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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

Wherefore he saith when he ascended up on high he led captivity captive and gave gifts unto men Col. 2.15 And having spoiled principalities and powers he made a shew of them openly triumphing over them in it It was in the faith of these Promises made to Christ concerning his Father's standing by him in this work and crowning it with success in his hand that he put on that holy hardness against all opposition and walked as unconcerned who stood in his way since his Father was with him engaged by so solemn an act of promise and covenant made with him Isa 50.6 7 8 9 I gave my back to the smiters and my cheeks to them that plucked off the hair I hid not my face from shame and spitting For the Lord God will help me therefore shall I not be confounded therefore have I set my face like a flint and I know that I shall not be ashamed He is neer that justifieth me who will contend with me let us stand together who is mine adversary let him come neer to me Behold the Lord God will help me who is he that shall condemn me lo they all shall wax old as a garment the moth shall eat them up The fifth kind of Promises made by Jehovah to Christ in the Covenant of Redemption were those that relate unto his Fathers acceptance of the travel of his Soul in this work of our Redemption And under this I comprehend 1. Whatsoever was spoken to him of his Father's delectation and taking pleasure in the person of Christ God-man and in his Mediatory-transactions all delight ariseth from sutableness and this from Christ's sutableness unto the Lords ends and the service unto which he was chosen and his sutable actings unto these ends Luk. 3.21 22 Now when all the people were baptized it came to past that Jesus also being baptized and praying the heaven was opened And the Holy Ghost descended in a bodily shape like a dove upon him and a voice came from heaven which said then art my beloved Son in thee I am well-pleased Prov. 8.30 Then I was by him as one brought up with him and I was daily his delight rejoycing always before him Isa 42.1 Behold my servant whom I uphold mune elect in whom my soul delighteth 2. The promise of gracious acceptance to whatsoever he should act or request on the behalf of his Redeemed ones within the time of Grace Isa 49.8 Thus saith the Lord in an acceptable time have I heard thee and in a day of salvation have I helped thee Joh. 11.41 42 Father I thank thee that thou hast heard me And I knew that thou hearest me always Heb. 5.7 Who in the days of his flesh when he had offered up Prayers and Supplications with strong crying and tears unto him that was able to save him from death and was heard in that he feared 3. The Promises of Justification there was some sort of Justification covenanted to him which he eyeth and wherewith he encouraged himself under hard and reproachful usage Isa 50.8 He is near that iustifieth me who will contend with me and accordingly it is said of him 1 Tim. 3.16 he was justified in the spirit and though he was not capable of remission of sin and justification from intrinsecal guilt for he had none being holy harmless undefiled and separate from sinners Heb. 7.26 because he had done no violence neither was there any deceit in his mouth Isa 53.7 Yet justification is promised to him and he is said to be justified 1. Because he was a perfect doer and obeyer of the Law 1 Joh. 1.7 But if we walk in the light as he is in the light we have fellowship one with another and the blood of Jesus Christ his Son cleanseth us from all sin Christ did in all things give consummate and perfect obedience to the Law and this is to be justified by a law-Law-justification and title to life which Adam should have had if he had obeyed the Law and Covenant of works 2. When his cause is justified he himself is formally justified in respect of these sins for which he undertook to satisfie the cause that he stood for in the Covenant of Redemption the action is win in Law that he stood for and that was his elect peoples cause for whom he stood when Justice smote him he is justified and acquitted from our sins though he had none of his own Rom. 6.9 knowing that Christ being raised from the dead dieth no more death hath no more dominion over him 3. He is justified as a publick person though in no private capacity as head of the party whom he represented and whose Law place he took upon him as one who personated and acted the part of another by allowance and warrant of Law Heb. 2.10.13 For it became him for whom are all things and by whom are all things in bringing many Sons unto glory to make the Captain of their salvation perfect through sufferings And again I will put ●●y trust in him and again Behold I and the children which God hath given me 4. He is justified declaratively in regard that he was declared by a Law act and Judicial-declaration to he Jesus the righteous 1. Joh. 2.1 who had fatisfied the Law Rom. 1.4 And declared to be the Son of God with power according to the spirit of holiness by the resurrection from the dead he was declared justified by his resurrection even as he was declared condemned by his death 5. He is justified by cancelling his bond of Suretiship which he gave to Jehovah and now having compleatly satisfied for our debts which was the intent of that bond of Suretiship the right is cancelled according to the manner of the Creditor's delivering back the bond to the Debtor when it is satisfied And thus we are to conceive when he blotted out the hand-writing of ordinances that was against us Col. 2.14 that he had then a discharge of his bond of Suretiship for our debt for his bond could not lye for our debt when ours was cancelled And though the precise scope of that Scripture and Context lead us to understand the cancelling there mentioned as firstly relative to the Ceremonial-Law yet I know no reason why we should restrict it to that only but we may extend it to the sins against and threatnings of the Moral Law also in so far as that is a writing against us especially since the words immediately before speak of Justification and remission of all sins as a fruit of Christ's death and the words following declare the extent of his death in this glorious conquest and triumph over all his peoples enemies 6. He is justified because it is acted and recorded in the volume of the book of the written word that he hath fulfilled what was written of his undertaking in the book of God's eternal Decrees and in this sense a person may be said to be justified who being acted in the record of a book to perform any

the Children are partakers of flesh and blood he also himself took part of the same Wherefore in all things it behoved him to be made like unto his brethren that he might be a merciful and faithful High-priest in things pertaining to God to make reconciliation for the sins of the people Joh. 17.23 I in them and thou in me that they may be made perfect in one 2. Our nearness to God through Christ the Mediator 2 Cor. 6.18 And I will be a father unto you and ye shall be my Sons and Daughters saith the Lord God Almighty c. 1 Cor. 6. ver 17 But he that is joyned to the Lord is one Spirit 4. In the Cause for which he Mediates Consider 1. The Righteousness thereof Christ having now satisfied Justice and his cause being justified he hath a strong plea in Law and Justice 1 Cor. 1.8 9 10 Who shall also confirm you unto the end that ye may be blameless in the day of our Lord Jesus Christ God is faithful by whom ye were called unto the fellowship of his Son Jesus Christ our Lord And 2.2 For I determined not to know any thing among you save Jesus Christ and him Crucified 2. The honourableness of it not to Christ only but to God his Mediation being contrived to exalt his Fathers Grace by Intercession even after Justice is satisfied by Sacrifice Heb. 9.26 But now once in the end of the world hath he appeared to put away sin by the sacrifice of himself With 7.25 Wherefore he is able also to save them to the uttermost that come unto God by him seeing he ever liveth to make intercession for them CHAP. XVII Of the several Relations which Christ sustaineth in the Covenant of Grace and 1. Christ a witness to the People IT is not easie to find out and determine all Christs relations to the Covenant of Grace they are so many and so comprehensive that I know not whether to say that Christs relations seem to exhaust the total of the Covenant or that the compend and sum of the Covenant is comprized in his relations which he sustaineth in it I suppose there is a truth in both for whatsoever is necessarily related to the Covenant is in him whether it be Parties Articles Promises Conditions Confirmations Witness Mediator Messenger c. and in him is to be found the whole Covenant therefore he is called the Covenant it self Isa 42.6 49.8 Christ hath several relations to the Covenant See Mr. Rutherf trial c. Triumph of saith p. 1. c. 7. 1. He is a Party Covenanting 2. He is Mediator of the Covenant 3. He is the witness of the Covenant 4. He is the Messenger of the Covenant 5. He is a Servant in the Covenant 6. He is the Surety of the Covenant 7. He is the Testator 8. He is the Covenant it self I shall speak nothing here of the first two relations how Christ is a side or the one half of the Covenant nor how he standeth as a middle person between the disagreeing Parties But for these I refer to that I have said of the Parties covenanting and of the Mediator of the Covenant only before I proceed to speak of these other relations I shall premise these few things as being of common use for understanding of the whole relations First Whatsoever relations Christ beareth in the Covenant he was from Eternity chosen and designed unto those in the counsel of God and by an everlasting Decree Psal 2.7 I will declare the decree the Lord hath said unto me thou art my son this day have I begotten thee and Isa 42.1 Behold my servant whom I uphold mine elect in whom my soul delighteth Secondly Whatsoever relations Christ sustaineth in the Covenant he doth it by voluntary dispensation and not by any natural necessity or compulsion that he is a Party contracting or that he is Mediator or that he is Messenger of the Covenant c. nothing could compel Christ to put his name in any of these relations it was all of consent Phil. 2.7 But made himself of no reputation and took upon him the form of a servant and was made in the likeness of men Heb. 10.9 Then said he L● I come to do thy will O God Thirdly All these relations which Christ sustaineth in the Covenant are all acts of Grace both upon Gods part who designed Christ unto these relations that he might act Grace in Christ as the first copy of Free-grace and that we might share with him and also upon Christs part who could not be hired to undertake these relations knowing what they would cost him but the Free-grace of his own heart engaged him in these relations 2. Sam. 7.21 According to thine own heart hast thou done all these great things Rom. 8.32 How shall he not with him also freely give us all things with Gal. 2.20 Who loved me and gave himself for me Fourthly Though in the Covenant of Grace Christ be dispensed in all his offices and and the efficacy and fruit of all these offices as appeareth from Isa 55.4 with Rom. 8.32 and Jer. 31.33 34 yet some of his relations which he sustaineth in the Covenant do more especially respect one of his offices and some another as also some of them directly respect all his offices Take for instances His relation as Mediator respecteth all his offices His relation as Party contracting respecteth all his offices wherein he was a publick person who did represent many His relation as Surety doth especially relate to his Kngly office in regard of which he was undertaker and made potent to help Psal 89.19 His relations as Witness Messenger and Servant doth respect especially his prophetical office His relation as Testator respecteth especially his Priestly office c. Fifthly Whatsoever relations Christ sustaineth in the Covenant of grace he beareath all these relations by Covenant and by explicite contract he hath undertaken them so that as we say of his offices he was a King a Priest and a Prophet by Covenant Psal 89.3 I have made a Covenant with my chosen I have sworn unto David my servant We say the same of all his relations in respect of the Covenant He is by Covenant and Compact with God by the Covenant of Suretiship whatsoever he is in Covenant-relations He is by Covenant Mediator of the Covenant He is by Covenant a Party in the Covenant representing others He is by a Covenant the Witness Messenger Servant Surety Testator of the Covenant Heb. 10.9 Isa 59.21 53.10 11 12. Heb. 2.10 12. Joh. 17.2 6 12 c. Sixthly For whomsoever he beareth any of these relations in the Covenant for them he beareth them all if he be for and unto any persons Mediator to God-ward he hath engaged as party contracting with God for such persons he is become Surety for such he hath and shall be Witness Messenger and Servant for promoting and manifesting the things of this Covenant unto such he hath tested in

Office of the Mediator and 1. Of his calling to it p. 174. 2. By whom he was called by God the Father p. 175. 3. When he was called to it 1. In respect of his designation to the Office it is Eternal p. 176. 2. In respect of his Furniture for and being invested in his Office it is in time p. 177. Use 1. Wonder at Gods eternal Love in calling Christ and his voluntary submission to it Use 2. To establish our faith in the prevalency of Christs Mediation ibid. Use 3. Shews the necessity of receiving the Mediator Use 4. Is comfort to Believers Chap. XI Of Christs qualification for the Office of Mediatorship and 1. Of his taking our nature upon him p. 179. Where 1. Is to be considered the reality of it p. 180. 2. His condescending-love in it p. 181. 3. The exaltation of our Nature p. 183. 4. How Christ taking our Nature is the great qualification of him for his Mediatorship p. 185. 1. He must be God for man could not satisfie for sin p. 186. 2. He must be Man because he must stand in our stead and be one with us c. p. 187. 3. The reasons why he must be God and Man in one person p. 188. Chap. XII Several Questions resolved concerning Christs taking our Nature upon him Why God the Father or the Holy Ghost took not our Nature but the Son p. 189. 2. Why must the Son of God be not only Man but the Son of Man the seed of the Woman p. 191. 3 Why did not the Son of God take Adams nature in Innocency but when it was corrupted p. 192. 4. Why must our Mediator be born of the seed of Abraham and when p. 194. 5. Why must our Mediator be made under the Law p. 195. 6. Why was the Son of God born of a Virgin and not a married Woman p. 196. 7. Why is Christ made Man in the fulness of time and not sooner nor later p. 197. The Vses p. 198. Chap. XIII Of Christs Vnction another qualification of him for his Office the first part of which is his Anointing to these Offices of Prophet Priest and King p. 201. The necessity of them in him p. 202. The use of them in our Mediator p. 204. 3. The concurrence of them for the end of his Mediatorship p. 209. Vses p. 215. Chap. XIV The second part of Christs Vnction viz. as it relates to his qualifications for the work 1. Of his Vnction in general p. 221. 1. It was the same with the Vnction of Believers p. 224. 2. It was without measure p. 225. 3. As to the time of his Vnction it was from the first Vnion of his two Natures 4. The extent of his Vnction it reacheth to all the parts of his Mediatorship p. 226. Vses of it p. 227. Chap. XV. Of the Requisites in a Mediator which are eminently in Christ and 1. Of the Requisites of fitting him for his Trust as 1. A Mediator must be a person that must have interest in both parties 2. He must be trusted by both parties 3. He must be well affected to both parties p. 230. 4. He must have power over both parties 2 Requisites relating to the managing such a work As 1. He must be a condescending person p. 231. 2. He must be Mollifying p. 232. 3. He must be Affable p. 233. 4. Meek and long-suffering p. 234. 5. Merciful and tendr-hearted p. 235. 6. He must be potent enough to compass his undertaking p. 236. 7. Faithful to the interest of both parties in the Mediation p. 238. 8. He must be a wooer of both the parties to bring them in friendship together p. 239. 9. Couragious to undergo difficulties and oppositions p. 240. Some other properties in our Mediator qualifying him for his wrk not found in any other Mediator as 1. His Oneness with both parties between whom he mediates p. 242. 2. He never declines the work of Mediation for any 3. He is always at hand and ready p. 243. 4. A perpetual Mediator p. 244. Several Vses ibid. Chap. XVI Of Christs execution of the Office of a Mediator 1. He doth it according to both Natures proved by six Reasons p. 151. 2. Christ hath executed this Office ever since the beginning of the World p. 255. 3. Jesus the Mediator executeth his Office as well in his estate of Exaltation as Humiliation p. 257. A Question whether the Angels have any share in Christ Mediation Answered p. 259. The execution of Christs Mediatorship reduced to five Heads p. 262. 1. To prepare a way for mans covenanting with God p. 263. 2. To bring the Elect within the bond of the Covenant p. 264. 3. To enable whom he bringeth into the covenant of Grace to perform the Duty of the Covenant p. 266. 4. To keep them from falling away from that blessed Estate p. 207. 5. To bring them to the height of that blessedness he hath appointed for them p. 269. Chap. XVII Grounds of comfort and supports of Faith arising to Believers from Christs Mediatorship 1. To those who are convinc'd of enmity betwixt God and them and desire Reconciliation p. 272. 2. To Believers who are come to God through him p. 273. 3. It reacheth to all the evils wherewith Believers can be afflicted ibid. Grounds of comfort if we consider 1. The Person who mediates he is one with the Father 2. The Person with whom he mediates his relation to the Mediator and the persons he mediates for p. 277. 3. The Persons for whom he mediates our nearness to the Mediator and to God by him 4. The cause for which he mediates the righteousness and honourableness of it p. 278. Chap. XVIII Of the Relations that Christ sustaineth in the covenant of Grace viz. A witness of the Covenant 1. The Witness witnessed p. 299. 2. The Witness witnessing 1. An Eye-witness p. 302. 2. An acting Witness 3. He did declare all he saw heard and acted about it p. 303. Three Mysteries declared by him 1. The mysterie of the Gospel-covenant p. 304. 2. The mysterie of Christ p. 305. 3. The mystery of the Gospel-righteousness and the way of justifying Sinners p. 306. Several Mysteries in this Righteousness 1. The imputation of it 2. In the Instrument viz. Faith 3. In the imputation of it with reference to the Persons to whom it is imputed 4 Christ is the witness of the Covenant who confirmeth the truth of all that is contained in it p. 307. Viz. Commands Promises Conditions Threatnings Predictions and Exceptions p. 308. 5. Uses of this p. 313. Chap. XIX Another Relation Christ bears in the Covenant viz. the messenger of the Covenant p. 325. Where 1 The import of the name Messenger or Angel of the Covenant p. 326. 2 In what respects it is applicable to Christ p. 327. 1. In regard of the trust committed to him in the matters of the Covenant 2. In regard of his pains and travel in it p. 328. 3 Betwixt whom doth Christ travel as

after Gods will Phil. 2.13 For it is God that worketh in you both to will and to do of his good pleasure Psal 110.3 Thy people shall be willing in the day of thy power And how sweet and comfortable is it that Salvation is by the Covenant of Suretiship taken off the mutable will of man the slippery yea and nay of mans free-will and laid upon the immutability of his counsel Heb. 6.17 and will with whom there is no variableness Rom. 9.15 I will have mercy on whom I will have mercy and I will have compassion on whom I will have compassion Jam. 1.18 Of his own will begat he us with the word of truth 4. That by the Covenant of Suretiship the fountain and well-spring of Life and Salvation and of all the influences that must needs act us toward it lay out of our selves and are placed in Christ Psal 8.7 All my springs are in thee Col. 3.3 Your life is hid with Christ in God The Well-head of Life to Adam was in himself and that which was placed in himself went dry he had no other Fountain whence he had assurance to draw and fetch any more but by Christs Suretiship the spring of Life and Salvation to us is placed in him which makes it indefectible to us and O how sweet is that to the believer that his Salvation is fountained in Christ thus when his water fails within he needs do no more but turn the water cock of Faith that is in his own heart and take in fresh supplies from Jesus the resurrection and the life Joh. 11.25 Isa 27.3 Lest any hurt it I will keep it night and day I will water it every moment Joh. 4.14 The water that I shall give him shall be in him a well of water springing up into everlasting life Joh. 14.19 Because I live ye shall live also 5. By the Covenant of Suretiship our Rights and Charters I mean the promises not of Heaven and Salvation only but of all our concernments are in a surer hand than our own and under better keeping for now by that Covenant they are in Christs keeping to whom the promises are made Gal. 3.16 Now to Abraham and his seed were the promises made he saith not and to seeds as of many but as of one and to thy seed which is Christ He is the first heir of all things Heb. 1.2 to whom the first title and right to the promises which are our Charters doth belong they were first his before they were ours yea and he was the first possessor too upon Christ did all the acts of Gods Covenant-love to us fall first Act. 13.34 I give you the sure mercies of David Most of the promises were made formally to Christ even those which directly relate to our Calling Justification Salvation Isa 53.10 11 And the pleasure of the Lord shall prosper in his hand He shall see of the travel of his soul and shall be satisfied By his knowledg shall my righteous servant justifie many for he shall bear their iniquities And these that were not made formally to him such as the promise of a new heart a new spirit remission of sins yet these were made to him eminenter they were laid down in him and consigned in his hand for Christ is not only the fountain and original cause of all the promises who merited by his Blood Remission Righteousness and Life which the Lord makes ours by free promise but he is also the first subject of the promises Christ receiveth all the Covenant-promises which are our Rights and Charters and he keepeth them and manageth them for our use as may most tend to our good Christ is made by his Suretiship that excellent Ark which keepeth the tables of the Covenant and the book of the Law and Covenant Deut. 31.26 1 Kings 8.9 How sweet and satisfying is it that our Rights of Heaven is in such a Charter-chest and in the hands of such a keeper even under Christs custody who shall give a good account to his Father of all that is committed to him Joh. 17.12 Those whom thou gavest me I have kept and none of them is lost and whose keeping is in high account with all those who know him 2 Tim. 1.12 For I know whom I have believed and I am perswaded that he is able to keep that which I have committed unto him against that day 6. By the Covenant of Suretiship Christ and the believer are in a manner in one Writ for notwithstanding that there be differences between the Covenant made with him and that which is made with us as is before shewed yet it may be said that Christ and the believer are some way in one Writ 1. Because these two Covenants are all of a piece they are to be distinguished but not divided it is the same design of Grace the same business of redeeming and saving lost Man that is carried on in both 2. Although Christ and the believer be not formally and as parties in this Writ of Christs Sureti-covenant to God yet they are virtually and as to their interests and concernments It is Christs business and concernment and the believers too even all his eternal concernments that are in that Covenant and ours these meet together and are transacted in one Writ and thus even among men a person may be said to be in a Writ where his concernments are handled 3. Because of the contexture and interweaving not only of Christ and the believers interests but also of their Names in the same Writ For in the Covenant where his Name is put alone as undertaker and which is his single bond to wit the Covenant of Suretiship even there is the believers Name put as being the person for which he payed a price and for whom he undertook and who were promised to him for a seed as a satisfying-sight for the travel of his Soul And again in the Writ given to us we stand not alone in Covenant-dealings with God but in the same Writs of the promises made to the believer Christs name stands as principal party Covenanting for us and receiving the promises as is manifest from what is already said 4. There is not only a contexture but a commutation with Christ and the believers Name in the Covenant-writs for his Name is put in our Bond for he wrote himself the sinner legally and in the sinners place under the Law accursed and our Name is put in the Writ of Justification given to him and the new Law of Faith writes the believer righteous and blessed 2 Cor. 5.21 For he hath made him to be sin for us who knew no sin that we might be made the righteousness of God in him Gal. 3.13 14 Christ hath redeemed us from the curse of the law being made a curse for us for it is written Cursed is every one that hangeth on a tree That the blessing of Abraham might come on the Gentles through faith Rom. 3.22 Even the righteousness of God which