Discourses upon the Existence and Attributes of God

How much more admirable is it for God to speak so kindly to us through the pacifying Blood of the Covenant, that silenced the terrors of the old, and settled the tenderness of the new?

How much more admirable is it for God to speak so kindly to us through the pacifying Blood of the Covenant, that silenc'd the terrours of the old, and setled the tenderness of the new?

2. His Goodness is seen in the Nature and Tenor of the new Covenant. There are in this richer Streams of Love and Pity. The language of one was, die if thou Sin; that of the other, live if thou believest^†: The old Covenant was founded upon the obedience of Man; the new is not founded upon the inconstancy of Mans Will, but the firmness of Divine Love, and the valuable Merit of Christ. The head of the first Covenant was Humane ⟨p. 630⟩and mutable; the head of the second is Divine and immutable. The Curse due to us by the breach of the first, is taken off by the indulgence of the second: ^*We are by it snatched from the Jaws of the Law, to be wrapped up in the bosom of Grace: ^†For you are not under the Law, but under Grace; from the Curse and condemnation of the Law, to the sweetness and forgiveness of Grace. Christ bore the one, being made a Curse for us, ^*that we might enjoy the sweetness of the other; By this we are brought from Mount Sinai, the Mount of Terror, to Mount Zion, the Mount of Sacrificing, the Type of the great Sacrifice^†