In the writings of Moses and the prophets, indeed, we meet with some glimmerings of it; some few rays of gospel-light were reflected back from the Sun of Righteousness, through the dark medium of 3 or 4000 years, and shone upon the minds of the Jews, in the sacrifioes, and other significant types of the law, and in the prophecies of the Old Testament writers; and hence the apostle says, that the r