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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

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Two solemne COVENANTS MADE Between God and Man viz. The Covenant of Workes And the Covenant of Grace Clearly laid open distinguished and vindicated from many dangerous opinions the right knowledge of whch will be very profitable to all those that have escaped the first and are confirmed in the second at the Sacrament Rom. 5.18 19. Therefore as by the offence of one judgement came upon all men to condemnation even so by the righteousnesse of one the free gift came upon all men unto justification of life For as by one mans disobedience many were made sinners so by the obedience of one shall many be made righteous John 1.16 For the Law was given by Moses but grace and truth came by Jesus Christ January 15. 1646. Imprimatur John Downame London Printed for Thomas Banks and are to be sold in Blackfriers at the top of Bridewell staires and in Westminster Hall at the signe of the Seale 1647. Two solemne Covenants made betweene God and Man viz. the Covenant of Workes and the Covenant of Grace clearly laid open distinguished and vindicated from many dangerous and destructive opinions THere be severall opinions about the Covenant of Works and the Covenant of grace to the great disturbance of many Christians some hold that there be foure Covenants two of Works and two of Grace the two first one with Adam before the fall and the other with Israel at their returne out of Aegypt and the Covenants of Grace the first to Abraham and the other at the Incarnation of Jesus Christ this M. Sympson affirmed before a Committee of the Assembly of Divines in my hearing 2. Others hold that there is but three Covenants the first with Adam the second with Israel at their going out of Aegypt and a third with Jesus Christ the two first of Workes and the last of Grace and this M. Burroughes delivered in his Exposition Sermon in Cornhill in my hearing 3. Others hold that there is but two Covenants the one of Works and the other of Grace yet the first they hold was made with Israel at Mount Sinai and no Covenant of workes before that and now it is vanished away and the other a Covenant of grace yet not made till the death of Christ the testator and this is affirmed by James Pope in a Book entituled the unveiling of Antichrist 4. Others hold that the Law at Mount Sinai was a Covenant of grace implying that there is more then one Covenant of grace and this is affirmed by Mr. Anthony Burgesse in his Vindication of the Morall Law the 24. Lecture text the 4. of Deuteronomy 5. Others with my selfe hold that there is but two Covenants the one a Covenant of Workes and the tree of life was a Sacrament or signe and token of it this was made with Adam before his fall and to all his posterity who come under it as soon as they take upon them his nature for he did bear an Image for himselfe and all his postetity so that if he had stood in his integrity he had conveyed his righteousnesse and holinesse to all his posterity and when he by sin defiled his nature the whole race of mankind was polluted by him and also he received a Covenant both for himselfe and all his posterity and in case he had been faithfull to it all his posterity had stood with him but he breaking that Covenant brought not only guilt upon himself but upon all his posterity with him so that now there is none clean no not one how can he be clean that is born of a woman Job 25.4 thus mans nature is polluted And in regard of the Covenant let every mouth be stopped for all the world is become guilty before God Rom. 3.29 for all have sinned and come short of the glory of God Rom. 3.23 by one man sinne entred into the world and death by sinne and so death passed upon all men for that all have sinned Rom 5.12 so then all men by nature lye under the pollution and guilt of Adams sinne and lyable to all the curses and penalties due unto them for breach of that Covenant But then there was a Covenant of grace which God the Father made with Jesus Christ from all eternity to save some of the posterity of Adam and had not this Covenant been prepared ready against the fall of Adam to take place at the very moment of his fall the Justice of God had immediatly seized upon the whole Creation under Heaven and consum'd them to their first nothing but then came Jesus Christ with the covenant in his hand saying be gracious unto him and deliver him from going down to the pit I have found a ransome Job 33.24 now I shall prove that the covenant of grace was made with Jesus Christ from all eternity being a contract or plot of God the Father with God the Sonne from all eternity as mediator for the salvation of the Elect. 1. If God the Father promised eternall life before the world began when as there was no creature as yet made this promise must needs be made to Jesus Christ our mediatour but God promised eternall life before the world began Titus 1.2 Ergo it must needs be made to Jesus Christ our mediator before the world began Secondly if Jesus Christ was set apart from all eternity for this worke then the Covenant of grace was made with him before the world was but saith Christ I was set up from everlasting before the earth was when there was no depths before the Mountaines were fetled when he prepared the heavens when he established the clouds when he gave the Sea his decree then was I by him as one brought up with him Pro. 8.23 to the 30. now this cannot be meant of Christ as God for then who should set him up or appoint him any work then it must needs follow that it was Jesus Christ as Mediatour with whom the Covenant of grace was made for him hath God the Father sealed John 6.27 Thirdly If it was appointed before the world was that Christ should come and die for sinners then the Covenant of grace was made with him to save a certain number from all eternity but saith Peter when that Kings and Rulers were gathered together against the Lord and against his Christ it was to do what God had determined before to be done Acts 4.26 27 28. and you are redeemed with the precious blood of Christ as of a Lambe without spot or blemish who verily was foreordained before the foundation of the world 1 Pet. 1.18 19 20. therefore the Covenant of grace was made with Jesus Christ before the world began Fourthly if God appointed Christ a time and at the fulnesse of time he came to redeem those that were under the Law that they might receive the adoption of sonnes then the Covenant of grace was made with Jesus Christ from all eternity but this first is true Gal. 4.3.4 Ergo so is the second and it further appears
clear manifestation of Christ might remaine by preaching the Gospell but if he mean that the morall law that was given with blacknesse and darknesse as he saith Heb. 12.18 this I deny for it is a rule of Saints and Angels eternally Psal 109.80.103.20 so much in answer to his differences now let us see what uses he makes of these differences In the use of his first difference he saith if the first covenant was made when Israel returned out of Aegypt then all actuall sin is not against the first covenant as some think for then it should be made with all nations which he denyes from that text Psal 147.19 20. and to be made before it was and to be still in being whereas he saith it is done away I answer the first covenant being that of works was made with the whole race of mankind in Adam and while he stood all stood but when he fell all the world became guilty before God Rom. 3.19 for in Adam all dye ver 15.22 sin and death passed upon all by his sin Rom. 5.12 then the first covenant was made before Israels going out of Aegypt and all mankind are born under it and all actuall sin is against it only when it was given as a rule of life in the hand of a mediator it did more nearly concern them and not to other nations till they have it all in writing as israel had which may answer that text Psal 147.19.20 but then he denyes that all sin is done away by Christ and yet by and by he saith all those sacrifices were not sufficient to do it they must look beyond all those things to Christ and yet in his sixt difference he said the blood of calves and goates was the blood of the covenant then he saith some hold that unbelief is the only sin against the new covenant and he hath nothing to the contrary therefore I passe on to the use of his second difference where he saith if the first covenant was made with Israel after the flesh and the second with Israel after the spirit then to affirme that Infants are holy by their parents believing is to hold forth still a covenant in the flesh which he understands is to deny Christ to be come in the flesh I answer he that denyes the doctrine of Christs Apostles denyes Christ but he denyes the doctrine of Paul who saith if but one of the parents be a beleever the children are holy 1 Cor. 7.14 then in all wise mens judgment James Pope denyes Christ to be come in the flesh to this he saith we are to mind the scope of the place which was to answer a doubt to wit whether a beleeving husband might dwell with an unbelieving wife his answer is they may for else the children were unclean as under the first covenant but see how this man contradicts himself now he saith the Heathens were under the first covenant which lie denyed before from that text Psal 147.19 20. then he seems to grant it a thing out of question that if believers children dwell with their parents then they are holy but if the Anabaptists grant this why will they not baptize those that dwell with their believing parents but the truth is this when the husband was converted to the Christian faith and not the wife or the wife and not the husband and so baptized it seems this was their great question shall my children be baptized the answer is secretly implyed they may for though thy husband or thy wife be an Infidell yet being made one flesh by marriage with a Christian they are sanctified to a holy use so the children being holy by this means they are and ought to be baptized now this is not a reall holinesse but only set a part as the Elements from a common to a holy use to enjoy the ordinances of the visible Church and Ismaels posterity being out of the Church were the seed of the flesh Gal. 4.29 and those in the visible Church may be thus called holy that is taken from a common to a holy use as members of the visible Church although they have not reall holinesse and by vertue of this holinesse their children have a right to the visible ordinances in the publike worship of the Christian Church then he runs into a large degression but I do not list to follow him then he saith to hold a nation as England Scotland Germany c. to be the Church of God in covenant denyes Christ to be come in the flesh and so is Antichristian but I say again to deny Christ to be come in the flesh is Judaisme but not Antichristianisme again if Christ sent out his Apostles to teach and baptize or disciple whole nations then he that opposeth this is Antichrist for he opposeth all that is called God 2 Thes 2.4 but here this man opposeth Christ in his work to disciple and bring in nations to the Christian Church Ergo he is Antichrist the major proposition none will deny and the minor is proved in denying any nation as England and Scotland who have received the Christan faith to be the Church of God but he saith the Jewes being under the old covenant were but one Church and when the Christian Church was set up there were many Churches even in Judea 1 Thes 2.14 I answer the severall Congregations in Israel before Christ be called Congregations but being put together it is called a Congregation for both these Psal 74.2.4 and so in the new testament Churches make a Church Rev. 2.1.7 then if he oppose a nationall Church is rather Antichristian then they which plead for it against factions The use of this 3. difference if the conditions of the first covenant was do this and live then this shewes us the reason why God dealt so sharply with them in outward things when they sinned against him because it was according to the conditions of his covenant with them I answer those that are still under Adams covenant are still liable to all kind of punishments whether Jewes or Christians yet it will not follow that all who are punished in outward things are still under that covenant of works although they may and are still under the Law given at Mount Sinai yet not as a covenant but as a rule of life and for sin against it may be punished in outward things in love to reclaime them from their sinne Then he saith the people of the new covenant live to doe and not doe to live they do not act to be kept in Gods favour that so they may acknowledge to the praise of God that all is of grace election Rom. 11.5 6. and Christ dyed Heb. 2.9 and justified Titus 3.7 to believe Acts 18.27 and hope 2 Thes 2.16 and saved Ephe. 2.8.9 all of grace to the praise of the glory of his grace Ephe. 1.6 all these I grant are of grace but to say we may not act to be kept in Gods favor is not at all
ours Heb. 7.22 by this key of faith we fetch daily new grace out of his treasury of grace to sanctifie us more and more till at last we have our full measure according to the gift of Christ Thus I have shewed with whom the two covenants were made the covenant of works with Adam a meer man but the covenant of grace with Jesus Christ both God and man and also the time when they were made one with Adam as soon as created but the other with Jesus Christ from all eternity also I have shewed how all men enter into these two covenants first all men enter into Adams covenant by nature but the Elect only enter into Christs covenant by grace also I have shewed how that Adam by his breach of covenant defil'd all his posterity and also brought guilt upon them for it but Jesus Christ sanctifies by the holinesse of his nature all in his covenant and acquits them and justifies them from all their guilt by his active and passive obedience fulfilling the covenant of works perfectly now if all the whole race of mankind be contained in one of these two covenants then it must needs follow that God never made any other but these two touching the eternall estate of mankind but I have proved that all men by nature enter into Adams covenant save Jesus Christ that did not come into the world by the ordinary course of nature and so they all continue till Jesus Christ free them from that covenant of works and so state them in the covenant of grace therefore God never made any other covenant touching the eternall estate of mankind but these two Now some will object and say God made a covenant with Abraham Gen. 17. and another with Israel at their return out of Aegypt Jer. 11.3 4. Deut. 4.13 and a third or new covenant at the death of Christ the testator Heb. 8.8.10 and some deny the covenant of works with Adam in the time of his creation and the covenant of grace with Jesus Christ made from all eternity affirming there was no covenant made with man before Israels return from Aegypt and this they call the covenant of works and no covenant of grace made before the death of Christ and this they call the covenant of grace now when I have answered these objections I hope I shall give some satisfaction to those that are troubled with so many severall opinions touching the covenant of grace and the covenant of works made with the two Adams representing all mankind For answer to the first objection if God made a covenant with Abraham and that also a covenant of grace then it will follow that God made two covenants of grace and then we must have two redeemers and if one of them was made to Abraham this is to make him who saith he is but dust and ashes Gen. 18. to be one of those redeemers or saviours who was but a poor creature himself but they will say to Abraham and Christ were the promises made Gal. 3.16 I answer as one King makes a league or covenant with another by an Embassadour so Abraham represented Christ for the promise of eternall life was made before the world began Titus 12. therefore before Abraham had his being or it may be answered thus Abraham received the sign or token of this covenant Gen. 17.10 11. when as the covenant it selfe was made with Christ from all eternity and those elect that fall in every age of the world since Adams fall God hath been in Christ not in Abraham reconciling them to himself 2 Cor. 5.19 20. and if Abraham should stand for all the Elect to receive a covenant for them then he should stand for them with an Image also without sin to answer for their lost Image by Adam but this he could not do because he was desiled with sin as other men then the covenant of grace was not made with him but with Christ who took upon him our nature and our infirmities and yet without sin Heb. 4.15 so then Abraham received circumcision the token of the covenant but himselfe was saved by his faith in Christ for saith Christ Abraham saw my day and was glad John 8.56 it was Christ that was given for a covenant he is the redeemer of Israel that holy one Isa 49.7 8. it was Christs righteousnesse that was imputed unto to him and received by faith when he received the sign of circumcision Rom. 4.11 and Abraham did but receive a further confirmation of the covenant of grace made with Christ before the world was by the sign of circumcision when God took in that Nation into the visible Church so much for answer to this objection Object 2. Some object and say the Law at Mount Sinai was a covenant of grace and others say it was a covenant of works but I shall prove that it was neither but only given to those that were in covenant as a rule of obedience so runs the preface I am the Lord thy God that is by the covenant of grace made with Jesus Christ and confirmed to Abraham therefore thou shalt have none other Gods but me and in all those places where doing is required it is first said I am the Lord your God therefore ye shall keep my Statutes and judgements which if a man do he shall live in them Deut. 18.2.4.5 Exod. 2.1 and saith the Lord God in the day that I chose Israel and made my selfe known to them in the land of Aegypt saying I am the Lord your God then it followes I gave them my Statutes and shewed them my Judgements which if a man do he shall even live in them Ezekell 20.5.11 Thus they were in covenant before the rule of obedience was given for the Law is not of faith but the man that doth them shall live in them Gal. 3.12 that is he that obeyeth that rule being in the new covenant by faith in Christ shall live yet not for his doing but for his believing Rev. 5.1 2. Gal. 3.26 it was given as a glasse to see their sin James 1.23 24 25. by the Law is the knowledge of sin see Rom. 3.20.7.7 it was given them as a schoolemaster to drive them to Christ Gal. 3.24 as the pursuer of blood drove the murtherer to the City of refuge Joshua 20.3 then the Law at Sinai cannot be a covenant of grace 2. If it was a covenant of grace with every particular person in Israel this were to make them all to be their own saviours and redeemers but this cannot be for with many of them God was displeased and their carkases fell in the wildernesse 3. The faithfull amongst them were saved by their faith in Christ crucified which the brasen Serpent signified and they did eat the same spirituall meat with us and drink of the same spirituall drink for they drank of the rock which was Christ and those that were prophane are said to tempt Christ 1. Cor. 10.4.9 4. It is plainly said
Law given in the 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31. now this ceremoniall Law being in types and shadowes of Christ to come were all ended when Christ was once offered to beare the sins of many although the Priests stood daily ministring and offering oftentimes the same sacrifices but when Christ had offered one sacrifice for sins for ever sate down at the right hand of God Heb. 9.28.10 11 12. so then those sacrifices were not seales of the morall Law but of the ceremoniall which was their Gospell in dark types and shadowes shewing them Christ with whom the covenant of grace was made from all eternity and that it is so observe the morall Law was given with terrible thundrings and earthquakes that the people durst not come neare but cryed let not God speak unto us lest we dye Exod. 20.18 19. but when the ceremoniall Law was given they saw the God of Israel and there was under his feet as it were a paved work of a Saphirstone and as it were the body of heaven in his clearnesse also they saw God and did eat and drink see Exodus 24.3.4.10 11. thus the Morall Law was given with darknesse and terors and this with light and comfort then the morall Law is not a covenant of grace His sixt Argument if the Law was the same covenant and the oath which God made to Isaac then it must needs be a covenant of grace but saith he God when he gave the Law made it an Argument of his love and grace to them saying if ye hearken to these judgements and do them that the Lord thy God shall keep unto thee the covenant and mercy which he swore unto thy Fathers Deut. 7.12 I answer if this Law at Sinai should be the same which God swore to Isaac then the Law and Gospell would be the same thing but I need go no further then this one text to confute it where God saith if ye hearken to these judgements being the rule of their obedience then God will keep with them the covenant made with their fathers before the Law at Sinai was given this at Sinai is called judgments that is called a covenant this is called judgments in opposition to the other being an oath and promises then the copy of the morall Law given at Mount Sinai for a rule of obedience was not a covenant of grace But then saith M. Burgesse there are strong objections against these Arguments from Rom. 10. Gal. 3.18 Rom. 4.14 and it seems they are too strong for him for I heare no more of them only he saith if it should be rigidly and universally true then the Doctrine of Socinians would prevaile that there was no grace nor faith nor nothing of Christ vouchsafed to the Jewes but what necessity is there of this Christ was held out to them by the brazen Serpent John 3.14 and Moses complains for their want of faith saying they are a froward generation a people in whom there is no faith Deut. 32.20 and they were punished at Meribah because they beleeved not yea they could not enter into the promised laid because of their unbeliefe Heb. 3.19 but then I say Christ was tendred by the ceremoniall Law and faith in Christ is required from that and not from the morall Law yet I will neither exclude the Law nor Gospell nor will I divide them in the working grace in the elect for by the law we see our misery and by the Gospell our remedy and they are enemies to the truth 〈◊〉 deny either in the work of a sinners conversion but all this will not prove that the Law at Sinai was a covenant of grace But then he saith as the law worketh death so the gospell to some is the savovr of death and if Christ had not come then men had had no sin and they shall have greater judgements that despise Christ then they that despised the Law and this effect is accidentall through our corruption and then he saith that God doth not vouchsafe grace and justification in a legall way by that Law at Sinai but evangelically but I say then it was by the ceremoniall Law and not from the morall Law or at least the morall Law did shew them their misery and the ceremoniall Law shewed them Christ their only remedy then the morall Law is not a covenant of grace Thirdly He saith that the Apostle speaks these derogatory passages and they seem to be as well the ceremoniall law yet all do acknowledge here was Christ and grace held forth but by his good leave Paul was not willing to be found in his own righteousnesse which is of the law but that which is of the faith of Jesus Christ only Phil. 3.9 because that which comes only by the morall law is but our inherent righteousnesse when as the other by the gospell is not in us but in Christ and imputed to us and by this we stand just in the sight of God the one we have by the first Adam and the other we have by the second Adam then if these do but seemingly differ let the Reader judge and that other place Rom. 4.13 14. where it is said the promise to Abraham was not to him and his seed through the law but through the righteousnesse of faith for if it had been by the law the promise of Christ or the covenant of grace had been void so that here also is more then a seeming difference and so Gal. 3.18 if the inheritance were by the law it is no more of promise if grace were had at Sinai it could not be had by the covenant of grace to Abraham made by promise then are these but seeming derogatories no they are such objections that seem to be too strong for him therefore it still holds good that the morall Law at Sinai was no covenant of grace Fourthly He saith it is true that the law is a killing letter to those that take it without Christ and so is the gospell but I would know how any can take Christ from the morall law at Sinai when as he was never tendred by that law Christ only is tendred in his own covenant of grace made from all eternity and the promises in Christ are yea and amen 2 Cor. 1.19 but he saith if any had said to Moses your doctrine is but a killing letter and not a doctrine of life he would have been judged a blasphemer against the law of Moses I answer as the Law at Sinai was a rule to beleevers if any man despised this Law he dyed without mercy because by Christ it was made a rule for them to walk by and such a one shewed plainly that he was not a believer and so not in the covenant of grace confirmed before to Abraham so then the law at Sinai was a rule of life but the gospell is the chiefe instrumentall cause of life and therefore he that sins against the gospell shall have the great punishment yet all this will not make the
have it no man can be under both the covenants at once which are as contrary as life and death grace and sin the way to heaven and hell all at once but then he saith the types and promises go before the thing tipifyed and promised I grant it for God promised eternall life before the world began and the Lambe of God was tipifyed by Abels Lambe then he saith the second covenant was actually made at the death of the testator Heb. 9.16 17. but I have sufficiently proved that this was made with Christ before the world began but if any ask what benefit those had that were before this covenant was made he saith they had the efficacy of his death by faith beholding Christ in the promises before any was made but if his faith hath no better foundation it will not stand in the fiery tryall for what ground is there for faith before the covenant was made it is presumption to believe without a promise His second difference the first covenant was made with Israel after the flesh the second in relation to Christ Gal. 3.29 it seems by him that neither was made with Christ immediatly for both were made to men although one hath relation to Christ yet the foundation is men and then to Christ as the Papists themselves will be the agents to take Christ as an instrument to save them but the ceremoniall law and our preaching the Gospell serve both to shew forth the covenant made with Christ eternally they had divine ordinances Heb. 9.1 then not fleshly His third difference is in regard of the conditions of the covenants the first saith doe this and live but this I have answered already that a surety is not here denyed and there is an Evangelicalll doing the whole Law in their desire and endeavour as a rule to them in the covenant of grace already but saith he the new covenant requires nothing by way of condition of the creatures part and yet he saith the Lord will put his lawes in their mind and write them in their hearts what are those but conditions for then the covenant followes I will be their God and they shall be my people Jer. 31.33 His fourth difference the promises of the first covenant are only of temporall things Deut. 28.1.10.15 Jer. 11.5 but the promises of the new covenant are all spirituall Jer. 31.32 Heb. 8.9 10 11. but saith the Lord I have established my covenant with them to give them the land of Canaan and I will take you to me for a people and I will be to you a God Exod. 6.4.7 is here nothing but temporall things and saith Paul Godlinesse hath the promise of the life that now is and of that which is to come 1 Tim. 4.8 and if he mean the ceremoniall law it shewed them Christ if he speak of the morall law it was not given them as a covenant but as a rule of obedience His fifth difference is between the mediators of these covenants the mediator of the first he conceives to be Moses from these scriptures Heb. 3.25 Gal. 3.19 Exod. 32.11.14 Psal 106.23 but the mediator of the new covenant between God and man is Christ Jesus Heb. 8.6 I answer if he speak of the morall law it was not given to them nor us as a covenant but as a rule of life and so they did reverence it at the hand of Moses representing Christ the only mediator for when Christ came he took the Law in his first Sermon and gave it with his own hand saying you have heard thus but I say thus yet not as a covenant but as a rule of life and if he mean the ceremonialI Law Moses did not at all mediate for it we have but one mediator the man Christ Jesus 1 Tim. 2.5 and Moses did no more but pray for the people as Hezekiah did for Jerusalem and as many other men may do His sixt difference is between the bloods of the covenants the first but the blood of Calves and Goates Heb. 9.19 20. and yet called the blood of the covenant Exod. 24.8 but the blood of the new covenant is the blood of Jesus Christ 1 Cor. 11.25 I answer if he mean the morall law that requires no blood at all neither to Adam when it was a covenant for he had no sin neither at Sinai for then it was but as a rule to those already in covenant and for the ceremoniall law the blood of calves and goates was no more the blood of that covenent then wine is the blood of our Sacrament for it did but signifie the blood of Christ and when Moses bids the people behold the blood of the covenant Exod. 24.8 he doth not mean the blood of calves and goates but the blood of Christ which is called the blood of the covenant see Heb. 10.29.13.20 His seventh difference is in writing the law of the covenants the first was written in tables of stone Ex. 32.15 16. but the law of the new covenant in the heart Heb. 8.10 1 Cor. 11.25 I answer as before the law that was written in tables of stone was the morall law and was not given as a covenant but as a rule of life to Israel and both the morall law and the Gospell are written with paper and ink in the bible and he that hath the law of God in his heart none of his steps shall slide Psal 37.31 when men by nature do the things of the law they shew some remainders of it in their hearts as a covenant of works Rom. 2.15 but when it is written in the heart not as a covenant but as a rule of life this is sanctification His eighth difference is in regard of the obscurity of the one and the plainnesse of the other I answer it is true the morall law was given with blacknesse and darknesse Heb. 12.18 Exod. 20.21 when as the ceremoniall law in comparison of it was as it were the body of heaven in his clearnesse Exod. 24.10 and now by preaching the Gospell we doe not only see a clearnesse of the heavens but heaven opened and Christ at the right hand of God Acts 7.56 they had but dark types and shadowes of Christ and now he hath manifested himself unto us John 14.22 in this we do not differ only he holds them to be two covenants when as it is but a more dark and a more clear manifestation of the same covenant of grace His ninth difference is about the worship that did appertain to these covenants that which did belong to the first covenant did consist of types and shadowes of good things to come Heb. 10.1 but the worship of the new covenant declares them to be already come to this let my last answer suffice His tenth difference is that the first covenant is done away that the second might be established 2 Cor. 3.11 Heb. 8.13.10.9 this I grant if he mean the dark ceremoniall law in types and shadowes of Christ this is done away that the