A41521:64
A discourse of the true nature of the Gospel demonstrating that it is no…
A discourse of the true nature of the Gospel demonstrating that it is no new law, but a pure doctrine of grace : in answer to the Reverend Mr. Lorimer's Apology / by Tho. Goodwin ...
London: printed by J. Darby, 1695
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Eusebius, who lived above an hundred Years after him, having occasion to mention those Texts of the Old Testament, which speak of Christ as the Great Author of the Gospel; and particularly explaining that Text in Isa. 2. 3. speaks in these words,c What Law is that going out of Zion, and differing from that coming from the Desert promulgated by Moses in Mount ⟨p. 23⟩Sinai, but the Evangelical Word going forth out of Zion by the Ministry of our Saviour Jesus Christ and his Apostles, and passing through all Nations? For it is manifest, that from Jerusalem, and Mount Zion adjacent to that City, (where our Lord and Saviour delivered most of his Discourses and Doctrines) the Law of the new Covenant beginning its Progress, and going from thence to all Men, shined with the greatest brightness. Which very well agrees to the Doctrine of the Gospel, that so swiftly spread, and with such diffusive Beams, that in a few Years after Christ's Death, it illuminated the whole Earth.
Eusebius, who lived above an hundred Years after him, having occasion to mention those Texts of the Old Testament, which speak of Christ as the Great Author of the Gospel; and particularly explaining that Text in Isa. 2. 3. speaks in these words,c What Law is that going out of Zion, and differing from that coming from the Desart promulgated by Moses in Mount ⟨p. 23⟩Sinai, but the Evangelical Word going forth out of Zion by the Ministry of our Saviour Jesus Christ and his Apostles, and passing through all Nations? For it is manifest, that from Jerusalem, and Mount Sion adjacent to that City, (where our Lord and Saviour delivered most of his Discourses and Doctrines) the Law of the new Covenant beginning its Progress, and going from thence to all Men, shin'd with the greatest brightness. Which very well agrees to the Doctrine of the Gospel, that so swiftly spread, and with such diffusive Beams, that in a few Years after Christ's Death, it illuminated the whole Earth.