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unto the end.” Heb. iii: I, etc. The transference here from Moses the servant to Christ himself, the Son and heir, is perfectly clear; and therefore all things must be considered as having undergone a great and manifest change, but in such a way as to keep up a consistency between the legal dispensation and the gospel dispensation, so as to behold the ful- fillment of all those things that were written concern— ing him in the law of Moses and in the prophets and in the Psalms. There was a remedy provided for fallen, sinful man in the covenant of redemption from all eternity, and the delights of him who was set up from everlasting, from the beginning, or ever the earth was, from of old with the children of men, in the habitable parts of the earth; and there— fore everything was intended to shadow forth the glories of Emmanuel’s kingdom and reign; and therefore had all to be laid aside to give place to what they typified and represented.

The Abrahamic covenant had circumcision as the sign and seal appended to it, and the discontinuance of the sign and seal, in the form in which it was appointed to be observed, may be sufficient proof of the change in all other respects. When Christ’s kingdom which was of this world was closed by his death and the shedding of his blood death was abol- ished and life and immortality brought to light by the gospel; no more blood was to be shed for the re— mission of our sins; for by one offering he perfected forever them who are sanctified; therefore the sign and seal of the covenant had now, of necessity, to be

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