Orthodox Creed · Chapter 19

Of the Agreement between the Old and New Testaments

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1. The Gospel, or New Covenant, was held forth, or preached to the Fathers, from Adam to Christ’s coming in the Flesh,^a though it was revealed by sundry Degrees, and in divers Manners,^b in Types and Shadows, darkly;^c yet it was the same Gospel, the same Christ, the same Faith (for kind), and the very same Covenant, that they were justified and saved by, before Christ took Flesh of the Virgin, that we have now, and is to continue to the end of the World.^d For as the Church of the Jews in their Gospel Types had a Priest, and an Altar, and a Lamb, and a Fire, and without all these no Sacrifice could, or was accepted of God, then nor now, without Faith in the Antitype Christ, whose Humane Nature is the true Lamb, the Union of Natures, the High Priest, the Divine Nature, the Altar, and the Holy Ghost, the Heavenly Fire.^e And again, the Blood shed upon the Brazen Altar, may be applied to our Justification, and the sprinkling of it upon the Incense Altar, may be applied to the Work of Sanctification by Christ’s^f Spirit, sprinkling his Blood upon us.^g And the Blood that was carried within the Vail, into the most Holy Place, is applied to our Glorification in Heaven.^h And as they had in their Church the Ark, a Figure of Christ’s Presence; so have we the Promise of his Presence to the end of the World.ⁱ And as they had the Tables of the Old Covenant, or Law, in the Ark; so have we the Law fulfilled by Christ;^j and meeting God in Christ, it’s handed forth by Christ now to us,^k as the only Rule of our Sanctification, and Obedience, through his Grace. And as they had the Manna to nourish them in the Wilderness to Canaan; so have we the Sacraments to nourish us in the Church, and in our Wilderness-condition, till we come to Heaven. And as they had the Rod that Corrected them; so have we the Church-Censures now to Correct us,^l when we offend his Law. And their Burnt-offering may be applied to Christ, killing of Original Sin in us, and their Sin-offering may be applied to Christ killing, or taking away our Actual Sins; and their Peace-offering may be applied to our Reconciliation with God in Christ by his Spirit; and so all the rest of those Gospel-Antitypes may be applied. And thus the Old and New Testaments, like the Faces of the Cherubims, look one toward another, and hold forth one and the self-same Gospel-Salvation to them and us.

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