Covenant, The New

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is when divine grace takes Israel up in virtue of Messiah’s presence and work already accomplished, writing the law in the hearts of them all (both houses), giving them to know Jehovah, and remembering their sins no more. As the blood was shed on the cross which laid the basis for this, so the Lord acted in the spirit of it for the believing remnant in giving them His supper, and the apostle does refer to this in writing, not merely to the Hebrews (chap. 8-10.), but to the Corinthians (2 Cor. 3) never putting us now under its conditions, for these await the Jewish people by-and-bye, but showing that we anticipatively enjoy the blessing in spirit, though not in letter.