Institutes 2.10.3 — THE RESEMBLANCE BETWEEN THE OLD TESTAMENT AND THE NEW.

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**THE RESEMBLANCE BETWEEN THE OLD TESTAMENT AND THE NEW.**

As the first is most pertinent to the present subject, and is most controverted, we shall enter more fully into the consideration of it, taking care, at the same time, where any of the others requires explanations to supply it by the way, or afterwards add it in its proper place. The Apostle, indeed, removes all doubt when he says that the Gospel which God gave concerning his Son, Jesus Christ, “he had promised aforetime by his prophets in the holy Scriptures,” ( Rom. 1:2 ). And again, that “the righteousness of God without the law is manifested, being witnessed by the law and the prophets,” ( Rom. 3:21 ). For the Gospel does not confine the hearts of men to the enjoyment of the present life, but raises them to the hope of immortality; does not fix them down to earthly delights, but announcing that there is a treasure laid up in heaven, carries the heart thither also. For in another place he thus explains, “After that ye believed [the Gospel,] ye were sealed with that Holy Spirit of promise, which is the earnest of our inheritance unto the redemption of the purchased possession,” ( Eph. 1:13, 14 ). Again, “Since we heard of your faith in Christ Jesus, and of the love which ye have to all the saints, for the hope which is laid up for you in heaven, whereof ye heard before in the word of the truth of the Gospel,” ( Col. 1:4 ). Again, “Whereunto he called you by our Gospel to the obtaining of the glory of our Lord Jesus Christ,” ( 2 Thess. 2:14 ). Whence also it is called the word of salvation and the power of God, with salvation to every one that believes, and the kingdom of heaven. Acts 13:26 ; Rom. 1:16 ; 1 Cor. 1:18 ; Mt. 3:2 , 4 , 17 , &c., especially 13. “Novo populo.” French, “au peuple du Nouveau Testament”—the people of the New Dispensation;

Source

• source-manifest/institutes — Calvin, Institutes of the Christian Religion, tr. Beveridge 1845 (PD)
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