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CHAPTER XI.
OF THE OLD TESTAMENT.
"The Old Testament is not contrary to the New; for both in the Old and New Testament everlasting life is offered to mankind by Christ, Who is the only Mediator between God and Man, being both God and Man. "Wherefore they are not to be heard, which feign that the old Fathers did look only for transitory promises. Although the Law given from God by Moses, as touching Ceremonies and Rites, do not bind Christian men, nor the civil precepts thereof ought of necessity to be received in any commonwealth; yet notwithstanding, no Christian man whatsoever is free from the obedience of the commandments which are called Moral."—Article VII.
§ 1. On the two pieces of silver given by the Samaritan in behalf of the man who was plundered between Jerusalem and Jericho, the author of the Warda writes: "One denarius is the Old Testament, and the other the New Testament, and when He Cometh in His glory, He will reward all those who have profited thereby." From the Warda, on "the man who went down from Jerusalem to Jericho."
§ 2. "… In order that it might be known, that Prophets and Apostles,—the two Testaments, New and Old,—all teach one truth, and that one Spirit from the one God whom they worshipped, and whom they preached, spake in and through them all." From the twenty-seventh of the Apostolical Canons contained in the Sinhadòs. For the connection in which this extract is found see under Article XXXIV.
§ 3. "Thou didst receive the inhabitants of Nineveh when they knocked at Thy door with fasting and prayer, with contrition and true penitence, and Thou didst turn away Thine anger from them, and didst not destroy them. Thou didst rescue their life from the jaws of death, and in pity and in mercy didst
