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Two solemn covenants made between God and manTwo solemne covenants made between God and man
Two solemn covenants made between God and man: viz. [brace] the covenant of works, and the covenant of grace. [brace] Clearly laid open, distinguished, and vindicated from many dangerous opinions; the right knowledge of which [sic] will be very profitable to all those that have escaped the first, and are confirmed in the second at the Sacrament. January 15. 1646. Imprimatur. John Downame.Two solemne covenants made between God and man: viz. [brace] the covenant of workes, and the covenant of grace. [brace] Clearly laid open, distinguished, and vindicated from many dangerous opinions; the right knowledge of which [sic] will be very profitable to all those that have escaped the first, and are confirmed in the second at the Sacrament. January 15. 1646. Imprimatur. John Downame.
London: printed for Thomas Banks, 1647
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Fourthly, He saith it is true that the law is a killing letter to those that take it without Christ, and so is the gospel, but I would know how any can take Christ from the moral law at Sinai when as he was never tendered by that law, Christ only is tendered in his own covenant of grace made from all eternity, and the promises in Christ are yea and amen, 2 Cor. 1.19. but he saith if any had said to Moses your doctrine is but a killing letter and not a doctrine of life, he ⟨p. 14⟩would have been judged a blasphemer against the law of Moses, I answer, as the Law at Sinai was a rule to believers, if any man despised this Law he dyed without mercy, because by Christ it was made a rule for them to walk by, and such a one showed plainly that he was not a believer, and so not in the covenant of grace confirmed before to Abraham, so then the law at Sinai was a rule of life, but the gospel is the chief instrumental cause of life; and therefore he that sins against the gospel shall have the great punishment, yet all this will not make the law at Sinai to be a covenant of grace.
Fourthly, He saith it is true that the law is a killing letter to those that take it without Christ, and so is the gospell, but I would know how any can take Christ from the morall law at Sinai when as he was never tendred by that law, Christ only is tendred in his own covenant of grace made from all eternity, and the promises in Christ are yea and amen, 2 Cor. 1.19. but he saith if any had said to Moses your doctrine is but a killing letter and not a doctrine of life, he ⟨p. 14⟩would have been judged a blasphemer against the law of Moses, I answer, as the Law at Sinai was a rule to beleevers, if any man despised this Law he dyed without mercy, because by Christ it was made a rule for them to walk by, and such a one shewed plainly that he was not a believer, and so not in the covenant of grace confirmed before to Abraham, so then the law at Sinai was a rule of life, but the gospell is the chiefe instrumentall cause of life; and therefore he that sins against the gospell shall have the great punishment, yet all this will not make the law at Sinai to be a covenant of grace.