V. i 2 Cor. iii. 6. Who also hathi

made us able ministers of tlie new testament ; not of the letter, but o£ the spirit : for the letter killeth, but the spirit giveth life Ver. 7. But: if the ministration of death, written and engraven in stones, was glorious, so that the children of liiael could not steJfastly beho'.d xht face of Moses for the glory of his counte- nance, which glory was to be done away ; Ver. 8. How bhall not the ministration of the Spirit he rather glorious ? Ver. 9. For if the mijii- str.ttion of condtmnatiou be glur)', much more doth the ministration ot righteousness exceed in >;iory.
^ (Heb. Chujiters viii, ix, x.) Rom* iv. 11. Aiul he received the sign of circumcision, a seal of the righteous- ness of the faith which he had yet being uncircumciscd ; that h» n-.iglit be the father c.f all them that bt-l'tv;.*, though they be not circumciFedj
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sufficient and efficacious, through the operation of the Spirit, to instruct and build up the elect in faith in the promised Messiah \ by whom they had full remission of sins, and eternal salvation ; and is called the Old Testament "\