Chap.x.Seet.4. ·' Lookingrmto rfefns. Book III. I 59 yea , and fpiritual Redeemer , fr?m their boJJdage of Iinne and Satan , whereof that temporal deliverance from Egypt was truiy a type ? the L?r~ begins his Commandments with an evangelical promife ? and It 1s very obfervable , that as thefe words, 1 am the Lord thy God, are prefixed im~ediately to the firft Commandment fo in fundry places of Scnpturet'hey are annexed to all the reft; ye fhtill fePZre every man his mother, and hi.t father; and L . k,eep rny Sabbaths, 1 am the Lord your God: ye foal! not flea/, nei- ev.r93 , ther deal falfejly, neither lie one t-o another; nnd ye fhall not[wear ~ 1~ · by my mtme fnlfely , neither foalt_thou proph~ne the Nam~ of thy u. God; 1am the Lord. Nmher fhalt t i?ou ftand ag~tmft the 16. blood of thy neighbour, 1amthe L ord.- In a word, thou /halt I8. / 9ve thy neighbour as thy fe/f, I am the L~rd ; or if that containe onely the fecond Table, therefore foal/ ye obferve all m.r ftatutes , and all my judgments and-do them; I am the L ord. Adde we co this that in the fecond Commandment God is defcribed to be one fhe~ing mercy unto thoufands ; all which muft needs argue the Law to be a Covenant ofgrace. 3. It appeares by the Contract betwixt God and Ifrae/ after the promulgation ofthe Law: Is it not plainly exprelfed by Mofes, thou haft avouched the Lora thi.t day to be thy God; and to walk._.in his wayes, iind to kfep his ftatutes and commandment .f• . --· c.And the Lord hath avonched thee this d".y to be his peculiar ptople , . as he httth promifed thee, and that thou jhouldft k§ep his command0 6 • , ments ? Yea , and after this in the land of Moab, JV/Qfes was :ut.z·171 commanded by the Lord to make acovenant with the children of 1 • Ifrael, befides the covenant which he made with them in Horeb; · now this was the very fame that God ma-de with them on Sinai , onely it mufr be renewed , and it is exprelfely faid, je ftand thi.t day to enter intoa covenant with the L ordyour God : --That 0 t. ~ u 1 i' he may eftab lifh you to be a people unto himfe/f,and that he may be a eu "9 ' ~ · God untoyou, as he had /worn to Abraham, I faa~;, 11nd {acob, Surely this mu it needes be a covenant of g~ace; how iliould it be but of grace that God promifed to be the God of Ifrael? here are many fweet aud J)recious promifes, and they are all free and , gracious, and therefore we conclude thdaw, in the fenfeafore..- faid , to be a covenant ofg(ace. · .4.Why fhou!d Godin:the law deal with .us ina,covenant-way ;, ~~th~~ ~~~!!- ~ ~eere: abfoluteJup,r_eame: way? ' I anfwer ,, r. In ' refpectt Q •
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