5'.4 The Trial and SERM. 1 pa_m was not a King ; Aria m was not formally a Kmg py Cov~nant, as Vavicl was. 2.. Chrift ~haQgeth Names with ~aviJ, as he never d.id witq any Man. Cnrift is never called Abraham; but, Bzek.. 34· z 3, 24.. :JJavirl my Servant jhatl be a Prince among them. Hof. 3· 5· r:_r'hev jhatl feek the J-orrl their GoJ, and fiJavirl their King. 3· , ~avicl entred to a Typical Throne againft the Heart of Jew and Gentile, Pfatm 2 I, 2. and io did Cqrift, ABs 4· 2 5, 2~. And did feed the People of God in the Midft of many Enemies, Pjalr/1. 110. I,~· and fo did Chrlft, ABs 2. 34, 35, j6. Not fo Abraham; he was a befriended Man in a ' ftrange Land. , That wqich I aim at js this, By the received Divipity of the .7e·ws and of the Gentiles, who knew God, Chrifl was a ]{ing by the Covenant tJf Gr(lce, awf the fpeciat Party of the New Co- <vcnm;zt, as '1vas Da vi~ This may be made more evident, if we el!quire a little in the Covenant; I. 1rhat it is. :z.. Who be the Parties. 3· What Pron:zifes. 4· What Condt'tion. 5. f;Vhat Pro- _perties. 6. Some Ufes, witb all !Brevity. The Cq_venant is here a joint and mutual Bargain be~ ~-»een two, accordin~ to which, they promife free- · 1 y fueh and ft1Ch Th)ngs each to other : Hence God · and Man made up a folemn Bargain in Chrift. 2. They both confent: Chr.iil: forced not his Spoufe to J;narry againft her Will, nor was God forced . to make a Covenant. Love and Grace was tha•_ wh1ch led Chrifl:'s Hand at the Pen, in ftgning tht Co\'e- /nant with his Blood. 3· As a Clufter of Star~ makes a Conftellatiori, a Body of Branches, a Tree; fo a :Mafs of Promifes conc1.1rreth in this Covenant. Wr~~~vq Chrift ~s, Clufters of Divine Promifes groweth
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