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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A67258	Of the benefits of our Saviour, Jesus Christ, to mankind	Walker, Obadiah, 1616-1699.; R. H., 1609-1678.	1680 (1680)	Wing W405; ESTC R18640	157,560	244

Christian religion since he hath attained his just bounds their defences have been wonderfully successful not so their invasions And since the last divisions in the Church 1500. the many as unprosperous civil wars of Christians amongst themselves As on one side the famous invasion of the Swedes the attempts of the Reformed in the low-Countries in France On the other side the invasion of 88 The powderconspiracy the late insurrection of the Romanists in Ireland c. without any considerable advantage to that side which ever it be that is orthodox Neither did Moses and the giving of the law annul or weaken the covenant of grace being seniour to this promulgation of the law as it was renewed to Abraham yet being before him also 430 years Gal. 3. 17. neither yet did the Gospel i. e. the covenant of grace manifested and accomplisht in the times of the Gospel annul or weaken the law See Gal. 4. 21. Rom. 3. 31. -3. 21. And therefore the Gospel is said as to be preached to Abraham so also to them in the wilderness tho many of them it profited not as also now it doth not being not mixed with faith in many of the hearers Heb. 4. 2. And first for the law Ceremonial it was nothing but the Gospel in symbole and type and therefore is not abolished by the Gospel when fully manifested but only by being compleated and improved as the Gospel in shadow by the Gospel in substance or a child is by becoming a man Gal. 4. 3. -3. 24. Secondly for the law moral it now well consists with the Covenant of the Gospel not one title of it being expunged but rather as some think much enlarged and a stricter observance thereof then by Moses required by our Saviour See Ma●…t 5. 17 18. comp 19 20. Rom. 8. 4. 1 Cor. 7. 19. And it was included and presupposed in the Covenant of grace transacted with Abraham Gen. 18. 19. Why then should we think that the law given at Sinai did not well accord with the Gospel that was then also preached Heb. 4. 2. Nay that more perfect knowledg of Gods will the giving of the law to Jacob c. whilst other nations walking in darkness were not so dealt with Ps. 147. 19. is quoted as a great priviledg and favour to that people by the Apostle Rom. 3. 2. -2. 18. -9. 4. where the Apostle reckons among benefits not only the promises and one Covenant but the Covenants and the giving of the law and rejoyced in as such every where by the Psalmist Ps. 119. -147. 20. which rendred them I mean the sons of faith not of works much more holy and less sinners then generally the Gentiles were see Gal. 2. 15. being a lantern to the feet of the children of the spirit as a letter of condemnation to those of the flesh and in that it is said to bring nothing to perfection Heb. 7. 19. being intimated to have the power to advance men some steps toward it For tho the law was not the Gospel nor the ministration of the letter the same with that of the spirit nor that of Moses with that of Christ yet one was subservient and a precognitum unto the other And it was first in order to receive the precept to tell us what is to be performed and then the spirit to enable us to perform it tho without the spirit also we never perfectly know it Therefore the first law-giving was to Adam as soon as created and to it answered especially the divulging of the Gospel to Abraham again the law was set forth again and as it were reprinted by Moses at Sinai and to it answered the manifestation and last edition of the Gospel by Christ coming in the flesh Yet tho thus the law is before the Gospel in order of nature yet not in time for even Adam himself as he had an external command to observe which was the letter of the law so had he the spirit to enable him for it and that the same spirit which is to us restored by the Gospel The ministration therefore of the law by Moses taken single and abstractively by it self from the ministration of the spirit which was also administred at the same time tho not in its great solemnity to the children of the promise and of faith tho not by Moses was of nothing but the letter and that letter a killing one impressed in stone but not upon the heart the the ministration of death 2 Cor. 3. 7. a Covenant faulty i. e. defective and no salvation by it but the promise annexed was only He that doth shall live in them a sentence of condemnation and so it accidentally happened to be then as now also to those who were of works and not of faith Gal. 3. 9 10. to those who had the administration of the letter only and not of the spirit In which sense taken all things are said in its disparagement the law ceremonial making nothing perfect the moral all fuller of sin and all those oppositions of the law to the Gospel and of Moses to Christ. See Heb. 8. 9. Therefore where the Apostle makes any such opposition 't is either of the more obscure manifestation of the Gospel and promises in the times under the law in respect of those after the incarnation of Christ Or of the law Ceremonial sometimes also called the old Covenant in respect of its accomplishment in Christ as this occurs often in the Epistle to the Hebrews Or not of the book of the old Testament i. e. of Moses and the Prophets to the new Testament i. e. of the Gospel of our Saviour for thus the new Testament is also contained in and proved out of the old but of the law moral considered by it self in the old Testament and abstracted there from all the promises of Gods mercy and of grace that are frequent in it only as it rigidly commands all righteousness forbids all sin promiseth rewards to those that keep denounceth punishments to those that transgress it and meanwhile changeth not helpeth not at all mans natural pravity and inability to observe it Yet thus also as the letter only it served well by shewing men their sins and inability to perform them to drive them forward with the rod of this Schoolmaster into the Covenant of grace see Rom. 3. 19 21. -9. 32. Gal. 3. 22 24. and to make them look after a Redeemer by seeing how guilty they stood before God and after the spirit promised and procured by him by seeing their former self-weakness which spirit and redeemer then also offered themselves to the children of faith Tho many of the Israelites abused this intention of the law by seeking justification by it rather then by faith Rom. 9. 32. whilst mean-while the ministration of the spirit see 2 Cor. 3. 6 7 8. Rom. 8. 2. Heb. 8. 10 11. writ it upon the hearts of the faithful by which spirit as the just lived and had