Looking unto Jesus a view of the everlasting gospel, or, the souls eying of…

5. What are the privileges of the Covenant? I answer, the privileges of the Covenant are many, as they are great things, and great blessings which our great God promiseth, so they are very many and numerous; the Covenant is full of blessings, it is a rich store-house, replenished with all manner of blessings; it is not dry, nor barren, but like the fat Olive or fruitful Vine, it is a Well of salvation, a fountain of good things, a treasure full of goods, or unsearchable riches, which can never be emptied, nor come to an end. Hence it is that our finite narrow capacities can never apprehend the infinite grace that this Covenant contains, yet as we may see things darkly in a Map, so let us endeavour as we are able to view them in some Map, or brief compendium; that by the little we do see, we may be raised up to the consideration of things not seen, which shall be revealed in due time.

5. What are the priviledges of the Covenant? I answer, the priviledges of the Covenant are many, as they are great things, and great blessings which our great God promiseth, so they are very many and numerous; the Covenant is full of blessings, it is a rich store-house, replenished with all manner of blessings; it is not dry, nor barren, but like the fat Olive or fruitful Vine, it is a Well of salvation, a fountain of good things, a treasure full of goods, or unsearchable riches, which can never be emptied, nor come to an end. Hence it is that our finite narrow capacities can never apprehend the infinite grace that this Covenant contains, yet as we may see things darkly in a Map, so let us endeavour as we are able to view them in some Map, or brief compendium; that by the little we do see, we may be raised up to the consideration of things not seen, which shall be revealed in due time.

The privileges of the Covenant are folded and wrapped up in the promises of it; every promise contains a privilege, but the time of unfolding every promise is not yet come; then only shall the promises of all sorts be unfolded, when the heavens as a vesture shall be folded up. ¹In the mean time we have a right & interest in the privileges of eternity by virtue of the promise; and hence the very terms of Covenant and promise are taken for the same,