The NEW COVENANT, OR, A Treatise, unfolding the order and manner of the giving and receiving of the Covenant of Grace to the ELECT.

The NEW COVENANT, OR, A Treatise, unfolding the order and manner of the giving and receiving of the Covenant of Grace to the ELECT.

ACTS 7.8. And he gave him the Covenant of Circumcision.

This blessed Servant of God, Steven, being called to account concerning what he had said touching Jesus Christ his destroying the Temple, it is the scope of his whole discourse throughout this Chapter, to justify the doctrine that he had taught; that though Jesus of Nazareth should destroy that place, yet in so teaching he taught not blasphemy. And this he doth (in way ⟨p. 2⟩of an holy History or Narration) make evident in the first place from the sweet communion which their Fathers had with God, before either Temple or Tabernacle was built; and if so, then he would not have them look at it as unsafe for them, or as an utter ruin to Religion, if that both the Temple and the Ordinances of the Temple were destroyed in themselves, and fulfilled in him. And first, the passages of Abraham's communion with God, Steven doth relate and maintain, before any of Moses his Customs were known.

THis blessed Servant of God, Steven, being called to account concerning what he had sayd touching Jesus Christ his destroying the Temple, it is the scope of his whole discourse throout this Chapter, to justifie the doctrine that he had taught; that though Jesus of Nazareth should destroy that place, yet in so teaching he taught not blasphemy. And this he doth (in way ⟨p. 2⟩of an holy History or Narration) make evident in the first place from the sweet communion which their Fathers had with God, before either Temple or Tabernacle was built; and if so, then he would not have them look at it as unsafe for them, or as an utter ruine to Religion, if that both the Temple and the Ordinances of the Temple were destroyed in themselves, and fulfilled in him. And first, the passages of Abrahams communion with God, Steven doth relate and maintaine, before any of Moses his Customes were knowne.