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shewn himself as the mediator of the new cove- 

 nant, and the doubts of ages have vanished 

 before the light of the Gospel." 



I ventured to interrupt my uncle, to ask why 

 it is called the new covenant, as if it was of a 

 different nature from the two former ones. 



" It is so styled," he answered, ie not as being 

 new in its nature, or different from those which 

 preceded it ; but merely as being new, or last, 

 in order, and therefore superseding all others. 

 The typical sacrifices of the two former were, 

 you know, the symbols of the real victim who 

 consummated the Christian covenant. In each 

 of them provision was made for the reconciliation 

 of fallen man ; and the object of each being the 

 same, the terms were the same : Jehovah gra- 

 ciously promising on his part to accept the 

 meritorious death of the Messiah, as a full 

 acquittal and satisfaction of all sin ; but, on the 

 two-fold condition, of faith, and of obedience 

 on our part. 



" The doctrine of atonement through the suf- 

 ferings of the Mediator, forms the basis of each 

 of the covenants, and is justly considered by all 

 those who take their religion from Scripture as 

 the corner-stone of the Christian dispensation. 

 The proofs of this essential tenet are as nu- 

 merous as they are clear and explicit ; and in 

 the last discourse which our Saviour held with 



