give unto all thofe that are ordained unto life, his holy spirit, to make them willing and able to believe g. IV. This covenant of grace is frequently fet forth in the fcripture by the name of a teftament, in reference to the death of Jefus Chrift the teftator, and to the everlasting inheritance with all things belonging to it, therein bequeathed h. V. This covenant was differently adminiftred in the time of the law, and in the time of the gofpel i: under the law it was adminiftred by promifes, prophecies, facrifices, circumcifion, the Pafchal Lamb, and other types and ordinances delivered to the people of the Jews, all fore-fignifying Chrift to come k, which were for that time fufficient and efficacious, through the opera if thou shalt confefs with thy mouth the Lord Jefus, and fhalt believe in thine heart, that God hath raised him from the dead, thou fhalt be faved. Gal. iii. 11. But that no man is juftified by the law in the fight of God, it is evident: for, The juft fhall live by faith. g Ezek. xxxvi. 26. A new heart alfo will I give you, and a new fpirit will I put within you, and I will take away the ftony heart out of your flesh, and I will give you an heart of flesh. v. 27. And I will put my fpitit within you, and cause you to walk in my ftatutes, and ye fhall keep my judg ments, and do them. John vi. 44. No man can come to me, except the Father which hath fent me, draw him: and I will raise him up at the last day. v. 45. It is written in the prophets, And they fhall be all taught of God. Every man therfore that hath heard, and hath learned of the Father, cometh unto me. tion muft alfo of neceffity be the death of the teftator. v. 13. For a teftament is of force after men are dead: other, wife it is of no ftrength at all whilst the teftator liveth. Heb. vii. 22. By fo much was Jefus made a furety of a better teftament. Luke xxii. 20. Likewife alfo the cup after fupper, faying, This cup is the new teftament in my blood, which is fhed for you. 1 Cor. xi. 25. After the fame manner alfo he took the cup, when he had fupped, faying, This cup is the new teftament in my blood; this do ye, as oft as ye drink it, in remembrance of me. V. i 2 Cor. iii. 6. Who alfo hath made us able minifters of the new tef tament; not of the letter, but of the fpirit: for the letter killeth; but the fpirit giveth life. v. 7. But if the miniftration of death written and engraven in ftones was glorious, fo that the children of Ifrael could not ftedfaftly i behold the face of Mofes, for the glory of his countenance, which glory IV. Heb. ix. 15. And for this was to be done away; v. 8. How fhall cause he is the Mediator of the new not the miniftration of the Spirit be rateftament, that by means of death further glorious? v. 9. For if the minithe redemption of the tranfgreffions that were under the firft teftament, they which are called might receive the promise of eternal inheritance. v. 16. For where a teftament is, there ftration of condemnation be glory, much more doth the miniftration of righteoufnefs exceed in glory. k (Heb. viii, ix, x. chapters.) Rom. iv. 11. And he received the fign of cir cumcifion, tion of the Spirit, to inftruct and build up the elect in faith in the promised Meffiah 7, by whom they had full remiffion of fins, and eternal falvation; and is called the Old Teftament m. VI. Under the gofpel, when Chrift the fubftance n was exhibited, the ordinances in which this covenant is difpenfed are the preaching of the word, and the adminiftration of the facraments of baptifm and the Lord's fupper o, which though fewer in number, and adminiftred with more fimplicity, and lefs out cumcifion, a feal of the righteoufness of the faith, which he had yet being uncircumcifed; that he might be the father of all them that believe, though they be not circumcifed; that righteoufnefs might be imputed unto them alfo. Col. ii. II. In whom alfo ye are circumcifed with the circumcifion made without hands, in putting off the body of the fins of the flesh, by the circumcifion of Chrift: v. 12. Buried with him in baptifm, wherein alfo ye are rifen with him, through the faith of the operation of God, who hath raifed him from the dead. I Cor. v. 7. Purge out therefore the old leaven, that ye may be a new lump, as ye are unleavened. For even Chrift our paffover is facrificed for us. / 1 Cor. x. 1. Moreover, brethren, I would not that ye fhould be ignorant, how that all our fathers were under the cloud, and all paffed through the fea; v. 2. And were all baptized unto Mofes in the cloud, and in the fea; v. 3. And did all eat the fame fpiritual meat; v. 4. And did all drink the fame fpiritual drink: (for they drank of that fpiritual rock that followed them: and that rock was Chrift.) Heb. xi. 13. Thefe all died in faith, not having received the promifes, but having feen them afar off, and were perfuaded of them, and embraced them, and confeffed that they were ftrangers and pilgrims on the earth. John viii. 56. Your father Abraham rejoiced to fee my day: and he faw it, and was glad. ward m Gal. iii. 7. Know ye therefore, that they which are of faith, the fame are the children of Abraham. v. 8. And the fcripture forefeeing, that God would juftify the heathen through faith, preached before the gofpel unto Abraham, faying, In thee fhall all nations be bleffed. v. 9. So then, they which be of faith are bleffed with faithful Abraham. v. .4. That the bleffing of Abraham might come on the Gentiles through Jefus Chrift; that we might receive the promife of the Spirit through faith. VI. n Col. ii. 17. Which are a fhadow of things to come; but the body is of Chrift. o Mat. xxviii. 19. Go ye therefore, and teach all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the holy Ghoft: v. 20. Teaching them to obferve all things whatfoever I have commanded you: and lo, I am with you, alway, even unto the end of the world. Amen. I Cor. xi. 23. For I have received of the Lord, that which alfo I delivered unto you, that the Lord Jefus, the fame night in which he was betrayed, took bread: v. 24. And when he had given thanks, he brake it, and faid, Take, eat; this is my body, which is broken for you: this do in remembrance of me. v. 25. After the fame manner alfo he took the cup, when he had fupped, faying, this cup is the new teftament in my blood: this do ye, as oft as ye drink it, in remembrance of me. D 3 Heb, Chap. VII. ward glory; yet, in them it is held forth in more fulness, evidence and fpiritual efficacy p, to all nations, both Jews and Gentiles q; and is called the New Teftament r. There are not therefore two covenants of grace differing in fubftance, but one and the fame under various difpenfations f CHAP. pHeb. xii. 22. But ye are come unto mount Sion, and unto the city of the living God, the heavenly Jerufalem, and to an innumerable company of angels. v. 23. To the general af fembly and church of the first born, which are written in heaven, and to God the judge of all, and to the fpirits of juft men made perfect, v. 24. And to Jefus the Mediator of the new covenant, and to the blood of fprinkling, that fpeaketh better things than that of Abel. v. 25. See that ye refufe not him that fpeaketh: for if they efcaped not who refufed him that spake on earth, much more fhall not we efcape, if we turn away from him that fpeaketh from heaven. v. 26. Whofe voice then hook the earth: but now he hath promifed, faying, Yet once more I shake not the earth only, but alfo heaven. v. 27. And this word, Yet once more, fignifieth the removing of thofe things that are fhaken, as of things that are made, that thofe things which cannot be fhaken may remain. Jer. xxxi. 33. But this fhall be the covenant that I will make with the houfe of Ifrael, after thofe days, faith the Lord, I will put my law in their inward parts, and write it in their hearts, and will be their God, and they fhall be my people. v. 34. And they fhall teach no more every man his neighbour, and every man his brother, faying, Know the Lord; for they fhall all know me, from the leaft of them, unto the greatest of them, faith the Lord: for I will forgive their iniquity, and I will remember their fin no more. · q Mat. xxviii. 19. (See letter o immediately foregoing.) Eph. ii, 15. Hav.. ing abolifhed in his flesh the enmity, even the law of commandments, contained in ordinanees, for to make in himfelf of twain, one new man, fo making peace; v. 16. And that he might reconcile both unto God in one body by the crofs, having flain the enmity thereby; v. 17. And came, and preached peace to you which were afar off, and to them that were nigh. v. 18. For through him we both have an accefs by one Spirit unto the Father. v. 19. Now therefore ye are no more ftrangers and foreigners, but fellowcitizens with the faints, and of the houfhold of God. r Luke xxii. 20. Likewife alfo the cup after fupper, faying, This cup is the new teftament in my blood, which is fhed for you. but as Gal. iii. 14. That the bleffing of Abraham might come on the Gentiles through Jefus Chrift, that we might receive the promife of the Spirit thro' faith. v. 16. Now to Abram and his feed were the promifes made. He faith not, And to feeds, as of many; of one, And to thy feed, which is Chrift. Acts xv. 11. But we believe, that through the grace of the Lord Je fus Chrift, we fhall be faved, even as they. Rom. iii. 21. But now the righ teoufnefs of God without the law is manifefted, being witneffed by the law and the prophets. v. 22. Even the righteoufnefs of God which is by faith of Jefus Chrift unto all, and upon all them that believe; for there is no difference: v. 13. For all have finned, and come short of the glory of God; v. 30. Seeing it is one God, which fhall justify CHAP. VIII. Of Chrift the Mediator. IT T pleafed God, in his eternal purpose, to choofe and ordain the LORD JESUS, his only begotten Son, to be the Mediator between God and man a; the prophet b, prieft c, and king d; the head and Saviour of his church e; the heir of all things f, and judge of the world g: unto whom he did from all juftify the circumcifion by faith, and uncircumcifion through faith. Pfalm xxxii. 1. Bleffed is he whofe tranfgreffion is forgiven, whofe fin is covered. With Rom. iv. 3. For what faith the fcripture? Abraham believed God, and it was counted unto him for righteouf nefs. v. 6. Even as David alfo defcribeth the bleffednefs of the man unto whom God imputeth righteoufness without works. v. 16. Therefore it is of faith, that it might be by grace, to the end the promise might be fure to all the feed, not to that only which is of the law, but to that alfo which is of the faith of Abraham, who is the father of us all. v. 17. (As it is written, I have made thee a father of many nations) before him whom he believed, even God, who quickneth the dead, and calleth thofe things which be not, as though they were. v. 23. Now it was not written for his fake alone, that it was imputed to him; v. 24. But for ús alfo to whom it fhall be imputed, if we believe on him that raifed up Jefus our Lord from the dead. Heb. xiii. 8. Jefus Chrift the fame yesterday, and to-day, and for ever. I. a Ifa. xlii. 1. Behold my fervant whom I uphold, mine elect, in whom my foul delighteth: I have put my fpirit upon him, he fhall bring forth judgment to the Gentiles. 1 Pet. i. 19. But with the precious blood of Chrift, as of a lamb without blemish and without fpot: v. 20. Who verily was foreordained before the foundation of the eternity world, but was manifeft in these last times for you. John iii. 16. For God fo loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whofoever be lieveth in him, fhould not perish, but have everlafting life? 1 Tim. ii. 5. For there is one God, and one Mediator between God and man, the man Chrift Jefus. b Acts iii. 22. For Mofes truly faid unto the fathers, A prophet fhall the Lord your God raife up unto you, of your brethren, like unto me; him shall ye hear in all things whatsoever he fhall fay unto you, c. Heb. v. 5. So alfo Chrift glorified not himself, to be made an high priest: but he that faid unto him, Thou art my Son, to day have I begotten thee. v. 6. As he faith alfo in another place, Thou art a priest for ever after the order of Melchifedec. d Pfal. ii. 6. Yet have I fet my King upon my holy hill of Zion. Luke i. 33. And he fhall reign over the house of Jacob for ever, and of his kingdom there fhall be no end. e Eph. v. 23. For the hufband is the head of the wife, even as Chrift is the head of the church: and he is the Saviour of the body. fHeb. i. 2. Hath in thefe laft days fpoken unto us by his Son, whom he hath appointed heir of all things, by whom alfo he made the worlds. g Acts xvii. 2r. Becaufe he hath appointed a day in the which he will judge the world in righteoufnefs, by D 4 that 1 eterniy give a people to be his feed h, and to be by him in time redeemed, called, juftified, fanctified and glorified i. II. The Son of God the fecond perfon in the Trinity, being very and eternal God, of one fubftance and equal' with the Father, did, when the fulness of time was come, take upon him man's nature k, with all the effential properties and common infirmities thereof, yet without fin : being conceived by the power of the holy Ghoft, in the womb of the Virgin Mary, of her fubftance m. So that two whole, perfect and distinct natures, the that man whom he hath ordained, whereof he hath given affurance unto all men, in that he hath raifed him from the dead. b John xvii. 6. I have manifefted thy name unto the men which thou gavest 'me out of the world: thine they were, and thou gavest them me; and they have kept thy word. Pfal. xxii. 30, A feed fhall ferye him, it fhall be accounted to the Lord for a generation. Ifa. liii. 10. Yet it pleafed the Lord to bruise him, he hath put him to grief: when thou shalt make his foul an offering for fin, he fhall fee his feed, he fhall prolong his days, and the pleafure of the Lord fhall profper in his hand. i 1 Tim. ii. 6. Who gave himfelf a ranfom for all, to be teftified in due time. Ifa. Iv. 4. Behold, I have given him for a witnefs to the people, a leader and commander to the people. v. 5. Behold, thou fhalt call a nation that thou knoweft not, and nations that knew not thee fhall run unto thee, becaufe of the Lord thy God, and for the holy One of Ifrael; for he hath glorified thee. I Cor. i. 30. But of him are ye in Chrift Jefus, who of God is made unto us wifdom, and righteoufnefs, and fanctification, and redemp tion. II. k John i. 1. In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. v. 14. And the Word was made flesh, and dwelt among us, (and we beheld his true, even in his Son Jefus Chrift. This is the true God, and eterternal life. Phil. ii. 6. Who being in the form of God, thought it not robbery to be equal with God. Gal. iv. 4. But when the fulness of the time was come, God fent forth his Son made of a woman, made under the law. / Heb. ii. 14. Forafmuch then as the children are partakers of flesh and blood, he alfo himself likewife took part of the fame, that through death he might deftroy him that had the power of death, that is, the devil. v. 16. For verily he took not on him the nature of angels; but he took on him the feed of Abraham. v. 17. Wherefore in all things it behoved him to be made like unto his brethren; that he might be a merciful and faithful high prieft, in things pertaining to God; to make reconciliation for the fins of the people. Heb. iv. 15. For we have not an high prieft which cannot be touched with the feeling of our infirmities; but was in all points tempted like as we are, yet without fin. m Luke i. 27. To a virgin efpouf ed to a man whofe name was Jofeph, of |