A37049:107
A practical exposition of the X. Commandments with a resolution of several momentous questions…A practical exposition of the X. Commandements with a resolution of several momentous questions…
A practical exposition of the X. Commandments with a resolution of several momentous questions and cases of conscience.A practical exposition of the X. Commandements with a resolution of several momentous questions and cases of conscience.
London: printed for Dorman Newman, 1675
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 They differ as to the manner of their acceptation, duties by the first Covenant are to abide their trial upon the account of their own worth, and the inherent perfection that is in them, and accordingly will be accepted or rejected, as they are conform or disconform to the perf •ct Rule of Gods Law; but by the second Covenant, the acceptation of our performances, prayers, praises, are founded on Christs Righteousness, and Gods mercy in him, in whom only they are sweet-smelling Sacrifices, and accepted as our persons are, for he hath made us to be accepted as to both only in the beloved, Eph. 1.4.
3 They differ as to the manner of their acceptation, duties by the first Covenant are to abide their tryal upon the account of their own worth, and the inherent perfection that is in them, and accordingly will be accepted or rejected, as they are conform or disconform to the perf •ct Rule of Gods Law; but by the second Covenant, the acceptation of our performances, prayers, praises, are founded on Christs Righteousness, and Gods mercy in him, in whom only they are sweet-smelling Sacrifices, and accepted as our persons are, for he hath made us to be accepted as to both only in the beloved, Eph. 1.4.
4 They differ in respect of the motive from which they proceed; for the great motive of our obedience in the Covenant of Grace, is not fear of threatenings and wrath in case of disobedience, which by the Covenant of Works is the main thing sways men to duties, nor is it a purchase of Heaven to themselves by their holiness, which also by that Covenant is a predominant motive of mens obedience, but it is love and gratitude, and that not simply to God as Creator, but as Redeemer, as the Text here showeth, I brought thee out of the House of B •ndage, it is that we may set forth the praises of him who called us, and that we may glorify him that has bought us: where Duties have these qualifications, they are consist nt with Grace, and subservient to it; but when those are wanting or excluded. Christ is wronged, and men turn legal, and in so far fall from and overturn Grace.