1. The Titles given to it are in special four.
1. A Covenant of Peace. So it is styled, Ezek. 34. 25. and 37. 26. By Peace is meant Reconciliation with God; for Adams transgression caused enmity betwixt God and man. But by this covenant, that enmity is put away, and peace made. Hereupon the Mediator that caused that peace, is styled the Prince of Peace. Isaiah 9. 6. and Christ is said to be our peace, Eph. 2. 14.
2. A Covenant of Life. Mal. 2. 5. for life, even eternal life, is the main thing promised in this Covenant.
3. A Covenant of Salt, Numb. 18. 19. Salt maketh things long continue. It here implies a perpetuity. The perpetuity of this Covenant, is in opposition to the Covenant of Works, which was soon disannulled.
4. An everlasting Covenant. Isai. 55. 3. This showeth the extent of the aforesaid perpetuity, that it shall never have end, Jer. 33. 20, 21.
2. The Author of this Covenant is God, considered as a Father, propitious,1 […] ready to receive man, though a transgressor, into grace and savour. Deut. 32. •. Though there be the same Author of the Covenant of Works and Grace, yet, in •aking the one and the other Covenant, he may admit a double consideration. The consideration of a Creator and Lord in the former; but the consideration of a Father, and Saviour in the latter.2
3. The procuring Cause was Gods free Grace, Mercy and Compassion. Gods […] pleasure and mere will was the cause of the former: not any worth or de• in man. But now man was in misery: in such misery, as all the Creatures in the World were not able to deliver him. The Lord thereupon pitied man, and in […] compassion entered into this other Covenant with him. Ezek. 16. 4, 5, 6. &c. […] doth much amplify this other Covenant of Grace.3
4. The Mediator with whom the Covenant of Grace was made, is Christ Jesus,4 God-Man; for there was not only an infinite distance betwixt the Creator and crea•, as in mans first estate, but also plain contrariety betwixt the pure, holy, righteous God, and impure, unholy, unrighteous sinners: so as God could not with clear, evident, and full satisfaction of justice, enter into a Covenant immediately with man fallen, without a Mediator: neither could there be any other Mediator5 then Christ God-Man. 1 Tim. 2. 5.
5. The time when this Covenant was first made, was anon after the former Covenant was broken.
1. The Titles given to it are in special foure.
1. A Covenant of Peace. So it is stiled, Ezek. 34. 25. and 37. 26. By Peace is meant Reconciliation with God; for Adams transgression caused enmity betwixt God and man. But by this covenant, that enmity is put away, and peace made. Hereupon the Mediator that caused that peace, is stiled the Prince of Peace. Isaiah 9. 6. and Christ is said to be our peace, Eph. 2. 14.
2. A Covenant of Life. Mal. 2. 5. for life, even eternal life, is the main thing promised in this Covenant.
3. A Covenant of Salt, Numb. 18. 19. Salt maketh things long continue. It here implies a perpetuity. The perpetuity of this Covenant, is in opposition to the Covenant of Works, which was soon disanulled.
4. An everlasting Covenant. Isai. 55. 3. This sheweth the extent of the aforesaid perpetuity, that it shall never have end, Ier. 33. 20, 21.
2. The Authour of this Covenant is God, considered as a Father, propitious,1 〈…〉 ready to receive man, though a transgressor, into grace and savour. Deut. 32. •. Though there be the same Authour of the Covenant of Works and Grace, yet, in •aking the one and the other Covenant, he may admit a double consideration. The consideration of a Creator and Lord in the former; but the consideration of a Father, and Saviour in the latter.2
3. The procuring Cause was Gods free Grace, Mercy and Compassion. Gods 〈…〉 pleasure and meer will was the cause of the former: not any worth or de• in man. But now man was in misery: in such misery, as all the Creatures in the World were not able to deliver him. The Lord thereupon pittyed man, and in compassion entered into this other Covenant with him.
- 12. The Author.2. The Authour.
- 23. The procuring cause.
- 34. The Mediator.
- 4See chap. 1. verse 9. Sect. 118.
- 55. The time when.
