FOR AS OFTEN AS YE EAT THIS BREAD, AND DRINK THIS CUP, YE DO SHEW THE LORD'S DEATH, TILL HE COME. HE Law and the Gofpel are TH fo ordered by the Divine Providence, as to reflect light upon one another; and are neither of them feen to advantage separately. If you look at the Law without a reference to Chrift, you fee fee a multitude of means only without the end; a fhadow without fubftance; a letter without the meaning and fpirit. Your eyes are blinded by a veil hanging before them, as St. Paul tells us, the minds of the Jews were, and as they 2 Cor. iii. continue to be; for until this day remaineth the fame veil untaken away in the reading of the Old Testament. 14. On the other hand neither can we well understand the accomplishment of all these things in the Gofpel, without fome knowledge of the antecedent difpenfation. It adds beauty to both to fee the correspondence that is between them; the gradual progress out of darkPet.ii.9. nefs into the marvellous light; the diftant defigns that have been anfwered, the myfteries unfolded, the prophecies fulfilled, and earthly types and fymbols advanced into heavenly realities. St. Paul indeed, having called the Law Law a Schoolmafter, doth fay, that after Gal. iii. faith is, come, we are no longer under a 25. fchoolmafter. It is true, we are not under it; not obliged to live by it's rules, and at this time to practise it's rites and ceremonies. But as the Apostle had acknowledged that it was our schoolmafter to bring us to Chrift; we may be content to receive this benefit from it, and become the better proficients in Christianity for having firft imbibed the rudiments of the Law. It is through the inftruction of that Schoolmafter, the Law, that we learn to comprehend in fome measure, (for it is ftill a mystery even to Angels,) the great doctrine revealed in the Gospel, of 1 Pet.i.11. the fufferings of Chrift, and the glory that Should follow: that God is in Chrift recon- 2 Cor. v. conciling the world unto himself; and this reconciliation is by his death: that he is Rom.v.ro. John i.29. the Lamb of God, which taketh away the fin of the world; an offering and a facrifice Ephef.v.a. to 19. Rom. iii. to God; fet forth to be a propitiation, through faith in his blood. 25. Levit. xvii. II. You are made to fee here almoft of yourselves, the neceffity of the death of Chrift. He could be no facrifice, according to the pattern of thofe under the Law without it. It is the blood that maketh an atonement for the foul. This we learn of Mofes; and no longer wonder that the prayer even of the only begotten should return into his own bofom. Fa John xii. ther, fave me from this hour: but for this 27. cause came I unto this hour. He was born into the world for this end, to fuffer, and to be put to death: he took up his life in order thus to lay it down; and was made a living man, for this very pur pose, to be crucified and slain. Did I fay the prayer of the Redeemer returned unanfwered? He himself retracts it. He could have called down legions of Angels to his own deliverance, and |