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2. It appears by that contract betwixt God and Israel in the promulgation of the Law; then it was that God proclaimed himself to be the God of Israel; saying, I am the Lord thy God which brought thee out of the Land of Egypt, out of the House of bondage. Some hold this to be the affirmative part of the first Commandment; in which the Gospel is preached, and the promises therein contained are offered. We say it is a preface to the whole Law, prefixed as a reason to persuade obedience to every Commandment. But all universally acknowledge that it is a free Covenant, which promiseth pardon of sin, and requireth faith in the Messiah; when God saith to Israel I am the Lord thy God, which brought thee out of the Land of Egypt, doth he not propound himself as their King, Judg, Saviour, and Redeemer? Yea, and spiritual Redeemer, from their bondage of sin and Satan, whereof that temporal deliverance from Egypt was truly a type? the Lord begins his commandments with an evangelical promise? and it is very observable, that as these words, I am the Lord thy God, are prefixed immediately to the first Commandment, so in sundry places of Scripture they are annexed to all the rest; ye shall fear every man his Mother, and his Father; and keep my Sabbaths, ¹I am the Lord your God: ye shall not steal, neither deal falsely, neither lie one to another, and ye shall not swear by my Name falsely, neither shalt thou profane the Name of thy God; I am the Lord. — Neither shalt thou stand against the blood of thy neighbour, I am the Lord.— In a word thou shalt love thy neighbour as thy self, I am the Lord; or if that contain only the second Table, therefore shall ye observe all my statutes, and all my judgments, and do them; I am the Lord. Add we to this,² that in the second Commandment God is described to be one showing mercy unto thousands; all which must needs argue the Law to be a Covenant of grace.

2. It appears by that contract betwixt God and Israel in the promulgation of the Law; then it was that God proclaimed himself to be the God of Israel; saying, I am the Lord thy God which brought thee out of the Land of Egypt, out of the House of bondage. Some hold this to be the affirmative part of the first Commandment; in which the Gospel is preached, and the promises therein contained are offered. We say it is a preface to the whole Law, prefixed as a reason to perswade obedience to every Commandment. But all universally acknowledge that it is a free Covenant, which promiseth pardon of sin, and requireth faith in the Messiah; when God saith to Israel I am the Lord thy God, which brought thee out of the Land of Egypt, doth he not propound himself as their King, Judg, Saviour, and Redeemer? Yea, and spiritual Redeemer, from their bondage of sin and Satan, whereof that temporal deliverance from Egypt was truly a type? the Lord begins his commandments with an evangelical promise? and it is very observable, that as these words, I am the Lord thy God, are prefixed immediatly to the first Commandment, so in sundry places of Scripture they are annexed to all the rest; ye shall fear every man his Mother, and his Father; and keep my Sabbaths,