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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. Why, Sir, you said that the Lord did speak to them out of the tabernacle, and from the mercy-seat; and that doubtless was according to the tenor of the covenant of grace, and not according to the tenor of the covenant of works.
Ant. Why, Sir, you said that the Lord did speak to them out of the tabernacle, and from the mercy-seat; and that doubtlesse was according to the tenor of the covenant of grace, and not according to the tenor of the covenant of works.
Evan. I pray you take notice, that after the Lord had pronounced all those blessings and curses, Deut. 28. in the beginning of th• 29. chap. it is said, These are the words of th• covenant which the Lord commanded Moses to make with the children of Israel in the land of Moab, beside the covenant which he made with them in Horeb. Whereby it doth appear to me, that this was not the covenant of works which was delivered to them on mount Sinai; for the form of that Covenant was eternal blessings and curses, but the form of this Covenant was temporal blessings and curses, so that this rather seems to be the pedagogy of the Law, than the Covenant of works, for at that time these people seemed to be carried by temporal promises in the ways of obedience, and deterred by temporal threatenings from the ways of disobedience: God dealing with them as in their infancy and under-age, and so leads them on and allures them, and fears them by such respects as these, because they had but a small measure of the spirit.
Evan. I pray you take notice, that after the Lord had pronounced all those blessings and curses, Deut. 28. in the beginning of th• 29. chap. it is said, These are the words of th• covenant which the Lord commanded Moses to make with the children of Israel in the land of Moab, beside the covenant which he made with them in Horeb. Whereby it doth appeare to me, that this was not the covenant of works which was delivered to them on mount Sinai; for the form of that Covenant was eternall blessings and curses, but the form of this Covenant was temporall blessings and curses, so that this rather seems to be the pedagogie of the Law, than the Covenant of works, for at that time these people seemed to be carried by temporall promises in the wayes of obedience, and deterred by temporall threatnings from the wayes of disobedience: God dealing with them as in their infancie and under-age, and so leads them on and allures them, and feares them by such respects as these, because they had but a small measure of the spirit.