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If ^ e two eoveiswiitB ^ w&re ttie t 5 ere ~ tmnts of JTahoMh , « s the Scriptures every where state 'them to be , ; and fhe term covena&t means a /««/ will and testament , then must not htb Jiave t > een th £ testator ? which would involve in it the tnonstrous idea , that the deafh € ff Jehovah himself was
necessary forthe continuation of ^ ach , for without it , as the apostle reasons , * ' tliey would liave been of no strength at all . " Secondly , we remark , that Jesus Christ 18 here styled the mediator of
the new covenant , as Moses is said to be the mediator of ttoe old covenant ; Moses was t \ ie medium through which it was « com « aHinicated to the people of Isrfeel . * ' It was ordained by angels in the hand of a mediator . " * Jesus
Christ is the messenger of the new covenant , by whom that new and gr * ack > us disp ensation was brought from heaven and communicated to tfee children of men . " The law was
given , by Mose ^ , but grace and truth c&B £ * £ by Jesus Ohrist /' -f We may here remark , that the term mediator is applied to Jesus Christ , exclusively in rfcfatifon to the covenant which he
was coi nmissioned to reveal and to ratify with his own blood . We are accustof ned to hear a . great deal said about t he mediation of Christ , his rnediutoi ial person , as God-man , his mediator * ial worii , his mediatorial offices , hi 9 mediatorial righteousness , his mediatot 'ial regard , Ms mediatorial kingdom an'iigfort ' / ; modes of expression ado * pte » 3 , in order to support an hypothef-is , without the least countenance or < warraftt from any thing container 1 \\ v the Sacred Scriptures , where the t erm is solely applied to him with rt aspect to his connexion , with the new * covenant .
Thirdly , u < e observe that Christ ' s being the me ^ diator of the new covenant , renden fcd It necessary that he should die m . ' <> rder to confirm and give validity t « c 4 hat covenant . * For this eatese he is the mediator of the
new covenant , : that by means of death fbr ih& fed ^ ir iptfonW the transgressions that wer 'e under the first covenant . " This writer adds , x * For where a coven ; uit is , there if * . a necessity for the * i eafch 6 f that which ee" Oal . iH . 19 . t ^ obn i . 17 .
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^ alifisheth the coyeaaut / ' that is of the victioa by wliiolt the eoveaant is ratified - ( See Wafeefiekl ajid Doddridge . ) For a cove&japt Is firm over the dead , whereas it , is *> f no force it
^ vhile that which es tablisheth liveth . ^ So that the de art h of Christ was rendered necessary , in order to give validity and effeet to that covenant of which he was the mediator .
Fourthly , we observe that the reason why Christ was made the mediator of the new covenant was , that he might redeem the past offences that were committed uftder the Jewish or
Sinai covenant ; " For this cause he is the Mediator of the new covenan t that by means of death for the redemption of the transgressions that were under the first covenant . " It is
worthy of observation that the author of this epistle vvhen tr ^ atipg of the deliverance of tl | ose who were under the law , ( and consequently under the curse and condemnation , ) from their former sins under that covenant .
makes use of the term redemption ^ for where law is transgressed , sin is imputed , which reu'Jers the redemption of them necessary ; whereas the Apostle Paul , treating" of the same subject in relation to the Gentiles who were not under the law , kut > as he
3 &ys , without la ' . v , does not speak of their past skis as redeemed , but as passed over , p ts aot reckoned , not imputed to them , " for sin is not imputed when there is no law . " In the former 'case , the sacred writers consider those \ vho were under the
law as . bondslaves and captives under a sentence of death , for the lawgendereth to bondage ; so the apostle speaking * of the freedom of the gospel in e / pposition to the bondage of the law , as allegorized in the persons of Sarfdfc and Agar says , " -Those arc
the Pwo covenants ; the one from Mount Sinaj , -which gendereth to bondLage , vuihich is Agar ; for this Agar is ^ Mount f&aai in Arabia , and answereth to Jerusalem which now is , and is in bondage * viilx . her ohildren * V From tbia captivity ami
slavery it . wm nece $ « ar ^ ftha |< » th « y wow " be redeemed ^ ^ id * 4 qr olfeis / 1 t ^ ery \> uxpoae wis Je » ua € hriat t tliej M <*^ of th ^ new coVenanit , JfopOii h * ***) & ** redeem the ; trantSjpreaaipiifttbat were under the first covenant . How then were they 4 io- ~ be redeemed from tm
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* 640 Jfcfev Marsoto 4 » tie ^ fipttcg pf ike I * e * th tf ? £% *! # .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Nov. 2, 1823, page 640, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1790/page/24/
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