The Grounds of Christianity Examined by Comparing The New Testament with the Old

g that the Apostles

vour to prove Christ

nd who as such only claims the obedience, and submission of the World. Accordingly, it is the design of the authors of the New, to prove Christianity from the Old, Testament; which is said Jo. 5:39, to contain the words

t, either by asserting them to be things foretold therein as to come to pass und

aphtali; his casting out devils, and healing the sick; his eating with Publicans and sinners; his speaking in parables that the Jews might not understand him; his sending his disciples to fetch an ass, and a colt; the childrens crying in the Temple; the resurrection of Jesus from the dead; Jesus being betrayed by Judas, and Judas returning back the thirt

ah, because he had been condemned to death, and crucified; he, observing their disbelief of his resurrection, which had been reported to them by certain women of their acquaintance, upon the credit of the affirmation of angels, said unto them, O Fools, and slow of he

hich were written in the law of Moses, and in the Prophets, and in the Psalms concerning him; adding, thus it is written, and thus it behoveth Christ (1. e. th

they were full of new wine, Peter makes a speech in public, wherein, after saying they were not drunk, because it was but the third hour of the day, h

Temple, that God had showed by the mouth of all

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to prove to the Jew

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ere to be circumcised after the Law of Moses, and to observe the Law, we find, t

hether the things preached to them by the Apostles were so, or no: who if they had not proved these things, i.e. Christianity from

sation he pleads guilty, by declaring in the fullest manner, that he taught nothing but the Doctrines of the Old Testament. Having therefore (says he) obtained help of God, I continue unto this day, witnessing both to small, and great, sa

ding to the Old Testament, and he is supposed to ground this on the history of the prophet Jonas, who was three days and three nights in the fish's belly: th

he one from Mount Sinai which gendereth to bondage, which is Agar. But this Agar is Mount Sinai in Arabia, and answereth to Jerusalem that now is, and is in bondage with her Children. But Jerusalem which is above is free, which is the Mother of us all. For it is written (Isaiah 54: 1,) Rejoice thou Barren that bearest not, break forth, and cry thou that travailest not, for the desolate hath many more children than she which hath an husband. Now, we Brethren, as Isaac was, are children of t

and others to be ministers of the New Testament, as being ministers, not of the letter but of the Spirit, (2Cor. iii: 6.) That is. Of the Old Testament, spiritually understood; and endeavouring to prove, espec