A fourth volume containing one hundred and fifty sermons on several texts of Scripture…

(2.) To the Jews this Grace began to dawn, but it was veiled in Figures and Shadows, that they could not see clearly. The Substance of their Doctrine was the same with ours, but there is a great deal of difference in the manner of Dispensation; they had the dark Text, and we the Exposition. There was Grace and Shadow by Moses, but Grace and Truth came by Jesus Christ, John 1.17. because here all the Types were revealed, and we have the Substance it self. Christ is the Light of the World. The Sun, the farther off it is from rising, the less Light it gives. Christ was not then risen, therefore there was but Twi-light and full of Shadows: Grace is opposed to the Condemnation of the Moral Law, and Truth to the Shadows of the Ceremonial Law. Christ's Offices, his Benefices, his Person, were but darkly propounded to them. Take but one place for all: Of all the Ministers of the Legal Dispensation, John Baptist saw the clearest; yet, saith Christ, the least of Gospel-Ministers knows more than he, Matth. 11.11. Verily I say unto you, among them that are born of Women, there hath not risen a greater than John the Baptist; notwithstanding, he that is least in the Kingdom of Heaven, is greater than he. John drawing nearer to Christ, had a clearer knowledge of the Meaning and Application of the Types than others had. But now, those that have lived after the pouring out of the Spirit upon Christ's Ascension, under the Gospel-Dispensation, have a clear insight into the Doctrine of Grace, far more clear than it was in the days of John.

(2.) To the Jews this Grace began to dawn, but it was veiled in Figures and Shadows, that they could not see clearly. The Substance of their Doctrine was the same with ours, but there is a great deal of difference in the manner of Dispensation; they had the dark Text, and we the Exposition. There was Grace and Shadow by Moses, but Grace and Truth came by Iesus Christ, John 1.17. because here all the Types were revealed, and we have the Substance it self. Christ is the Light of the World. The Sun, the farther off it is from rising, the less Light it gives. Christ was not then risen, therefore there was but Twi-light and full of Shadows: Grace is opposed to the Condemnation of the Moral Law, and Truth to the Shadows of the Ceremonial Law. Christ's Offices, his Benefices, his Person, were but darkly propounded to them. Take but one place for all: Of all the Ministers of the Legal Dispensation, Iohn Baptist saw the clearest; yet, saith Christ, the least of Gospel-Ministers knows more than he,