16 -The Parties in the venant was 'made with Chri!l: as the la!l: or fecond 44 dtem, head and reprefentative of a feed, to wit, his [pi– ritual feed, appears fi·om the following coqfiderations• . Firfl, Covenants typical of the covenant of grace were made or e11abliihed with perfons reprefenting their refpeCl:ive feed. Thus it was in the typica,l coo: venant in our text, the covenant ofroyalty ,made with David; an undoubted type of the covenant of grace. In it, David .was God'sfervant, having a feed com– prehended with.him therein, Pfalm lxxxix. 3, 4· He was an eminent type o,£ Chrifi, who is therefore cal ... led David, Hof. iii. 5. ' Afterward !hall the children of I(rael return, and feek the Lord their God, and Da- . .vid their king.' And the benefits of the covenant of grace, are called ' th ... fure mercies of David,' Ifa.lv. 3· Thus was it alfo in the ' covenant o( the day and night,' (Jer. xxxiii, 20.) e~ablifhed with Noah and his fons, reprefentative of their (eed, the new world, Gen. ~ix. 9· ' Behold I efiablifh my covenant with you, and with your feed after you.' And that this cove1'l.an t was a type of the covenant ofgrace, appears, from its be– ing made upon a ·facrifice, chap. viii. 20, 2~, 1_2; and from the fign and token of it, the rainbow, chap. ix. · · 13'. appearing round pbout the throne, Rev. iv. 3'- J?ut · efpecially, from the nature and import of it, to wit, that there fhould not be another deluge, Gen. ix. t 1. the fubfiance of which is plainly declared, Ifa. Iiv. 1 9.• ~ As I have fworn that the waters•ofNoah would no more go over r_he earth ; fo have I {worn that I would not be wroth with thee, nor rebuke thee.' Ver. 10. , · ~ For the mountains -.fuall depart, and the hills be re– moved, but my kindnefs. fhall not depart, from thee, neither fhall the covenant of my peace . be removed, /faith the ·Lord that bath mercy on thee.' And fuch alfo was the ' covenant of the land of Canaan,' made with Abraham reprefenting his feed, Gen. xv. I8 ...an4 afrerwards confirmed by ,oath, chap. xxii. 16, 17. In all wh~ch he wa.s an eminent type ·of Chrifi, the -true . Abrt~ham
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