Selected quad for the lemma: faith_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
faith_n	circumcision_n	covenant_n	seal_n	7,337	5	9.8059	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A77360	Christ and the covenant the work and way of meditation. : Gods return to the soul, or nation; together with his preventing mercy. : Delivered in ten sermons, (viz.) 1. Christs personal excellencies, the object of our love. 2. Christ crucified, the object of our faith. 3. The new covenant of grace opened. 4. Christ the mediator of the new covenant. 5. The way and spirit of the new covenant, or New Testament. 6. The blood of sprinkling. 7. The sweetness and profitableness of divine meditation. 8. The work and way of this meditation. 9. Gods return to the soul and nation. 10. Preventing mercy. / By W.B.	Bridge, William, 1600?-1670.	1667 (1667)	Wing B4449A; ESTC R225773	165,221	279

of promise O my Lord my goodness is no● for thee but for the Saints that are in the earth an● the excellent in whom is all my delight And so ou● Saviour Christ promises to the Father in the 17. o● John Therefore do I sanctifie my self That the● also may be sanctified And if you look into the Hebrews you shall find that Christ is called the Surety of the Covenant Why because he doth ingage for God the Father to perform to us and he doth ingage for us that we shall perform to God So that do you aske what the Covenant is plainly then it is That mutual agreement between God an● man whereby God the Father doth ingage himself to shew kindness love and mercy to Christ and his Seed Christ ingaging both for himself and for his Seed to be obedient unto God the Father 2. But then secondly why is this Covenant called a New Covenant Not only because it is an excellent Covenant as in Scripture phrase excellent things are called New a New Song c. Nor onely because it brings a new heart which is promised in the Covenant Nor onely because it is alwayes fresh and green and new upon which account Austin thinks that the commandment of Love is called a New Commandment Nor is it called New onely because there is no other Covenant to succeed and follow which is the reason in the 8th of Heb. But it is called a New Covenant in opposition to the Covenant that was made with Adam and with us in the state of innocency and in opposition to the Covenant which was made with the Jews in the time of the Old Testament First New in opposition to the Covenant that was made with Adam in the state of innocency for then though God out of free love and grace was pleased to condescend to enter into Covenant with man yet then God did deal with us in a way of Supremacy and of Righteousness and therefore there is mention made onely of the Threatning In the day that thou eatest thereof thou shalt dye the death But now God deals with us in this Covenant in a way of grace and of great compassion and therefore in this Covenant there is mention made onely of the Promise Again 2. Though God did enter into Covenant with Adam and so with us and promised eternal life in Heaven not eternal life in this World onely as some would For Hell was threatned in these words In the day thou eatest thereof thou shalt dye the death and therefore Heaven and Salvation was promised on the contrary yet I say although God when he entered into Covenant with us then did promise Heaven and Salvation it was upon condition of our personal and perfect obedience and therefore called a Covenant of works But now our Covenant runs upon no such terms 3. Then in that Covenant acceptation began in the Work and so to the Person and therefore saith the Lord to Cain If thou doest well shalt thou not be accepted speaking to him as belonging to the Covenant of works But in the Covenant now made the acceptation begins in the Person and so to the Work and therefore saith the Lord concerning Abel the Lord accepted Abel his Person and then his Sacrifice 4. Then also the Lord gave Adam and us an● ability to stand but he did not give a promise of perseverance in standing But now the Lord doth I will put my fear into your hearts that you shall not depart from me saith the Lord. 5. Then in that Covenant there was no room for repentance no room for remission But as in a Court of meer Justice the Question is not whether a man doth repent of his Fact or no but whether I or No hath such a Fact been done So by the Covenant of works the first Covenant there is no Question whether a man doth repent or no But whether the work were done whether the sin were done But now in this Covenant there is room both for repentance and for remission as by and by you shall hear And then 6. Though when God made that Covenant with Adam and with us the tree of Life might be some shaddow of Christ yet then there was no Mediator for there was no need God and Man was not at variance and so no need of a Mediator But in this Covenant that is now stricken there is a Mediator a Mediator of the New Covenant So that thus you see this Covenant is New in opposition to the Covenant that was made with Adam and us in the state of innocency And Secondly As it is New in opposition to the Covenant that was made with Adam the Covenant of works so it is new also in opposition to the Covenant that was made with the Jews in the time of the Old Testament For the clearing of this First of all we must inquire whether there be any difference between the Covenant made with the Jews in the day of the Old Testament and the Covenant made with us now and in case there be what is the difference and wherein it lyes And first If you ask whether there be any difference If I should answer with Divines ordinarily wherein they speak the truth I must say that the Covenant which God made with the Jews was for substance the same though different in administration but give me leave to express my own sense in my own terms thus 1. It is plain and clear that the Jews that were saved in the time of the Old Testament were saved by the same Covenant that we now are saved by for they were saved by the Covenant that God made with Abraham so are we Luke 11. Rom. 4. Gal. 3. Circumcision then was the Seal of the Covenant and what was Circumcision but a seal of the Righteousness of Faith The Ceremonies Types and Sacrifices did not belong to the Covenant of works they were Types of Christ and therefore it must needs be the same Covenant for it was a Covenant of works that was made with the Jews God should have brought them from better to worse for the Covenant of Grace was made with Abraham but though the Law was added after the Promise it could not disanul the Promise saith the Apostle in the 3. of Gal. So that its plain and clea● the Jews that were then saved were saved by th● same Covenant that we now are But 2. Though those Jews that were saved wer● saved by the same Covenant that we now are saved by yet notwithstanding the Covenant o● works was declared and promulged among th● Jews Wherefore then was the Law added saith th● Apostle Added then it was As Sarah and Hagar made types of the two Testaments by the Apostle Were at once in Abrahams house So the Old Covenant of Works and the New Covenant of Grace wer● at once in the Jewish Church But 3. Though both these Covenants were at onc● in the Jewish Church the one declared and the other made with them though