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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 ninth difference, if the worship of the first covenant held out Christ to come, and the new covenant declares Christ to be already come, then it teaches us that to hold out any part of that worship now is to deny Christ to be come in the flesh, and so is Antichristian; now here he should tell us what be those types and shadows of Christ to come that still we observe, and it seems they are these from his words following, their worship was tied to one nation and to one place, Psal. 147.19, 20. Deut. 16.5, 6. but how dare this man affirm that we hold that God ought to be worshipped no where but in England, nor but in one place in England, when as we hold that God is worshipped as well in other Nations as in this, and in many hundred places in this Kingdom, as in London; then he saith their worship was carnal, from that text Heb. 9.1. where it is said that they were ordinances of divine service, for they were all instituted by God himself, and all was done as the Lord commanded Moses, Exod. 40. yet if he speak of those ordinances as they were used by those that had not faith, I grant they were carnal to them, and so are our ⟨image 16⟩Sacraments to those that have no faith in the thing signified by them, and to say ours are to be performed spiritually, so was theirs to them that saw the blood of Christ, which is the blood of the everlasting covenant, Heb. 10.29.13.20. the thing signified by the blood of beasts, Exod. 24.8.
The use of his ninth difference, if the worship of the first covenant held out Christ to come, and the new covenant declares Christ to be already come, then it teaches us that to hold out any part of that worship now is to deny Christ to be come in the flesh, and so is Antichristian; now here he should tell us what be those types and shadowes of Christ to come that still we observe, and it seems they are these from his words following, their worship was tyed to one nation and to one place,