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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.
2. In what sense is the Law a Covenant of Grace? I answer, The Law may be considered in several senses; as 1. Sometimes it signifies largely any heavenly doctrine, whether it be promise or precept,1 and in this sense the Apostle tells us of the Law of works, and of the Law of faith. 2. Sometimes it signifies any part of the old Testament in which sense Jesus answered the Jews,2 Is it not written in your Law, I said ye are gods? Now where was that written but in the book of the Psalms? 3. Sometimes it signifies the whole economy, and peculiar dispensation of Gods worship unto the Jews, according to the moral ceremonial,3 and Judicial Law, in which sense it is said to continue until John, the Law and the Prophets were until John: but since that time the Kingdom of God is preached. 4. Sometimes it is taken synecdochically for some acts of the Law only. against such there is no Law. 45. Sometimes it is taken only for the Ceremonial Law, the Law having a shadow of good things to come. 6. Sometimes it is used in the sense of the Jews? as sufficient to save without Christ; and thus the Apostle generally takes it in his Epistle to the Romans, and Galatians. 7. Sometimes it is taken for that part of the Moral Law which is merely mandative and preceptive, without any promise at all. 8. Sometimes it is taken for the whole moral Law, with the preface and promises added to it; and in this last sense we take it, when we say it is a Covenant of grace?
2. In what sense is the Law a Covenant of Grace? I answer, The Law may be considered in several senses; as 1. Sometimes it signifies largely any heavenly doctrine, whether it be promise or precept,1 and in this sense the Apostle tells us of the Law of works, and of the Law of faith. 2. Sometimes it signifies any part of the old Testament in which sense Jesus answered the Jews,2 Is it not written in your Law, I said ye are gods? Now where was that written but in the book of the Psalms? 3. Sometimes it signifies the whole oeconomy, and peculiar dispensation of Gods worship unto the Jews, according to the moral ceremonial,