The wells of salvation opened, or, Words whereby we may be saved

In former ages this salvation was not made known ⟨p. 116⟩so clearly unto any, I mean in the ages before the coming of Christ: the Prophets themselves who prophesied of it, did not fully understand what the Spirit in them did signify, when it foretold of this grace which should come unto the Church in after ages, 1 Pet. 1.10, 11. And therefore the first preaching of the Gospel of salvation, is called a revelation of the mystery which had been kept secret since the world began unto that time, Rom. 16.25. And a manifestation of that mystery to the Saints which had been hid from ages and generations, Col. 1.25, 26, 27. The Gospel of salvation was indeed revealed in the dispensation of the Law upon Mount Sinai by Moses, but it was more obscurely; it was wrapped up in types and figures; and as there was a veil before Moses his face, so there was a veil before the truths of salvation, so that the children of Israel could not steadfastly look unto the end of those things which were after to be abolished, 2 Cor. 3.13. but this veil is done away in Christ, v. 14. When Christ suffered upon the Cross, the veil of the Temple, which kept the people off the Holy of Holies, was rent from the top to the bottom of it, and then the way into the Holy of Holies was made manifest, and Christ by his appearance abolished death, and brought life and immortality to light by the Gospel, 2 Tim. 1.10. Then darkness did pass away, and the true and marvellous light did shine upon the Church, 1 Joh. 2.8. And now with open face believers do behold as in a glass the glory of the Lord, 1 Cor. 3.18. The scope of which places is to show the obscurity of former revelations, and the clearness and evidence of the revelation of the Gospel in these latter days.