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A42773	The ark of the covenant opened, or, A treatise of the covenant of redemption between God and Christ, as the foundation of the covenant of grace the second part, wherein is proved, that there is such a covenant, the necessity of it, the nature, properties, parties thereof, the tenor, articles, subject-matter of redemption, the commands, conditions, and promises annexed, the harmony of the covenant of reconciliation made with sinners, wherein they agree, wherein they differ, grounds of comfort from the covenant of suretiship / written by a minister of the New Testament.	Gillespie, Patrick, 1617-1675.	1677 (1677)	Wing G766; ESTC R3490	407,671	492

every one which seeth the Son and believeth on him may have everlasting life and I will raise him up at the last day Joh. 14.3 And if I go and prepare a place for you I will come again and receive you unto my self that where I am there ye may be also 2. But if ye enquire after the formal condition of the Covenant of Suretiship I say it was his whole obedience active and passive even unto death Phil. 2.8 and became obedient unto death even the death of the cross though the special principal eminent condition of this Covenant may be referred to the principal eminent last act of his obedience to that signal special command of laying down his life for the elect Joh. 10.18 No man taketh it from me but I lay it down of my self I have power to lay it down and I have power to take it again this commandment have I received of my Father For 1. This Covenant being a bargain betwixt Jehovah and Christ of buying a people to God then the whole price and ransom told down and payed for them must be the formal condition of that Covenant whereby we are bought with a price 1 Cor. 6.20 1 Pet. 1.18 19 For as much as ye know that ye were not redeemed with corruptible things as silver and gold from your vain conversation received by tradition from your Fathers but with the precious blood of Christ as of a Lamb without spot and without blemish 2. Christ was under a special explicite command for the performance of this condition of laying down his life as is clear from Joh. 10.18 and Christ was under a special act to obey this command as himself acknowledges Heb. 10.7 Then said I lo I come in the volume of the book it is written of me to do thy will O my God and therefore we may well call it the special condition of the Covenant of Suretiship 3. This solemn act of obedience in offering himself a Sacrifice to death for our sins is the condition of his bond of Suretiship that is most notised by the Holy Ghost and frequently referred unto as may be gathered from Heb. 9.14 15 26 How much more shall the blood of Christ who through the eternal Spirit offered himself without spot to God purge your consciences from dead works to serve the living God And for this cause he is the Mediator of the New Testament that by means of death for the Redemption of the transgressions that were under the first Testament they which are called might receive the promise of eternal inheritance but now once in the end of the world hath he appeared to put away sin by the sacrifice of himself Rom. 8.3 God sending his own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh and for sin condemned sin in the flesh And therefore when we speak of the condition of the Covenant of Suretiship this is to be held the special eminent condition thereof 4. The Father of our Lord Jesus Christ states the condition of this Covenant upon this eminent solemn act of his obedience even his making his soul an offering for sin c. for-vent which he makes the great promises of his glorious reward Isa 53. throughout 5. Our Lord Jesus Christ himself does own this as the special condition of his Coovenant of Suretiship and that both at his entring into the world Heb. 10.5 7 Wherefore when he cometh into the world he saith sacrifice and offering thou wouldst not but a body hast thou prepared me Then said I lo I come in the volume of the book it is written of me to do thy will O God And about or at the time of his leaving the world when he had fulfilled or was about to fulfil all his undertaking and conditions to his Father Joh. 17.4 I have glorified thee on the earth I have finished the work which thou gavest me to do With 19.30 When Jesus therefore had received the vinegar he said it is finished and he bowed his head and gave up the ghost These being the sum of the conditions required from Christ See Mr. Rutherf Treat of the Covenant p. 2. ch 11. And Mr. Robert's Medul Bibl. b. 2. c. 2. and undertaken by him let us enquire also after the promises made to Christ and the encouraging-conditions that were made to him by Jehovah for undertaking so hard a work as was the redemption and recovery of lost man These were of eight sorts The first kind of promises made to Christ in the Covenant of Redemption were such as relate to the offices authorities trusts and powers that were covenanted to him for the doing of this work 1. I say Jehovah promiseth to invest Christ with offices sutable to that great work of Redemption to make him Lord Mediator of the new Covenant to make him great Lord Ambassador that he might go and travel in that business of our Redemption to make him a King a Priest and a Prophet for effecting this business Psal 110. throughout The Lord said to my Lord sit thou at my right hand he shall judge among the heathen the Lord hath sworn and will not repent thou art a Priest for ever Isa 49.6 And 42.6 7 I will also give thee for a light to the Gentiles that thou mayst be my Salvation unto the ends of the earth to open the blind eyes c. Psal 2.6 7 Yet have I set my King upon my holy hill of Zion I will declare the decree the Lord said unto me c. 2. God did not only promise to invest Christ with offices and trusts but with authorities and powers also with headship and power of Judgment over Men and Angels that shall make them all bow to him Rom. 14.10.11 We shall all stand before the judgment seat of Christ for it is written As I live saith the Lord every knee shall bow to me and every tongue shall confess to God He was not a titular King or Priest nor a scenick one a King upon a stage but a King upon a throne Luk. 1.32 33 And the Lord God shall give unto him the throne of his father David And he shall reign over the house of Jacob for ever and of his kingdom there shall be no end A King that had power to bow the hearts of his Subjects and to crush the greatest Heads and Rulers in the world that oppose him Psal 110.3.5 6 Thy people shall be willing in the day of thy power The Lord at thy right hand shall strike through kings in the day of his wrath He shall judg among the heathen he shall fill the places with the dead bodies he shall wound the heads over many countries And 2.9 Thou shalt break them with a rod of iron thou shalt dash them in pieces like a potter's vessel And 45.3 4 5 Gird thy sword upon thy thigh O most mighty with thy glory and thy majesty And in thy majesty ride prosperously because of truth and meekness and righteousness and thy right hand

acceptable but a merit and satisfaction de condigno there being a just and equal proportion betwixt the fault committed and the satisfaction given and betwixt the reward promised and given to Christ and the obedience required from and performed by him Joh. 17.4 5 I have glorified thee on the earth I have finished the work which thou gavest me to do And now O Father glorifie thou me with thine own self Phil. 2.7 8 But made himself of no reputation and took upon him the form of a servant and was made in the likeness of man And being found in fashion as a man he humbled himself Wherefore God hath highly exalted him c. 5. The advantage redounding to both parties by this Covenant is equal I mean the glory and honour of this transaction for no other profit and goodness can redound unto the all-sufficient good Job 35.7 If thou be righteous what givest thou him or what receiveth he of thine hand Psal 16.2 3 My goodness extendeth not unto thee But to the Saints that are in the earth and to the excellent in whom is all my delight I say of the Covenant of Suretiship that though the profit is ours and extendeth only to the redeemed people yet the advantage of honour and glory doth equally reach both the parties transacting in their own order for thereby there is a peculiar honour of our Redemption and Salvation to God the Author thereof who gave Christ and sent him to work this Redemption and a peculiar honour to Christ Mediator to the Lamb the grand Instrument that wrought it and whose soul travelled in it So that the honour accrewing hereby is not peculiar to any one of the parties but parted betwixt them Joh. 5.23 That all men should honour the Son even as they honour the Father Rev. 7.10 And cryed with a loud voice saying Salvation unto our God which sitteth upon the throne and unto the Lamb. 5. Another Property of the Covenant of Redemption is order that which is said of the Covenant of Reconciliation that it 's ordered in all things is eminently true of the Covenant of Redemption It is a well-ordered Covenant and how can it be made otherwise since he that made it is the God of order 1 Cor. 14.33 and God only wise 1. Tim. 1.17 who knew well how to contrive the comely order which he designed The order of this Covenant doth chiefly consist in these two things 1. In God's beautiful contriving and ordering the methods and ways of our Redemption and Salvation 2. In his comely ordering and adapting these Methods of Redemption to answer the ends and intents which were purposed and proposed in this transaction Under the first of these I comprehend 1. His ordering and sending of a Saviour and Redeemer to fallen man 2. His ordering the things that the Person designed should do and suffer for purchasing this Redemption 3. His ordering the means whereby the purchased Redemption should be applied to the Redeemed people 4. His ordering the efficacy of means towards the ends purposed by him that there might be no misgiving in all the matter Under the fecond I comprehend God's ordering 1. That the satisfaction of Divine Justice shall be by a Surety 2. That the satisfaction of the Surety shall meet with and fully come up to the demands of the Law and Covenant of works by his obeying the command and bearing the curse 3. That the Sureties satisfaction shall stand for the broken man's he taking our Law-place upon him and acting our part 4. That Justice shall be so satisfied as mercy be also entreated that the means and methods of Redemption may answer the intent of God to glorifie these two attributes Justice and Mercy in Man's Redemption I do not say that the beautiful order of this Covenant consisted in these things only but in these and the like which will appear further when we come to speak of the subject-matter of this Covenant and the things that were therein concluded 6. Another Property of the Covenant of Redemption is stability God's Covenant with Christ is an immutable inviolable transaction and all the things therein concluded are firm and unalterable nothing thereof can fail for 1. It is transacted in the unchangeable counsel of God's will where all the decrees and conclusions are unalterable Heb. 6.17 Wherein God willing more abundantly to shew unto the heirs of promise the immutability of his counsel confirmed it by an ●●th Isa 14.27 For the Lord of hosts hath purposed and who shall disannul it 2. It must be an inviolable Covenant being transacted betwixt two parties who have all imaginable Properties that can ensure then dealings and transactions and render them firm For it is 1. Betwixt God unchangeable with whom there is no variableness nor shadow of turning Jam. 1.17 I am the Lord I change not Mal. 3.6 And Jesus Christ the s ●one yesterday and to day and for ever Heb. 13.8 2. It is betwixt God the strength of Israel who is not as the son of man that he should repent 1 Sam. 15.29 who hath sworn to Christ and will not repent Heb. 7.21 and Christ Jesus in whom all the promises of God are yea and amen 2 Cor. 1.20 3. It is betwixt the true God Jer. 10.10 the God of truth Deut. 32.4 and Jesus Christ who is the truth it self Joh. 14.6 4. It is betwixt the faithful God which keepeth Covenant Deut. 7.9 who abideth faithful and cannot deny himself 2 Tim. 2.13 and Jesus Christ the faithful witness Rev. 1.6 3. This must be a sure and inviolable Covenant being a sworn confirmed Covenant for God hath not only sworn and confirmed his Covenant with us but he hath also confirmed this Covenant with an oath and sworn to Christ Psal 89.35 Once have I sworn by my holiness that I will not lye unto David Heb. 7.21 For those Priests were made without an oath but this with an oath by him that said unto him The Lord sware and will not repent thou art a Priest for ever after the order of Melchisedec Now the Argument used by the Apostle from the confirmation of a Covenant to the stability thereof holds good and firm of this Covenant also though it be not the thing principally intended there Gal. 3.15 Though it be but a man's Covenant yet if it be confirmed no man disannulleth or addeth thereunto 4. Stability and Inviolableness most eminently agree to that Covenant for which and because of which the Covenant of Reconciliation made with us is firm sure and inviolable Now 't is manifest that the stability of that Covenant springs out of this and the inviolableness of the one is given by the Holy Ghost for the ground and cause of the stability of the other See Psal 89.33 34 35 36 Nevertheless my loving-kindness will I not utterly take from him nor suffer my faithfulness to fail My Covenant will I not break nor alter the thing that is gone out of my lips Once nave I sworn

his disciples and said Behold my mother and my brethren for whosoever shall do the will of my father which is in heaven the same is my brother and sister and mother So he himself argueth Joh. 13.14 15 If I then your Lord and master have washed your feet ye also ought to wash one anothers feet For I have given you an example that ye should do as I have done to you 3. To serve him in that Covenant-relation in such manner as he served us or rather our interests and that was 1. Willingly and chearfully For so did he undertake and undergo that Service Heb. 10.7 Then said I Lo I come in the volume of the book it is written of me to do thy will O God Luk. 22.15 And he said unto them With desire have I desired to eat this passover with you before I suffer Let our Service to him be such Psal 2.11 Serve the Lord with fear and rejoice with trembling Deut. 28.47 48 Because thou servedst not the Lord thy God with joyfulness and with gladness of heart for the abundance of all things therefore shalt thou serve thine enemies which the Lord shall send against thee in hunger and in thirst and in nakedness and in the wane of all things 2. He served cordially his Soul travelled in the business Joh. 12.27 Now is my soul troubled and what shall I say father save me from this hour but for this cause I came unto this hour Mat. 26.38 Then saith he unto them My soul is exceeding sorrowful even unto death tarry ye here and watch with me Let your Service to him be such that your hearts may be yoaked and your Spirits may act something in serving him Deut. 10.12 And now Israel what doth the Lord thy God require of thee but to fear the Lord thy God to walk in all his ways and to love him and to serve the Lord thy God with all thy heart and with all thy soul Rom. 1.9 For God is my witness whom I serve with my spirit in the Gospel of his Son Phil. 3.3 For we are the circumcision which worship God in the spirit and rejoice in Christ Jesus 3. He served with much submission of his will to his sathers in all things Heb. 5.8 Though he were a Son yet learned he obedience by the things which he suffered Mat. 26.39 42 And he went a little further and fell on his face and prayed saying O my father if it be possible let this cup pass from me nevertheless not as I will but as thou wilt He went out again the second time and prayed saying O my father if this cup may not pass away from me except I drink it thy will be done Joh. 4.34 Jesus saith unto them My meat is to do the will of him that sent me and to finish his work Let us do Service to him with like submission of Spirit 2 Sam. 15.26 But if he thus say I have no delight in thee behold here am I let him do to me as seemeth good unto him Act. 20.22 24 And now behold I go bound in the spirit unto Jerusalem not knowing the things that shall befall me there but none of these things move me neither count I my life dear unto my self so that I might finish my course with joy and the ministry which I have received of the Lord Jesus to testifie the Gospel of the grace of God 4. He served faithfully for in all questions and debates that occured while he was here in the form of a Servant he was always for his father true to his interest Heb. 3.2 Who was faithful to him that appointed him Joh 8.28 38 Then said Jesus unto them When ye have lift up the Son of man then shall ye know that I am he and that I do nothing of my self but as my father hath taught me I speak these things I speak that which I have seen with my father and ye do that which ye have seen with your father Let us be sure to serve him so in all questions and sides in these days to be ever for him and his interests and upon his side 1 Kings 22.14 And Micajah said As the Lord liveth what the Lord saith unto me that will I speak Heb. 3.2 As also Moses was faithful in all his house Act. 13.36 For David after he had served his own generation by the will of God fell asleep and was laid unto his fathers and saw corruption 5. He performed his Service prudently Isa 52.13 Behold my servant shall deal prudently he shall be exalted and extolled and be very high He did all things for promoting the business that was committed unto him with admirable wisdom and discretion so is there also a wisdom with fidelity to be studied in serving his interests that we do not mar the end of our Service Mat. 24.45 Who then is a faithful and wise servant whom his Lord hath made ruler over his houshold to give them meat in due season Mat. 10.16 Behold I send you forth as sheep in the midst of wolves be ye therefore wise as serpents and harmless as doves Mark 9. last Have salt in your selves and have peace one with another CHAP. XX. Christ the Surety of the Covenant THE sixth relation which Christ sustaineth in the Covenant of Grace Beza in locum is He is Surety of the Covenant so he is expresly called Heb. 7.22 Jesus was made surety of a better testament or rather Covenant as Beza reads it because a Surety is not used in Testaments neither is Christ properly to be considered as Surety in his Testament but as Testator For the opening of this relation I shall 1. Enquire a little into the name and thing that the nature of this relation may be the better known especially what it imports as it is applied to Christ 2. I shall lay down some assertions for the better understanding of Christs Suretiship in the Covenant 3. How Christ came under this relation to be an undertaker for some of the sons of men 4. For whom did he become Surety and undertaker 5. For what is he engaged by this relation 6. What doth commend his Suretiship that the excellency of it may appear 7. Wherein his Suretiship doth differ from undertakings of that nature among men 8. What are the advantages that the Lords people have by Christs Suretiship And in the last place I shall shew you what use is to be made of this relation or of Christ considered as Surety of the Covenant The Hebrew word 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Ghnarab Vide Mercer and Buxtor in voce to which the Greek word 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 doth answer is of very large signification as any word in that language I will touch but a few of many because they are apposite to express the nature of Suretiship The first and native signification of the word is to mix and to mingle see Psal 106.35 But were mingled among the heathen and learned their works