Discourses upon the Existence and Attributes of God

^*He often told them he would make a new Covenant by the Messiah, and the old should be rejected; that the former things should not be remembered, and the things of old no more considered, when he should do a new thing in the Earth^*: Even the Ark of the Covenant, the Symbol of his presence, and the glory of the Lord in that Nation should not any more be remembered and visited^*; That the Temple and Sacrifices should be rejected, and others established; That the Order of the Aaronical Priest-hood should be abolished, and that of Melchizedek set up in the stead of it in the Person of the Messiah to endure for ever^*: That Jerusalem should be changed; a new Heaven and Earth created; a Worship more conformable to Heaven, more advantageous to Earth. God had proceeded in the removal of some parts of it, before the time of taking down the whole furniture of this house: The Pot of Manna was lost; Urim and Thummim ceased; the glory of the Temple was diminished; and the ignorant people wept at the sight of the one, without raising their Faith and Hope in the consideration of the other, which was promised to be filled with a spiritual glory. And as soon as ever the Gospel was spread in the World, God thundered out his judgments upon that place in which he had fixed all those legal Observances, so that the Jews in the Letter and Flesh, could never practise the main part of their worship, since they were expelled from that place where it was only to be celebrated. 'Tis one thousand six hundred years since they have been deprived of their Altar, which was the foundation of all the Levitical-worship, and have wandered in the world without a Sacrifice, a Prince or Priest, an Ephod or Teraphim.^*

^*He often told them he would make a new Covenant by the Messiah, and the old should be rejected; that the former things should not be remembred, and the things of old no more considered, when he should do a new thing in the Earth^*