· ·utS . Yhe Promif!ory Pllri - !'irft,; The covenant bath its n~me fr~m this part of It, bemg called the covenant of promift, Eph. ii. · ~ 2. (:ov~nants, becau(e,· tho' fHll in itfelfbut one co– venant, yet, from its fidl: promulgation 'in paradife, it \vas often renewed, as to Abraham., J acob, the !fr4· elite$ in the wildern~fs, and to, David: ~nd, -as oft as it was renewed, it was rene~ed in a promH'e. The firfi covenan;r ·had a promife of life· : · yet, it is not ~all'cl a covenant of promife : . on the contrary, the law, 01: that covenant,_is oppofed to the promifc; tho' not in its ufe, yet in its nature, GaL iii . .18. 'If the inheritance be of the law, it is no .more ofpro– mife.' For the hy.v's prom.ife of life, was fqfpended 91;1 the cond1tion of works, to be p,erformed by meQ. themfelves ; whereas in the fecond .covenant, life and falvation ~re promifed to finn~rs freely, · for Chriil:'s (c1ke, without refpe?c to any w.9r~ of thei.rs, as th~ condition thereof. ' . .- Secondly, The ~ovemmt is deftribe9 to us by the holy Gho!f, as a cluil:er of free promifes of gra~e ;~ne! g lory to poor fiqners, .in \V.hich no rrention is made pf any condition. Heb. viii~ 19. ' This is th~ cove-. nant _ ' I will put my· laW'S into the_ir mind, and ~vrite them in their hearts : and I wilf be ·ro them ~ God, an~ they lhall be to me a people. Ver. I 1. And they lhall not teach every man his neighbour, and ~very man his broth~r y ftying, Know the Lord : for all fhalJ kno-..y me, fi·om rh~ leafi to the greatefi. Ver. ~2. For I will be m~rciful to their u_nrighteoufi1efs, ~nd their 'fins and their iniquities ~ill I remember no Inore.' Thefe pron1jfes -..yith lheir condition, having been propofed to, and accepted by ,Chriil:, as fecond Ada,m, and the condition performed by him; the eo• venant comes natively, in the gofpel, to be fet be· fore us , in them, to be by us received and embraced_ in and .through Chriil:, by ·faith. Thus the promifes p.re the covenant by way ofeminency : even God's co– ye11ai1t "Yher~in h~ hatp bound pim(elf tQ perform hi$ I' art ,,
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