ofthe Covenant. · 71 agreeable to the Original, ' f will make the men that have tranfgreifed my covenant,-the calf which they . cut in twain, and paifed between the p:uts tl)ereof.' That is, I'll make them as that calf which they cut in twain ; I'll execute the curfe on them, ·cutting them afunder a·s cove'nant-breakers, Mat xxiv. 51. Now the covenant of works being br<?ken, jufiice required this execution of the curfe of it, in 0rder to the efiabliili- . ing ofanewc6venant,the covenantofgraceand 'peace. But had it been execute on the finners themfelves, the fire of wrath would have burnt continually on them; but never Would fuch a h1Crifice have fent forth a favour fmelling fo fweet, as to be a fa vC!ur of re.£1: to reveng· ·ing jufiice : forafmuch as they were not oi1ly mere creatures; whofe mo.£1: exqui.fite fuff~rings could not be a fufficient compenfarion for the i~jured honour of an infinite God ; but rhey were finful creatures too:t who would frill have remain'd finful under their fuf– ferings. Wherefore Jefus Chri.£1: being both feparate from finners, and equal with God, confented in the covenant to be the facrifice, on which the curfe of the fir.£1: covenant might be execute, 'in their room and fiead. · This is lively reprefented in the covenant made with Abraha~, in which he was a type of Chrifi, Gen. xv. In that covenant God promifed the deliverance of Abraham's feed ol1t of the Egyptian bondage, and to give them the land of.Canaan; a type of the deliver- . ance of Cbrifi's fpiritual feed from the bondage offin and Satan, and of putting them in poffeffion of heaven, ver. 13, 14, 16, 18. Awful was the folemnity ufed at the making of this covenant, There were taken aheif· er, ·a ilie-goat, ·a·nd a ram, each of them of three years old ; typifying Chrifr, who was abQut three years in his publick minifiry, ver. 9· Thefe were, each of them . ' diY!ded in the midfi, hack'd afurider by the middle;' Wh1ch typified the execution of the curfe of the brok· et) firfi covenant, on ChriH: our furety ,and facrifice for
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