">outward Rod, Te&s;tament and Manna, outward Tabernacle and Altar; for all the&s;e outward Things &s;erved but till the Time of Reformation, till the Seed Chri&s;t, the Heavenly and Spiritual Man came, in his New Covenant of Light, Life and Grace, who puts the heavenly Te&s;timony, and heavenly Manna and Rod in the heavenly Ark, the &s;anctified Hearts, and who offer up the &s;piritual Sacrifices upon the Spiritual Altar. And Chri&s;t aboli&s;hes all tho&s;e outward things, with its old Covenant &amp; Te&s;tament, &amp; e&s;tabli&s;hes the new.</P>
<P>And in the Old Covenant the Prie&s;ts, which were made by the Law of a Carnal Commandment, were to burn Incen&s;e at the Outward Temple at <HI>Jeru&s;alem,</HI> and there they were to do it by cour&s;e, and &s;erved in their Cour&s;e.</P>
<P>But in the New Covenant and Te&s;tament the Lord &s;aith, <HI>From the ri&s;ing of the Sun, even to the going down of the &s;ame my Name &s;hall be great among the</HI> Gentiles, <HI>and in every place Incen&s;e &s;hall be offered unto my Name, and a pure Offering; for my Name &s;hall be great among&s;t the</HI> Heathen, <HI>&s;aith the Lord of Ho&s;ts,</HI> Mal. 1.11.</P>
<P>So this pure Offering and Incen&s;e, which &s;hould be offered unto God in <HI>every place,</HI> is by &amp; in his pure <HI>Spirit</HI> to the pure God, the <HI>Lord</HI> of the <HI>ho&s;ts</HI> of the <HI>Jews</HI> in the Spirit; yea, &amp; the <HI>Gentiles</HI> al&s;o.</P>
<P>So likewi&s;e in this the new Covenant is not according to the Old, but is larger: For in the Old Covenant the Prie&s;t, by turns were to burn outward Incen&s;e only in one outward Temple: But in in the New Covenant all the Believers in Chri&s;t Je&s;us are to burn Spiritual Incen&s;e in every Temple and Place, in the New Covenant and Te&s;tament, and New and Living Way; for Chri&s;t aboli&s;hes and puts out and to an end the outward Fires of the out|ward Incen&s;e and Tabernacle, and Temple and Sanctuary, tho&s;e outward worldly Things, which &s;erved until the Time of Refor|mation by Chri&s;t the Seed. And &s;o the New Covenant is not accor|ding to the Old; for the one was of Natural and Outward Things, and the other of Inward and Spiritual.</P>
<P>And God &s;ent <HI>Mo&s;es</HI> to lead the People out of outward <HI>Aegypt;</HI> and they did not come out from outward <HI>Aegypt</HI> till <HI>Pharaoh's</HI> Fir&s;t-born was &s;lain. And they had Light in <HI>Go&s;hen,</HI> before they came out, though Darkne&s;s was
<PB N="31" REF="16">over the Land of <HI>Aegypt.</HI> But Chri&s;t in his New Covenant leads his <HI>Jews</HI> in Spirit out of Spiritual <HI>Aegypt</HI> and <HI>Sodom;</HI> and they have Light in their <HI>Go&s;hen</HI> before they come out, though Spi|ritual Darkne&s;s be in Spiritual <HI>Aegypt:</HI> And the Fir&s;t-birth of the Spiritual <HI>Pharaoh</HI> mu&s;t be &s;lain, before the <HI>Jew</HI> Inward come out of the Spiritual Hou&s;e of Bondage and Darkne&s;s within, and to follow Chri&s;t, the Captain of their Salvation, in his New Te&s;tament and New Covenant, and New and Living Way; and &s;o to Wor&s;hip God in his Holy Spirit, and in his Truth, that the Devil is out of.</P>
<P>So Outward <HI>Pharaoh</HI> oppre&s;&s;ed the Outward <HI>Jews;</HI> and Spi|ritual <HI>Pharaoh</HI> oppre&s;&s;es the Spiritual <HI>Jews,</HI> and will not let them go forth, till the Fir&s;t and Spiritual Birth of him be &s;lain.</P>
<P>And the <HI>Jews,</HI> when they received the Law in the Old Cove|nant from Mount <HI>Sinai,</HI> they were to wa&s;h their Cloaths, at they were commanded by the Lord, and <HI>Mo&s;es</HI> was to Sanctifie them, <HI>Exod.</HI> 19. But in the New Covenant all that receive the Law of Life, which is in Chri&s;t Je&s;us, from Mount <HI>Zion,</HI> Chri&s;t doth Sanctifie them, and they are to wa&s;h their Hearts, Souls, Spirits and Minds with the heavenly water of the Word; and the Blood of Je&s;us clean&s;es them.</P>
<P>And the Prie&s;ts &s;prinkled the People with the Blood, which is the Life of the clean Bea&s;ts in the Old Covenant: But Chri&s;t in his New Covenant and Te&s;tament &s;prinkles his precious Blood, which is his Life, upon the Heart, and Con&s;ciences of his People, by which they are made clean. And the Prie&s;t made Attonement with the blood of the clean Bea&s;ts, for the Sins of him&s;elf and the People; But Chri&s;t with his Blood hath made Attonement to God for the Sins of his People. So the Blood and the Prie&s;t of the New Covenant is contrary to the Old, and exceeds it: for they offered up the Blood of the Bea&s;ts, and he offered up his own Blood, his Life for his People.</P>
<P>And &s;o the New Covenant and Te&s;tament is not according to the Old; for Chri&s;t aboli&s;heth all tho&s;e outward Wa&s;hings and Offerings, and the Law that commanded them.</P>
<P>And in the old Covenant and Te&s;tament the Prie&s;ts were to wear the outward fine Linnen, and the high Prie&s;t the <HI>&V;rim</HI> and
<PB N="32" REF="17"><HI>Thumim</HI> written upon his Brea&s;t, which &s;ignifie; <HI>Light</HI> and <HI>Per|fection:</HI> But in the new Covenant and Te&s;tament Chri&s;t is the Light him&s;elf, and the Perfection of all tho&s;e outward Things in the old Covenant, and the Sub&s;tance of them all. And the Righteou&s;ne&s;s of Chri&s;t is the fine Linnen, which will never dirty not wax old; which all Chri&s;t's Believers in his new Co|venant and Te&s;tament wear; and they need not wa&s;h this fine Linnen; which all the Believers that wear it, are the Royal Prie&s;t|hood, and offer up the Spiritual Sacrifices. And as the Prie&s;ts in the old Covenant were to wa&s;h their outward fine Linnen, which Chri&s;t doth aboli&s;h that outward fine Linnen, and the Prie&s;t; and their Garments, and the wearing of the <HI>&V;rim</HI> and <HI>Thumim</HI> upon their Hearts in the old Covenant; and &s;ets up his Righteou&s;ne&s;s in the new Covenant for his Royal Prie&s;thood to wear, and <HI>Light</HI> and <HI>Perfection</HI> in their Hearts: And &s;o, in this al&s;o the new Covenant is not according to the old.</P>
<P>And all the Unclean in the Old Covenant were to be put out of the outward Camp, and they were to dwell alone; and without the Camp was their Habitation to be, <HI>Lev.</HI> 12. &amp; <HI>Deut.</HI> 23. The Unclean were to go out of the Camp; and they were to wa&s;h them&s;elves with outward Water, and to be clean, before they were to come into the Camp again; yea, when they did go forth to ea&s;e them&s;elves, they were to go forth without the Camp, and cover it with a Paddle: &s;o the Camp of the outward <HI>Jews</HI> was to be Holy in the old Covenant; for the Lord God &s;aid, <HI>He would walk in the mid&s;t of their Camp to deliver them,</HI> Deut. 23.</P>
<P>Therefore if the <HI>Jews</HI> in the old Covenant, and in the&s;e out|ward things were to be &s;o Holy, and all Uncleanne&s;s kept out of it; and their Excrements were to be covered without the Camp, that the Lord might walk among&s;t them in their Figures, Signs and Shadows, which &s;erved till the Seed Chri&s;t came, the time of Reformation, into the new Covenant of Grace and Light, which is not according to the old; then much more the Camp of the new Covenant and Te&s;tament mu&s;t be kept Clean; and all their Excrements mu&s;t be covered and buried with a Spiritual Weapon without the Camp. For the Habitation of
<PB N="33" REF="17">all the Unclean are without the Camp of God and Chri&s;t in his new Covenant; and they cannot come into his holy Camp and City, until they be wa&s;hed with the pure Blood of Chri&s;t, and the holy Water of Life.</P>
<P>And in the time of the old Covenant the <HI>Jews</HI> were not to of|fer any thing to the Lord that was blind or lame, or that was blemi&s;hed in their Sacrifices, <HI>Deut.</HI> 15. And in <HI>Lev.</HI> 22.21. <HI>There &s;hall be no Blemi&s;h in that which they offer unto the Lord; neither &s;hall it be Broken, or Blind or Mamed, nor have a Wen or Scab, &amp;c. or any thing Superfluous, or lacking any of his Parts, or that was Cru&s;h't, or Brui&s;ed or Cut; they were not to offer any &s;uch things in all the Land to the Lord, but what was Whole and Clean, and without Blemi&s;h;</HI> which was a Type of Chri&s;t, who was Clean &amp; Whole, and not Blind, nor Scurvy, nor Scabbed, and had all his Parts, not Cru&s;hed, nor Brui&s;ed, nor Broken, but was a Lamb without Blemi&s;h, who in the New Covenant offered up him&s;elf once for all the&s;e Offerings in the Old Covenant; &s;o he is both the Peace-offering and Thanks-giving-offering, and the Offering al&s;o for the Sins of the whole World, who doth aboli&s;h all the Offerings of the old Covenant, and ends them; &amp; con&s;umes all the fal&s;e Offerings, with their Fat, in his <HI>Fiery Bapti&s;m.</HI></P>
<P>And &s;o, the Lame, Blind, Blemi&s;h't, Broken, Scurvy, Scab|bed Offerings were not accepted of God in the Old Te&s;tament, and Old Covenant; and much le&s;s are they accepted in the New Covenant of Grace, Light and Life; for in the New Covenant the Children of the Covenant of Grace offer Spiritual Sacrifices.</P>
<P>So it is clear here, the New Covenant and Te&s;tament is not according to the Old.</P>
<P>And who&s;oever of the Seed of <HI>Aaron</HI> had any Blemi&s;h, was not to offer the Bread of his God in the Old Covenant and Te&s;ta|ment; and what man &s;oever hath a Blemi&s;h, he &s;hall not ap|proach. A man that is Blind or Lame, or Scabbed, Cru&s;hed, Broken Foot or Hand, or Crooked-Back, or a Dwarf, or that hath a Blemi&s;h in his Eye, or Scurvy, or hath his Stones broken, or any Superfluity, or hath any Blemi&s;h of the Seed of <HI>Aaron</HI> the Prie&s;t, he &s;hall not come nigh the Offerings of the Lord: Nay, the Prie&s;ts were not to drink Wine or Strong Drink, when they went into the Tabernacle to offer: So Perfect, Whole,
<PB N="34" REF="18">Clean and Clear without Blemi&s;h they were to be in the Old Co|venant, that offered tho&s;e outward things in the outward Taber|nacle or Temple: Then much more Perfect, and more Clean and Clear is Chri&s;t Je&s;us, the High Prie&s;t, who offereth up him|&s;elf to God without Spot or Blemi&s;h for the Sins of the whole World, and gives his holy Fle&s;h for the Life of the whole World, and who aboli&s;hes all tho&s;e Offerers and Offerings in the Old Covenant.</P>
<P>And therefore all his Believers in the New Covenant &amp; Te&s;ta|ment, which are called a Royal Prie&s;t-hood, mu&s;t be much more Clean and Holy, than they were in the Old Covenant and Law of Works, they that be in the New Covenant of Grace, and to be without Blemi&s;h. For as <HI>Peter</HI> &s;aith, <HI>Chri&s;t the Lamb of God, who offered up him&s;elf, is without Spot or Blemi&s;h; and he Sancti|fies and Clean&s;es, and Wa&s;hes his Church, his People, with the Wa|ter of the Word, that he might pre&s;ent to him&s;elf a Glorious Church without Spot or Wrinkle, or any &s;uch thing, but that it &s;hould be Holy, and without Blemi&s;h,</HI> Ephe&s;. 5.</P>
<P>So he clean&s;es away the inward Brokenne&s;s, Crookedne&s;s, Scur|vine&s;s, Scabbedne&s;s, Blindne&s;s, Deformities, Lamene&s;s and Blemi&s;hes; that all the Believers in the Light, which is the Life in Chri&s;t, might offer their Spiritual Sacrifices unto God. And &s;o the Children of the New Covenant are called a Holy Nation, a Royal Prie&s;thood, and do exalt Chri&s;t the Sub&s;tance, who hath aboli&s;hed the Old Prie&s;thood, and his Offerings in the Old Covenant, which are not according to the New Covenant and Te&s;tament.</P>
<P>And there were to be no Drinkers of Wine nor Strong Drink, that were to approach before God in the Old Covenant; for &s;uch Drunken Prie&s;ts were forbidden in the Time of the Law and Old Covenant, much more in the Time of the Go&s;pel.</P>
<P>For what&s;oever was Blemi&s;h't or Evil-favoured, was not to be offered to the Lord in the Old Covenant: But in the New Covenant, which is not according to the Old, all that are the Followers of Chri&s;t, who brings them up into the Image of God, and the Believers in the Light, which is the Life in him, and are called, <HI>The Children of the Light,</HI> and are born of God,
<PB N="35" REF="18">and have pa&s;&s;ed from the Death that Blemi&s;hes them, and made them Ill-favoured, and Crooked, and Scabbed, and Blind, <HI>&amp;c.</HI> All the&s;e that are born of God and Children of Light, are very Well-favoured, like God their Father, and he doth accept their Spiritual Offering &amp; Sacrifice, and them whom Chri&s;t doth pre&s;ent to God in the New Covenant and Te&s;tament, and New and Living Way, which is not according to the Old Te&s;tament and Old Co|venant, and <HI>Jews</HI> Old Way; for the one was Outward, and the other Inward; the one was Natural, and the other Spiritual.</P>
<P>And the <HI>Jews</HI> in the Old Covenant and Te&s;tament they were to eat only of the clean Fowls and clean Bea&s;ts; and they were to put a Difference betwixt the Clean and the Unclean Bea&s;ts &amp; Fowls, and that which dyed of it &s;elf, or was torn, they were not to eat, nor to Defile them&s;elves withal, <HI>Lev.</HI> 22. <HI>For ye &s;hall be Holy unto me, &s;aith the Lord; ye &s;hall not eat Fle&s;h that is Torn of the Bea&s;ts of the Field; ye &s;hall ca&s;t it unto Dogs,</HI> Exod. 22. And <HI>Aaron</HI> and his Sons, the Prie&s;ts, were to eat part of the Sa|crifice of the clean Bea&s;ts in the holy Place, <HI>Lev.</HI> 10. that was in the Temple or Tabernacle.</P>
<P>Now all the&s;e outward clean Creatures, and they that eat of them, were to be clean al&s;o; for the Prie&s;ts were to be &s;anctified and clean&s;ed before they are of the Sacrifice: I &s;ay, all the&s;e clean Meats and Offerings were a Type of Chri&s;t Je&s;us, the Of|fering, &amp; of the heavenly clean Food, that the Children of the new Covenant &s;eed upon; for they were not to feed upon &s;uch out|ward things, which was torn or dyed of it &s;elf; for it was Dogs-Meat in the Old Covenant: But in the New Covenant, which is not according to the Old, all the Creatures of God are clean unto them, and every Creature of God is good, and they cannot feed upon any thing that is torn, nor that which dyes of it &s;elf: I &s;ay, they cannot inwardly feed their Souls with it; but their Food is that which is Living, and from him that is Living, who did not Dye of him&s;elf, and is Living, and Dyeth no more; and the Spiritual Food and Things are not torn Things, and do not dye, which the <HI>Jews</HI> in the Spirit feed upon.</P>
<P>So the New Covenant and Te&s;tament is not according to the Old; for the <HI>Jews</HI> in the Old Covenant fed upon outward things,
<PB N="36" REF="19">and upon that which was clean; and the Prie&s;ts were to eat part of the Sacrifices in a clean place, in the Temple: But the <HI>Jews</HI> in Spirit and New Covenant unto them every Creature of God is good and clean, and their Food is Spiritual, and they eat of the Sacrifice Chri&s;t Je&s;us, their Bread from Heaven, all the Royal Prie&s;thood of God in his New Covenant eat of it in the clean Temple and Tabernacle, their Hearts, of the clean heavenly Food. So the New Te&s;tament is not according to the Old.</P>
<P>And the <HI>Jews</HI> had a High-Prie&s;t over the re&s;t of the Prie&s;ts in the Old Te&s;tament and Covenant, which could not continue by rea&s;on of Death, but when one was decea&s;ed, they got another to offer their Sacrifice, and he had the Tenth of the Tenths.</P>
<P>But Chri&s;t is the High-Prie&s;t in the New Covenant, who hath offered up him&s;elf once for all the Offerings of the Prie&s;ts in the Old Covenant; and &s;o hath ta&s;ted Death for every man, and is ri&s;en and remains a Prie&s;t forever, and dyeth no more; and is a high-Prie&s;t in his New Te&s;tament and New Covenant, and makes all his Believers Prie&s;ts, and Kings to reign upon Earth, and over the Serpent, who&s;e Head he hath brui&s;ed, Glory unto the Lord God forever.</P>
<P>So our High-Prie&s;t is not according to the Old, and his Fol|lowers are not according to the Old Prie&s;ts Followers; for they are all Spiritual, and the Spiritual cannot feed upon that which is torn or dyes of it &s;elf, nor offer it, but upon that which is Li|ving, and Holy, &amp; Heavenly, and Spiritual in the New Covenant; for that which dyeth of it &s;elf or is torn, is not Spiritual, but Car|nal, and the Royal Clean Prie&s;ts in the New Covenant cannot feed thereon.</P>
<P>And all the <HI>Jews</HI> in the old Covenant and Te&s;tament, the Lord &s;aid unto them, <HI>Ye &s;hall Sanctifie your &s;elves, and ye &s;hall be Holy; for I am Holy, &s;aith the Lord, and ye &s;hall be holy men unto me,</HI> Exod. 22.</P>
<P>So they did &s;anctifie them&s;elves, and wa&s;h them&s;elves with outward Water, and the Blood of the outward clean Bea&s;ts was &s;prinkled upon them; and <HI>Aaron</HI> the high Prie&s;t was to bear the Iniquity of the Holy things, after that he was Sancti|fied, which the Children of <HI>I&s;rael</HI> had hallowed, and all their
<PB N="37" REF="19">holy Gifts, <HI>Exod.</HI> 28. And <HI>Aaron</HI> and his Sons were to eat the Sin-Offering, and to bear the Iniquity of the Congregation, and to make an Attonement for them before the Lord, <HI>Levit.</HI> 10. And the Prie&s;ts Garments were all to be Holy, and and the Temple, and Tabernacle, and Sanctuary were all called Holy in the old Covenant.</P>
<P>But the new Covenant is not according to the old; for Chri&s;t in the new Covenant he bears the Iniquity and Sins of the whole World, and was wounded for its Tran&s;gre&s;&s;ions, and brui&s;ed for Iniquities, and the Cha&s;ti&s;ement of our Peace was laid upon him; he hath born our Griefs, and with his S<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">ripes we are heal|ed, and the Lord hath laid upon him the Iniquities of us all, who&s;e Soul was made an Offering for Sin, who &s;aw the Travels of his Soul, and was &s;atisfied, <HI>I&s;a.</HI> 55.</P>
<P>So he Aboli&s;heth all tho&s;e outward holy Garments, and Ta|bernacle, and Temple, and Offerings, and Gifts, which were called Holy in the old Covenant, but Worldly in the new Cove|nant.</P>
<P>So its Chri&s;t, <HI>whom God the Father hath &s;anctified, and &s;ent into the World,</HI> Joh. 10. That makes an end of Sin, and fini&s;hes Tran&s;gre&s;&s;ion in his new Covenant, who through Death de|&s;troyed Death, and the Devil the power of Death, that made Man and Woman unholy: And it is Chri&s;t Je&s;us that makes all things holy and new, and &s;anctifies all things by his Word, and all his Gifts are Holy, who changes the fir&s;t Prie&s;thood with all his outward things, which were called Holy in the old Te&s;ta|ment, which were Figures of the holy &s;piritual things in the new Te&s;tament, and the &s;piritual Sanctuary, Temple and Taber|nacle in the new Covenant and Te&s;tament; which all the <HI>Jews</HI> in the Spirit feed upon Chri&s;t, their Sacrifice, which he gives for the Life of the World; and &s;o eats the Bread from Heaven, in the holy and heavenly Sanctuary, Taberancle and Temple, that is not of the old Covenant's building.</P>
<P>So Chri&s;t in his new Covenant and Te&s;tament, the high Prie&s;t made higher than the Heavens, in offering up him&s;elf once for the Sins of the whole World, is not according to the <HI>Jews</HI> high Prie&s;ts, and their Offerings, but doth put an end to them all,
<PB N="38" REF="20">and aboli&s;heth them all, and e&s;tabli&s;hes his new Te&s;tament in the Spirit, and new Covenant of Light, Life and Grace: I &s;ay, Chri&s;t the high Prie&s;t who was dead, and dyed for man to fetch man out of death to Life, and to de&s;troy him that kept him in Death, and is alive again, and lives for evermore, and is a high Prie&s;t forever among&s;t all his Royal Prie&s;thood, and Reigns in the holy Sanctuary, Tabernacle and Temple of the &s;anctified Hearts.</P>
<P>And the <HI>Jews</HI> in the old Covenant and Te&s;tament, they were not to touch any unclean thing, or Creature, or unclean Fowl, or Bea&s;t, or creeping things that were outward; no, not to touch any Ve&s;&s;el, where any of tho&s;e unclean things were in, if they did, they were to wa&s;h them&s;elves with outward Water, <HI>Levit.</HI> 11. And likewi&s;e they were not to come nigh, nor touch the Dead; if they did, they were unclean, and they were to &s;anctifie and wa&s;h them&s;elves with outward Water, &amp;c.</P>
<P>Now the new Covenant is not acording to the old, which &s;aith, <HI>Every Creature of God is good;</HI> And <HI>God and Chri&s;t hath &s;anctified every Creature;</HI> as <HI>Peter</HI> preached it from a Voice he heard from Heaven, when he &s;aw four-footed Bea&s;ts, and wild Bea&s;ts, and creeping things let down from Heaven, in his Vi&s;ion which he was to kill and eat; and they were not to be called Common nor Unclean in the new Covenant: for every thing that God had made was &s;anctified by the Word, by which all things in the beginning were made good, yea, very good.</P>
<P>And &s;o in this the new Covenant and Te&s;tament, and new and living way is not according to the old.</P>
<P>And as they in the old Covenant were not to touch the dead, nor the unclean Creatures; So the <HI>Jews</HI> in the Spirit are not to touch the unclean creeping Spirits, which are like Bea&s;ts and Ravenous Fowls: and tho&s;e are the unclean Spirits which the Apo&s;tles would not have the Saints to touch, for if they did, they mu&s;t be wa&s;hed with the heavenly Water, and the Blood of Je&s;us, before they can be Clean&s;ed. And for eating, or touching of outward Creatures, he told the Saints in the new Covenant, that <HI>what&s;oever was &s;old in the Shambles, that they might eat.</HI></P>
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<P>And though it was the Doctrine of the Law in the old Co|venant to forbid &s;everal &s;orts of Meat to eat: But in the new Covenant it is the Doctrine of Devils to forbid Meats and Mar|riage, or to command to ab&s;tain from them, which God hath created, to be received with Thanksgiving, by them that re|ceive the Doctrine of Chri&s;t Je&s;us in his new Covenant and Te&s;tament: <HI>For every Creature of God is good, and nothing is to be refu&s;ed, if it be received with Thanksgiving; for it is San|ctified by the Word of God, and Prayer,</HI> 1 Tim. 6.</P>
<P>So here its clear, the new Covenant and Te&s;tament is not ac|cording to the old.</P>
<P>And in the old Covenant, when the outward <HI>Jews</HI> went to Wars with their Carnal Weapons, and took any Prize, every thing that could abide the Fire, mu&s;t go through the outward Fire, and that was to clean&s;e it and purifie it with the outward Water and Fire; and they were to abide &s;even dayes out of the Camp, and to wa&s;h their Cloaths, before they came in again, into the Camp, <HI>Numb</HI> 31.</P>
<P>But in the new Covenant, which is not according to the old, every thing mu&s;t be wa&s;hed with the Water of Life, and clean|&s;ed by Chri&s;t, and come through his fiery Bapti&s;m, before they can come into his Trea&s;ure, and Camp, and City, and be perfect. For the &s;even dayes that were to pa&s;s upon them in the old Covenant, was the Perfection of Dayes, and that was outward Fire and Water, that was to clean&s;e and purifie the <HI>Jews,</HI> and tho&s;e outward things. But all the Believers in the Light mu&s;t be wa&s;hed with the heavenly Water, and purified with heavenly Fire, and the Blood of Je&s;us Chri&s;t, before they can come into his heavenly Camp.</P>
<P>And in the old Covenant and Te&s;tament, <HI>Ruber, God</HI> and <HI>A&s;her, Zebulon, Dan</HI> and <HI>Naphtali,</HI> The&s;e were to &s;tand up upon Mount <HI>Ebal,</HI> and to Cur&s;e the Di&s;obedient, and officers were to &s;tand up and Ble&s;s the Obedient, <HI>Deut.</HI> 7</P>
<P>But in the new Covenant and new Te&s;tament, which is not ac|cording to the old, Chri&s;t &s;aith, <HI>Love your Enemies, and Ble&s;s them that Cur&s;e you, and do good to them that hate you, and Pray for them that de&s;pightfully u&s;e you, and Per&s;ecute you, that you
<PB N="40" REF="21">may be the Children of your Father that is in Heaven; For he makes the Sun to ari&s;e on the Evil and the Good, and &s;ends his Rain on the &V;nju&s;t, as well as the Ju&s;t,</HI> Matth. 5.</P>
<P>And this is Chri&s;ts Doctrine in the new Covenant. And the Apo&s;tle &s;aith, <HI>Being reviled we Ble&s;s, being Per&s;ecuted we Re|joyce,</HI> 1 Cor. 4.</P>
<P>And again the Apo&s;tle &s;aith, <HI>Ble&s;s them which Per&s;ecute you; Ble&s;s, and Cur&s;e not.</HI> So though they were to Ble&s;s and Cur&s;e in the old Covenant; yet in the new Covenant they are to Ble&s;s, and Cur&s;e not, as in <HI>Rom.</HI> 12.14.</P>
<P>And &s;o here it is clear, the practice of the new Covenant and Te&s;tament is not according to the old.</P>
<P>And in the old Covenant its &s;aid, <HI>An Eye for an Eye, and a Tooth for a Tooth.</HI> But Chri&s;t in his new Covenant and Te&s;ta|ment &s;aith, <HI>Who&s;oever &s;mites thee on the one Cheek, turn to him the other al&s;o.</HI> So here the new Covenant's practice is not ac|cording to the old.</P>
<P>And you have heard &s;ay in the old Covenant and Te&s;tament, and that old time, <HI>Thou &s;halt not commit Adultery.</HI> But Chri&s;t in the new Covenant and new Te&s;tament &s;aith, <HI>Who&s;oever looks after a Woman to Lu&s;t after her, hath committed Adultery already in his Heart.</HI> So the Righteou&s;ne&s;s and Holine&s;s of the new Co|venant doth exceed the old.</P>
<P>And in the old Covenant, <HI>Who&s;oever putteth away his Wife, was to give her a Bill of Divorcement,</HI> &amp;c. But Chri&s;t in his new Covenant &s;aith, <HI>Who&s;oever putteth away his Wife, &s;ave for the cau&s;e of Fornication, and Marrieth another, committeth Adul|tery; and who&s;oever marrieth her that is put away from her Hus|band, committeth Adultery al&s;o,</HI> Luke 16. &amp; Matth. 5.</P>
<P>So here the new Covenant is not according to the old; and the Righteou&s;ne&s;s of the Law of Life doth exceed the Righte|ou&s;ne&s;s of Works in the old Law.</P>
<P>And in the old Covenant its &s;aid, <HI>Thou &s;halt Love thy Neigh|bour, &amp; hate thine Enemy.</HI> But in the new Covenant, which is not according to the old, its &s;aid, <HI>Thou &s;halt love thine Enemies, and Pray for them, and do good for them that hate you.</HI></P>
<P>So though the old Covenant taught Humanity, yet the new
<PB N="41" REF="21">Covenant reaches not only Natural Humanity, but Heavenly Humanity, Divinity and Chri&s;tianity.</P>
<P>And in the old Covenant and Te&s;tament the <HI>Jews</HI> were to keep the Year of <HI>Jubile,</HI> which was the fiftieth Year; and therein they were to proclaim Liberty with Trumpets through|out all the Land: And this Year of Jubile was to be Holy unto all the <HI>Jews;</HI> and in the Year of Jubile the Servants went out free, and therein was a Redemption of Lands and Hou&s;es, and Bond-men, and Servants, which were of the Children of <HI>I&s;rael, Levit.</HI> 25. And now this was an outward Freedom and Liber|ty in the old Covenant: and this outward Year was Holy, and it was proclaimed with outward Trumpets. But in the new Covenant and new Te&s;tament, the Year of Jubile is proclaim|ed, blown and &s;ounded with the Spiritual Go&s;pel-Trumpets, throughout all the World, and unto every Creature under Hea|ven, unto Bond and Free, without re&s;pect, yea, Eternal Li|berty in the Go&s;pel of Chri&s;t Je&s;us the Heavenly man, the Power of God, and in the Light, which is the Life in him, and in the Grace, which hath appeared unto all men, which brings their Salvation; and in the Spirit which is poured out upon all Fle&s;h, that by the Spirit all Fle&s;h might &s;ee the Glory of God, and Chri&s;t their Salvation, who Redeems them, and payes all their Debts of Sin, who was made Sin that knew none, and &s;o made it to be his; and &s;o dyed for the Sins of the whole World and the ungodly, to Redeem them out of the Sin, and Ungodli|ne&s;s, and Bondage, and Captivity, yea, to &s;et all the Pri&s;oners and Captives at liberty, and to make the Blind to &s;ee, by opening their Eyes, and heals the Leaper, Criple and the Sick, and loo&s;es the Tongue of the Dumb: here is the Year of Jubile, the everla&s;ting holy Year, or Day of Chri&s;t, who de&s;troyes the Devil and his Works, that hath made Man and Woman unholy, and kept them in bondage and &s;lavery. And &s;o Chri&s;t brings all his Believers into his glorious Liberty of the Sons of God, and to an eternal Redemption; yea, he takes off and de&s;troyes that which hath brought the Oppre&s;&s;ion upon the Creation: So an everla&s;ting Jubile in the new Covenant, and new Te&s;tament, and new and living way, which doth far exceed the <HI>Jews</HI> outward
<PB N="42" REF="22">Year of Jubile, which was only to that particular Nation. But Chri&s;t's Jubile of his everla&s;ting Go&s;pel is to all Nations to whom the Go&s;pel is preached, and Liberty unto every Creature under Heaven, by his Spiritual and Go&s;pel Trumpets, which are blown and &s;ounded by his Light, and Power, and Spirit, and Faith in all Nations, of their Spiritual Liberty and Freedom in the Land of the Living, yea, a Liberty both inwardly and outwardly; And <HI>he that believeth in the Light,</HI> which is the Life in Chri&s;t, <HI>is &s;aved; and he that doth not, is condemned.</HI></P>
<P>And this Go&s;pel-Trumpet, which &s;ounds into all Nations and in|to all Countries for their Liberty and Salvation and Freedom, and Proclaims, <HI>That all their Debts are paid, if they will believe it, and come out of Thrawldom and Captivity;</HI> and he that believes it is &s;aved, and hath the Comfort of the Salvation &amp; Liberty; and he that will not believe it is condemned, and lies under Condem|nation. And &s;o in this the New Covenant and New Te&s;tament is not according to the Old; for this Liberty and Jubile is to all Nations, but in the Old Covenant it was but to the particular Nation of the <HI>Jews.</HI></P>
<P>And in the Old Covenant the Sons of <HI>Aaron</HI> &s;hall blow with the Trumpets; and this was an Ordinance to the Prie&s;ts; and when they blowed the Trumpets the outward <HI>Jews</HI> were to a&s;|&s;emble them&s;elves before the Tabernacle; <HI>And when they blowed an Alarm, then the Camps &s;et forward,</HI> Numb. 10. So they did not gather them together to the Door of the Tabernacle with ringing of Bells in the Old Covenant, but with the blowing of Trumpets; and at the &s;olemn Fea&s;ts they blew the Trumpets, which was a Day of blowing the Trumpets, which were out|ward, in their outward Fea&s;ts, to their outward Gathering to their outward Tabernacle: But in the New Covenant and Te&s;ta|ment, which is not according to the Old, the Trumpets are &s;pi|ritual and heavenly, which are &s;ounded with the Power and Spi|rit of God, in the Day of Chri&s;t; yea, all his Believers in his Light, the Life in him, are a Royal Prie&s;thood, and blow the Trumpet, and at the &s;ound of this heavenly Trumpet they ga|ther to his heavenly Tabernacle not made with hands, and to the heavenly <HI>Jeru&s;alem,</HI> to his heavenly &s;olemn Fea&s;t, through the
<PB N="43" REF="22">Bapti&s;m of Chri&s;t, and Circumci&s;ion with his Spirit, that plunges down and cuts off all Corruptions; and &s;o all come to drink into one Spirit, that puts off the Body of Death and Sins of the Fle&s;h, that are gotten up upon Man and Woman by Tran&s;gre&s;&s;ion: For <HI>Adam</HI> and <HI>Eve</HI> had it not before they tran&s;gre&s;&s;ed the Command of God. And &s;o by the&s;e &s;piritual and heavenly Trumpets ye are gathered to the heavenly Fea&s;t, and Bread and Wine and Ho|ney from Heaven, and the new Milk from the Living Word, that lives and abides, who&s;e heavenly Brea&s;t is never dry, but is alwayes full of heavenly Milk. And &s;o as the heavenly Trumpet &s;ounds the <HI>Jews</HI> in Spirit move and go and follow the heaven|ly Spiritual Lamb in their fine Linnen, his Righteou&s;ne&s;s, and keep their Fea&s;t of the heavenly Bread, that cannot be Leaven|ed; &s;o the Bread, the Wine, the Milk, the Honey, the Water, the Trumpets, and the Tabernacle are Heavenly and Spiritual in the new Covenant and Te&s;tament, which are not according to the old, with their outward Bread, and Water, and Trumpets, and outward Tabernacle; all tho&s;e outward things Chri&s;t aboli&s;hed, which &s;erved but till the Seed came to reform it; and in the time of the Reformation of Chri&s;t the heavenly and &s;piritual Man, he Reforms his Believers and Followers out of the Natural, Out|ward and Carnal, into the Heavenly, Inward and Spiritual. And &s;o the New and Living Way, and the New Covenant and Te&s;ta|ment, and the New Time of Reformation is not according to the <HI>Jews</HI> Old Covenant and Te&s;tament, and Old Time and Way.</P>
<P>And the outward Kingdom among the <HI>Jews</HI> in the Old Cove|nant and Te&s;tament Chri&s;t in his Everla&s;ting Kingdom in his New Covenant and New Te&s;tament doth exceed it. And they were commanded to an outward Cleanne&s;s in that outward Kingdom, with the outward Clean&s;ing by the Blood of Bea&s;ts, &amp;c. And when they did Tran&s;gre&s;s the outward Law of God in their out|ward Kingdoms, they were carried away Captives: But Chri&s;ts Kingdom is an Everla&s;ting Kingdom, and is holy and pure, and none that is defiled enters into it; for it &s;tands in Power and Joy in the holy Gho&s;t: and all mu&s;t be born again before they can either &s;ee the Kingdom of Chri&s;t, or enter into it. And Chri&s;t &s;aith, <HI>The Law and the Prophets were until</HI> John (which was the
<PB N="44" REF="23">Fore-runner of Chri&s;t, and the Preparer of the Way) <HI>but the lea&s;t in the Kingdom of God is greater than</HI> John: <HI>And from the Dayes of</HI> John Bapti&s;t <HI>until now, the Kingdom of Heaven &s;uffer|eth Violence,</HI> &s;aith Chri&s;t, <HI>and men pre&s;s into it.</HI> And Chri&s;t &s;aid unto his Di&s;ciples, <HI>It was given unto them to know the My&s;teries of the Kingdom of God, &amp;c.</HI> And <HI>John,</HI> when he writ unto the &s;e|ven Churches he &s;aid, <HI>He was their Brother and Companion in Tri|bulation, and in the Kingdom and Patience of Je&s;us Chri&s;t,</HI> Rev. 1. And Chri&s;t &s;ent forth his Di&s;ciples, and bid them, <HI>Go, and &s;ay, Repent, for the Kingdom of God was at hand:</HI> And they preach|ed the Kingdom of God; yea, <HI>Paul</HI> did at <HI>Rome</HI> to all that came unto him. And Chri&s;t &s;aith, <HI>Not every one that &s;aith</HI> Lord, Lord, <HI>&s;hall enter into the Kingdom of God; but he that doth the Will of my Father, which is in Heaven.</HI> And they were to &s;eek the Kingdom of God, and the Righteou&s;ne&s;s of it, and then all tho&s;e outward things, which the <HI>Gentiles</HI> did &s;eek after, &s;hould be added unto them. And Chri&s;t &s;aith to his Followers in his new Covenant and new Te&s;tament, and new and living Way, <HI>That except their Righteou&s;ne&s;s do exceed the Righteou&s;ne&s;s of the</HI> Scribes <HI>and</HI> Phari&s;ees, <HI>they &s;hould in no wi&s;e enter into the Kingdom of Heaven.</HI> And therefore the <HI>Chri&s;tians</HI> in the new Covenant their inward and outward Holine&s;s, and Righteou&s;ne&s;s, and Godline&s;s, and Virtue, and Temperance, and Patience and Love mu&s;t exceed all the outward Righteou&s;ne&s;s and Holine&s;s in the old Te&s;tament and Covenant of the <HI>Jews,</HI> and <HI>Prie&s;ts,</HI> and <HI>Scribes</HI> and <HI>Phari&s;ees,</HI> el&s;e they cannot enter into the Kingdom of God.</P>
<P>And &s;o it is clear, that the new Covenant and new Te&s;tament, and the new and living Way, and the Kingdom of Chri&s;t, and his Righteou&s;ne&s;s exceeds the <HI>Jews</HI> in the old Covenant and Te|&s;tament, and their old Way, which Kingdom is an Everla&s;ting e&s;tabli&s;hed Kingdom, and no Unclean Thing can come into it; and it &s;tands in Power and Joy in the holy Gho&s;t: And all the Believers in the Light, which is the Life in Chri&s;t, are born again, and enter into his Kingdom, and are Heirs of it; &s;o Heirs of an Everla&s;ting Inheritance.</P>
<P>And <HI>Aaron,</HI> he and his Company in the old Covenant and Te|&s;tament
<PB N="45" REF="23">were to look to the Candle&s;ticks, &amp; to look to the &s;even Lamps, a perfect Number, as you may &s;ee in <HI>Numb.</HI> 8. &amp; <HI>Lev.</HI> 24. &amp; <HI>Exod.</HI> 40. &amp; <HI>Exod.</HI> 24. And this they were to do throughout their Generations. And &s;o <HI>Aaron</HI> was to order the Lamps Evening and Morning, which were to burn continually without the Vail of the Te&s;timony in the Ta|bernacle of the Congregation, <HI>Lev.</HI> 24. And the&s;e outward things &s;erved till the Seed Chri&s;t came in his new Te&s;tament and in his new Co|venant, who aboli&s;hed all tho&s;e outward Candle&s;ticks, Lamps and Lights in the outward <HI>Jews</HI> Generation, and the Prie&s;thood al&s;o. And in the Generation of Chri&s;t in his new Covenant, his Believers, that are gathered in his Name, which are pa&s;&s;ed from Death to Life, which are his Church; doth not he call them Candle&s;ticks? For in the <HI>Reve|lations</HI> he calls the &s;even Churches, or &s;even Congregations, which are a perfect number, <HI>Seven Golden Candle&s;ticks.</HI> And Chri&s;t, the high Prie&s;t doth enlighten the Candle, which is the Spirit of man, in the Candle&s;tick. And the&s;e Congregations of People are them that he &s;anctifieth in Body, Soul and Spirit: And Chri&s;t walks in the mid&s;t of the&s;e &s;even Golden Candle&s;ticks, in his heavenly fine Linnen, and he a|venly golden Girdle; and his Hair as white as Wool and Snow, and his Eyes like a flame of Fire, and his Feet like fine bra&s;s, as if they were burning in a Furnace; and out of his Mouth went a &s;harp two-edged Sword; and his Countenance was as the Sun &s;hining in his Strength. So here Chri&s;t in his new Te&s;tament and new Covenant of Light, Life and Grace is not according to the old, but doth exceed in Glory, <HI>Rev.</HI> 1.</P>
<P>And the <HI>Jews</HI> in the old Covenant, the Prie&s;ts, before they did offer to God the outward Sacrifice, they were to be Sanctified; which out|ward Sacrifice was to be Holy: But the <HI>Jews</HI> in Spirit in the new Co|venant, which is not according to the old, they are &s;anctified by Chri&s;t, and made clean by his Blood and heavenly Water; and he is their San|ctification: And then all the &s;anctified Believers are a Royal Prie&s;t|hood, and they offer up &s;piritual Sacrifices, and the &s;piritual Sarcifices are Holy. So the Sanctifier and Offering in the new Covenant, and that which doth Sanctifie is not according to the old: And therefore Chri&s;t aboli&s;heth the old Covenant, and all its way of Sanctifying with the Blood of Creatures, which was their Life; for Chri&s;t Sanctifies in his new Covenant with his own Blood, his Life, and makes all Clean; and de&s;troys him that made Man and Woman Unclean; and renews Man and Woman up into the Image of God, which they were in be|fore
<PB N="46" REF="24">they Fell; and makes them as clean again as God made them, and brings them up into him&s;elf, who is Fir&s;t and La&s;t, that never &s;ell: So that they are built upon him, the Living Rock and Foundation, and grafted into him, and He, the Root bares them: And here they with their &s;piritual heavenly Trumpets &s;ound forth to the Prai&s;e and Glory of God, and bring forth Fruits to his Prai&s;e.</P>
<P>And the Apo&s;tle in the new Covenant &s;aid, <HI>That God had made them able Mini&s;ters of the New Te&s;tament, not of the Letter; for the Letter of the Old Te&s;tament killed, but the Spirit of the New Te&s;tament giveth Life.</HI> And farther, he &s;aith, <HI>If the Mini&s;tration of Death, Written and En|graven in Stones, was glorious in its Time, &s;o as the Children of</HI> I&s;rael <HI>could not &s;tedfa&s;tly behold the Face of</HI> Mo&s;es, <HI>for the Glory of his Coun|tenance; which Glory,</HI> &s;aith the Apo&s;tle, <HI>was to be done away:</HI> Which is done away by Chri&s;t in the new Covenant &amp; Te&s;tament: And there|fore the Mini&s;tration of the Spirit in the new Covenant and Te&s;tament, and new and living Way is more glorious: For if the Mini&s;tration of Condemnation be Glorious, which was the Mini&s;tration of the old Te|&s;tament and Covenant; then how much more doth the Mini&s;tration of Righteou&s;ne&s;s in the new Covenant exceed it in Glory? For if that which made Glorious in the old Te&s;tament had no Glory in this re&s;pect, by rea&s;on of the Glory of that which excells it in the new Co|venant; for if that which was done away was Glorious, much more that which remains is Glorious. For <HI>Mo&s;es</HI> put a Vail over his Face, that the Children of <HI>I&s;rael</HI> could not &s;tedfa&s;tly look to the end of that which is aboli&s;hed, to wit, the old Covenant and the Vail, which the Apo&s;tle witne&s;&s;ed were aboli&s;hed then in his Day; but their Minds were blinded &s;o as they did not &s;ee it: For until this day remains the &s;ame Vail untaken away in the reading of the old Te&s;tament, which Vail is done away in Chri&s;t. <HI>But even till this day, when</HI> Mo&s;es <HI>is read, the Vail is over their Hearts,</HI> &s;aith the Apo&s;tle, to wit, the <HI>Jews,</HI> and other <HI>Jewi&s;h</HI>-minded People; for while <HI>Mo&s;es</HI> is read, and in reading the old Te&s;tament, it keeps the Vail upon them; then what do they, that not only read it, but practice many things in the old Te&s;ta|ment; and yet will be called <HI>Chri&s;tians</HI> of the <HI>new Covenant?</HI> But doth not the Apo&s;tle tell you, <HI>The Vail is over their hearts when</HI> Mo&s;es <HI>is read?</HI> And the old Te&s;tament and Vail is done away by Chri&s;t in his new Te|&s;tament and new Covenant of Light, Life and Grace. And they that do not believe it, the Vail is over them, and their Glory is no Glory;
<PB N="47" REF="24">and they are under the Mini&s;tration of Death &amp; Condemnation, &amp; not under the Mini&s;tration of the new Te&s;tament of Life; for the Vail re|mains untaken away in reading of the old Te&s;tament; <HI>And even to this day, whil&s;t</HI> Mo&s;es <HI>is read, the Vail is over their hearts,</HI> as the Apo&s;tle &s;aith.</P>
<P>And now, you called <HI>Chri&s;tians,</HI> is not <HI>Swearing truly by the Lord, and performing the Oath unto the Lord, for the ending the Strife among&s;t men,</HI> is not this in the Mini&s;tration of <HI>Mo&s;es?</HI> is not this your Pra|ctice? And did not <HI>Mo&s;es</HI> command it by the Law in the old Cove|nant? And are not outward Temples and Pulpits <HI>Mo&s;es</HI> and the old Te&s;tament? And are not Tythes and Offerings, and his Fruits <HI>Mo&s;es</HI> his Vail &amp; the old Te&s;tament? And is not the ob&s;erving of Dayes and Moneths, and the <HI>Pa&s;&s;over,</HI> which you call the Time of <HI>Ea&s;ter,</HI> and your <HI>Pentico&s;t</HI> or <HI>Whit&s;ontide,</HI> as you call it, <HI>Mo&s;es</HI> and the old Te&s;ta|ment? And is not calling of your Dayes <HI>Munday, Tue&s;day, Wedne&s;|day, Thur&s;day, Friday, Saturday, Sunday, &amp;c.</HI> and your calling the Moneths by the Names of <HI>May, June, July, Augu&s;t, &amp;c.</HI> which is nei|ther from <HI>Mo&s;es</HI> nor <HI>Chri&s;t,</HI> but from the <HI>Heathen,</HI> which your Practice herein is not according to the old Covenant nor the new? And are not the Sabbath, and the Prie&s;t Surplice and white Sleeves, and the change of Garme its to differ them from other People, <HI>Mo&s;es</HI> and the old Te|&s;tament, and not the new Te&s;tament and Covenant? And is not out|ward Altars, &amp; Candle&s;ticks, and Sanctuaries, and outward Candles bur|ning in your Temples, <HI>Mo&s;es</HI> &amp; the old Te&s;tament? And while&s;t ye read and do all the&s;e things, doth not the Apo&s;tle tell you, <HI>The Vail is over your Hearts?</HI> For doth not the Apo&s;tle tell you, That Chri&s;t hath abo|li&s;hed <HI>Mo&s;es</HI> his old Te&s;tament, and hath taken off his Vail, and made his Glory no Glory, becau&s;e the Glory of the new Covenant and Te|&s;tament hath dimmed it, and done away the Glory of the old?</P>
<P>And therefore, are not you under the Vail, with your Tenths, and Tythes, and Offerings, and Candle; and Candle&s;ticks in your Temples and Altars, and outward Places of Wor&s;hip, with your Prie&s;ts di&s;tingui|&s;hing Garments, and your Fea&s;ts, and Ob&s;erving of Dayes and Times, and Swearing to end Strife and Controver&s;ie among&s;t you? Is not this <HI>Mo&s;es</HI> and the old Te&s;tament, and reading the old Te&s;tament, and not the new Te&s;tament and new Covenant, which &s;aith, <HI>Swear not at all, but let your Communication be Yea, Yea, Nay, Nay?</HI> And Chri&s;t's Righ|teou&s;ne&s;s is all the Believers fine Linnen, which are the Children of the new Covenant, and of the Light, and their Altar is Spiritual; and
<PB N="48" REF="25">Chri&s;t hath enlightened their Candle, their Spirits, with the Light, which is the Life in him; which burns in their Temple Night and Day. And &s;o Chri&s;t in his glorious new Te&s;tament and new Covenant he hath done away and aboli&s;hed the fir&s;t Prie&s;thood, with his Garments, and Offerings, and his outward Lights, and Altars, and Fea&s;ts, and Dayes, and carnal Sanctuary, &amp; Oathes and Tythes: And they are blind, as the <HI>Jews,</HI> that &s;ee him not come in his new Covenant to aboli&s;h all tho&s;e things of the old; who &s;aith in his new Covenant to his Di&s;ciples and Followers, <HI>Freely ye have received, freely give.</HI></P>
<P>And &s;o it is clear, that the new Covenant and Te&s;tament, and new and living Way is not according to the old; and as People do turn to the Lord by his Light, Grace, and Truth, and Spirit and Go&s;pel to Chri&s;t in his new Te&s;tament and Covenant of Light, Life and Grace, the Vail will be done away off the old Covenant, and <HI>Mo&s;es</HI> from off their Hearts, that they may come to read in the new Covenant and Te&s;tament: And &s;uch as are in the new Covenant and Te&s;tament <HI>they are manife&s;tly declared to be the Epi&s;tles of Chri&s;t, written not with Ink, but with the Spirit of the living God; not in tables of Stone,</HI> as it was in the old Te&s;tament &amp; Covenant, <HI>but in the fle&s;hly Tables of their Hearts: Now that Lord is that Spirit, and where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is Liberty. But we all,</HI> &s;aith the Apo&s;tle, <HI>with open face</HI> (to wit, in the <HI>new Covenant &amp; Te&s;tament) beholding as in a Gla&s;s the Glory of the Lord,</HI> a glorious beholding! <HI>and are changed into the &s;ame Image, from Glory to Glory, even by the Spirit of the Lord:</HI> A ble&s;&s;ed glorious change into a glorious Image.</P>
<P>And this is the <HI>glorious Happine&s;s</HI> and <HI>Comfort,</HI> that all the <HI>Children of the Lord</HI> in the <HI>new Covenant</HI> and <HI>Te&s;tament,</HI> and <HI>new</HI> and <HI>living Way</HI> did and do enjoy, which doth exceed the <HI>old Covenant</HI> and <HI>Te&s;tament,</HI> and <HI>old Way</HI> in its <HI>Glory,</HI> which is done away and aboli&s;hed by <HI>Chri&s;t Je&s;us.</HI> So he hath taken away the <HI>Fir&s;t</HI> and e&s;tabli&s;hed the <HI>Second,</HI> who walks in the mid&s;t of his <HI>heavenly Golden Candle&s;ticks,</HI> and is the <HI>head</HI> of his <HI>holy &s;anctified Church,</HI> and is alive and <HI>lives for evermore,</HI> who is <HI>wor|thy</HI> to have <HI>glory</HI> and <HI>honour, the Lamb that hath been &s;lain from the foun|dation of the World,</HI> who is <HI>racing down</HI> all the <HI>World's Foundations,</HI> and <HI>he him&s;elf</HI> is the only <HI>holy spiritual, &s;afe, &s;ure Rock</HI> and <HI>Foundation</HI> for his <HI>believers,</HI> which are <HI>living Stones</HI> to build upon, who was, and is, and will be to all <HI>eternity</HI> the <HI>Fir&s;t</HI> and <HI>La&s;t; Glory to the Lord forever; Hallalujah, Prai&s;es to the Lord forever, and for evermore.</HI></P>
<CLOSER><SIGNED>G. F.</SIGNED></CLOSER>
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<PB N="49" REF="25">
<HEAD>POSTSCRIPT.</HEAD>
<P><HI>THe Law &s;heweth its Righteou&s;ne&s;s by its works: And the Go&s;pel &s;hew|eth its Righteou&s;ne&s;s by Faith, which doth exceed that of the Law. And the Law Woundeth: But the Go&s;pel Healeth, and is glad Tidings and good News. The Law Te&s;tifieth: And the Go&s;pel Delivereth. And</HI> Mo&s;es <HI>Accu&s;eth: But Chri&s;t Defendeth. And</HI> Mo&s;es <HI>Condemneth: But Chri&s;t Pardoneth. The Law re&s;traineth the Hands: But the Go&s;pel re&s;traineth the Mind. And the Law condemneth: But Chri&s;t Saveth.</HI> Mo&s;es <HI>a Servant, in his Signs, Figures and Shadows: But</HI> Chri&s;t <HI>a Son, the Sub|&s;tance, who takes away the Sins and Signs, and makes all things New in his new Covenant &amp; new Te&s;tament. And the Law was uttered with Thun|der from Mount</HI> Sinai: <HI>But the Go&s;pel with Joy from Heaven, and Com|fort of Salvation. And the Law and Statutes were to one People, to wit, the outward</HI> Jews: <HI>But the Go&s;pel is to all Nations, and to every Creature under Heaven. And as</HI> Mo&s;es <HI>lifted up the Serpent in the Wilderne&s;s in the old Covenant and Te&s;tament, even &s;o mu&s;t Chri&s;t, the Son of Man be lift|ed up in his new Covenant and new Te&s;tament,</HI> Joh. 3. Mo&s;es <HI>led the out|ward</HI> Jews <HI>to</HI> Canaan <HI>outward; and they were to Conquer and drive our the &s;even Nations before them with outward carnal Weapons &amp; Armour. But Chri&s;t leadeth his</HI> Jews <HI>in spirit in his new Covenant into Heaven, and they are to Conquer the Perfection of &s;piritual Wickedne&s;s and Rulers of Darkne&s;s, through Chri&s;t, with &s;piritual Weapons and Armour. So the new Covenant is not according to the old. The old Te&s;tament was the Mini&s;tration of the Letter;</HI> and the Letter killeth: <HI>But the new Te&s;ta|ment is not of the Letter, but of the Spirit,</HI> which giveth Life. <HI>The Mi|ni&s;tration of Death in the old Te&s;tament was Engraven in Stones, an&s;wer|able to the outward</HI> Jews <HI>in the old Covenant and Te&s;tament, their stoney Hearts: But in the new Covenant and Te&s;tament the Lord &s;aith,</HI> I will give them a new Spirit and a new Heart, &amp; will take away your &s;toney Heart out of your Fle&s;h; and I will write my Laws in your Hearts, and put them in your Minds: And they &s;hall all know the Lord, <HI>the</HI> Jews <HI>in the Spirit,</HI> Jer. 31. &amp; Ezek. 36. <HI>in the new Covenant and Te&s;ta|ment, which is not according to the old. And in the old Covenant the</HI> Jews <HI>were to offer unto the Lord all their Free-will Offerings,</HI> Lev. 22. <HI>And in</HI>
<PB N="50" REF="26">Deut. 12. they were to eat of the Free-will Offerings before the Lord. <HI>And in</HI> Ezra 3. Every one that offered willingly, offered a Free-will Offering unto the Lord; <HI>and in</HI> Ezra 7. <HI>Now in the old Covenant they offered tho&s;e things, which were a free-will Offering: But Chri&s;t in the new Covenant, which is not according to the old, he &s;aith,</HI> I am the good Shep|herd, that lay down my Life for my Sheep; <HI>and &s;aith,</HI> Therefore doth my Father love me, becau&s;e I lay down my Life, that I may take it again; and no man taketh it from me, but I lay it down of my &s;elf: I have Power to lay it down, and I have Power to take it again: This Commandment have I received of my Father, <HI>Joh.</HI> 10. <HI>Here Chri&s;t the Lamb of God is the free-will Offering in his new Covenant and Te&s;ta|ment, which is not according to the Offerings in the old Te&s;tament and old Covenant. And Chri&s;t by offering up him&s;elf freely once for all, hath aboli&s;hed all the Offerings in the old Covenant. No &V;nclean thing was to be offered to God, nor to be eaten in the time of the Law and old Te&s;tament, nor no &V;nclean per&s;on was to offer: And in the time of the Go&s;pel and new Covenant, which is not according to the Law and old Covenant, much more doth not the Lord accept an &V;nclean Per&s;on, nor an &V;nclean Offer|ing; for it is the spiritual Sacrifice that he doth accept: and they are to &s;eed of the clean, holy, heavenly Sacrifice, Chri&s;t Je&s;us, and &s;eed of the clean &s;piritual Food from Heaven. And the Apo&s;tle &s;aith to the Saints,</HI> That they were not to touch the Unclean <HI>(to wit) the &V;nclean Spirits, and its Works and Actions: And yet the &s;ame Apo&s;tle &s;aith,</HI> That every Creature of God is good, <HI>the outward Creatures, and ought to be recei|ved with Thanks-giving;</HI> for they are &s;anctified by the Word of God and Prayer. <HI>Therefore tho&s;e things may be touched in the time of the Go|&s;pel and new Covenant, which were not to be touched in the old. And &s;o the new Covenant is not according to the old.</HI></P>
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<HEAD>Concerning the <HI>Pa&s;&s;over</HI> in the <HI>Old Covenant;</HI> and the <HI>Jews</HI> in the <HI>Spirit,</HI> the <HI>True Chri&s;tians</HI> in the <HI>New Covenant.</HI></HEAD>
<P><HI>The</HI> Pa&s;chal <HI>Lamb was one of the Flock without Blemi&s;h to be Sacrificed in the old Covenant: But Chri&s;t was a Perfect Man without &s;in, and dyed for Sin. And the</HI> Pa&s;chal <HI>Lamb, which the</HI> Jews <HI>in the old Covenant were not to break a Bone of it: And Chri&s;t, when they had Crucified him, the</HI> Pa&s;chal <HI>Lamb in the new Covenant, they did not break his Legs, as its written,</HI> Not a Bone of Him &s;hall be Broken. <HI>And the</HI> Jews <HI>did eat their</HI> Pa&s;chal <HI>Lamb at Evening; &amp; the whole Congregation of the</HI> Jews
<PB N="51" REF="26"><HI>did kill the Pa&s;chal Lamb at the Evening, and they were to eat of the Lamb,</HI> a Male without Blemi&s;h; and &s;prinkle the Blood on the two Side-po&s;ts, and upon the upper Door-po&s;ts of the Hou&s;e, <HI>Exod.</HI> 12. <HI>But now once in the End of the World hath Chri&s;t offered once for all, to put away Sin by the Sacrifice of him&s;elf in the new Covenant, who &s;prinkles</HI> the Hearts and Con&s;ciences with his own Blood, <HI>Heb.</HI> 9.26. <HI>And did not the Congregation of the</HI> Jews <HI>joyn together to kill Chri&s;t, our Pa&s;chal Lamb, at their Pa&s;&s;over, who ta&s;ted Death for every man; and his Blood clean&s;es from all Sin? For</HI> Aaron <HI>the high Prie&s;t &s;prinkled the Blood up|on the People, which was the Life of the clean Bea&s;ts, and made an At|tonement with it for him&s;elf and the People in the old Covenant and Te&s;ta|ment: But Chri&s;t, with his own Blood, which is the Life of him, the Lamb of God without Blemi&s;h, which takes away the Sins of the World, he the high Prie&s;t &s;prinkles the Hearts and Con&s;ciences of his People with his own Blood, which is his Life, and with it makes Attonement to God for the Sins of the World. And none but the Circumci&s;ed in the fle&s;h did eat of the outward Lamb, the Pa&s;&s;over in the old Te&s;tament: And none do eat of Chri&s;t, the Pa&s;&s;over in the new Covenant, but who are Circumci&s;ed in the &s;pirit, and by the Faith which he is the Author and Fini&s;her of. The Goat did bare the Peoples Iniquities in the old Te&s;tament: But Chri&s;t in his new Te&s;tament, the Lord did lay upon him the Iniquities of us all; and</HI> Chri&s;t was made Sin for us, who knew no Sin, that we might be made the Righteou&s;ne&s;s of God through him, 2 <HI>Cor.</HI> 5.21. <HI>And was not that one Golden Candle&s;tick, which</HI> Mo&s;es <HI>was commanded to make in the old Covenant, with all its Knops, Flowers and Branches, and Bowls like Al|monds, which were to be made of pure Gold, a Type of the Body of Chri&s;t, the Church,</HI> Exod. 25. <HI>&s;eeing that the Churches of Chri&s;t in the new Te|&s;tament are called the</HI> Golden Candle&s;ticks? <HI>Rev.</HI> 1.20. <HI>The Law &s;aith,</HI> do this, &amp; live; and be Obedient, &amp; ye &s;hall eat the good and fat of the Land: <HI>But they that were Di&s;obedient, wandered, &amp; murmured, &amp; dyed, and their Carka&s;&s;es fell in the Wilderne&s;s, and never &s;aw the good Land.</HI></P>
<P><HI>But in the new Te&s;tament Chri&s;t &s;aith,</HI> This is the Work of God, to believe in him whom God hath &s;ent: And he that believeth in the Son of God &s;hall not Peri&s;h, but have Life everla&s;ting; <HI>And he &s;eeks tho&s;e good things which come down from above, and hath them, and their Affections are &s;et on things that are above, the everla&s;ting things of the Kingdom, and of the World that hath no end. And they that make a Profe&s;&s;ion of the Words of Chri&s;t and his Apo&s;tles in the new Co|venant,
<PB N="52" REF="27" MS="y">as the</HI> Jews <HI>did of the old, and do not obey his Go&s;pel, nor be|lieve in the Light which is the Life in Chri&s;t, they are not grafted into him; and &s;o do not enter into the Eternal Re&s;t, but do wander in the &s;pi|ritual Wilderne&s;s, and dye in their Sins, as Chri&s;t &s;aid of tho&s;e that did not believe in him. The outward</HI> Jews <HI>in the Fle&s;h in the old Covenant, and outward Circumci&s;ion in the Fle&s;h, they had their outward Genealo|gies, and Chronicles, for every Tribe, and written in outward Books: But in the new Covenant, which is not according to the old, He is not a</HI> Jew <HI>that is one outward, but he is a</HI> Jew <HI>that is one inward, in the Spirit: So the</HI> Jews <HI>in the Spirit, the true</HI> Chri&s;tians <HI>in the new Te&s;tament have their Names written in Heaven, and in the Lambs Book of Life, and have the Father who is the Creator of all, his Mark and Seal in their Fore-head. And outward Circumci&s;ion in the Fle&s;h, was Circumci&s;ion in the old Te&s;tament: But in the new Te&s;tament, outward Circumci&s;ion is not Circumci&s;ion, but inward Circumci&s;ion, which puts off the Body of Death, and the Sins of the Fle&s;h, that hath gotten upon man and wo|man by Tran&s;gre&s;&s;ion; this is the true Circumci&s;ion in the new Covenant, in which People &s;erve God in the Spirit.</HI></P>
<P><HI>And in the old Covenant he was a</HI> Jew <HI>that was one outward: But in the new Covenant, he is not a</HI> Jew <HI>which is one outwardly; but he is a</HI> Jew <HI>that is one inwardly, and Circumci&s;ion is that of the Heart, and in the Spirit, and not of the Letter, who&s;e Prai&s;e is of God, and not of men. And the Lord appeared among the</HI> Jews <HI>in the outward Temple, when they kept his Law in the old Covenant: But in the new Covenant, which is not according to the old, God hath &s;ent his Son to aboli&s;h the</HI> Jews <HI>outward Temple, and the old Covenant, and the Law, and things in it, which God had commanded. And in the new Covenant, which is not accor|ding to the old, God, and his Son Chri&s;t Je&s;us appears in his Peo|ple, and dwells in them, and makes them his Temple. And in the old Covenant they had the Temple in the City of</HI> Jeru&s;alem: <HI>But in the new Covenant there is no Temple in the heavenly</HI> Jeru&s;alem; <HI>for the Lord God and the Lamb is the Light and the Temple of it.</HI></P>
<CLOSER><SIGNED>George Fox.</SIGNED>
<DATELINE><HI>Mar&s;hgrange,</HI> <DATE>the 8th Moneth, 1679.</DATE></DATELINE></CLOSER>
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<TRAILER>THE END.</TRAILER>
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