Bible Truths Illustrated by J. C. Ferdinand Pittman

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BIBLE TRUTHS ILLUSTRATED
own blood; it is not confined to one nation, but is extended to
"all nations" and "every creature." It secures to all who
embrace it and yield to its terms the forgiveness of all sin and
peace with God. It confers upon all its subjects the noble status
of "sons and daughters of the Lord God Almighty." And,
lastly, it secures to us the life to come, "which is incorruptible,
undefiled and that fadeth not away."
These two covenants are not divided by the books called the
Old and New Testaments. The death of Christ on the cross
marked the passing of the "old covenant" and the introduction
of the new.
234. Two institutions are constantly brought to our view in
God's word : the old and new covenants. The old was by Moses,
and the new is by Jesus; hence, Moses represents the one and
Jesus the other. The law sometimes stands for the one and the
gospel for the other; the letter, in some cases, stands for the
one and the spirit for the other; the old covenant, in some cases,
stands for the one and the new covenant for the other ; the
Old Testament, in some instances, stands for the one and the
New Testament for the other. No matter which of these representative
terms is used, on either side, the same thing is meant.
One is the old dispensation and the other the new ; the old
institution and the new—the former by Moses and the latter by
Jesus. It then becomes a matter of transcendent importance to
determine distinctly, all the time, what belongs to the old institution
and what to the new; what belongs to the better covenant
and what belongs to the inferior—to determine where the one
terminates and the other begins. . . . Paul says (Eph. 2: 14-16) :
"For he is our peace, who hath made both one, and hath broken
down the middle wall of partition between us; having abolished
in his flesh the enmity, even the law of commandments contained
in ordinances ; for to make in himself of twain one new man, so
making peace : and that he might reconcile both unto God in one
body by the cross, having slain the enmity thereby." Benj.
Franklin.
235. "The patriarchal dispensation was the starlight, the
Jewish dispensation was the moonlight, and the Christian dispensation
was the full sunlight. The patriarchs had the bud,
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