19. From where do you know this?

From the Holy Gospel, which God Himself first revealed in Paradise, l) afterwards proclaimed by the holy patriarchs 2) and prophets, and foreshadowed by the sacrifices and other ceremonies of the law, 3) and finally fulfilled by His well-beloved Son. 4

1 ) And I will put enmity between thee and the woman and between thy seed and her seed; it shall bruise thy head, and thou shalt bruise his heel. Gen. 3:15.

2) And in thy seed shall all the nations of the earth be blessed; because thou hast obeyed my voice. Gen. 22:18.

The sceptre shall not depart from Judah, nor a lawgiver from between his feet, until Shiloh come, and unto him shall the gathering of the people be. Binding his foal unto the vine, and his ass's colt unto the choice vine, he washed his garments in wine, and his clothes in the blood of grapes. Gen. 49:10,11.

Which he had promised afore by his prophets in the holy scriptures. Rom. 1:2.

God, who in sundry times and in divers manners spake in time past unto the fathers by the prophets. Heb. 1:1.

For Moses truly said unto the fathers, A prophet shall the Lord your God raise up unto you of your brethren, like unto me; him shall ye hear in all things whatsoever he shall say unto you. And it shall come to pass that every soul which will not hear that prophet, shall be destroyed from among the people. Yea, and all the prophets from Samuel and those that follow after, as many as have spoken, have likewise foretold of these days. Acts 3:22-24.

To him give all the prophets witness, that through his name whosoever believeth in him shall receive remission of sins. Acts 10:43.

3) For had ye believed Moses, ye would have believed me: for he wrote of me. John 5:46.

Then said I, Lo, I come (in the volume of the book it is written of me,) to do thy will, O God. Heb. 10:7.

4) For Christ is the end of the law for righteousness to every one that believeth. Rom. 10:4.

But when the fullness of the time was come, God sent forth his Son, made of a woman, made under the law, to redeem them that were under the law, that we might receive the adoption of sons. Gal. 4:4,5.

* For the law having a shadow of good things to come, and not the very image of the things, can never with those sacrifices which they offered year by year continually make the comers thereunto perfect. Heb. 10:1.

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