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universality : but that being now changed, and a 

 single people being chosen out of the corrupt 

 mass, in order to preserve the truth, we may say 

 that the chief distinction between the two dispen- 

 sations was, that the first was universal, the se- 

 cond particular. 



" The law as delivered by Moses, and called 

 the Levitical dispensation, because its ordi- 

 nances were confided to the tribe of Levi> was 

 not sent to do away the original religion, nor 

 was it intended to supply new motives, or new 

 sanctions. The law did not reveal the doctrines 

 of the Divine Unity ; or of redemption through 

 a promised Deliverer ; or of a state of future re- 

 ward and punishment for they had been already 

 established ; but to those great doctrines the 

 law 'was added, because of transgressions*.' 

 It was added, in part to preserve the knowledge 

 of the Divine Unity in the midst of surrounding 

 superstitions ; in part to preserve the doctrine of 

 redemption amidst the idolatrous Gentiles ; and 

 also, by imposing on the Israelites numerous ob- 

 servances and restrictions, to preserve them sepa- 

 rately from the world, a peculiar people ; as Ba- 

 laam said, 6 Lo, the people shall dwell alone, 

 and shall not be reckoned among the nations.' 



" But as the time drew near when the sun of 

 righteousness was to rise, the characteristic of 

 particularity began to be withdrawn from the 

 * Galatians iii. 19. 



