Answer. The Answer is easy, 1. It's granted, that the Mosaic Ministration is so called, and that because it had it's Original from God, who descending upon Mount Sinai, by the Ministry of Angels, gave forth the Law, with the Statutes, Judgments, and Ordinances. 2. It's also granted, that the Whole of that Ministration hath expired for above this One Thousand Six Hundred Years. But 3. There were frequent intimations in the Scripture, that it should so expire, Deut. 18.15. 18. Psal. 40.6. Isa. 65.17. Hag. 2.6, 21. (These present Heavens, or Judaic Church-state, with all the Institutions, Ordinances thereto appertaining will I shake, so as to remove, totally abolish.) Mat. 24.2. (The Temple to which the Judaic Solemn-Worship was affixed, shall be utterly destroyed; so the whole of that service thereto appertaining, cease.) Let but one the like instance of the purpose of God, for the determination of the New-Testament-Ministration before the next glorious personal Appearance of Christ, be produced, and there's an end of this Controversy. 4. They were not the Powers of the world, nor the declensions, apostasies of the Subjects of that Ministration, that put a Period to it; but the Act of God himself, the Sovereign thereof. 5. Whatever the corruptions of the Church-state were (as they were very great) 'tis the commendation of the Lords poor people that they continued in it, as Zechariah, Elizabeth, &c. because in so doing, they testify their subjection to the Lord, who Instituted it. 6. Nor was it actually removed, but by the introduction of a new, more spiritual, sublime Ministration, set on foot by Jesus, the Son of God, fore-prophesied of, as the great Prophet of ⟨p. 6⟩the Church, who was to period that Ministration, and set up another; to whom we are charged to attend in all things.
Answer. The Answer is easie, 1. It's granted, that the Mosaic Ministration is so call'd, and that because it had it's Original from God, who descending upon Mount Sinai, by the Ministry of Angels, gave forth the Law, with the Statutes, Judgments, and Ordinances. 2. It's also granted, that the Whole of that Ministration hath expired for above this One Thousand Six Hundred Years. But 3. There were frequent intimations in the Scripture, that it should so expire, Deut. 18.15. 18. Psal. 40.6. Isa. 65.17. Hag. 2.6, 21. (These present Heavens, or Judaic Church-state, with all the Institutions, Ordinances thereto appertaining will I shake, so as to remove, totally abolish.) Mat. 24.2. (The Temple to which the Judaic Solemn-Worship was affix'd, shall be utterly destroyed; so the whole of that service thereto appertaining, cease.) Let but one the like instance of the purpose of God, for the determination of the New-Testament-Ministration before the next glorious personal Appearance of Christ, be produced, and there's an end of this Controversy. 4. They were not the Powers of the world, nor the declensions, apostacies of the Subjects of that Ministration, that put a Period to it; but the Act of God himself, the Soveraign thereof. 5. Whatever the corruptions of the Church-state were (as they were very great) 'tis the commendation of the Lords poor people that they continued in it, as Zachary, Elizabeth, &c. because in so doing, they testify their subjection to the Lord, who Instituted it. 6. Nor was it actually removed, but by the introduction of a new, more spiritual, sublime Ministration, set on foot by Jesus, the Son of God, fore-prophesied of, as the great Prophet of ⟨p. 6⟩the Church, who was to period that Ministration, and set up another; to whom we are charged to attend in all things.
