Old & New Testament

"We go to both the Old and the New Testament; for they support each other, and the New Testament would have but little force without the Old. 

1. The New-Testament Scriptures are largely made up of references to, and quotations from, the Old; 

2. The Old-Testament Scriptures testify of Christ, and without them it would be difficult to show that Christ was the Messiah; 

3. Christ commands us to search them (John 5:39), and says, "It is written, Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word that proceedeth out of the mouth of God" (Matt. 4:4); 

4. They are all the Scriptures that the apostles and the primitive church had for years; 

5. Those who searched them in apostolic times, were said to be more noble than those who did not (Acts 17:11); 

Surely, we cannot get along without the Old Scriptures, 

and if we believe in the New Testament, 

we shall not despise the Old."

D. T. Bourdeau