A discourse of the true nature of the Gospel demonstrating that it is no…

But it will be needful to produce one Evidence more, who is the more material, because it is the same Person whom my Reverend Brother brings as a Witness for the Cause which he maintains of the Gospel's bring a Law. It is Gomarus himself, who gives this Definition of it;^a The Gospel is a Divine Doctrine, in which the secret Covenant of God, concerning Salvation out of pure Free Grace by Christ, is declared to Men fallen into Sin: and with the Elect it is begun, and preserved to their Salvation, and the Glory of God the Saviour. Here he speaks nothing of the Gospel, but that it is merely a Declaration of Grace, and the manifestation of the secret Purposes of it which were before hid in God's Heart; when therefore a little after he calls the Gospel a Law, in the Place cited by my Reverend Brother, he must necessarily understand the word Gospel in the large extensive Sense, as it signifies all the second Part of the Bible, not in the strict and properest Sense, as it implies only God's Covenant of Grace discovered to Man.

But it will be needful to produce one Evidence more, who is the more material, because it is the same Person whom my Reverend Brother brings as a Witness for the Cause which he maintains of the Gospel's bring a Law. It is Gomarus himself, who gives this Definition of it;^a The Gospel is a Divine Doctrine, in which the secret Covenant of God, concerning Salvation out of pure Free Grace by Christ, is declar'd to Men fallen into Sin: and with the Elect it is begun, and preserv'd to their Salvation, and the Glory of God the Saviour. Here he speaks nothing of the Gospel, but that it is meerly a Declaration of Grace, and the manifestation of the secret Purposes of it which were before hid in God's Heart; when therefore a little after he calls the Gospel a Law, in the Place cited by my Reverend Brother, he must necessarily understand the word Gospel in the large extensive Sense, as it signifies all the second Part of the Bible, not in the strict and properest Sense, as it implies only God's Covenant of Grace discovered to Man.

1. aEvangelium autem hoc modo non incommode definiri potest; Doctrina Divina, quâ Areanum Dei Foedus, de gratuitâ salute per Christum hominibus in peccatum lapsis annamciatur; & cum electis inchoatur ac conservatur, ad ipsorum salutem, & Dei servatoris gloriam. Gomarus, Disput. 14. Thes. 25. pag. 52. Tom. 3. oper. Amstel. 1644.