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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
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

then every man may do what is right in his own eyes his answer is only this if Magistrates be commanded to rule the nations and Christ to order the affaires of his Kingdome then the objection is resolved but this he cannot prove that Christ is confin'd only to rule his Church for when God raised him from the dead he set him at his own right hand far above all principalities and powers might and dominion and every name that is named both in this world and in the world to come and put all things under his feet and gave him to be the head over all things to his Church Ephe. 1.20.21 22. neither are Magistrates confined so to rule the State as to have no relation to the Church but to be as a guard to it and to punish the disturbers of it Rom. 13. The use of his last difference if the Lord have taken away the first that he might establish the second Heb. 10.9 then this should teach us to take heed that we do not go about to establish againe that which God hath taken away as all those do which go about to bring into the worship of God the rights of the first covenant this is indeed to give the spirit of God the lye for in effect they say the first covenant is best when as the spirit of God saith the second is best being established upon better promises I answer Christ and all his benefits were then promised and is any thing better then Christ and his benefits Gal. 3.8.16 so then the things promised were not better but the manifestation or discovery now is better the promises of grace were seal'd to them by the blood of beasts the type of Christs blood and to us the promises of grace are seal'd by his own blood but Christ and his benefits were the same both to them and us Then he is perswaded that each godly heart longs for the utter ruine of Antichrist which will be compleated so soon as this is generally seen that the upholding of the first covenant is the upholding of Antichrist for the Apostle admires that in as much as Christ was crucifyed and so clearly held forth among them which did put an end to all the rights of that covenant that they should be so bewitched as to bring them in again but here I would know of him who it is that seeks to bring in circumcision or any of their ceremonies which he seems to charge upon us without proof because the Galathians were bewitched with those beggerly elements which we have not the least shadow ofthen he saith circumcision was the signe of that covenant that did so deceive them for if ye be circumcised Christ shall profit you nothing ye are debters to the whole law Gal. 5.2 3. I answer with M. Perkins on these words that circumcision must be considered according to the circumstance of time three waies before Christ it was a Sacrament and seale of the righteousnesse of Christ apprehended by faith Rom 4.1 after the death of Christ it was a dead ceremony yet some used it as a thing indifferent till the destruction of the Temple but afterwards it was a deadly ceremony and ceased to be a thing indifferent so then although it would be to us a renouncing of Christ yet to the Jewes it was a Sacrament or seal of the righteousnesse of Christ to their faith as our Sacraments do to us thus the Jewes that believed were under the covenant of grace as well as we although not under the same manifestation of it they had the glad tydings of Christ in the promise and we in the performance their promises are ceased in our performances and their types and shadowes ceased when Christ the substance came their ceremonies were gospell to them to shew them Christ but these ceremonies are now worn out and are but beggerly Elements to us they saw as it were the body of heaven in its clearnesse by those spectacles but we cannot see at all with them thus their Gospell is ceased to us but our preaching and declaring Christ to be already come is that everlasting Gospell preached by men and Angels in the midst of heaven for ever saying fear God and give glory to him and worship him that made the Heaven and Earth and Sea and Fountain of waters Rev. 14.15 16. and we shall then sing the song of Moses as well as the song of the Lambe Rev. 15.3 that is we shall be as cheerfull in our duty to the morall law being a rule of righteousnesse as to extoll and praise the Lord for his mercies so then although the ceremoniall law be ceased yet the morall law abideth eternally Psal 103.20.119.89 not as a covenant of grace nor as a covenant of works but as a rule of righteousnesse for Moses wrote all the words of the Lord touching the ceremoniall law Ex. 24.3 4. and after that the Lord called Moses up into the Mount and there he gave him the tables of stone and a law and Commandements which himself had written ver 12. to this end to be a rule of righteousnesse that thou maist teach them their duty after they had seen the God of Israel reconciled to them ve 10 11. now the righteous being in the covenant of grace shall enjoy the good things of it and that eternally when as the wicked being still under the covenant of works shall suffer the misery and lye under the penalty of it eternally But some will say the yoake of Christ is easie and his burden is light Mat. 28.11 when as the law was a yoake which neither our fathers nor we are able to beare Acts 15.10 therefore they were not in the covenant of grace nor under the yoake of Christ I answer it was the same covenant of grace with ours although not the same way administred unto them circumcision was a seale of the righteousnesse of faith to them Rom. 4.11 yet a very heavy burden to flesh and blood Exod. 4.25 and baptisme an easie service is come in the place of it and so their Passeover was very chargeable to sacrifice so many of their cattel this we are eased of and now the Lords Table requires but little of our estate so also they had long and tiresome Journies to come to the Passeover at Jerusalem Psal 84.6 7. when as now God accepts of our Passeover or Sacrament neare our own homes so then Jewes and Christians have the same covenant only their burden of administration is taken off and made easie for which we are exceedingly bound to praise the Lord and that for ever FINIS Errata Page 16. line 20. after read before p. 32. r. is the highest p. 20. l. 8. reverence r. receive l. 15. r. leave out many p. 21. l. 37. all read also the r. their risen r. arisen Christian Reader I Have lived an unworthy Minister in the same town with the Authour of this Treatise these six and twenty years and have been a constant observer and admirer as of her other eminent gifts so especially of those which give the highest lustre to them all her humble piety and charity And if I mistake not this Deborah doth here present unto thee in these her labours Bee-like a sting and hony conjoyn'd Hony-sweet instructions counsels and exhortations gathered out of severall flowres growing in Gods Paradise tending to all sorts of good husbandry and also sharp stings of reproof against all kinds of unthriftiness not sparing the worst of them our Church-dividing Errours in these times Who knows but that after the lightnings of so many worthy Barak's and thundrings of so many powerfull Boanergesses both from the Pulpit and Presse against these Troublers of our Israel the Lord may be pleased to make some of these Sisera's fall by the hand and pen of a woman First read then judge and as Barnabas did at Antioch Acts 11.23 when thou hast seen the grace of God be glad and say The Lord be magnified who as he may do what he will with his own so hath given such gifts to a woman the fruits whereof shee here by her private pains sends forth with her earnest desire for the glory of God and the publike good Which is also the hearty prayer of Thy Christian friend and well-wisher in the Lord Robert Cade REader in this Tract as in a former by her written thou mayest find verified eminency of gifts humility of spirit elegancy of style soldity of matter height of fancy depth of judgment cleernesse of apprehension strength of reason all sweetly met together and truly as well as piously improved for the mayntenance of the old truths of Jesus Christ against the new errours of these times by the Phoenix of this age this rare and precious Gentlewoman the envy and glory of her sex 〈…〉