\ NEv~ Co_~ENA~·T. . the.yihall know tt more ddlt!)_ctly, ,J.Dore p.1rtt– cularly. 'Moreover, as the knowledge is grtat~ ter, (o the promi[esare bettFr promifes, He6.8. 6. Burnow our high Prieft hath obtaineda .mor,e: 'rzxcellmt ~tfi(e,in .u metchas he is the Mediator of aimter Teftament, ejlahlipJed upf{n b~tter promi~ fes. The me<1;ning of it is this; ·the promifes which were made in the Old Tdlarpent, ( tho~gh the promife of L1lvation was not ex– cluded; yet) the maine of them, the mofi: ap– pearing and infified·on, were_, they fl1ould have the land ofCanaanand they iho1,1ld havean out~ ward profperiry, you fee the Old Teframent, muchinfifisuponthat; the New meddles little with them, but with prornifes of falvation, rcrniffionoffins, fanctification by the fpirit: ther--: fore,[aith the Apofile here, it is efrablifhed up- '-' Hc!..8,6. Bettc:r promi .. ·, res in the N ewTefia· meot. on better promifes. And againe, there is a larger effufion of th~Spirit, the Spirit is now powre.d . The Spiritgi· · ven morelon us in a greater rneafitre, ·then it was di- · bundantlyin . . fiillcd by drops, now the Lord hath difpenfed the NewTe- · b d I .r: !lament. it in,a greater a un anceto t 1e 1or.ts of men, iq , the time of the Gofpell, there is a greatermca– fure ofgrace, and -it foUowes upon the other; Grace andtruth comes hy Ie[tu Chrift; thatis, be– caufetherewas more truth and more knowledge . there went likewife more grace with it; there is a greater revelation, fo 1ikewife, there goes more grace; that i~ afure rule, that all know · ledge, when it is increafed, when it is faving knowledge taught byGod, it c2rries grace pro– porrionably withit. Thisis thefirft difference. Bb l -The
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