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

Spanhemius. If it be well said that the sound of the heavens is gone to the end of the world,¹ that may be said truly of the Preaching of the Gospel. Junius to that sense. But 1. the place saith not that God called with a will,² to save the Gentiles: The Scripture saith, he winked at them, and called them not, Acts 14.16. But now God commandeth all men every where to repent, Acts 17.30. and he revealed not his Testimonies to them.³ Now was not the same Gospel-book in the Pages of the works of Creation, as legible to the Gentiles before, as after the coming of Christ in the flesh? Nor can the Gospel which never came to the ears of many Indians and millions of people, it being to them a non ens, and an un-heard of Doctrine, explain the book of Creation; as the thing that shadows out Christ, as the New Testament clears the Types of the Old: Nor doth the Scripture any where tell us, what work of Creation or Providence, expresseth Christs dying for our sins, rising for our righteousness: Nor doth the Scripture tell us of an Emblem, in nature, of God Incarnate, of the Man Christ in glory pleading at the right hand of God for us;⁴ And no doubt, the Lords natural desires of saving all, calling and inviting all to Repentance▪ of Christs dying for all, his natural willingness that all and every one should obey, do not ebb and wax and decrease, as the Sea and Moon do, and therefore his taking such a course with all the Gentiles, that no word of the Covenant comes to their ears, so that then at that time, they were without Christ, being aliens from the Common-wealth of Israel, and strangers from the Covenant of promise, ⁵having no hope, and without God in the world, Eph. 2.12. And in time past were no people (in Covenant) and had not obtained mercy,