Deliverance By Christ only

None of the Israelites under the Old Testament were ever saved by the Sinai covenant;
neither did any of them ever attain to holiness by the terms of it. Some of them did indeed perform the commandments of it sincerely, though imperfectly: but those were
first justified, and made partakers of life and holiness, by virtue of that better
covenant made with Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, which was the same in substance with
the new covenant or testament established by the blood of Christ. Had it not been for that better covenant, the Sinai covenant would have proved to them an occasion of no
happiness, but only of sin, despair, and destruction: and therefore it is now
abolished, 2 Cor. 3:6,8.9,11. We have cause to praise God, for delivering His
church, by the blood of Christ, from this yoke of bondage; and we have cause to
abhor the device of those that would lay upon us a more grievous and terrible yoke,
by turning our very new covenant into a covenant of sincere works, and leaving us no
such better covenant, as the Israelites had under their yoke, to relieve us in our
extremity.
Excerpted from The Gospel Mystery of Sanctification, Walter Marshall, author.

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