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A28344	Vindiciæ foederis, or, A treatise of the covenant of God enterd with man-kinde in the several kindes and degrees of it, in which the agreement and respective differences of the covenant of works and the covenant of grace, of the old and new covenant are discust ... / [by] Thomas Blake ... ; whereunto is annexed a sermon preached at his funeral by Mr. Anthony Burgesse, and a funeral oration made at his death by Mr. Samuel Shaw.	Blake, Thomas, 1597?-1657.; Burgess, Anthony, d. 1664.; Shaw, Samuel, 1635-1696.	1658 (1658)	Wing B3150; ESTC R31595	453,190	558

and upon him when the work was done he might have been justly annihilated If merit be taken in a proper sense Adam in innocency was too low for it all his work being an homage due no profit redounding to God and the work bearing no proportion to the reward But a more superabundant measure of Grace is seen in Gods entrance into covenant with man in his fallen condition and infinitely more savor is shewn in his reconciliation then in his preservation Therefore this by way of eminency hath the honour to be stiled the covenant of Grace the other retaines the name of the covenant of Works These two bearing these denominations have their respective agreement and differences which are to be enquired into but before I reach those it is necessary that somewhat be spoken to assert a covenant of grace in Gospel-times and to give us some further light for a right understanding of it CHAP. III. A Covenant in the proper nature of it between God and fallen man asserted BEfore I proceed any further in this work one great rub that lies in the way is to be removed otherwise not only all that which I have said but also all that which I shall speak on this subject will fall to the ground and that is their objection that say that God hath not entred any covenant properly so called with fallen man He hath by way of Sovereignty laid commands upon man Of free grace hath made rich and large promises by way of legacy bequeathed life and salvation to him but hath entred no covenant properly so called as these say with him which is purposely done to avoid those conditions which are asserted in this covenant If this stand the division before laid down of a Covenant into a Covenant of Works and a Covenant of Grace necessarily falls such a division must not be suffered where any one member of the division is not If therefore there be no covenant of God with fallen man nor no such thing as the covenant of Grace there can be no such division of the covenant and all agreement or differences assigned will be between an entity and a non-entity between that which hath a reality and a meer Chimaera A covenant therefore in the proper nature of it is to be asserted and the speed●est way to make this good is to prove from Scripture the name and the thing that the word Covenant is there and the thing in the proper nature of it which the words hold out and all of this respective to the transactions between God and fallen man The word we finde in places without number it were a needlesse labour to give instances when every Reader is able to furnish himself with such multitudes But when this cannot be denyed the impropriety of the speech is objected It is called by the name of a Covenant as is said when in strict propriety of speech it is no covenant But to avoid this the thing it self may be as easily proved as the word and when we have nomen and nominis rationem then we have a covenant not equivocally not yet analogically but properly so called And here I may deal liberally with any adversary and undertake to make proof not only of all the essentials of such a covenant in Scripture but the usual adjuncts not onely of all that makes up the nature but all accessories usually added to the solemnity of covenants The essentials or real properties of a covenant are contained in the usual definitions which afterwards we shall see laid down from several hands all of which are in short comprised in these words A mutual consent of parties with stipulation on both sides Parties consent and mutual engagement is all that is required to the same being of a covenant when two parties agree and either of them both have their conditions to make good there is a covenant or bargaine see it exemplified in several instances given Chap. 1. All of these we finde in that one place Deut. 26. 17 18 19. in the covenant that God enters with his people Thou hast avouched the Lord this day to be thy God and to walk in his wayes and to keep his Statutes and his Commandments and his Judgements and to hearken to his voice And the Lord hath avouched thee this day to be his peculiar people as he hath promised thee and that thou shouldest keep all his Commandments And to make thee high above all Nations which he hath made in praise and in name and in honour and that thou mayest be an holy people unto the Lord thy God as he hath spoken There are the Covenanters God and his people There is consent on both parties Thou hast avouched the Lord hath avouched And there is a stipulation on both sides On Gods part To make them high above all Nations which he hath made in praise and in name and in honour On the peoples part To keep all his Commandments to be an holy people There are covenant-mercies from God to his people unto which of grace he engages himself and there are covenant-duties unto which man stands engaged Psal 103. 17 18. But the mercie of the Lord is from euerlasting to everlasting upon them that fear him and his righteousnesse unto childrens children to such as keep his Covenant and to those that remember his Commandments The usual solemnities of a covenant are also found in the transactions between God and his people as well as the essentials of it 1. Covenants used to be written for memorial for posterity and so is the covenant between God and man as in Old so in New Testament-times These things are written that you might believe and that believing you may have everlasting life John 20. 31. 2. Covenants used to be confirmed with outward visible signes as the killing of beasts Gen. 15. Jer. 34. this was done in the old administration Exod. 24. Half of the blood was sprinkled upon the Altar to denote Gods entering of Covenant vers 6. The people also were sprinkled with blood to shew their voluntary entring into covenant vers 8. And in the new dispensation a new and unheard of ratification was used the blood of the Mediatour of the Covenant Math. 26. 27 28. This Cup is my blood in the New Testament which was shed for you and for many for the remission of sins This latter is a plain allusion to the former in which you may finde 1. A threefold agreement Either of both these were covenants 2. Either of both these had their ratifications and confirmations 3. Either of both were confirmed with blood 2. A threefold difference 1. The former was the Old covenant which was antiquated This is the New 2. The former was ratified and sanctified with the blood of beasts This is ratified and sanctified in the blood of Christ 3. That blood could never take away sin Heb. 10. This was shed for many for remission of sins Thirdly covenants use to be confirmed by seal so is

sinners of the Gentiles Gal. 2. 15 16. All these identities evidence one and the same Church ours and theirs Therefore say I unto you the Kingdome of God shall be taken from you and given to a Nation bringing forth the fruits thereof Matth. 21. 43. The same Kingdom was taken from them and given to us was taken from the Jewes and given to the Gentiles where Sem left there Japhet took possession Gen. 9. 27. Sems Tents are Japhets These speak the covenants into which we have successively entred to be one and the same in substance A covenant entred by the same parties upon the same termes and propositions on either hand is the same covenant Such is the Old covenant entred with the Jewes and the New covenant entred with Christians they are therefore one and the same in substance CHAP. XXXII Differences assigned between the Old and New covenant THese covenants are not in that manner fully and entirely one but there is difference in the way of administration They are one in substance constituting one Church one Kingdome but different in circumstances Upon which account they are distinguished by the names of the Old and New the first and second Covenant Some have made it their ambition to rise as high as may be in the number of differences and have assigned several where there is a full accord and perfect agreement I shall lay down such where the difference is clear and afterward take view of those imaginary differences upon which any controversie of moment hangs 1. They differ in the agents employed in administration of these respective covenants entred of God and upheld and continued with his people The Old covenant was administred and held forth by Servants only Prophets Priests and such as God pleased to appoint whether by ordinary call as those of the Tribe of Levi who were appointed among men in things appertaining to God Or extraordinary to whom he spake in visions and dreams God in sundry wayes and manners as the Apostle to the Hebrews observes then speaking to his people Heb. 1. 1. The New covenant is held forth by the Son as in the same place the Apostle witnesseth He was the Angel or Messenger of the covenant Upon that errand he came from the Father clothed with our flesh This is that great salvation which first began to be spoken to us by the Lord Heb. 2. 3. And this he carries on by his delegates and deputies whom from the right hand of the Father he gifts and qualifies 2. They differ in their extent and latitude as to the Nations taken into covenant The Old covenant received only the Jews To them appertained the Adoption the Glory and the Covenants Rom. 9. 4. Circumcision the Seale of the covenant was proper to them with some few of other Nations that forgetting their own people and their fathers house joyned themseves to them whilest other Nations were known by the name of uncircumcision being without title to that Seale and were without Christ aliens to the common-wealth of Israel and strangers from the covenant of Promise Eph. 2. 12. Therefore the Apostles before the vaile was taken away had that restraint upon them Matth. 10. 5. Go not into the way of the Gentiles and into any City of the Samaritans enter ye not The lost sheep of the house of Israel being in covenant onely were in their commission That was a valley of vision All other people were in darknesse They were a people of God Others were no people The New covenant takes in all Nations respective to the covenant no Nation hath any barre put to it but in every Nation he that feareth God and worketh righteousnesse is accepted with him Act. 10. 35. Christ having taken away the partition wall the Apostles have a commission for the discipling of all Nations so that in Christ Jesus There is neither Jew nor Greek Scythian nor Barbarian Col. 3. 11. 3. They differ in their duration or continuance The Old covenant had but its date of time which being expired it must give way for the New to succeed Thus the Apostle reasons from the Prophets prediction of a New covenant Heb. 8. 13. In that he saith A New covenant he hath made void the Old now that which decayeth and waxeth old is ready to vanish away This was to stand till times of reformation Heb. 9 10. This second covenant must remaine till the end of time These are called the last dayes in that after these there must be no change of Ordinances The Ministery now established is to remaine to the end of the world Matth. 28. 20. and the Sacraments until Christs second coming unto judgement 4. They differ in the way of dedication or consecration The Old covenant was dedicated and purified with the blood of Bulls and Goats and other Sacrifices which according to the Law were slaine and offered as the Apostle to the Hebrews observes from Exod. 24. 7 8. Heb. 9. 19 20 21. When Moses had spoken every precept to all the people according to the Law he took the blood of calves and goats with water and Scarlet-wool and hysope and sprinkled both the book and all the people saying This is the blood of the Testament which God hath enjoyned you Moreover he sprinkled with blood both the Tabernacle and all the vessels of the Ministery But in the New Testament the dedication is in the blood of Christ This is my blood in the New Testament shed for you and for many for the remission of sins Where we see 1. An agreement Either of both are Testaments and covenants Either of both have their dedication Either of both are dedicated in blood 2. An answerable difference and opposition The first was the Old Testament to be antiquated The second the New to succeed in place of the Old The first was dedicated in the blood of Bulls and Calves The second in the blood of the Mediatour in my blood saith Christ The first had no possible power to take away sinne as the Apostle presently shews chap. 10. 4. But this is shed for many for the remission of sins The Apostle in the words immediately before these quoted gives the covenant the name of a Testament though a covenant and a mans last Will and Testament really differ seeing herein they agree that the covenant had its validility as a Testament by the death of him that made the covenant Heb. 9. 16 17. 5. They differ in the way of exhibition of Christ the glory and grace of the covenant And upon a threefold account here there is a difference 1. In the Old covenant we have Christ only in a Promise to be incarnate to suffer and to rise again and to be received unto glory Under that covenant light was by way of prophecie In the New covenant he is evidently set forth as come in the flesh Having been dead and now alive Rev. 1. 18. Having suffered in the flesh risen again and entred into glory To us

it is not a prophecie but a Gospel 2. In the Old covenant all was held out to the people under types figures shadows All about the Tabernacle and Temple Persons U●ensils Sacrifices did lead to Christ all of these darkly holding him forth They had a shadow of good things to come and not the image of the things themselves Heb. 10. 1. a little of reality in a great bulk of ceremony In the New Testament the truth of it is clearly and manifestly without figure or type held forth unto us 3. In the Old Testament knowledge was dim and obscure It could be no other when it was wrapt up in prophecies and types A prophecie is a riddle till it be unfolden and little is known of a man by his shadow comparative to that which is seen in the man himselfe Therefore though the state of the Jewes in Old Testament times was a state of light comparative to the darknesse that was with other people and their land was called a valley of visions Isa. 22. 1. yet it was little more than darknesse comparative to that light which in Gospel times is revealed Christ was a Minister of circumcision and when he began his Ministery in the land of Zebulon and Nepthali the Text says The people that sate in darknesse saw a great light Mat. 4. 16. Circumcision therfore in different respects was both a Priviledge and a Bondage A Priviledge Rom. 3. 1. It was a great mercy to have light let in at any crevice promises any way sealed and ratified to us A Bondage Acts 15. 10. To live in so dim a light and to be laden in so burdensome a way was a heavy yoke So that as the Apostle putting the question What advantage the Jew had and what priviledge there was of circumcision above and before the Gentile Rom. 3. 1. answers Much every way and gives in his reason of the preheminence So in case the question should be put What advantage hath the Christian and what priviledge there is of Baptisme above and before the Jew Answer may be made Much every way and the reason given of the preheminence in Gospel-times in the particulars above mentioned So that the New covenant is a better covenant established upon better promises Heb. 8. 6. Promises are more full and clear Though it must be confest that a Christians preheminence above the Iewes doth not equal a Iewes preheminence above the Gentile The Iew was in covenant with God and was heire of the Promise The Gentiles were aliens from the Common-wealth of Israel strangers from the covenant of Promise having no hope and without God in the world Ephes 2. 12. The Iew was in the same covenant in his time as Christians are in Gospel-times There is not a promise in the New covenant whether it be for priviledges conferred upon us or graces wrought in us but by the help of that light we may finde in the Old covenant the same held out as after will be more clearly manifested The betternesse is in the greater ease being freed from that bondage of the ceremonial yoke and in their more distinct clearnesse The glory of all that the covenant doth tender being in so clear and full a way held out in Gospel-times that he that is least in the Kingdom of God under the glory of the New Testament-revelation is greater in the way of Gospel-Mysteries then John Baptist who was the greatest of Prophets greater than a Prophet Those Prophets that did foresee and foreshew the Birth Life Death Resurrection Ascension of Christ the triumphant conquest of his enemies his glory at the right hand of his Father the spreading of the Gospel the call of the Gentiles did not themselves see it as now the meanest that are in Christ do understand it no more than they who now preach through Christ the Resurrection of the dead the everlasting blisse of glorified Saints in their eternal fruition of Gods presence are able to understand it in that measure as the meanest that then shall have the happinesse to enjoy it 6. They differ in the Seales annext for either of their ratification and confirmation for howsoever they are of the same use leading to one and the same thing signified the Jewes had Christ in their Sacraments 1 Cor. 10. 4 1 Cor. 5. 7. and we have no more in ours yet they differ in the outward stamp or effigies as I may so speak as well that of initiation as that of corroboration The initiating Sacrament of the Jewes which gave them the denomination of the people of God was that painful circumcision in the flesh signum vile incivile yet those that would be the Lords did and must submit unto it All of Abrahams seed with him received that signe And all of those that with him would joyne unto the Lord. This was to be the leading Sacrament He that was not circumcised in the flesh might not eat of the Passeover Exod 12. 48. And when a stranger shall sojourne with thee and will keep the Passeover unto the Lord let all his males be circumcised and then let him come neer and keep it and he shall be as one that is borne in the land for no uncircumcised person shall eat thereof A full Text against all that plead for unbaptized persons admission to the Lords Table God will not suffer that disorder that the leading Sacrament should come after The initiating Sacrament with Christians is that of Baptisme no sooner was a man brought into covenant but he was streight baptized assoon as he made profession he had this sealing engaging signe the application of water which is of an abstersive cleansing nature implying our staine and guilt and leading us thither where purification and freedome is found the Spirit and blood of Jesus Christ The following Sacrament in the Old covenant was that of the Passeover a Lamp without blemish to be eaten in the place and way that God prescribed That in the New Testament is the Supper of the Lord in ordinary common useful and necessary elements Bread and Wine which are of a strengthning cheering nature Ps 104. 15. Implying our fainting feeble estate our disconsolate and sad condition and leading us where we may find both strength and consolation CHAP. XXXIII Positions tending to clear the first covenant under Old Testament-dispensations BEfore I proceed to the examination of those supposed differences which some have brought in to the prejudice of both covenants I shall lay down certain positions to give some light for the more clear understanding especially of the Old covenant and to help us if it may be in our judgements of them both as well in their agreement as their severall differences First Position God delivered unto Adam in Paradise not only a Law or Rule of life but also a Covenant as was before shewed So Moses in Mount Sinai delivered unto the people of the Jews not a Law or rule only but a covenant likewise This might be