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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 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, 2the ten Commandments.— And he declared unto you his Covenant, which he Commanded you to perform, even the ten Commandments, and he wrote them upon two tables of stone. 3— When I was gone (says Moses) up into the Mount to receive the two tables of stone, even the tables of the Covenant which the Lord made with you, then I abode in the Mount forty days and forty nights; 4I neither did eat bread nor drink water.—And it came to pass at the end of forty days, and forty nights, that the Lord gave me the two tables of stone, 5even the tables of the Covenant.—So I turned and came down from the Mount, and the mount burned with fire, and the two tables of the Covenant were in my two hands. It appears plainly and expressly in these Texts that the Law is a 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 dayes, and forty nights, he did neither eat bread, nor drink water, and he wrote upon the tables the words of the Covenant,