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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.
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3. It appears by the Contract betwixt God and Israel after the promulgation of the Law: is it not plainly expressed by Moses, Thou hast avouched the Lord this day to be thy God; and to walk in his ways, and to keep his statutes and Commandments.—And the Lord hath avouched thee this day to be his peculiar people, as he hath promised thee, and that thou shouldst keep his commandments? Yea, and after this in the Land of Moab, 1Moses was commanded by the Lord to make a Covenant with the children of Israel, besides the Covenant which he made with them in Horeb; now this was the very same that God made with them on Sinai, only it must be renewed, and it is expressly said, ye stand this day to enter into a Covenant with the Lord your God: 2—That he may establish you to be a people unto himself, and that he may be a God unto you, as he had sworn to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. Surely this must needs be a Covenant of grace, how should it be but of grace that God promised to be the God of Israel? here are many sweet & precious promises, and they are all free and gracious; and therefore we conclude the Law, in the sense aforesaid, to be a Covenant of grace.
3. It appears by the Contract betwixt God and Israel after the promulgation of the Law: is it not plainly expressed by Moses, Thou hast avouched the Lord this day to be thy God; and to walk in his wayes, and to keep his statutes and Commandments.—And the Lord hath avouched thee this day to be his peculiar people, as he hath promised thee, and that thou shouldst keep his commandments? Yea, and after this in the Land of Moah, 1Moses was commanded by the Lord to make a Covenant with the children of Israel, besides the Covenant which he made with them in Horeb; now this was the very same that God made with them on Sinai, only it must be renewed, and it is expresly said, ye stand this day to enter into a Covenant with the Lord your God: 2—That he may establish you to be a people unto himself, and that he may be a God unto you, as he had sworn to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. Surely this must needs be a Covenant of grace, how should it be but of grace that God promised to be the God of Israel? here are many sweet & precious promises, and they are all free and gracious; and therefore we conclude the Law, in the sense aforesaid, to be a Covenant of grace.