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GENESIS .
God’s promise that on condition of our own faith and
continued obedience He will be merciful with respect to
our iniquities and will remember our sins against us no
more (Jer. 31:31-34, Heb. 8:lO-12). And let us remember
that when God forgives, He forgeis (Psa. 103:12,
Heb. 8:12).
9. Under the Old Covenant there was no distinct
assurance of blessedness beyond the grave. Old Testament
intimations of the future life are indefinite (cf. Job 14:13-
1 5 > 19:25-27; Psa. 23). But the Christian Scriptures speak
with positiveness about Judgment, blessedness, Life Everlasting,
immortality, etc. Jesus Himself spoke of the
future life in such unmistakable terms as to leave no room
for doubt, and the Apostles testify with no less finality
about these matters in their own writings. (John 11:25-
26, 10:18;, Acts 2:36, 17:31; Matt. 2j:31-46; Rom. 6:28,
8:ll; 2 Cor. 5:l-4, Phil. 3:20-21, 1 Cor. lj, etc.).
10. The Old Covenant was negative throughout, The
Ten Commandments have been called the “thou-shaltnots”
of God. The contrast between the thunderings of
Jehovah above Sinai announcing the prohibitions of the
Decalogue, and the gentle accents of the Son of Man proclaiming
the Beatitudes, in His “Sermon on the Mount,”
is an analogy of the distinction between the Covenants.
Na wonder, then, that the New Covenant is called “the
royal law” and “the perfect law, the law of liberty” (Jas.
2:8, 1;22).
‘ , . 11. The Decalpgue was the foundati
heart, so to, speak, of Law of Moses, Yet the Ten
Commandments were d to the Cross, along with the
xest of the Law. They were not abolished, but were
abroguted, i,e., set aside, then re-enacted, with but one
exception, in stament. We as Christians are
subject to thq, grovisions. of the Decalogue only to the
extent that is fundamental ethical principles, which are
necessarily permanent, have been re-enacted as a part of
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