218 The Old and New Covenant. Chap. 2 94 Th. by word have I hid in my heart , that I might not fin againfl thee. Encline jour ¿are, and come unto me hear , and your foule \ fall live , and 1 Will make an everlafling Covenant avith. you, even the Pure mercies of .David, Ifa. 55e3. And fo by confequence it fairly holds., notwithftanding this Text that there is (as bath been proved) an outward Covenant in the dayes of the Gofpel. The oldneffe to be abolifhed is only in circumflances,wherewith one and the fame Covenant that now is ; was then clothed. 3. The Covenant then fpoken to by :Jeremy in the place quoted, is not a Covenant properly fo called , or at leaft, as Mailer Baxter obferves, not the whole of the Covenant. So there muff be two diftinc Covenants one in being when the Prophet wrote and another to have its being in the time of which he prophefied ; one Covenant made with the Jewes , and another Covenant diffindt from it made with Chriftians and fo of necef ity there muff be two diftinc Gofpels. If that fpoken of by lerersy be a Covenant properly fo called holding out the whole nature of the Gofpel- Covenant, and that New dïffin,a from the former , then the Old_Covenant; muff needs in the whole nature of it be a diffind Covenant:likewife. In what: fenfe Jeremy is, to be:underftood according to the genuine mean- ing of the Text , I have endeavoured to clear, as in my anfwer, page tc5, tc6, t©7. which fome have underltood. though Matter Tombes cannot reach the meaning of it, as alío Chap. o9' this Tredtife , and whether I have ar,fwered the .objedion: which he divines, Irannot, ._4pol. page r.4.. without enervating the Ar- gument for effedual grace and pe.rfeverance in it, I muff appeal co the impartiall Reader. I am Pure he cannot build eífec`tuall i grace and perfeverance on that Text, making it a diffindi Coves nant from. the Crff,without the overthrow of effed}ual grace and- perfeverance in Old Te#tament- titues,, CH A:P;
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