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A80754	The covenant of God with Abraham, opened. Wherein I. The duty of infant-baptism is cleared. II. Something added concerning the Sabbath, and the nature and increase of the kingdome of Christ. Together with a short discourse concerning the manifestations of God unto his people in the last dayes. Wherein is shewed the manner of the spirits work therein to be in the use of ordinary gifts, not by extraordinary revelations. / By William Carter minister of the gospel in London.	Carter, William, 1605-1658.	1654 (1654)	Wing C679; Thomason E811_5; ESTC R207606	118,861	192

utter dark sayings of old Who is it that speaketh thus It is Christ of whom this was a prophesie as we see Matth. 13. 35. All these things spake Iesus in parables that it might be fulfilled that was spoken by the Prophet saying I will open my mouth in parables I will utter things which have been kept secret from the foundation of the world And as in the Psalme he saith Give eare O my people to my Law so when he had spoken his parable Matth. 13. 9. he addeth He that hath an eare to hear let him hear Well what is this Law that Christ will teach his people For we see the Psalme is a prophesie wherein Christ is brought in teaching his Disciples Law The Law that he teacheth is this He relateth the history of the Israelits how they provoked and tempted God and how he punished them in the Wildernesse and in Canaan how they being afflicted did repent and then sinned yet more and were not stedfast in his Covenant and what the carriage of the Lord was towards them all along in his dispensing punishments or mercy to them This he calleth his teaching his people his Law and this he saith he would declare to them that they might set their hope in God and not forget the works of God but keep his commandements and might not be as their Fathers a stubborn and rebellious generation that set not their heart aright v. 6 7 8. And this is the scope of Christ in the parable of the sower where he sheweth what befalls unfruitfull hearers some as the High-way some as the Stony some as the Thorny ground which the Holy Ghost makes parallel with that Psalm 78. in Matth. 13. 3. So as by that Psalme it is supposed that when he instructed and tutoured his people in the Wildernesse and in Canaan under the administrations of the Old Testament dispensing punishments and favours as a Father to his Children as occasion served he then taught his people his law and so as should serve for the ages after Christ as he saith vers 5. of that Psalm He established a testimony in Jacob and appointed a law in Israel which he commanded our Fathers that they should make them known to their Children that the Generation to come might know them even the children which should be born who should arise and declare them to their Children even in the ages after Christ for you see the Psalme is a prophesie to be then fulfilled The reason of this is because however the Law of the Old and that of the New Testament in circumstances and in the particular duties required do differ yet as to the substance or general nature of the Law they are one and the same As for instance the generall nature of the Law in both we have in the words of our Saviour Luke 10. 28. This doe and thou shalt live And of the Apostle Rom. 10. 5. The man that doth those things shall live by them So Nehem. 9. 29. and Ezek. 20. 11. The Law prescribes that rule and method of service which God hath set and sanctified in order to our enjoyment of life and blessednesse in and from himselfe More particularly three things there are in the generall nature of the Law and in respect of each of them it is one and the same to us as it was to them 1. A commanded rule or method of service to God Heb. 9. Then verily the first Covenant or Testament had also Ordinances of Divine Worship This word also supposeth both the one and the other to have such Ordinances of Divine Worship 2. That this rule or method of service so commanded is holy consisting of such things as have in their use a spiritual efficacy above the common course of nature Such were theirs to them and such are ours to us The Law is holy the Commandement holy Rom. 7. 12. and the Law is spiritual v. 14. Even those duties which are naturaly moral being now to be performed to a spiritual and supernatural end together with other institutions namely in order to enjoy communion with and life in God are spirituall and holy 3. These Ordinances or Commandements to be observed under penalties both corporal and spiritual the word life comprehends both which is our case as well as theirs 1 Cor. 10. 1. They were all baptized and did all eat the same spiritual meat and did all drink the same spiritual drink yet fell in the Wilderness for their lusting for their Idolatry Fornication tempting God and murmuring Now says the Apostle all these things happened unto them for examples and were written for our admonition upon whom the ends of the world are come Wherefore let him that thinketh he standeth take heed least he fall namely as they fell So Psal 95. applied by the Apostle to us of the New Testament Heb. 3. 4. Tempt not God nor provoke him as they did in the Wilderness least he swear against you in his wrath as he did against them And this he speaketh to beleevers as hath been shewed whom he calls the people of his pasture and sheep of his hand Psal 95. Holy brethren pertakers of the Heavenly calling Heb. 3. 1. whom also he supposeth to be in Christian Churches Heb. 13. 7. And we find that the profanation of the Sacrament by the Corinthians was punished also by corporall sicknesse and death 1 Cor. 11. For this cause many are weak and sickly among you and many are fallen a sleep Therefore I say the Law is a command to be observed upon penalties and rewards Psal 2. 12. Heb. 6. 10. onely to us his rewards and punishments are more in that which is spiritual and less in things corporal then they were to them Nor is this to be under a covenant of works It is true the Law to man in the state of Innocency before the Gospel was added was a covenant of works but ever since both to them before and to us after Christ the Law hath been as it were incorporated with the Gospel as thereby become part of the Covenant of grace Therefore the Law given by Moses is called the Testament of Christ as well as the Law given to us by Christ himself that the Old Testament this the New and both confirmed by his blood that in the type by the blood of Bulls and Goats this in the answer-type by his owne blood Heb. 9. 16. Where a Testament is there must also of necessity be the death of the Testatour whereupon nether the first Testament was dedicated without blood Now the Testament of Christ so confirmed must needs be of the covenant of grace not of works Therefore also what Moses saith of the Law given by him Deut. 30. 12. 14. It is not in Heaven that thou shouldst say who shall go up for us to Heaven and bring it unto us that we may hear it and do it but the word is very nigh unto thee in thy mouth and in thy heart c. This

onely in words but in his actions also his incarnation death resurrection ascention into glory even his whole work in the office of his Mediatourship upon record and unfolded in the writings of the New Testament Therefore the Apostle sayes the work of his Ministry was to give the light of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Christ 2 Cor. 4. 6. Therefore what the Apostles did in their Ministry was part of this his speaking by his Sonne for they gave forth no light into the world but in his face which is not meant of his naturall face for he was now ascended but by face is meant the whole draught or story of Christ as it is set forth in the writings of the Evangelists and Apostles Therefore also the Apostle saith the subject of his preaching was Christ crucified 1 Cor. 1. 23. and the summe of all that we learn in the Gospel is Christ Ephes 4. 20. Ye have not so learned Christ. By all which appears that this his speaking by his Sonne is not only by a voyce but by words and deeds both as they are set forth to us in the writings of the New Testament Therefore also if it be objected that even in the times of his speaking by his Sonne those extraordinary ways of revelation have been in use because the Apostles had them the answer is ready that what was done by the Apostles and Prophets in the Primitive times was his very speaking by his Sonne it was the meanes whereby the Sonne hath given out that word or manifestation of God which he had to speak and when the Apostle here opposeth this his speaking by his Sonne to those extraordinary wayes by Prophets in former times the meaning is not that the Sonnes speaking was not extraordinary but that being dispatcht and finisht which was done when what the Sonne had manifested was confirmed to us by those Witnesses chosen of God fitted and attested by miracles and gifts of the Holy Ghost Heb. 2. 3. 4. that afterwards those waies of Revelation should not be in use Obj. It will be said If speaking by Apostles and Messengers be a speaking by the Sonne why was it not a speaking also by the Sonne before his coming in the flesh when he spake by Prophets especially since those Prophets of old were also the Messengers of Christ for he that gave the New Testament and confirmed it by his blood Heb. 9. 16. gave also the Old Heb. 8. 8. And it was the spirit of Christ which spake in those Prophets 1 Pet. 1. 11. The Prophets searched what manner of time the spirit of Christ which was in them did signifie by which spirit also he preached to those who were disobedient in the daies of Noah 1 Pet. 3. 19. To this I answer Answ First that it is true the spirit of Christ spake in them and they were sent by Christ the Son of God but the Sonne was not then made known as now he is therefore the Apostle Paul saith of himself that God did chuse him to reveale his Sonne in him or by him Gal. 1. 16. And the Evangelist speaking of the Word or Sonne of God saith of those times the light shone in darknesse and the darknesse comprehended it not Joh. 1. 5. therefore also the message was not then delivered in the Sonnes name as now it is We as Ambassadours for Christ beseech you 2 Cor. 5. 20. therefore though he spake in those Prophets yet that was not this speaking by the Sonne Secondly because then he spake onely by Messengers now he came himself and spake and the manifestation of God by him was not more by what he said then by what he was and did and though by Messengers still yet their work was onely to lay open and make out to us that manifestation of God which was given by the Sons coming and by what he said and did The worke of the Prophets then was to declare what the spirit of Christ revealed to them but the work of the Apostles and other Pen-men of the New Testament was to set forth and unfold what Christ himselfe in the whole work of Redemption had said and done which the Apostle cals a revealing of the Son by him and a preaching Christ crucified and a giving the knowledg of the glory of God in his face Gal. 1. 16. 1 Cor. 1. 23. 2 Cor. 4. 6. therfore though this is done in some part by Messengers yet is it called a speaking by the Sonne the other not Which Objection being answered we may conclude that this his speaking by his Sonne takes in all the Scriptures of the New Testament in which the words and workes of Christ are set forth either by way of History as in the Evangelists or of Explication as in the Epistles or of Prophesie as in the Revelation And I must adde that it contains also the Scriptures of the Old Testament because he came to fulfill the Law and the Prophets and because what was spoken by the Prophets darkly was spoken over again by the Sonne with greater light according to that usual saying The New Testament was vailed in the Old the Old revealed in the New So as the summe of the point is this that what we have in Scripture manifested of God is all we are to expect of extraordinary revelations what else is to be done in Gods discovery of himself and his truth unto us is to be had in the use of ordinary gifts by study and searching out the mind of God from what the Sonne hath spoken in them For a confirmation of this truth something is further to be observed from those words in the Text 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 in these last dayes which words imply that there were certain periods of time foregoing there is at least a first and a second where there is a last Take one from Adam to Moses another from him to Christ then from Christ to the end of the World is the last Now what is it which makes these distinct periods of time namely the several degrees of Gods manifesting himself to the Sons of men now therefore because ours is the last we are to expect no other such manifestations of God but what we have received by this his speaking by his Sonne as we have it in the Text In these last daies he hath spoken to us by his Sonne To this may be added that in the Parable when messengers were sent at last he sent his Sonne and after him none Matth. 21. 37. And it is said that he reveals unto us all the Fathers mind All that I have heard of the Father have I declared unto you Joh. 15. 15. and none hath seen God at any time the onely begotten Sonne who is in the bosom of the Father he hath declared him A further evidence of this truth we have yet in the Text from that second note of difference mentioned in opening the words namely that however by those Prophets to them he