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Looking unto Jesus a view of the everlasting gospel, or, the souls eying of…
Looking unto Jesus a view of the everlasting gospel, or, the souls eying of Jesus as carrying on the great work of mans salvation from first to last / by Isaac Ambrose ...
London: printed for Richard Chiswel, 1680
Book 3 › Chapter 1 › Section 4: Of the Covenant of promise as manifested to Moses.
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
For the right understanding of this, we shall examine these particulars.
1. whether the Law was delivered in a Covenant-way? 2. In what sense is the Law a Covenant of grace? 3. How may it appear that the Law in any sense is a Covenant of grace? 4. Why should God in the Law deal with us in a Covenant-way rather then a mere absolute supreme way? 5. What are the good things promised in this expressure of the Covenant? 6. What is the condition of this Covenant on our part, as we may gather it hence? 7. Who was the Mediator of this Covenant? 8. What of Christ, and his death, do we find in this manifestation of the Covenant?
1. whether the Law was delivered in a Covenant-way? 2. In what sense is the Law a Covenant of grace? 3. How may it appear that the Law in any sense is a Covenant of grace? 4. Why should God in the Law deal with us in a Covenant-way rather then a meer absolute supream way? 5. What are the good things promised in this expressure of the Covenant? 6. What is the condition of this Covenant on our part, as we may gather it hence? 7. Who was the Mediator of this Covenant? 8. What of Christ, and his death, do we find in this manifestation of the Covenant?
For the first, whether the Law was delivered in a Covenant-way? it is affirmed on these grounds. 1. In that it hath the name of a Covenant. 2. In that it hath the real properties of a Covenant. 1. The name of a Covenant as it appears in these Texts. And ⟨p. 70⟩the Lord said unto Moses, 1write these words, for after the tenor of these words, I have made a Covenant with thee, and with Israel: and he was there with the Lord forty days, and forty nights, he did neither eat bread, nor drink water, and he wrote upon the tables the words of the Covenant,