Coiienant ofGroce.' I.) hveeh God, and men, the man, Chrifi Jefu:s; who gave himfelf a ranfom,' 1 Ti~n. ii . .5, 6. And fo ·the cove– nant ofgrace, which could not be made im1Jlediately with finners, was made with Chrifi the lafi Adam, their head and reprefentative; mediating between God and them ; therefore called ' Jefus the Mediator o£ the new covenant,' to whom we come by believing. H~b. xii. 22; 24. . . . · 4 The term mediat()r· is .hot, to my obfervation, a·p· plied in the holy fcripture to any other, except Mofts, Gal. -iii.· 19. 'The law was ordained by angels in the 1 hand of a TUediator .; And of him, a typical mediator, it is worth obferving, that he was not only an intermeffenger,between God, and lftael; butjin God's. ·renewing his covenant, in way of reconciliation, af- . ter the breaking ofthe tables, the c<;>venant was made with him, as their head and ,repre(entative, Exod. xxxiy. 27. 'And the 1:-ord faid unto JJiofts, Write thou thefe words: For after the tenor ofthefe words, I have made a covenant with thee and with Ifrael! This refers unto the gracious anfwer made to Mo.fes's prayer, ver. 9· ' Pardon our iniquity and our fin, and take us for thine inheritance.' Ver. la. 'And he • ~namely, the Lord)' faid, Behold I make a covenant,' be_fore all thy people I will do rna'rvels,' &c. Ver. 28. ' And he wrote upon the ubles,' (to wit, the nhv ones) ' the wotds of the covenant, the ten command.:. · ments.~ Now Mbfts was alone on the mount witK God, during the whole tih1e of this tranfatl:ion: and, , , in it, the Lord fpeaks of hint and the people as one, all along. 1 · , For clearing of this putpofe, anet)t the party·con.. traCl:er on man's fide, I fhall (I.) Evince that the co• venant of grace was ina~e wi-th Chrifl as the la!tAdr1m, head and reprefentative of a feed; and (2.) Shew why it was fa made. Fitjl 1 ~hat t~~ covenant of grace, the fecond eo- - , . B venant, . .
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