The  Old  Testament  is  not  contrary  to  the  New
Testament;  in  both  everlasting  life  is  offered  to
mankind  by  Christ.  The  promise  recorded  in  Ge-
nesis to  Eve ;  to  Abraham  "  in  thy  seed  shall  aH
nations  of  the  earth  be  blessed ;"  which  Paul  ex-
pressly applies  to  Christ,  "  the  Scripture  foreseeing
that  God  would  justify  the  heathens  through  faith,
preached  before  the  Gospel  unto  Abraham,  saying,
In  thee  shall  *,"  &c  :  in  Jerenriah,  when  describing
a  neiv  spiiitual  covenant  which  God  would  make
witli  Israel  in  opposition  to  the  Mosaic  one,  He
says,  "  I  wiU  put  my  law  in  their  inward  parts,  and


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write  it  in  their  hearts  *:"  in  .Isaiah,  "  I  will  give
thee  for  a  light  to  the  Gentiles  f :''  and  in  the  me-
morable prophecy  of  Isaiah  ( :  all  so  decidedly
point  to,  and  explain  the  nature  of  the  Gospel  coye-
nant,  that  nothing  fiirther  need  be  added,  to  i^ew
that  Christ  came  "  to  fulfil  the  prophets."  More-
over, the  predictions  of  Daniel  limited  the  time
(468  years,)  within  which  the  Messias  would  ap-
pear ;  Malachi  predicts  that  the  ^'  Messias  should
come  whilst  the  second  temple  stood ;"  and  Haggai
says,  that  ^^  the  desire  of  all  nations  should  enter  the
second  temple,"  which  temple  has  long  been  de-
stroyed :  so  that  if  Jesus  be  not  the  Christ,  no  other
can  be  §.
Christ  is  the  only  Mediator ;  for,  as  St.  Paul
says,  "  tliere  is  but  one  God  and  one  Mediator  be-
tween God  and  man,  the  man  Jesus  Christ  ||."

The  ancient  Jews  did  look  for  something  more
than  transitory  promises.  This  is  evident  from
many  passages  in  the  Old  Testament;  ea:  gra.
