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Summary THE New Testament suited to present conditions - The Old Testament and the New - The Church of Christ and the churches of God The Book of the Acts provides a pattern for present use - Plan of this account of later events - Pentecost and the formation of churches - Synagogues - Synagogues and churches - Jewish Diaspora spreads the knowledge of God - The earliest churches formed of Jews Jews reject Christ - Jewish religion, Greek philosophy and Roman power oppose the churches Close of the Holy Scriptures - Later writings - Clement to the Corinthians - Ignatius - Last links with New Testament times - Baptism and the Lord's Supper - Growth of a clerical caste - Origen - Cyprian - Novatian - Different kinds of churches - Montanists - Marcionites - Persistence of Primitive Churches - Cathars - Novatians - Donatists - Manichaeans - Epistle to Diognetus - The Roman Empire persecutes the Church - Constantine gives religious liberty - The Church overcomes the world.
THE NEW TESTAMENT is the worthy completion of tho Old. It is the only proper end to which the Law and the Prophets could have led. It does not do away with them but enriches, in fulfilling and replacing them. It has in itself the character of completeness, presenting, not the rudimentary beginning of a new era which requires Constant modification and addition to meet the needs of changing times, but a revelation suited to all men in all times - Jesus Christ cannot be made known to us better than He is in the four Gospels, nor can the consequences or doctrines, which flow from the facts of His death and resurrection be more truly taught than they are in the Epistles.
The Old Testament records the formation and history of Israel, the people through whom God revealed Himself in the world until Christ should come. The New Testament reveals the Church of Christ, consisting of all who are born again through faith in the Son of God and so made partakers of the Divine and Eternal Life (John 3. 16).
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