History of Presbyierianism his spiritual seed in Christ. "For he is not a Jew which is one outwardly; neither is that circumcision wh' :h is outward in the flesh; but he is a Jew who is one inwardly, and circumcision is that of the heart, in the spirit, and not in the letter, whose praise is not of men but of God ." Circumcision is the sign and seal of the covenant in its twofold form and charac¬ ter. The one made with hands in the flesh, and the other made without hands in putting off the body of the sins of the flesh by the circumcision of Christ—■ the one outward in the flesh and the other inward of the heart, of the spirit and not in the letter. In this then we see the transition from one dispensation to another. "In that he saith a new covenant. He hath made the first old. Now that which decayeth and waxeth old is ready to vanish away." Heb. viii: 13: "For Christ is the end of the law for right¬ eousness to every one that believeth." We have now a view of two dispensations greatly differing in na¬ ture and character, called "Mosaic dispensation" and "Gospel dispensation''—the one the ministration of death and condemnation, and the other the ministra¬ tion of the spirit and of righteousness. The first was the ministration of death, because death was minis¬ tered to every victim for sacrifice which was yearly offered for the sins of the people, according to the Mosaic law; and because the high priest of the Jews entered in once every year, not without blood which he sprinkled for himself and for the sins of the peo¬ ple, thus making remembrance of sin every year; but when Christ died for our sins he abolished death, 222