Could not God give such a second Ministration or Transcript of his righteous and holy Law, tho not to Justification, yet to aggravate his Sin, and to his just Condemnation? And doth not St. Paul assert the same thing? Rom. 3 1•, 20, compared with Rom. 7. 13. That Sin by the Commandment (or Law) might become exceeding sinful: So Gal. 3. 19. Nay, I will […] always when the Scriptures of the New Testament speak of the old Covenant, or first Covenant, or Covenant of Works, it passes by in silence the Covenant made with Adam, and more immediately and directly applies to the Sinai Covenant, and to the Covenant of Circumcision, as all careful Readers, who read the Epistles to the Romans, Galatians, and to the Hebrews, may clearly find. But to proceed; Tho we say there is but one Covenant of Grace, yet it is evident there were several distinct Ministrations of it, or Additions to it; and we say, the Promise of the Gospel, or Gospel-Covenant, was the same in all Ages, in respect of things promised, with the nature and quality thereof, which is a •ree and absolute Covenant, without Works, or any Conditions or foreseen A••s of Righteousness, or any thing to be done by the Creature, Rom. 4. 5. The Substance and Essential Part of this Covenant is Christ Faith, a new Heart, Regeneration, Remission of Sins, Sanctification, Preservation, ⟨p. 57⟩and Everlasting Life. Yet this Evangelical Covenant had divers Forms or Transcripts of it, which •ified those things, and various Sanctions by which it was given forth and confirmed. To Adam the Promise was made, under the Name of the Seed of the Women bruising the Head of the Serpent; to Enoch, Noah, &c. in other Forms; to Abraham, under the Name of his Seed, in whom all the Nations of the Earth should be blessed; to Moses; by the Name of a great Prophet of his Brethren like unto him; and it was also signified to him under dark Shadows and Sacrifices: unto David under the Name of a Successor in his Kingdom: In the New Testament in plain words, We all, with open face, beholding as in a Glass the Glory of the Lord; 2 Cor. 3. 18.
Could not God give such a second Ministration or Transcript of his righteous and holy Law, tho not to Justification, yet to aggravate his Sin, and to his just Condemnation? And doth not St. Paul assert the same thing? Rom. 3 1•, 20, compared with Rom. 7. 13. That Sin by the Commandment (or Law) might become exceeding sinful: So Gal. 3. 19. Nay, I will 〈…〉 always when the Scriptures of the New Testament speak of the old Covenant, or first Covenant, or Covenant of Works, it passes by in silence the Covenant made with Adam, and more immediately and directly applies to the Sinai Covenant, and to the Covenant of Circumcision, as all careful Readers, who read the Epistles to the Romans, Galatians, and to the Hebrews, may clearly find. But to proceed; Tho we say there is but one Covenant of Grace, yet it is evident there were several distinct Ministrations of it, or Additions to it; and we say, the Promise of the Gospel, or Gospel-Covenant, was the same in all Ages, in respect of things promised, with the nature and quality thereof, which is a •ree and absolute Covenant, without Works, or any Conditions or foreseen A••s of Righteousness, or any thing to be done by the Creature, Rom. 4. 5. The Substance and Essential Part of this Covenant is Christ Faith, a new Heart, Regeneration, Remission of Sins, Sanctification, Preservation, ⟨p. 57⟩and Everlasting Life. Yet this Evangelical Covenant had divers Forms or Transcripts of it, which •ified those things, and various Sanctions by which it was given forth and confirmed. To Adam the Promise was made, under the Name of the Seed of the Women bruising the Head of the Serpent; to Enoch, Noah, &c. in other Forms; to Abraham, under the Name of his Seed, in whom all the Nations of the Earth should be blessed; to Moses; by the Name of a great Prophet of his Brethren like unto him; and it was also signified to him under dark Shadows and Sacrifices: unto David under the Name of a Successor in his Kingdom: In the New Testament in plain words, We all, with open face, beholding as in a Glass the Glory of the Lord; 2 Cor. 3. 18.
