1. It instructeth us in Gods aspecial love to man. Man was a sinner, and retained2 a rebellious disposition against God, when God made the foresaid covenant of grace with him. There was no reason that could be found in man to move God hereunto. When we were enemies we were reconciled. Man neither offered to God, nor desired of God any atonement. The whole cause therefore resteth in God: even in his free grace and undeserved love. This love of God to man the Apostle layeth down as the true reason of the covenant of grace, Tit. 3. 4, 5. See more hereof in a plaster for the plague, on numb. 16. 46. §. 34.
2. It instructeth us in the desperate condition of those that reject this covenant3 of grace, and still stand at odds with God. This is to count the blood of the covenant an unholy thing, which is a great aggravation of sin, Heb. 10. 29. That blood which is there intended, is the blood of the Son of God, shed to ransom us from our […]. It is the most precious thing that could have been offered up to the Creator; and to man the more precious, because it was the blood of the covenant: that is, that blood whereby Gods covenant with man for remission of sins, reconciliation with God, all needful grace, and eternal bliss is sealed up. Thus the covenant was made a Testament: that is, unalterable, and inviolable, (Heb. 9. 16, 17.) so as that blood was most precious in it self, and to man most useful and beneficial. To count this an unholy thing, cannot be but a great aggravation of sin. The word which the Apostle useth in this aggravation, which we translate unholy, properly signifieth bcommon: which implieth that those persons do account it to have no more virtue and efficacy then any other blood. In the law-phrase things profane and unholy were called common, Mark. 7. 2.
⟨p. 259⟩2. The Covenant of grace affordeth singular comfort to poor sinners, who on apprehension5 of their sinfulness and unworthiness, fear least they should be utterly […] off. But let such call to mind this Covenant of grace, how God for his own […], on his free grace and favour, hath entered into Covenant with men, to give […] life in Christ: requiring nothing of them, but that they reach out the hand of […], to receive this grace, and to repent of their former rebellions against him, to come into him, and to accept of atonement and reconciliation.
1. It instructeth us in Gods aspecial love to man. Man was a sinner, and retained2 a rebellious disposition against God, when God made the foresaid covenant of grace with him. There was no reason that could be found in man to move God hereunto. VVhen we were enemies we were reconciled. Man neither offered to God, nor desired of God any attonement. The whole cause therefore resteth in God: even in his free grace and undeserved love. This love of God to man the Apostle layeth down as the true reason of the covenant of grace, Tit. 3. 4, 5. See more hereof in a plaster for the plague, on numb. 16. 46. §. 34.
2. It instructeth us in the desperate condition of those that reject this covenant3 of grace, and still stand at odds with God. This is to count the blood of the covenant an unholy thing, which is a great aggravation of sin, Heb. 10. 29. That blood which is there intended, is the blood of the Sonne of God, shed to ransom us from our 〈…〉. It is the most precious thing that could have been offered up to the Creator; and to man the more precious, because it was the blood of the covenant: that is, that blood whereby Gods covenant with man for remission of sins, reconciliation with God, all needful grace, and eternal blisse is sealed up. Thus the covenant was made a Testament: that is, unalterable, and inviolable, (Heb. 9. 16, 17.) so as that blood was most precious in it self, and to man most useful and beneficial. To count this an unholy thing, cannot be but a great aggravation of sin. The word which the Apostle useth in this aggravation, which we translate unholy, properly signifieth bcommon: which implyeth that those persons do account it to have no more virtue and efficacy then any other blood. In the law-phrase things prophane and unholy were called common, Mark. 7. 2.
⟨p. 259⟩2. The Covenant of grace affordeth singular comfort to poor sinners, who on apperhension5
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- 2Gods special love to man.
- 3Woe to them that reject the covenant of Grace.
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- 5Consolation from the covenant of grace.
