Looking unto Jesus a view of the everlasting gospel, or, the souls eying of…

2. To whom is the Covenant made? why, saith David, He hath made with me an everlasting Covenant; (i.) either with Christ the Antitype, or else with David himself, the type of Christ. To the former sense we have spoken elsewhere; the latter I suppose more genuine; the Covenant indeed was first made with Christ, and then with David as a member of Jesus Christ. Some are wholly for a Covenant betwixt God and Christ, and they deny any such thing as a Covenant betwixt God and man; but are not the Testimonies express?¹ Take heed to your selves, lest you forget the Covenant which the Lord hath made with you. And, I will make a new Covenant with the House of Israel; and with the House of Judah. And by name do we not see God Covenanting with Abraham, with Isaac and with Jacob? Gen. 17.7. Gen. 26.2. Gen 35.12. Levit. 26.42. And here do we not see God Covenanting with David? I have made a Covenant with my chosen, I have sworn unto David;² and once have I sworn by my holiness, that I will not lie unto David, and the Lord hath sworn in truth unto David, he will not turn from it. Oh take heed of such Doctrines as tend unto Liberty & Licentiousness! the Covenant Gods makes with us, binds us faster to God: and if there be no Covenant betwixt God and us, it opens a gap to the looseness of our spirits; for how should we be charged with unfaithfulness unto God, if we have not all entered into a Covenant with God

2. To whom is the Covenant made? why, saith David, He hath made with me an everlasting Covenant; (i.) either with Christ the Antitype, or else with David himself, the type of Christ. To the former sense we have spoken elsewhere; the latter I suppose more genuine; the Covenant indeed was first made with Christ, and then with David as a member of Jesus Christ. Some are wholly for a Covenant betwixt God and Christ, and they deny any such thing as a Covenant betwixt God and man; but are not the Testimonies express?¹