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

7. Victory is promised to Christ over all his enemies: The Lord will not leave his soul in grave, Psal. •6.10. Therefore (saith the Lord speaking Covenant-ways, Isai. 53.12.) will I divide him a portion with the great, and he shall divide the spoil with the strong: because he hath poured out his soul unto death. He shall triumph over principalities and powers, Col. 2.15. Luk. 11.22. and shall make all his enemies his footstool, and subdue them, so that he shall fill the pits with the dead bodies, Psal. 110.1, 6. and plague all his enemies, Gen. ••.3. Psal. 89.2•. I will beat down his foes ⟨p. 353⟩before his face, and plague them that hate him. It supports not a little our faith, that when we tremble before temptations from Satan and the mighty of the world, the Lord hath written & Covenanted to Christ all his and our enemies destruction. Our turning away our eye from the Covenant is the cause why we succumb; Christ, under his sorest assault with hell and hells pursuivants and officers, devils, and the felt anger of a forsaking God, doubles his grips on the Covenant, my God, my God, Psal. 22.1. Mat. 27. O my Father, Mat. 26. Psal. 89.26. He shall cry to me, my Father, my God. A Covenant is (as it were) more then a promise, being a solemn promise in condescension of mercy: So the Church, Psal. 89.38, 39