Covenant of Grac~. 7 na.nt; which,phrafe is taken from that ancie.nt ufage ofcutting offa beafi, by cutting ita.funder, at the mak– ing of a covenant, ]er. xxxiv. 18. It intimates thi5 covenant ' to be a covenant by ftcrifice; wherein the party-contraCl:er on man;s fide was the focrifice, and · Divine Jufiice the fword that cut itafunder, according ' to' Zech. xiii. 7· 'Awake, 0 fword, again£1: my iliep· herd, and againfi the man that is my fellow, faith the Lerd of hofis: froite the iliepherd.' And withal, it imports the inviolablenefs and perpetuity of the cove– nant made; no more, for ever, to be dHfolved, than the parts of the -bea£1: cut off, one from the other, tG ·be joined again as formedy. ' . IV. For the nature ofthiscovenant; there are five things belo~ging thereto, that appear from the .teXt : namely, (r.)The being of a reprefentation in it; (2.) The defign, for which it was fet ori foot; (3.) That there .are in it a condition, and (4.) A promife ; and (5.) Into whofe hands the adminifiration of it is pu~. 1. There is a reprefentation taking place in this co– venant. As it was in the firfi covenant, fo it was like– ·wife in· the fecond ; the party~contra_Cl:er and under– taker qn rban~s fide, was a reprefentative, reprefent- · ing and fufiaining the perfOns of' others. This appears~ .in that the chofen One, with whom the covenant was 1nade, is called the lafi Adam. For 'tis pbin, he is fo called in relation to the firfi Adqm, who was the figure (or type) ofhim. Rom. v. 14. Namely, in that, likea5 the firfi Adam reprefenting his feed, in the co– v~riant of-works, brought fin and death on the·m ; fo he reprefenting his, brings righreoufi1efs and life to them; as the Apofile teacheth at large in that chapter. 2. The defign of this' covenant, was' life, the mofl: valuable interefl: ofmankind~ ' The lafi Adam was· made a quickning fpiri,t,' to wit, to give life to his feed: So it is a cov~nant of life, as the covenant of Levz, a type thereof, is expr~Oy called, 1\.fal. ii. 5· The firfi covenant was a, covenant oflife too : but there is this
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