NEVV @OVENANT. JS'I fhall utterlydefiroy him, and overcome him ·forthee: So fhalt thou prevaile -againe, and be fet in the place, and enjoy all the promifes. .The Church continued in the venue of this promife., this preaching of the Gofpell, untill Abrahamstime, andthenGod begins to mani– fefl: his Coverumt againe; he cal~ forth Abra– ham, and tels him, he meanes to make aCove– nant withhim, he tels him that hee will blelfe him, and that all the Nations of the World fhould be bletfed in him: one while it is faid ' thus; another while, all theNa~ionsoftheearth {hall be blejfedinthy (eede_;·. . Thereareinanydifficulties in this, how the .promife fhould be made to the feede; how a– -gaine it fhoulct bema·de to Abraham himfelfe? (for it is faydto be made to both) how all Na~ tions are bleffed in Abraham, and yetitis.{aid, they !hall be blelfedin thy feede. Againe, the Condition of the Coventtnt, · which he requires of l.Abraham, is the fame: thin'g that Godmakes a part likewife ofhis own Covenant. Befid<:s, Gods Coven~tnt feemes not to bet the givi~g of the ui-tejfiah, but the giving: of thepromifed Land, giving him· a Sonne, and making him a great Nation? ,m-any diffi · culties,there are in this:· Therefote-, that Y,ou ·may uryder!bndthem ·:diftindly:,~I will deliver it thus to you; not in the method wherein it rs. fet downe,butfo as I fhallmakeitmuch clearer apd pcifpicuQUS to· you, and befl: - I . tO Djfficulties in the Col'enant toA.br.cbAm. ; .I ,
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