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ises made to the fathers required confirmation, and no other was qualified, or installed into office by the oath of God, but him alone; therefore he says, “Look unto me and be ye saved, for I am God and there is none else”; we must look to him, then, for the confir- mation of the promises of God, in his own way, as revealed to us in the New Testament. And it is proper and necessary to understand the nature and character of his kingdom, which is not of this world, but is a dispensation of the ministration of the Spirit and of righteousness; and the view that is held out to us of the manner in which he ministers the sign and seal of the c0venant, circumcision, during the gospel dispensation, may have some influence on the mind, to lead us to the character of his kingdom, and the way in which he shall confirm the promises made to the fathers. “For in him dwelleth all the fullness of the Godhead bodily, and ye are complete in him, who is the head of all principality and power; in whom also ye are circumcised with the circumcision made without hands, in the putting off the body of the sins of the flesh by the circumcision of Christ; buried with him in baptism, wherein ye are risen with him, through the faith of the operation of God, who hath raised him from the dead.” Col. ii: 9, etc. The character of the two dispensations may be seen as clearly established by the modes of the adminis- tration of the sign and seal of the selfsame covenant -—the first ministered by the hands of men, but the second and true mode of administration,“made with— out hands, in putting off the body of the sins of the

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