1. The Law as the Law or as a Covenant of Works is made with perfect men who need no mercy; But this Covenant is made with sinners, with an express preface of mercy: I am the Lord thy God that brought thee out of the land of Egypt, &c. It is made with stiff-necked Israel, 1Deut. 29. Deut. 30. c. 31. c. 32. and that is called a Covenant from the end and object, as motions are denominate from their end: for the end of the Lords pressing the Law upon them was to bring them under a blessed necessity to seek salvation in their true City of Refuge Christ Jesus, who redeemed them out of the spiritual bondage of sin. 2. It was the Covenant made with Abraham, which was a Covenant of Grace: and though it be called,2 Deut. 29.1▪ a Covenant beside that which was made in Horeb: Because 1. Renewed again after their breach. 2. Repeated a little before the death of Moses, Deut. 31.28.29.30. (3.) Because there were some additions of special blessings, cursings, Ceremonial Commands, that were not in the formerly proposed Covenant, Exod. 20. yet the same it was in substance, to love the Lord with all the heart, Deut. 2.10, 12, 13, 14. The same with that of Abraham, Deut. 8.18. That he may establish his Covenant, which he sware unto thy fathers, as it is this day, When he is to deliver them out of Egypt, Exod. 2.24. And God ⟨p. 61⟩heard their groaning, and remembered his Covenant with Abraham and Isaac and Jacob. So the Lord expones it in his appearing to Moses, Exod. 3.6. Jer. 31.32. Not according to the Covenant which I made with their fathers, in the day that I took them by the hand, to bring them out of the Land of Egypt. Now that was the Covenant which God made with Abraham, of which Circumcision was a seal, Gen. 17. not of a temporary Canaan only, but of heart Circumcision, Col. 2.11. For the Lord expressly tells th••, when he took them by the hand as his married people, to bring them out of the Land of Egypt, and out of the house of bondage, Exod. 20. He meant no other Covenant then he made with Abraham, of believing, Gen. 15. and of walking before him and being perfect, Gen. 17.1, 2. which is somewhat more legal, as Moses ▪ and the Lord himself expones it, Exod. 2.24. Exod. 3.6. Exod. 20.1, 2. And he shows them, Lev. 26.
1. The Law as the Law or as a Covenant of Works is made with perfect men who need no mercy; But this Covenant is made with sinners, with an expresse preface of mercy: I am the Lord thy God that brought thee out of the land of Egypt, &c. It is made with stiff-necked Israel, 1Deut. 29. Deut. 30. c. 31. c. 32. and that is called a Covenant from the end and object, as motions are denominate from their end: for the end of the Lords pressing the Law upon them was to bring them under a blessed necessity to seek salvation in their true City of Refuge Christ Jesus, who redeemed them out of the spirituall bondage of sin. 2. It was the Covenant made with Abraham, which was a Covenant of Grace: and though it be called,2 Deut. 29.1▪ a Covenant beside that which was made in Horeb: Because 1. Renued again after their breach. 2. Repeated a litle before the death of Moses, Deut. 31.28.29.30. (3.) Because there were some additions of speciall blessings, cursings, Ceremoniall Commands, that were not in the formerly proposed Covenant, Exod. 20. yet the same it was in substance, to love the Lord with all the heart, Deut. 2.10, 12, 13, 14. The same with that of Abraham, Deut. 8.18. That he may establish his Covenant, which he sware unto thy fathers, as it is this day, When he is to deliver them out of Egypt, Exod. 2.24. And God ⟨p. 61⟩heard their groaning, and remembred his Covenant with Abraham and Isaak and Jacob. So the Lord expones it in his appearing to Moses, Exod. 3.6. Jer. 31.32. Not according to the Covenant which I made with their fathers, in the day that I took them by the hand, to bring them out of the Land of Aegypt. Now that was the Covenant which God made with Abraham, of which Circumcision was a seal,
- 1The Law as proponed to Israel was the very Covenant of Grace.
- 2The Covenant made at Horeb, was the same which God made with Abraham.
