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Spirit, pouring of water had to be substituted in place of the shedding of blood in circumcision, which was the mode of applying the sign and seal of the Abrahamic covenant during the Mosaic dispensa— tion, so as to keep up a perfect harmony between the two dispensations,——and that the covenant might still be viewed in permanent existence, under a more enlightened and gracious and spiritual dispensation —the kingdom of Christ, which is not of this world; for “The Kingdom of God is not meat and drink, but righteousness and peace and joy in the Holy Ghost.”

We have now entered upon a new dynasty, with the true Covenant Head, and therefore must forsake all typical persons and circumstances—"Forgetting the things which are behind, and reaching to those that are before, and pressing towards the mark for the prize of the high calling of God in Christ Jesus." All those eminent persons under the Old Testament were merely types of him, and served their day and generation and passed away ; but He abideth forever. Although the covenant was made with Abraham, yet the promises of the covenant were extended to Jesus Christ, who took the seed of Abraham. “Now to Abraham and his seed were the promises made. He saith not, and to seeds, as of many, but as of one, and to thy seed, which is Christ.” Gal. iii: 16. This leads us from the lineal descendants of the patriarch to him to whom the promises were made in the Ab— rahamic covenant. and who was prominently pointed by Isaac, the child of promise, when he said, “In Isaac shall thy seed be called"——the very name Isaac,

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