A treatise of the covenant of grace, as it is dispensed to the elect…

1. For the first of these, That he took our nature upon him; the Apostle saith, Heb. 2.14, 15. &c. For as much as the children are partakers of flesh and blood, he also himself took part of the same, that through death he might destroy him who had the power of death, that is the devil, and deliver them who through fear of death, were all their life time subject to bondage, &c. Therefore it was truly said, Isa. 9.6. Unto us a Child is born, unto us a Son is given, &c. He took our nature upon him, lived a miserable life, died a cursed death; this is the proper character, and work of the Son; and thus he is made an horn of salvation to us, Luk. 1.69. and all this floweth from the everlasting Covenant, as also Zachariah Prophesied, Luk. 1.72, 73. To perform the mercy promised to our fathers, and to remember his holy covenant, the oath which he sware to our father Abraham: By him we have redemption through his blood, Eph. 1.7. Col. 1.14. He gave himself for us, that he might redeem us from all iniquity, and purify unto himself a peculiar people, zealous of good works. Tit. 2.14. This then is the first work of the Son, to Redeem us: And the very phrase of Redemption doth imply a double state of those that are ⟨p. 154⟩redeemed, without which it cannot be understood, to wit, The state whence and whereunto they are redeemed,

1. For the first of these, That he took our nature upon him; the Apostle saith, Heb. 2.14, 15. &c. For as much as the children are partakers of flesh and bloud, he also himself took part of the same, that through death he might destroy him who had the power of death, that is the devil, and deliver them who through fear of death, were all their life time subject to bondage, &c. Therefore it was truly said,