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The Marrow of Modern Divinity
The marrow of modern divinity touching both the covenant of works, and the covenant of grace, with their use and end, both in the time of the Old Testament, and in the time of the New : wherein every one may clearly see how far forth he bringeth the law into the case of justification, and so deserveth the name of legalist : and how far forth he rejecteth the law, in the case of sanctification, and so deserveth the name of Antinomist : with the middle path between them both, which by Jesus Christ leadeth to eternal life : in a dialogue, betwixt Evangelista, a minister of the Gospel, Nomista, a legalist, Antinomista, an Antinomian, and Neophytus, a young Christian / by the author, E.F. ; before the which there is prefixed the commendatory epistles of divers divines of great esteem in the city of London ; whereunto is also added, the substance of aThe marrow of modern divinity touching both the covenant of works, and the covenant of grace, with their use and end, both in the time of the Old Testament, and in the time of the New : wherein every one may cleerly see how far forth he bringeth the law into the case of justification, and so deserverh the name of legalist : and how far forth he rejecteth the law, in the case of sanctification, and so deserveth the name of Antinomist : with the middle path between them both, which by Iesus Christ leadeth to eternall life : in a dialogue, betwixt Evangelista, a minister of the Gospel, Nomista, a legalist, Antinomista, an Antinomian, and Neophytus, a young Christian / by the author, E.F. ; before the which there is prefixed the commendatory epistles of divers divines of great esteem in the citie of London ; whereunto is also added, the substance of a
London: printed by R. Leybourn for Giles Calvert, 1646
THE MARROW OF Modern Divinity.THE MARROVV OF Modern Divinity.
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.
Ant. But how doth it appear, that this his sacrificing was the very same day that he sinned?
Ant. But how doth it appeare, that this his sacrificing was the very same day that he sinned?
Evan. It is said, Joh. 7.13. concerning Christ, •hat they sought to take him, yet no man laid hands on him, 1because his hour was not yet come But after that, when the time of his sufferings was at hand, he himself said, The hour is come: 2which day is expressly set down by the Evangelist Mark to be ⟨p. 31⟩the sixth day, and ninth hour of that day, when Christ, through the eternal Spirit, 3offered up himself without spot to God. Now if you compare this with Exod. 12.6. you shall find, that the Paschal Lamb, a most lively type of Christ, was offered the very same day and hour, even the 6. day,4 and 9. hour of the day, which was at 3 of the clock in the afternoon: and the Scripture testifieth that Adam was created the very same sixth day, and gives us ground to think that he sinned the same day. And do not the fore-alleged Scriptures afford us warrant to believe that it was the very same hour of that day when Christ entered mystically and typically upon the work of redemption,5 in being offered as a sacrifice for Adams sin? And surely we may suppose that the covenant (as you heard) being broken between God and Adam, Justice would not have admitted of one hours respite before it had proceeded to execution, to the destruction both of Adam and the whole Creation, had not Christ in the very nick of time stood as the Ram (or rather the Lamb) in the bush, and stepped in to perform the work of the covenant. And hence I conceive it is, that St. John calls him the Lamb slain from the beginning of the world;