sufficient : we should dedicate to him all that we possess in mind, or body, or estate. We are not indeed called to dispose of all our goods in charity, but to ascribe to his bounty every thing we possess, and " whether we eat or drink, or whatever we do, to do it all to his glory." Have we overtaken as Abraham did, and destroyed, our spiritual enemies? Let us acknowledge that " his was the power, and the glory, and the victory." Let us see him in all things, and glorify him for all things ; and " present to him both our bodies and our souls a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable to God, which is our reason- able service'."]
1 Rom. xii. 1.
THE SUPERIORITY OF THE CHRISTIAN ABOVE THE MOSAIC DISPENSATION.
Heb. vii. 19. TJie law made nothing perfect, hut the bringing in of a better hope did ; by the which we draw nigh unto God.
THAT the Jewish religion is superseded by the Christian, is well known : but, why it is superseded, and what relation the two have to each other, is not so generally considered.
The true light in which the law is to be consi- dered, is this ; it was " a shadow of the things which were to be more fully revealed by the Gospel," or a scaffolding erected for a season for the purpose of constructing the edifice of Christianity, and to be removed of course as of no further use, when that building should be complete. It is in this view that the Apostle speaks of it in the passage before us. He has shewn that, while the law was yet in the summit of its glory, David foretold, that a priesthood, of an order totally different from that established by Moses, should be introduced ; and that consequently all the rites and ceremonies connected with the Levi- tical priesthood should be done away. The reason that he assigns for this is, that the legal economy was " weak and unprofitable." Not that it was so i?i thai particiila?' view i7i which it zms designed of God ; but that it was so as far as related to those ends which the