Book III. 157 when Mofes had fPok£n every precept to all the people, accord- Hcb.9 lSJ,~o. ing to the Law, he hok.. the b/God of calves and gMts, with water and fc.trlet-woll, and h;f[oppe, and JPrinkjed both the hook, and all the people [aying, this u the blood of the T eftament, (or 'Coven~tnt) which god hath t>njoynt>d unto you. In the words you· may obferve thefe properties of a Covenant ; I. That God on his part expreffe~h hi~ confent and willingneffe to b~ their__God :. this will appear m the Preface of the Law, of whtch llereafter. 2 • That the people on their part give their fuJI confents, ad'\1. ready willingneffe to be his fervants. Both thefe appear in that, . I . Mofes writes down the Covenant co-venant·wtfe . 2. He con-· firmes the Cov!!nant by outward fignes,as by the blood ofCalves ahd Goats; whereofon. halfe he puts in bafons, to fprinkle it on . the people;and the other halfof the blo_od he f ~rinkles on the Al-- tar. that fprinkling on the people figmfied thetr voluntary cove-- nanting with God; and the blood fprinkled on the Altar fignified Gods entring into covenant with the peopk Thus we have. real covenanting when the Law is given. ::t. In what fenfe is the Law a Covemnt of grace! 1 anfwer; The Law may be conGdered in feveral fenfes-; as I. Sometimes. it lignifies largely amy heavenly doctrine, whether it b~ promife · or prcce1:1t, and in this fenfe the Apoftle tells us of the Law of . . d .+: h L .+: +: • h S . . (j 'fi :Ro n.3.17•· work!, an o; t e aw o; ;an_. 2 •. omettmestt 1gm es any part of the Old Teftament, m whtch fc:nfe Jelus anfweredthe , Jewes Is it not written in Jllur Law, I foid 1e are g~ds ?NowJ£hs10·H·· .Ji where'was that written but in the book of the Pjalmes?3. Some- f ' ~. 6 times it lignifies the whole reconomy, and peculiar-difpenfarion of Gods woriliip unto the Jewes according to the moral, ceremonial, and judicial Law, in which fenfe it is faid to continue untill {ohn, the Dzw and the Prophets wtre until'{ohn; but-{inve-L k , 6 6. :hat time the Kin~dome of qod i~ preached. 4· Sometimes, it G~l. :.~~~ •. ' : 1s,taken fynechdochtcally for fome aCts of the Law onely,, 11g 11 injl fuch there is no Law. 5· Sometimes it is takenonelyfor the'Heb.ta-1 , Ceremonial Law, tlu Law having a /badow of good things to come. 6. Sometimes it is ufed in the fenfe of tbeJewes, as -fuffi- ~i~nt t_o fav_e without Chrift; and th~s the ~poftle gene;aUy takes tt tn h1s Eptftle to the RDmans, and <ialathlans•. 7· Sometimes it i~ taken for that_part ~fthe Moral La~ ':Vhich ismeer.ely manda- ~rv:e and preceptive, w1thout any promtfe at alii 8. Sometimes. -·- - . X3_, in.
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