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

which newness and excellency is all expounded of the Mediator now God, the Word made Flesh, Heb. 7. c. 8. c. 9.

which newnesse and excellency is all expounded of the Mediator now God, the Word made Flesh, Heb. 7. c. 8. c. 9.

And we would remember that Rom. 11. Paul proves 1. God hath not cast off the Jews wholly.¹ 1. Arg. Because I Paul am a Jew, and he hath not cast me off: Ergo in one the Covenant may stand. 2. From his unchangeableness, God hath foreknown them. 3. From the example of the Church in the days of Elijah. By way of preoccupation, it is true many are fallen off: but as then seven thousand were in Israel who bowed not their knee to Baal, so now; Because the election of grace doth not fall now, or then. Then saith he, not of works. He reconceals that he saith with what before, by a preoccupation: And have all the Jews fallen short of righteousness? and he answers, All are not fallen short. The election, that is, the elected have obtained righteousness, the rest not. 2. To make way to exhort the Gentiles to walk worthy of the place and room of the Jews▪ He speaks some more of the doctrine of Reprobation, as he spake, Ch. 9. of eternal predestination, and of 2. The casting out of the Jews, and of their blinding and hardening. They have fallen in Gods decree, not that they may utterly fall. 2. That the Gentiles may be provoked by their fall.

And we would remember that Rom. 11. Paul proves 1. God hath not casten off the Jewes wholly.¹ 1. Arg. Because I Paul am a Jew, and he hath not casten me off: Ergo in one the Covenant may stand. 2. From his unchangeablenesse, God hath foreknown them. 3. From the example of the Church in the dayes of Elias. By way of poccupation, it is true many are fallen off: but as then seven thousand were in Israel who bowed not their knee to Baal, so now; Because the election of grace doth not fall now, or then. Then saith he, not of works. He reconceals that he saith with what before, by a preoccupation: And have all the Jewes fallen short of righteousnesse? and he answers, All are not fallen short. The election, that is, the elected have obtained righteousnesse, the rest not. 2. To make way to exhort the Gentiles to walk worthy of the place and room of the Jews He speaks some more of the doctrine of Reprobation, as he spake, Ch. 9. of eternall predestination, and of 2. The casting out of the Jews, and of their blinding and hardning. They have fallen in Gods decree, not that they may utterly fall. 2. That the Gentiles may be provocked by their fall.