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

And tho with the greatest rejoicing we most thankfully accept God's new Covenant of Grace, yet we cannot own a new Law of his making, till we hear it more clearly proclaimed by God himself.

And tho with the greatest rejoicing we most thankfully accept God's new Covenant of Grace, yet we cannot own a new Law of his making, till we hear it more clearly proclaim'd by God himself.

I must confess I was a little surprised at what I next read in my Reverend Brother's Learned Discourse; The Law of Grace we speak of, (says he) is both New and Old in different respects: It is New in respect of the Covenant ⟨p. 64⟩of Works made with Adam in his State of Innocency^a. What! is it a new Law of a fresher Date, that the old One being useless, God saw it needful to promulgate another, lowered to lesser degrees of Duty, and so suited to the present Estate of Sinners? I am confident my Learned Brother will not assert this, tho it unhappily falls out that his Words seem to imply it^b.

I must confess I was a little surpriz'd at what I next read in my Reverend Brother's Learned Discourse; The Law of Grace we speak of, (says he) is both New and Old in different respects: It is New in respect of the Covenant ⟨p. 64⟩of Works made with Adam in his State of Innocency^a. What! is it a new Law of a fresher Date, that the old One being useless, God saw it needful to promulgate another, lower'd to lesser degrees of Duty, and so suted to the present Estate of Sinners? I am confident my Learned Brother will not assert this, tho it unhappily falls out that his Words seem to imply it