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In our Covenant with Christ, he is the Imposer and Stipulator, and we are to Promise for our part, to be done by his promised help. But on Gods part, it is in this that he is the Sponsor, and not in the former, where God the Father is the Promiser to Christ, and not Christ to himself as a Covenanter: So that it is in one Covenant that he promiseth to God for Man, and in another that he promiseth for God to Man: And the question is which of these Covenants it is that the Apostle calleth him the Surety of? If you say that the Apostle taketh both here as parts of One, and so meaneth both; I find no proof of this in the Text: And if it were so, it is all one; for it were then spoken of the whole, but respectively to what Christ did in the two which are the parts: Indeed it is [Greek or Hebrew], and not [Greek or Hebrew], that is the Covenant mentioned in the Text: and as Grotius in praesat. ad notas in N.T. ⟨p. 78⟩hath copiously showed, it is a Divine Disposal, Law, Imposition, or Statute containing the terms of Life, that is meant by [Greek or Hebrew]: And cap. 7.22. as it is said, yet Jesus was made a surety of a better Testament. And c. 8.6. He hath obtained a more excellent Ministry, by how much he is the Mediator of a better Covenant [which was stablished on better Promises.] It is the same thing which our Translators call a Testament in one Chapter and a Covenant in the other, and it seems that a Surety and a Mediator here do mean the same thing in Christ: And the whole context showeth that it is Gods Promise or Covenant and Law of Grace made to man that is here meant, and that Christs Office and Undertaking and Performance is presupposed. And so it is the Fathers Sponsor and Mediator to man that is meant here directly, and mans Sponsor and Mediator towards God by Connotation; but so as in other Texts, as Cap. 9.15. that part also is directly expressed, and Christs death made a part of his Mediation.

In our Covenant with Christ, he is the Imposer and Stipulator, and we are to Promise for our part, to be done by his promised help. But on Gods part, it is in this that he is the Sponsor, and not in the former, where God the Father is the Promiser to Christ, and not Christ to himself as a Covenanter: So that it is in one Covenant that he promiseth to God for Man, and in another that he promiseth for God to Man: And the question is which of these Covenants it is that the Apostle calleth him the Surety of? If you say that the Apostle taketh both here as parts of One, and so meaneth both; I find no proof of this in the Text: And if it were so, it is all one; for it were then spoken of the whole, but respectively to what Christ did in the two which are the parts: Indeed it is , and not , that is the Covenant mentioned in the Text: and as Grotius in praesat. ad notas in N.T.