a shadow of good things to come, and not the very image of the things, can never with those sacrifices which they offered year by year continually, make the comers thereunto perfect. Then said he, Lo, I come to do thy will, O God. He taketh away the first, that he may establish the second. Matt. xi. 13. For all the prophets and the law prophesied until John. Gal. iii. 13. Christ hath redeemed us from the curse of the law, being made a curse for us: for it is written, Cursed is every one that hangeth on a tree. Rom. x. 4. For Christ is the end of the law for righteousness to every one that believeth. John v. 45. Do not think that I will accuse you to the Father: there is one that accuseth you, even Moses, in whom ye trust. Gal. iv. 1, 2, 3, 4, 5. Now I say, that the heir, differeth nothing from a servant, though he be lord of all; but is under tutors and governors until the time appointed of the Father. Even so we, when we were children, were in bondage under the elements of the world: but when the fulness of the time was come, God sent forth his Son, made of a woman, made under the law, to redeem them that were under the law, that we might receive the adoption of sons. Rom. viii. 3, 4. For the law of the spirit of life in Christ Jesus hath made me free from the law of sin and death. That the righteousness of the law might be fulfilled in us, who walk not after the flesh but after the spirit. Rom. vii. 12, 13. 24, 25. Wherefore the law is holy, and the commandment holy, and just, and good. Was then that which is good made death unto me? God forbid. But sin, that it might appear sin, working death in me by that which is good; that sin by the commandment might become exceeding sinful. O wretched man that I am? Who shall deliver me from the body of this death? I thank God through Jesus Christ our Lord. So then with the mind I myself serve the law of God; but with the flesh the law of sin. Phil. iv. 13. I can do all things through Christ which strengtheneth me. Ephes. iii. 16. That he would grant you, according to the riches of his glory, to be strengthened with might by his

spirit in the inner man. 1 Pet. iv. 6. For for this cause was the Gospel preached also to them that are dead, that they might be judged according to men in the flesh, but live according to God in the spirit.

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Acts ii. 39, 40, 41. For the promise is unto you, and to your children, and to all that are afar off, even as many as the Lord our God shall call. And with many other words did he testify and exhort, saying, Save yourselves from this untoward generation. Then they that gladly received the word were baptized: and the same day there were added unto them about three thousand souls. John ii. 11. 23. This beginning of miracles did Jesus in Cana of Galilee, and manifested forth his glory; and his disciples believed on him. Now when he was in Jerusalem at the passover, in the feast day, many believed in his name, when they saw the miracles which he did. John xi. 45. Then many of the Jews which came to Mary, and had seen the things which Jesus did, believed on him. John iv. 39. And many of the Samaritans of that city believed on him for the saying of the woman, which testified, He told me all things that ever I did. John xii. 42. Nevertheless among the chief rulers also many believed on him; but because of the Pharisees they did not confess him, lest they should be put out of the synagogue. Acts ii. 47. Praising God, and having favour with all the people. And the Lord added to the Church daily such as should be saved. Acts vi. 7. And the word of God increased; and the number of the disciples multiplied in Jerusalem greatly; and a great company of the priests were obedient to the faith. Acts xxi. 20. And when they heard it, they glorified the Lord, and said unto him, Thou seest, brother, how many thousands of the Jews there are which believe; and they are all zealous of the law. Luke viii. 3. And Joanna the wife of Chuza Herod's steward, and Susannah, and many

others, which ministered unto him of their substance. John xi. 47, 48. Then gathered the chief priests and the Pharisees a council, and said, What do we? for this man doeth many miracles. If we let him thus alone, all men will believe on him: and the Romans shall come and take away both our place and nation. Acts v. 9. 13, 14. And great fear came upon all the Church, and upon as many as beard these things. And of the rest durst no man join himself to them: but the people magnified them. And believers were the more added to the Lord, multitudes both of men and women. Acts vii. 59. And they stoned Stephen calling upon God, and saying, Lord Jesus, receive my spirit. Acts viii. 1. And Saul was consenting unto his death. And at that time there was a great persecution against the Church which was at Jerusalem; and they were all scattered abroad throughout the regions of Judea and Samaria, except the Apostles. Isai. ii. 6. Therefore thou hast forsaken thy people the house of Jacob, because they be replenished from the East, and are soothsayers like the Philistines, and they please themselves in the children of strangers. Dan. ix. 24, 25, 26. Seventy weeks are determined upon thy people and upon thy holy city, to finish the transgression, and to make an end of sin, and to make reconciliation for iniquity, and to bring in everlasting righteousness, and to seal up the vision and prophecy, and to anoint the most holy. Know therefore and understand, that from the going forth of the commandment to restore and to build Jerusalem unto the Messiah the Prince shall be seven weeks, and threescore and two weeks; the street shall be built again, and the wall, even in troublous times. And after threescore and two weeks shall Messiah be cut off, but not for himself: and the people of the prince that shall come shall destroy the city and the sanctuary; and the end thereof shall be with a food, and unto the end of war desolations are determined. Matt. xxiv. 6. And ye shall hear of wars, and rumours of wars: see that ye be not troubled: for all these things

must come to pass, but the end is not yet. Isai. viii. 14, 15. And he shall be for a sanctuary; but for a stone of stumbling and for a rock of offence to both the houses of Israel, for a gin and for a snare to the inhabitants of Jerusalem. And many among them shall stumble, and fall, and be broken, and be snared, and be taken. Acts iii. 23. And it shall come to pass, that every soul, which will not hear that prophet, shall be destroyed from among the people. Hos. iii. 4, 5. For the children of Israel shall abide many days without a king, and without a prince, and without a sacrifice, and without an image, and without an ephod, and without teraphim: afterward shall the children of Israel return, and seek the Lord their God, and David their king; and shall fear the Lord and his goodness in the latter days.

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2 Cor. iii. 14. But their minds were blinded: for until this day remaineth the same vail untaken away in the reading of the Old Testament; which vail is done away in Christ. Gen. iii. 15. And I will put enmity between thee and the woman, and between thy seed and her seed; it shall bruise thy head, and thou shall bruise his heel. Jer. xvi. 19. O Lord, my strength, and my fortress, and my refuge in the day of affliction, the Gentiles shall come unto thee from the ends of the earth, and shall say, Surely our fathers have inherited lies, vanity, and things wherein there is no profit. Ephes. iii. 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6. For this cause I Paul, the prisoner of Jesus Christ for you Gentiles, (If ye have heard of the dispensation of the grace of God which is given me to you-ward:) how that by revelation he made known unto me the mystery; (as I wrote afore in few words, whereby when ye read ye may understand my knowledge in the mystery of Christ) which in other ages was not made known unto the sons of men, as it is now revealed unto the holy apostles and prophets by the Spirit; that the

Gentiles should be fellow-keirs, and of the same body, and partakers of his promise in Christ by the Gospel. Ephes. ii. 3-20. Among whom also we all had our conversation in times past in the lusts of our flesh, fulfilling the desires of the flesh and of the mind; and were by nature the children of wrath, even as others. But God, who is rich in mercy, for his great love wherewith he hath loved us, even when we were dead in sins, hath quickened us together with Christ, (by grace ye are saved;) and hath raised us up together, and made us sit together in heavenly places in Christ Jesus: that in the ages to come he might shew the exceeding riches of his grace in his kindness toward us through Christ Jesus. For by grace are ye saved through faith; and that not of yourselves; it is the gift of God: not of works, lest any man should boast. For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus unto good works, which God hath before ordained that we should walk in them. Wherefore remember, that ye being in time past Gentiles in the flesh who are called uncircumcision by that which is called the circumcision in the flesh made by hands; that at that time ye were without Christ, being aliens from the commonwealth of Israel, and strangers from the covenants of promise, having no hope, and without God in the world: But now in Christ Jesus ye who sometimes were far off are made nigh by the blood of Christ. For he is our peace, who hath mude both one, and hath broken down the middle wall of partition between us; having abolished in his flesh the enmity, even the law of commandments contained in ordinances; for to make in himself of twain one new man, so making peace; and that he might reconcile both unto God in one body by the cross, having slain the enmity thereby and came and preached peace to you which were afar off, and to them that were nigh. For through him we both have access by one spirit unto the Father. Now therefore ye are no more strangers and foreigners, but fellow-citizens with the saints, and of the household of God; and are built upon the foundation of