The covenant of life opened, or, A treatise of the covenant of grace

Yea but the New Testament offers Christ a Covenant, in the preached promises, alike to fathers and sons. Math. 4.16. The people (fathers and sons) that sate in darkness saw great light, &c. Math. 19.43. Therefore I say unto you, the Kingdom of God shall be taken from you and given to a nation bringing forth the fruits thereof. And is it not a punishment to be deprived of the Kingdom? If the Kingdom of God come where the Preached Covenant is, Math. 3.2. Math. 12.28. and the Bridegroom among them, and so cause of joy, Math. 9.15. and the Golden Candlesticks be there and the Son of God walking in the midst of the Golden Candlesticks, Rev. 1.20. c. 2.1. sure this is much to children. If it be said, it is very nothing, for children understand nothing of this. What then is meant by the Prophecy of the incoming of the Gentiles, Psal. 87.3. Glorious things are spoken of thee, O city of God. ¹4. I will make mention of Rahab and Babylon to them that know me; behold Philistia and Tyre, with Ethiopia, that man was born there. 5. And of Zion i• shall be said, this and that man was born in her. 6. The Lord shall count, when he writeth up the people, that this man was born there. And Christ Prophesying of the desolation extends the judgement of a despised Covenant to the children and the house, Math. 23.37.38. Luke 19.44. Luke 22.24. how should there be under the New Testament Covenant wrath, for the fathers Covenant breaking derived to the children, if in their fathers the sucking children brake not the Covenant, then they have been in Covenant with their parents, especially since a Visible Covenanting, by borrowed allusions to altars, speaking the language of Canaan, offering incense, swearing by the Lord, is spoken of Egypt and of five, that is, of many cities of Egypt, and of all the Gentiles,