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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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The use of his 8. difference, if the new covenant be so plain, and full of light, then let the people of it labour to walk as children of the light, and show forth the praises of him that hath called us out of darkness into his marvellous light, 1 Pet. 2.9. I answer, as before it was the moral law that was given with terror and thick darkness, Exod. 20.18.21. but not as a covenant but as a rule of life to those in covenant, and when the ceremonial Law was written they saw in comparison of the times before, as it were the body of heaven in its clearness, Exod. 24.4.10, 11. although those types and shadows were dark, compared with our clear manifestation; then he saith the note that the Scripture gives to know if they be in the light is this, if they love the brethren, meaning Anabaptists, 1 John 1.7. and those that desire to have them imprisoned, banished, or hanged, is from the dark spirit of Antichrist, who say, let us fill all presses and make all pulpits ring, and possess the Parliament, City and Kingdom against the sects, &c. and when Presbyterian Ministers cry continually to God, and the Magistrate, for fire from heaven we may safely conclude that this is from the dark spirit of Antichrist, ⟨image 15⟩for God under the old Testament appointed, that for many offences men should be put to death, as Numb. 15.36. but now to cut off by excommunication except for heresy, and that under two or three witnesses, but I say again that those under the old Testament were in the same covenant of grace as we, though not under the same discovery of it, and the new Testament is but the old fulfilled, and the old Testament is but the new in the promise, and they and we have all one heart & one way to fear the Lord for ever, Jer. 32.39. but then he saith that the Presbyterians will say they have more then two or three witnesses to prove their heresy, but he saith that cannot be, unless they be infallible, for their own interest blinds their eyes, and the whole business is in their own hands that are parties, witnesses, and judges, then it is not likely they should acknowledge that to be truth which their supposed adversaries hold, but will condemn it for Heresy. I ans.