5 8 The Old and New Covenant. Chap.2 2 . The method followed in the enfhing part of the Treatifè. Agreement between the Old and New Covenant in . fix particulars. to the great prejudice of either of the Covenants) be throughly examined. A work of difficulty but (were it followed with an able head) of fingular profit. On this by the help of Gods grace I Ihall adventure and in the firft place lay down their a- greement afterwards their refpeaive true and reall.differences, and then proceed to examination offuch differences which fome have' aflìgned,'which I referve to the laft place feeing in the two firft I may be brief. The Taft will be found a bufineffe till of tedi- ous difficulty and trouble. In feveralithings there is a full agreement between thefe Co- venants. I. In the Author propounding, God is the Author of them both; God is the God, not of the lews only, (who were in the firft Cove- nant) but of the Gentiles alfo, taken through grace into the fecond Covenant, Rom. 3. 29. 2. In the party accepting as fpecially confidered , they are both entred with man; neither Angels nor any other creature articles, or is articled within it; and hitherto there is an agreement of both with the Covenant of works. 3. In the motive or impulfive caufe; both of there are of fingular grace entred with fallenman in his loft condition ; no hint of this grace before the fall , there was no need or ufe of it,. being not for mans prefervation, but his reftitution. 4, In theMediatour Chriff 7efus who was one and the fame' in both : For though Moles have the name of Mediatour, Gal. 3. 19. Receiving the lively oracles and giving them to the people, Aâs 17.38. as the Judges in lfrael had the name of Saviours, Nehem. 9.27. and thereupon Camera makes this difference be- tween the Old and the New Covenant , That Mofes Was A/edia- tour in one, Chrifíz in the other , Thef. 68. yet he confeffes, I that that mediation by the benefit Whereof men are truly and e, f etlu- ally united to God, belongs only unto Chríl. De trip. fcedere. Thef Mofes work was only to deliver the way of the worfhip of God in thofe times, and that not in his own name, but as á fervant, H'eb. 3. 5. He that Mofes did ferve, of whom he wrote,lobn 5.46. I that Prophet like unto Moles, whom God promifed to raife, Deut. 18. i5. He in all ages was Mediatour. 5. They ague in the condition., annexe. Thefe Covenants have both one and the fame conditions on Gods part, remiflion of fins and. ---____iala._
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