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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
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Occasionally lighting upon this Dialogue, under the Approbation of a learned and judicious Divine, I was thereby induced to read it, and afterwards upon serious consideration of the usefulness of it, to commend it to the people in my public Ministry.
OCcasionally lighting upon this Dialogue, under the Approbation of a learned and judicious Divine, I was thereby induced to read it, and afterwards upon serious consideration of the usefulnesse of it, to commend it to the people in my publike Ministry.
Two things in it especially took with me: first the matter, the main substance being distinctly to discover the nature of the two Covenants, upon which all the mysteries both of Law and Gospel depend. To see the first Adam to be primus foederatus, in the one, and the second Adam in the other, to distinguish rightly betwixt the law standing alone as a Covenant, and standing in subordination to the Gospel, as a servant, this I assure my self to be the key which opens ⟨image 12⟩the hidden treasures of the Gospel.
Two things in it especially tooke with me: first the matter, the main substance being distinctly to discover the nature of the two Covenants, upon which all the mysteries both of Law and Gospel depend. To see the first Adam to be primus foederatus, in the one, and the second Adam in the other, to distinguish rightly betwixt the law standing alone as a Covenant, and standing in subordination to the Gospel, as a servant, this I assure my selfe to be the key which opens ⟨image 12⟩the hiden treasures of the Gospel.