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THE PLACE OF THE OLD TESTAMENT IN 

 RELIGIOUS INSTRUCTION 



IT is only in comparatively recent times that the ques 

 tion of this paper has come into prominence in our coun 

 try. The Scottish Reformers, like the other Protestant 

 Churches, were content to &quot; believe and confesse the 

 Scriptures of God sufficient to instruct and maik the man 

 of God perfect &quot; [Confession of 1560] without drawing 

 any distinction between the use of the two Testaments ; 

 nay, affirming that by the &quot; Evangell &quot; they understood 

 &quot; nott onlie the Scripturis of the New Testament, but 

 also of the Auld, the Law, Prophettis, and Histories, in 

 quhilk Christ Jesus is no less conteaned in figure than 

 we have him now expressed in veritie &quot; [ist Book of 

 Discipline]. These utterances indicate the principle of 

 the diligent use of the Old Testament, for which Scotland 

 has ever since been noted. Our Scottish love for the 

 Old Testament does not proceed from adherence to a 

 legal or Judaising standpoint, but from the belief that, 

 in the Old Testament as in the New, Christ and the 

 truths of His gospel are set forth with Divine authority. 

 Nor can we say that this is a vain belief, if we remember 

 that it is of the Old Testament (the New Testament 

 Canon being not yet formed) that Paul affirms that it is 

 able to make us wise unto salvation through faith which 

 is in Christ Jesus if we remember how deeply our 

 Lord Himself had drunk of the Spirit of the Old Testa- 



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