OT saints had the substance of truth in them which we similarly possess in the NT, and not figures only: “And therefore it is horrible blasphemy against God to say that God held the people of old time like swine in a sty and that they had no more but a certain figure of the spiritual good things which are given us presently in these days, as that wretched coward said which was punished here, who turned all things upside down, and was so bold as to belch out this heresy that the Old Testament was nothing else but a figure, insomuch that even Abraham the father of all the faithful had only a fantastical faith and did not know God rightly. And for proof of it, quotes he, he worshipped Angels instead of God, and had no knowledge of the everlasting life. See what cursed stuff was here for we know, says St. Paul, that the fathers of old time were the children of God and heirs of the Kingdom of Heaven as well as we. (Galatians 4:1 ) There is only this difference, that they were like young children, but yet for all that they did not fail to possess the benefit, however that they were still under tutors and governors, according to the similitude that St. Paul alleges there. The ancient fathers had the Law and the ceremonies and such other like things, but yet they did not lack the substance and truth also.”~ Calvin reformationsocietyphilippines.org/2014/12/14/john-calvins-sermon-on-deut-11-8-15/
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