The Christian Treasury (Classic Reprint)

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Granting, then, the case of the Mosaic sacri fice and that of Abel to be the same; neither of them in itself efficacious; both instituted by God and both instituted in reference to that true and efficient Sacrifice, which was one day to be offered the rite, as practised before the time of Christ, may justly be considered as a sacramental memorial, shewing forth the Lord's death until he came, (1 Cor. Xi. 26 and when accompanied with a due faith in the promises made to the early believers, may reasonably be judged to have been equally acceptable with that sacramental me morial, which has been enjoined by our Lord himself to his followers, for the shewing forth his death until his coming again. And it deserves to be noticed, that this very ana logy seems to be intimated by our Lord, in the language used by him at the institution of that solemn Christian rite. For, in speaking of his own blood, he calls it, in direct reference to the blood wherewith Moses established and sanctified the first covenant, the blood of the new covenant, which was shed for the remis sion of sins, (matt. Xxvi. 28 thus plainly marking out the similitude in the nature and objects of the two covenants, at the moment that he was prescribing the great sacramental commemoration of his own sacrifice.

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