est attention to all the feasts, with the passover particularly.

If christians are not bound to keep the law of Moses, as all christians say they are not; what will such do as say the gospel dispensation commenced with John? Will they say all these ceremonies which John and our Lord has practised, and encouraged are gospel ordinances, and all these restrictions, restrictions that ought to be observed by christians; or what will they say?Let us next look at the Temple. Here we find the Jews daily bringing their sacrifices to the altar; and what is more-behind the vail of the temple, lays hid in a mystery, all the gifts and graces of Christ's kingdom. What does all this mean, dear reader? If the law, and gospel ordinances (as some have ventured to call them,) are all mixed up together, who can show us the one from the other? does a tabernacle belong to the gospel dispensation, then let us build one.

Quitting those remarks let us turn our attention for a moment to the types and shadOWS. As the tabernacle with all the law ceremony, was given by the divine direction of God; no doubt there was a time in the divine mind, when they should be fulfilled.And to suppose they could stop, short of the thing which was intended by them, would be inconsistent, or to suppose any other legislation would take place previous to the fulfilment of such types could be but a trespass

upon the legislation of Moses. As a man is always subject to the laws of the government .he is under, so Christ as a common Jew was holden by the law to observe all the restrictions of the law.

Let us suppose Christ on the cross; and then go back to the first institution of the passover in Egypt; where was this passover fulfilled? Answer, on the cross, for Christ our passover is sacrificed for us. (Cor. v. 7.) If we look to the tabernacle with all its appurtenances, sprinkling, pouring, washings and anointings, with that outward ministration with which it was attended, there was none of these types fulfilled short of the death of Christ. There was no general good that attended mankind in consequence of the bodily presence of Christ on the earth, but all possible good come in consequence of his suffering. It was no outward ministry that could reach the fallen condition of men; they must be restored to the union-covenant with God by receiving that which rendered the covenant-union previous to the fall, namely, the Spirit of God-the Holy Ghost. All

covenants short of that which stands in the nature and Spirit of God is faulty, and because such covenants are faulty it was said, "Behold the day cometh saith the Lord, when I will make a new-covenant with the house of Israel and with the house of Judah, **** whereof the Holy Ghost," saith the apostle "is a witness to us, after that which he

hath said, **** I will put my laws into their hearts, and in their minds will I write them." (Heb. x. 15, 16.)--In order that this covenant or testament should be established there must **** of necessity be the death of the testator." (Heb. ix. 16.) Therefore to accomplish this work, it is said "a body hast thou prepared me;" and it is to this body and work, that all the types and figures of the law point to.

As the establishment of the new-covenant, was particularly timed in the divine will, so was the abolishment of the old-covenant, predetermined to take place at a particular time, and this time, according to prediction was the very time that Christ suffered, and became the end of all types, by the sacrifice of himself.

Let us look at the prophecy of Daniel, and see when this kingdom of Heaven, or the newcovenant was to take place and when the old covenant was to be destroyed. It was said to Daniel, by the angel Gabriel," seventy weeks are determined upon thy people, and upon the holy city to finish the transgression and to make an end of sins; and to make reconciliation for iniquity, and to bring in everlasting righteousness, and to seal up the vision and to anoint, the most Holy." Dan. ix. 24. The angel next discovers to Daniel when these weeks should commence, and when they should end, (ver. 26.) and when the Messiah should be cut off,

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and how that he should confirm the covenant with many, and in the midst of the week cause the sacrifices and oblations to cease. Now it is well known and acknowledged by all, that the Messiah suffered in the last of Daniel's seventy weeks, and that this divine prediction took place and was fulfilled in that,he died for transgression and sins, and to bring in everlasting righteousness. He was cut off, and by the sacrifice of himself he caused the sacrifices and oblations to cease in the midst of the week-being the anointed of God, he died-rose-ascended up and received the promise of his father, and by the gift of the Holy Ghost confirmed the covenant with many in one day. In that Christ was to cause the sacrifices and the oblations to cease, it was done at the very time of his death. And it is really worth our notice, that when Christ suffered, probably it was at the very time when the Jews were to have eaten their passover, but in consequence of the phenomenon which took place, namely, the earth quaking, and the darkness, that the Jews did not sacrifice at that time. The temple's vail was rent at that very time, and the Holiest of all was turned, as it were, out of doors, and the temple confused by the power of God.

When God gave the law to Moses, HE was the establisher of it; and when the law dispensation ended HE saw fit to make it known by His own power, in the rending of the vail, &c.

Notwithstanding what took place at

the time of Christ's crucifixion; The Jews yet thought to celebrate the day of Pentecost -a time celebrated by the Jews for the giving of the law; but it seems that, as God had, by a supernatural power signified the abolishment of the law, at the time of the passover, so he designed to confound them again. And when the days of Pentecost were fully come (Acts ii. 1.) God made choice of this very time, to send the gift of the Holy Ghost upon the apostles, and the sacrificial order of the Jews was again disturbed. For the apostles having received the promise of the Father, they so preached that the attention of the city was excited, and when the people came together and three thousand of them (it is said) were added to the church in one day. It seems by all this that God would shew the Jews that he preferred his passover to that of theirs, and his own law written in the heart, to that which was outward, written on parchment, or tables of

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Having pursued the subject thus far, I will now remark, that in the beginning we have seen the impropriety of attempting to draw the dividing line between the two dispensations by the term gospel, because the gospel was always preached. We have seen that the term kingdom of God is warranted to us by divine inspiration. We have seen, also, that John in his life and in his ministry was confined to the law; and too, that Christ in