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A79028	Two solemne covenants made between God and man: viz. [brace] the covenant of workes, and the covenant of grace. [brace] Clearly laid open, distinguished, and vindicated from many dangerous opinions; the right knowledge of which [sic] will be very profitable to all those that have escaped the first, and are confirmed in the second at the Sacrament. January 15. 1646. Imprimatur. John Downame.	Calamy, Edmund, 1600-1666.	1647 (1647)	Wing C268; Thomason E373_6; ESTC R201327	30,224	34

in that when God sent his first begotten sonne into the world he saith let all the Angells of God worship him Heb. 1.6 and to men he saith this is my beloved sonne heare him Mat. 17.3.5.17 then the Covenant of grace was made with him Fifthly If God say of Christ behold my servant whom I uphold mine elect in whom my soule delighteth he shall bring forth judgement to the Gentiles he shall not be discouraged till he have set judgement in the earth and the Iles shall wait for his Law and I will give thee for a Covenant to the people to open their eyes and to bring out the prisoners from the prison then the Covenant of grace must needs be made with Jesus Christ but the first is true Isai 42.1.4.6 7. therefore so is the second and that the covenant was made with Jesus Christ see further thou my servant shalt restore the dispersed of Israell and I will give thee a light to the Gentiles that thou maist give salvation unto the ends of the earth the the Redeemer of Israel and the holy one he shall chuse thee and accept thee and give thee for a Covenant to establish the earth see Isa 49.6 7 8 9. then the new covenant was made with Jesus Christ Sixthly If the Lord looked from Heaven and saw that there was no man to make intercession and then his own arme brought salvation and his own righteousnesse it sustained him because he travelled in the greatnesse of his strength and is mighty to save yea if God laid help upon one that is mighty and this was Jesus Christ he shall save his people from their sins Mat. 1.21 then this must needs be Jesus Christ with whom the Covenant of grace was made but the first is true from these Scriptures Isa 59.16.63 1. Psa 89.19 then it must needs be Jesus Christ with whom the Covenant of grace was made Seventhly If Christ became our surety and was bruised for our iniquities and the chastisement of our peace was upon him and by his stripes we are healed then the new Covenant was made with him but the first is true from these scriptures Heb. 7.21 Isa 53.3.5 1 Pet. 3.18 Ergo so is the second Eightly If Christ be the messenger of the Covenant and all the promises made in him and there is no other name given by which we shall be saved then the covenant was made with him but the first is true from these scriptures Mal. 3.1 2 Cor. 1.20 Acts 4.12 Ergo so is the second Ninthly If God hath promised to Christ that he shall see his seed and that the pleasure of the Lord shall prosper in his hand and if we be chosen in Christ adopted and accepted in Christ and gathered together and blessed in him and our names written in his books of life then the covenant was made with Christ but the first is true from these Scriptures Isa 53.10 Ephe. 1.3 4 5 6.10 Revel 13.8 Ergo then the covenant of grace was made with Jesus Christ The next thing is to shew how we come to be freed from the filthinesse and the guiltinesse of our condition wherein we are borne and do lye under the covenant of works I answer the holinesse of Jesus Christ his person doth sanctifie our unholinesse he is called the holy child Jesus Acts 4.30 that holy thing Luke 1.35 he was the sonne of God and he was the sonne of Man yet not two sons but one sonne of God or one Christ and though he took our nature upon him yet not by generation from man he was conceived by the holy Ghost Luke 1.36 therefore not conceived and borne in sin as we are for their sakes saith Christ I sanctifie my selfe that they also might be sanctified John 17.19 thus by his holinesse we become holy as by Adams filthinesse we became filthy Secondly For the merits of Christs obedience to the covenant of works he hath freed his people from the guilt of their disobedience to that covenant of works he was made under the Law to redeem them that are under the Law Gal. 4.4 5. now the obedience of Christ to the covenant of works was two-fold First his active obedience to that covenant who did performe it without any spot of sin he saith of his obedience to his Father I do alwaies those things that please him John 8.29 he finished the work that his Father gave him to do John 17.4 and saith his Father this is my beloved son in whom I am well pleased Mat. 3.15 thus hath the perfect obedience of Jesus Christ satisfied for all the disobedience of his people to the covenant of works Secondly The other part of Christs obedience was passive he suffered the penalty due unto us for our disobedience to that covenant though he were a son yet learned he obedience by the things which he suffered and being made perfect he became the author of salvation to all them that obey him Heb. 5.8 9.2.10 it behoved Christ to suffer and to rise from the dead the third day Luke 24.26.46 Christ hath once suffered for sins the Just for the unjust that he might bring us to God 1 Pet. 3.18 he that knew no sin neither was guile found in his mouth who when he suffered he threatned not but committed himselfe to him that judgeth righteously 1 Pet. 2.25 he alone trod the winepresse of his Fathers wrath and there was none with him Isa 63.3 he cry'd out the pains of hell gat hold of him and he cryed out My God my God why hast thou forsaken me now the dignity of his person being both God and Man in one Christ his humanity suffering but a short time made his obedience so meritorious to free us from that guilt and penalty that is due unto us for our breach of that covenant In the next place I am to shew how we come to enter into this new covenant with Jesus Christ I answer by faith alone faith is that grace on our part by which we are grafted into the second Adam Rom. 5.2 Gal. 3.26.2.16 and so come into this covenant as by nature we are in the first Adam and so in his covenant so he that believeth in Christ shall not perish but have eternall life John 3.15 16. he that hath the son hath life 1 John 5 22. onely beleeve Mark 5.36 being justified by faith we have peace with God Rom. 5.1 for as by the offence of Adam judgement came upon all men in his nature to condemnation even so by the righteousnesse of Christ the free gift came upon all that are in him by faith unto justification of life Rom. 5.18 now faith uniting us unto Christ as the head and members 1. Cor. 12.12 makes all the active and passive obedience of Christ to be ours by imputation and likewise all our sinfulnesse and guiltinesse to be his and he coming as a surety takes upon him to pay all our debts and by our matrimoniall union with him all his riches becomes

law at Sinai to be a covenant of grace Lastly he saith we must retain that distinction of a large and a strict sence of the law but I say let him take the law at Sinai as strict or as large as he will it is not a covenant of grace and therefore cannot state a man in grace only it is given both to them and us as a rule to walk by and we ought still to obey it so far as we are able and yet not as a covenant of grace but as a rule of life In the next place I shall prove that the law at Sinai was not a covenant of works if the Lord had set them upon a covenant of works this would have disanul'd the covenant of grace given 430. years before and if salvation came by works it is no more of grace Gal. 3.17.18 Rom. 11.6 but saith Paul is the law against the promises of God God forbid Gal. 3.21 then the law at Sinai was not a covenant of workes Secondly if the law at Sinai had been a covenant of works this were to make them their own savoiurs but it was the happinesse of Israel to be saved by the Lord Deut. 33.29 then the law at Sinai was not a covenant of works Thirdly If all mankind lye dead in sin under the guilt and penalty of the covenant of works already then they are uncapable of another covenant of works but all men are dead in sins 1 Ephes 2.1 Rom. 5.12.3.19 then the law at Sinai was not given to Israel as a covenant of works but as a rule of life to them being in the covenant of grace before Fourthly If Israel was a peculiar speciall holy people to the Lord and yet born into the world dead in sin uncapable of working then this must needs be done by a covenant of grace but they were such a people Deut. 7.6 then not by working but by faith in that covenant of grace confirmed to Abraham 430. yeares before they became such a people and not by the law at Sinai Fifthly If Israel was married to the Lord as the spous to the husband and in relation of children to their father then this was done by the covenant of grace confirmed to Abraham but Israel was such a people Jer. 3.14 Isa 54.5 Hosea 2.19 20. Psal 103.13 Isa 49.15 then the law at Sinai was only a rule of life but not a covenant of works whereby to make themselves such a people Sixtly If the Lord had put them that were dead in sins and under the curse and penalty of the covenant of works already to work themselves out of that misery by doing the works of that covenant this had been no mercy at all to Israel but that law at Sinai was a great mercy to Israel he had not dealt so with any nation as to give them his lawes and Statutes Psal 147.18 19. then it was not given to them as to Adam a covenant of works but as a rule of life Now some may ask why it is so frequent in the old Testament doe this and live and if ye keep my Covenant then ye shall be a peculiar people unto me above all people Exodus 19.5.6 I answer it is no more then is said in the new Testament he that doth the will of my Father shall come to heaven and he that keepeth my Commandements hath right to the tree of life and shall enter into the holy City the doers of the Law are blessed in the deed see Mal. 7.21 Rev. 22.14 James 1.25 2. This doth not deny the doing of the law by a surety for it is not said that no other shall do it for thee but do this either thy selfe or by a surety and thou shalt live 3. There is an Evangelicall doing of the Law when with our desire and endeavour we obey the whole Law 4. We must understand it to be of those in the covenant of grace who do all in the strength of Christ and his perfect obedience to the law is imputed to them as if they had done it and they obeying the law not as a covenant of works but as a rule of life and God accepting it as done by themselves and that perfectly they that thus do the law shall live yet this doth not make the morall Law to be a covenant of Works Now some it may be will say there is more then two covenants made with mankind for saith the Lord behold the daies come that I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel and with the house of Judah Jer. 31.31 then if it be a new covenant it is neither the covenant of Workes with the first Adam nor the covenant of grace with the second Adam I answer This promise is made to Israel and Judah at their return out of captivity but suppose it is meant now since the coming of Christ yet it amounts but to the same thing which is a new discovery or a larger manifestation of the covenant of grace made with Christ as mediator before the world began which was first declared to Adam immediately after his fall the seed of the woman shal break the Serpentshead Gen. 3.15 after that in processe of time Cain and Abel brought their offerings to the Lord and Abels lambe did then tipifie the true Lambe of God that taketh away the sins of the world for he was slain from the beginning of the world Rev. 13.8 John 1.29 and God accepted Abels offring Gen. 4.3 4. and God commanded Noah to take of clean beasts and foules into the Ark by seavens which was to sacrifice to the Lord and the Lord smelled a savour of rest and said in his heart I will not again ourse the ground for mans sake Gen. 7.2 3.8.20 21. now all this could not be so accepted but as they had faith in Christ the true sacrifice see their faith Heb. 11.4.7 after this when the ceremoniall Law was written through the whole book of Leviticus and from the 24. of Exodus to the 32. then they saw God and did eat and drink they saw the God of Israel with comfort and as it were the body of heaven in his clearnesse Exod. 24.10 11. that is the covenant of grace was manifested more clearly then formerly after this the Lord makes known unto them that a Virgin shall bear a son and call his name Imanuel after this unto us a child is born unto us a son is given and the government shall be on his shoulders it is so in respect of certainty Isa 17.14.9.6 for the covenant was made after the world began after this a further manifestation in Ezekiels vision where the foure estates of Christ are lively set forth his birth mean he had the face of a man 2. His life couragious he had the face of a Lyon 3. In his death sacrificed as an oxe 4. In his ascension like an Eagle Ezek. 1.4 compared with Rev. 4.7 now these are the badges or mottoes of the foure Evangelists for they