A77979:1646
An exposition with practical observations continued upon the fourth, fifth, sixth, and seventh chapters…
An exposition with practical observations continued upon the fourth, fifth, sixth, and seventh chapters of the prophesy of Hosea· Being first delivered in several lectures at Michaels Cornhill London. By Jeremiah Burroughs. Being the fifth book, published by Thomas Goodwin, William Greenhil, Sydrach Simson William Bridge, John Yates, William Adderly.An exposition with practical observations continued upon the fourth, fifth, sixth, and seventh chapters of the prophesy of Hosea· Being first delivered in several lectures at Michaels Cornhil London. By Jeremiah Burroughs. Being the fifth book, published by Thomas Goodwyn, William Greenhil, Sydrach Simson William Bridge, John Yates, William Adderly.
London: printed for Peter Cole, 1650
Title page typeset from the transcription.
AN EXPOSITION Of the PROPHESY of HOSEA. › Chapter 6 › Verse 7
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
1My Covenant] The Covenant of God we usually divide into two parts; but the Scripture to me seems to hold forth a threefold Covenant: the one of Works, that which was made with Adam in Paradise. The other Covenant is that which was made with Abraham, the Covenant of Grace, the tenor of which is this, I will be thy God, and the God of thy seed after thee. Then there was a Covenant which was made with them upon mount Sinai. Now the Covenant here cannot be meant immediately of the Covenant of works, nor of the Covenant of grace, for this Covenant here implied, is one especially made with them, and therefore must be understood of that at mount Sinai, made many hundred years after the others, yet it hath reference to that of Works, and of Grace.
1My Covenant] The Covenant of God we usually divide into two parts; but the Scripture to me seems to hold forth a threefold Covenant: the one of Works, that which was made with Adam in Paradise. The other Covenant is that which was made with Abraham, the Covenant of Grace, the tenor of which is this, I will be thy God, and the God of thy seed after thee. Then there was a Covenant which was made with them upon mount Sinai. Now the Covenant here cannot be meant imediatly of the Covenant of works, nor of the Covenant of grace, for this Covenant here implyed, is one especially made with them, and therfore must be understood of that at mount Sinai, made many hundred years after the others, yet it hath reference to that of Works, and of Grace.
- 1Covenant with God 3 fold. 1. with Adam. 2. with Abraham. 3 with Israel
And were this knot rightly understood and untied, the Antinomians and we might easily be reconciled; for we grant that Believers are delivered from the Law in respect of the power of it, as condemning; from the rigour of it, but not from the duties of the Law; for the things commanded in the Law were duties before the Law was given, the Law was written in the hearts of the Saints from the beginning. But the opening of this point would require a whole Exercise, and I shall reserve this to some other time.