I. My Brethren,1 how Man had God to be his God at first in the Covenant of Works, I shall not speak of here; 'tis evident that by breaking the first Covenant, he lost God, or that Blessed Covenant Relation he stood in to him; but now we have a new Title, God is ours again, and on better and more sure Basis, viz. upon the account of Christ's Mediation and Satisfaction—I will be your God, 2compared with Jer. 32.38. Cap. 24.7. and 30.31.33. Now that these Promises refer to the Covenant of Grace, See Heb. 8.8, 9, 10. And finding fault with them, he saith, Behold the Days come, saith the Lo•d, when I will make a New Covenant with the House of Israel, and the House of Judeth, ver. 8. Not according to the Covenant that I made with their Fathers, in the Day when I took them by the Hand to lead them out of the Land of Egypt: Because they continued not in my Covenant, and I regarded them not, v. 9. For this is the Covenant, &c.—I will put my Laws in their Mind, and write them in their Hearts, and I will be to them a God, &c. This being (as I said) the great and chiefest Gift, ⟨p. 226⟩and Grant in the Covenant, I shall proceed to show how God comes in this Covenant to be our God.
I. My Brethren,1 how Man had God to be his God at first in the Covenant of Works, I shall not speak of here; 'tis evident that by breaking the first Covenant, he lost God, or that Blessed Covenant Relation he stood in to him; but now we have a new Title, God is ours again, and on better and more sure Basis, viz. upon the account of Christ's Mediation and Satisfaction—I will be your God, 2compared with Jer. 32.38. Cap. 24.7. and 30.31.33. Now that these Promises refer to the Covenant of Grace, See Heb. 8.8, 9, 10. And finding fault with them, he saith, Behold the Days come, saith the Lo•d, when I will make a New Covenant with the House of Israel, and the House of Judeth, ver. 8. Not according to the Covenant that I made with their Fathers, in the Day when I took them by the Hand to lead them out of the Land of Egypt: Because they continued not in my Covenant, and I regarded them not, v. 9. For this is the Covenant, &c.—I will put my Laws in their Mind, and write them in their Hearts, and I will be to them a God, &c. This being (as I said) the great and chiefest Gift, ⟨p. 226⟩and Grant in the Covenant, I shall proceed to shew how God comes in this Covenant to be our God.
- 1How we come to have God to be our God.
- 2Ezek. 36.27.
