This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1859 edition. Excerpt: ... "regeneration" upon the old, to the intent that the earthly and human in us may be brought to the nearest possible conformity to the Spiritual and Divine in Christ. The frame and condition of redeemed man, therefore, though relatively perfect as compared with the past, is yet but in embryo when viewed with respect to the more elevated future. All has still to assume the form and impress of a more glorious type, which eye hath not seen nor ear heard; of which the whole we can now say is--" We know not what we shall be, but we know that when He appears we shall be like Him, for we shall see Him as He is." APPENDIX B. THE OLD TESTAMENT IN THE NEW.--Page 83. I.--THE HISTORICAL AHD DIDACTIC PORTIONS. Besides numberless allusions of various kinds in the New Testament to the Old, there are somewhat more than two hundred and fifty express citations in the writings of the one from those of the other. These citations are of unequal length; they consist often of a single clause, but sometimes also extend to several verses. They are taken indiscriminately from the different parts of Old Testament Scripture; though, with very few exceptions, they belong to the five books of Moses, the Psalms, and the writings of the prophets. Not a few of these citations from the Old Testament are citations of the simplest kind; they appear merely as passages quoted in their plain sense from the previously existing canon of Scripture. Such, for example, are the passages out of the books of Moses, with which our Lord, after the simple notification, "It is written," thrice met the assaults of the tempter in the wilderness; and such also are those with which Stephen, in his historical speech before the Jewish council, sought, through appropriate references to the past, ...