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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 5: Of the Covenant of Promise, as manifested to David.
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.
3. What is this that the Covenant is said to be made? this holds forth to us the freeness of Gods entering into Covenant with us: I will make my Covenant between me and thee, saith God:1 or, I will give my Covenant, I will dispose my Covenant between me and thee, so it is in the Original. And elsewhere it is plain, Behold I give unto him my Covenant of peace: when God makes a Covenant, then he gives the Covenant of Grace unto all that he takes into Covenant with him: The Lord set his love upon you (said Moses to Israel) to take you into Covenant with him, 2not because ye were more in number than other people, but because he loved you, 3and chose your Fathers; as noting out the freeness of his love towards them: he loved them: Why? He loved them because he loved them. This freeness of his Grace in giving a Covenant, may appear in these Particulars.
3. What is this that the Covenant is said to be made? this holds forth to us the freeness of Gods entring into Covenant with us: I will make my Covenant between me and thee, saith God:1 or, I will give my Covenant, I will dispose my Covenant between me and thee, so it is in the Originial. And elsewhere it is plain, Behold I give unto him my Covenant of peace: when God makes a Covenant, then he gives the Covenant of Grace unto all that he takes into Covenant with him: The Lord set his love upon you (said Moses to Isreal) to take you into Covenant with him, 2not because ye were more in number than other people, but because he loved you, 3and chose your Fathers; as noting out the freeness of his love towards them: he loved them: Why? He loved them because he loved them. This freeness of his Grace in giving a Covenant, may appear in these Particulars.
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