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A77775	The Gospel-covenant; or The covenant of grace opened. Wherein are explained; 1. The differences betwixt the covenant of grace and covenant of workes. 2. The different administration of the covenant before and since Christ. 3. The benefits and blessings of it. 4. The condition. 5. The properties of it. / Preached in Concord in Nevv-England by Peter Bulkeley, sometimes fellow of Johns Colledge in Cambridge. Published according to order.	Bulkeley, Peter, 1583-1659.	1646 (1646)	Wing B5403; Thomason E331_1; ESTC R200735	319,203	371

was at first full of grace and goodnesse an Image of the blessed God but now he is become a spectacle of misery So all other things under the Sun are to him turned to vanity and vexation of spirit As a deale of wind in the body doth not refresh it but gripe and pain it so all the windy comforts of the world cannot satisfie but rather trouble us till we recover our fellowship with God As we lost our felicity in losing God so we must recover it again by recovering him Therefore wee find in experience that the soule never finds setled test till it come to rest in God As the Bee goes from flower to flower because there is not full contentment to be found in any one so the soul● from creature to creature til it comes to God Hence the Lord is called the rest of the soule Psalm 116.7 And this the Lord knowing that the soule cannot find rest any where else but in him therefore he will communicate himself to them this being his end to make the creature bl●ssed by enjoying of him Consider how God is an All-sufficient God to us in two respects First in respect of all our occasions and necessities whatever our case be It 's Gods prerogative alone to be an universal good The things of the world can help but against some one thing bread against hunger drink against thirst cloathes against cold and nakednesse houses against wind and weather friends against solitarinesse riches against poverty Physick against sicknesse c. But God is an All-sufficient good he supplies all the necessities of his people he is all in all to them he is habitation to them he is life c. he doth good to the inward and outward man his grace is sufficient to help all the defects of the soule Look upon the guilt of sinne there is abundant grace to pardon Are our infirmities many there is power in Gods grace to heale them Are our corruptions strong the power of Gods Spirit can overcome them and make us able to keep his Statutes and Judgements and to doe them Are our consciences disquieted and our peace broken His joy is able to make us rejoyce with joy unspeakable and glorious Again his sufficiency extends also to the body all the welfare of the outward man is laid up in God he is the God of our life Psal 42.8 Psalm 42.8 and the strength of our life Psal 27.1 Psalm 27.1 He is a quickning spirit 1 Cor. 15.45 1 Cor. 15.45 which though it be true in regard of the inward man which he doth also quicken by his Spirit and grace yet it is there spoken of the outward man of the body which the Lord shall quicken after death and doth now keep alive by his power For in him we live and move and have our being Acts 17.28 Acts 17.28 When God formed the body at first out of the dust whence had it life Not from it selfe nor from any creature God breathed into him the breath of life and so he still keeps the breath in our nostrils and upholds our soule in life or else we should presently return to dust Secondly God is an all-sufficient good in respect of all times and seasons both for this life and the life to come Other things serve but in their seasons as it was said of David that he served his time so doe the things of this life but they continue not our health and strength are with us in youth but they stay not The flowers give their smell in the spring but by and by they are withered and gone The Sunne gives light in the day time but hides it selfe in the night cloathes keep us warme but they wear away But God is a lasting yea and an everlasting good He is God and changeth not and therefore is called God from everlasting to everlasting Psal 90.2 In a word he is sufficient First to save us from all evill and thence hee is said to bee a Wall of fire round about his people Zach. 2.8 So also a Cloud against the heat a Shield and Buckler against the Sword c. an all-sufficient protection to his people against all evill Secondly an all-sufficient good to communicate all blessings to us which we stand in need of therefore hee promises to open his good treasure Deut. 28.11.12 And hee tells Abraham when hee enters into covenant with him that he will be his exceeding great reward I will be all things to thee Hence the Lord is called a Sunne Psalm 84. that as the Sun is the cause of all fruitfulnesse to the earth bringeth forth corn grasse and hearbs and withall cherishes them so the Lord by the influence of his grace and goodnesse bringeth forth something out of every creature for the good and comfort of his people Thirdly he is able to make up all our losses whatever wee have forgone for his Names sake and his Gospels we shall have an hundred fold more either in the same kind or in contentation or inward peace of conscience Thus the Prophet tells Amaziah 2 Chron. 25. when he asked what he should doe for the hundred talents saith the Prophet The Lord is able to give thee more then this Have we with Abraham forsaken our native countrey and our kindred The Lord is able to make up all Fourthly He is sufficient to work for us and by us what ever we desire according to his will What ever enterprise wee have in hand or goe about though wee have mountaines against us as Zach. 4.7 yet the Lord can make them plains and work all our works for us Have we any grace to bee wrought in us Hee can make all grace to abound in us He hath abundance of spirit Heb. 13.21 and can work both will and deed Thus you see that God is every way sufficient to his people Vse 1 This may let us see both the cause and cure of those manifold discontents that we meet withall in our daily course troubled we are on every side nothing satisfies the unsatiable desires of our hearts but when we have the things we sought at Gods hand yet we are discontented The reason of all is because we doe not injoy God we doe not live upon him wee doe not possesse nor improve our interest in him We pore upon the Creature and place our rest there and so misse of our expectation If we did injoy God in our daily conversation wee might finde a sufficiency and contentment in every estate as Paul did Phil. 4.13 Phil. 4.13 2 Cor. 6.10 as having nothing and yet possessing all things He lived to God and enjoyed him and he was an all-sufficient good to him Wee may injoy God in any condition in the meanest as well as the greatest in the poorest as well as the richest Nothing can separate us from God but sin alone God will goe into a wildernesse into a prison into a low condition with his people and he

hee makes them able to lend unto others makes them the head and others the taile c. sets up his own above and the other beneath 7. God is in Covenant with our whole man he is the God of our body as well as soule and spirit we are wholly his he hath taken us wholly to be his own and therefore even as our Saviour Christ in Matth. 22. doth hereby prove the resurrection of Abrahams body because God was in Covenant with Abraham he was the God of Abraham of whole Abraham body as well as soule and therefore God being the God of the living and not of the dead Abrahams body must live and rise againe so by the same argument we may gather assurance that God will provide for our outward man because he is the God of the whole man he is a God to us not only to pardon our sinnes to sanctifie and save our soules but he is the God of our bodies also to feed and to cloth them to minister to them such things as are convenient for them And hence is that in 1 Cor. 6.13 as our body is for the Lord to serve and glorifie him so is the Lord also for the body to redeem it to nourish it to glorifie it 8. The Lord knowes how many discouragements we meet with here to dishearten us in his service And therefore he casts in these outward blessings as encouragements to provoke us to serve him with more willingnesse and cheerefulnesse of Spirit As Hezekiah caused the Levites to have provision brought in unto them that they might be encouraged in the service of the Lord 2 Chron. 31.4 so will the Lord doe much more hee will have his servants to know that they shall not serve him for nought Iob 1. not so much as to shut a doore in his house in vaine Mal. 1. 9. The Lord hath commanded such duties unto his servants as they cannot performe without a supply in these outward things works of love mercy kindnesse helpfulnesse one to another yea he would have us to abound in these things and as examples to goe before all other people And therefore he will also furnish us with sufficiency that we may be compleat unto every good work He will not send on a message and cut off the feet of him whom he sends Prov. 26.6 10. The Lord looks for service from our outward man give up your body as an holy living Sacrifice unto God Rom. 12.1 Glorifie God in your bodies and spirits for they are God's saith Paul 1 Cor. 6. but he will not reap where he hath not sown nor look to gather where he hath not scattered he will sustaine us if he look for service from us 11. We are Gods houshold and family and therefore hee will provide for his own If he have charged us to provide for our own 1 Tim. 5.8 he will not he cannot be wanting to his If he feed the Ravens Job 39.3 and cloath the Lilies Matth. 6.26 he will not suffer his children to want bread 12. By giving us these outward things the Lord would nourish our faith in the hope of things spirituall and heavenly for when we see his care over us in these lesser things it may assure us that he will not neglect us in those that are of greater moment The outward blessings which God gave unto Israel were not outward blessings alone but pledges and tokens of better things he gave them bread from heaven and it was an outward bodily food but not that only but it was a pledge to them of the true bread from heaven he gave them water out of the Rock which did quench their bodily thirst but not that only but was a sign and pledge of Christ the true Rock out of whom springs the water of life he gave them a good and fat land to dwell in where they had vine-yards orchards gardens and lived in pleasure therein through his great goodnesse Neh. 9. but not as an outward blessing only but as a pledge of a better inheritance And thus doth he unto us though every thing is not now typicall to us as to them yet thus far we may go to say that these outward blessings are made pledges unto us of Gods love towards us in better things so as we may argue from the lesse to the greater that if he be so mindfull of us in these smaller things of this life then doubtlesse he will not neglect us in those greater things which concerne the eternall salvation of our soules 13. He knowes we have need of these things Matth. 6.32 and therefore he having commanded us to give unto him that needeth Ephes 4.28 and open our hand wide unto the poore Deut. 15.11 surely he will not shut up the bowels of his compassion from his own needy servants but will open his good treasure unto them to satisfie them with good things Deut. 28.12 Quest But sometimes wee see Gods faithfull servants to bee kept short in these outward blessings how comes this to passe the Lord having made such ample promises unto them and how farre forth may any bee assured to have a sufficiency in these things Answ To the first I conceive thus First all the promises of things pertaining to this life are subordinate and subservient to the promises which concern our inward man and our eternall salvation God doth not promise us these outward things so as to make against our spirituall good but so as to further and help it forward he promiseth them with Christ not against Christ nor to hinder his Kingdome in our hearts Rom. 8.32 If it so fall out that sufficiency in these may better us in the inward man wee shall not want them but because the Lord sees us sometimes to abuse them to the fulfilling of our wanton desires to pride security confidence and trusting in them here the Lord is free from his promise least by filling us with those things that are outward he should empty us of that little grace that is in us Secondly there are times of tryall in which the Lord will try all his children The Lord will try the righteous saith the Prophet Psal 11.5 thus he tryed them in Heb. 11.36 37. they were tryed with mockings and scourgings being destitute afflicted and tormented Thus also he tryed Israel in the wildernesse Deut. 8.2 16. and thus he tryed holy Job God will know what is in us he will see whether we serve him for wages yea or no or whether wee would continue to serve him out of love though he should give us nothing Hee will see whether we follow him for loaves or whether we can be content to cleave to him in wants and necessities having nothing But though the Lord will thus try us yet these times of tryall last not alwayes these are not the wayes of Gods ordinary dispensation towards his people During these times of tryall the Lord doth sometimes cut short his servants in outward things but it is to do

with God 44 45 46 wherein both Covenants agree 50 51. wherein they differ 52 56 70 73 75. how faith in both differ 53 54. both Covenants considered two wayes 97 the Covenant of works requires faith 52 53. why the Lord conveys life and blessednesse to us by the Covenant 26 27 28 the Covenant of Grace the same in all ages 102 103 more powerfully dispensed since then before the comming of Christ 112. D Demeanour of Fath after prayer 307 308. Differences between the two Covenants fifteen 52 between faith in both covenants 53 54 between both in requiring works 55 between the Commandement of Law and Gospel 332. Discontent● the causes of them 134. Dispositions sanctified tokens of true sanctification 239 240. Draw nothing in us to Draw God into Covenant with us 353. E Effects of the Spirit of Grace in the soul 88 of true sanctification 235 236 237 of light in the soul 380 Effect of the Covenant is to work holinesse 373 seq England an admonition to it to receive the Grace offered 14. Encouragement to faith 261. Enmity in our nature against God 353. When it is that we make grace our Enemy 95 96. Evangelicall condition excludes not free grace 326. Everlasting the Covenant is 367 why so 368 the blessings of the Covenant are so ibid. how the first Covenat is so 369. Exalted God is to be Exalted chiefly 346. how he is to be Exalted 348 when hee is ibid. F Faith the condition of the Covenant of Grace 295 why it is ibid. how closeth with the Covenant 302. encouragements to it 261 two acts of it 289 290 not commanded in the Law 331 proved ibid. its workings 304 its weaknesse 303 its earnestnesse in prayer unto God 307. its demeanour after prayer as God answers or not answers 308 309. Looks on the Lords Government as a mercifull government 312 reconciles the heart unto God 313 enables to walk with God ibid. when the life of faith is most seen 314 faith of Christ why so called 329 It is a strengthening grace 317 gets assisting strength from Christ 313 We are not actually justified before it comes 322 the reasons of it ibid. Fall why the Saints cannot fall away 248. Father God the Father in Covenant with us 124 with Christ 29 30. Forgivenesse of sin the benefit of it 164 why the Lord doth forgive sinnes 165 166 what a man is to doe that he may be forgiven 169 signes when a mans sinnes are forgiven 171 172. Freenesse of Gods grace 81 how the condition and the freenesse of grace agree in the Covenant 292 The condition in the Covenant excludes not the freenesse of grace 291 how it appeares that the Covenant is free 354 why it is so 356 the freenesse of grace in the Covenant 353. G Gentiles beleeving are the seed of Abraham 17. God alone satisfies a sanctified soule ●38 his things great 346. Glorying twofold 87 what glorying is ibid. the Covenant of grace teacheth to glory in God alone 85 88 holinesse the glory of a people 381. Gospel vayled in the Ceremoniall Law 330 the commandement of Faith a commandement of the Gospel Government of the Lord when we are under it 153 154 a mercifull government 312. Grace habituall may be a tryall of our state 231 232 it appeares in cleansing us from filthinesse of sinne 181 why the Lord would have his Covenant to bee of free Grace 356 the free grace of God in pardoning of sinne 159 the infinitenesse of it 160 Faith a strengthning Grace 317 the Covenant at mount Sinai a Covenant of Grace 65 66 the performance of the promise of Grace is Grace 355 the freenesse of Grace in entring into Covenant with us 353. H Habituall holinesse 376 Habit of Faith not the condition of the Covenant 298 reasons of it ibid. Heaven Canaan a type of it 107. Heart sanctified finds no peace but in the way that 's holy 236. Holy Ghost in Covenant with us 124 the Covenant a holy Covenant 373 why it is holy 374. Holinesse what 375 a twofold holinesse ibid. signes of a true 379 it s the glory of a people 381 the perfection of our Christian state 381 it s wrought by the Covenant 373. I Iewes after their conversion shall continue faithfull 7 shall inhabit their own land again 16 their conversion 17 18 reasons of it 19 two hindrances of their conversion 20 why wee should pray for their conversion 20. Iustice without mercy in the Covenant of Works 77. Iustification considered three wayes 322 sanctification an evidence of it 183 it goes not before faith 322 the reasons of it Ibid. K Knowledge of the Covenant what benefit 119 120. Know whether we be in Covenant 378. L Law considered two wayes 58 Ceremoniall a Gospel vailed 330 commandeth not faith 333 the condition of it impossible to be fulfilled 295. Law-Giver who and how 328. Libertines mistake the Covenant 379. Light the effects of it in the soule 380. Life of Faith what it is 314 when it is most seen ibid. Love of God to us should comfort us in the enjoyment of lesser blessings 273 274. M Man in Covenant with God two wayes 361 man seeks not God but God man 353. Mediator who 68 69 the Covenant of Grace given by a Mediatour 66 Chirst in his Type a Mediatour of that Covenant given at Mount Sinai 62 wee are not to goe to God but by a Mediatour 67 68 Christ that Mediatour 68 69 Christ an everlasting Mediatour 370 the comfort the mediation of Christ affords the Saints 69 70. Morall Law how it leads to Christ 330 Motives to holinesse 330 seq Mover in making the Covenant who first 299 353. N Nature of man in enmity against God 353. New why the Covenant of Grace is so called 195 New-England 14. O Obedience of the soule to God at its first conversion 310. Old why the Covenant of Grace is so called 105. Outward blessings pledges of better things 262 what the Outward blessings are that God promiseth his servants 264. why the Lord keeps his servants sometimes short in Outward things 263 in what manner God premiseth Outward blessings 165 they are part of the Covenant 267 they may be prayed for 166 God is the giver of them 271 272 the causes why the Saints are often deprived of them 267 seq when Outward things are blessings and tokens of Gods love 272 273 Outward blessings should make us serve God with the Outward man 274. P Peace cannot be wrought in the soul by the Covenant of works 90 91 a sanctified soul can finde no Peace but in that that 's holy 236. People of God are promised to have God himselfe 122 123 reasons of it 126. Person God first acceps the Person then the sacrifice 70 71. Personally God personally in Covenant with us 1●4 Perseverance in grace the Certainty of it 245 246 the reasons of it 246 247. Preservation in the state of grace part of the Covenant 243 244. Performance of the promise o● grace is free grace 353. Perfection of a Christian state what 281. Positive holinesse what 376. Possession of honour uncertaine 366 true grace is an everlasting Possession 255. Professours severall sorts of them hollow-hearted 256 257. Promises absolute the use of them 289 conditionall are of free grace 326 proved ibid. promises to encourage the people to return from Babylon 2. Q Qualifications may be tokens of Iustification 234 Qualifications in the promises when we are to make use of them 358. R Reasonable it is that God should rule over his people 311. R●concilement of the heart unto God is by faith 313. Relative holinesse what 375. Righteousness that justifies what it is 322. Riches of grace opened 126 Riches uncertaine 366. S Salt why the Covenant is so called 368. Saints who is their strength 254. Sanctifi●a●ion twofold 227 it s a blessing that will make those that receive it blessed 177 why so 178 179 it is an evidence of justification 183 Sanctification more manifest to the soul then Iustification 233 the reason of it ibid. the effects of Sanctification 235 236 237. It makes wary against staining sins 237 it makes us sensible of our weaknesses 23 some reall work in the soul proves not a reall Sanctification 228. Security that is wrought by assurance what it is 241. Seed of Abraham double 35 36. Separation between Iew and Gentile ended at Christs Ascension 97. Sinne a wrong done to God 160 Sinne turns good things into evill 164 Sinne the greatest evill why 163 God chuseth sometime the worst of sinners 354 why he doth so 355 Sins cannot make voyd the Covenant of Grace 84 85. when it is that Sinne makes voyd the Covenant of Grace 95 96. Son the Son of God in Covenant with us 124. Spirit whether the Spirit of Law or Grace dwels within us 88 how to know when our comfort is from the Spirit of grace 89. Storehouse of rich blessings what is 342. Streng●h of the Saints who is 254. Substance the absolute and conditionall promises one in substance 29. T Temporary blessings of the Covenant 259. Testament why the Covenant called a Testament 283 284. The old Testament revealed the Covenant of Grace darkly 107 why so 109 it revealed it only to the Iewes 115 116. Thankfulnesse 118. Things of God great things 343. True taken two wayes 228. Truth of sanctification signes of it 235 seq Truth of holinesse signes of it 379. Trust encouragements to Trust in God 261. Tryals of our estate may be made by the conditions of the Covenant 288 289. Tryall of our estate may be made by habituall grace 231 232. V Vnbeliefe the danger of it 340 unbeliefe dishonours God 363 it shames us 362 it weakens our comfort 363. Vncertaine riches are uncertaine 366. Vnworthinesse hinders not the freenesse of Gods grace 357. Vse of absolute promises what 289. W Worst of sinners chosen of God 353. Work of Faith what 314 how Works are considered in the Covenant of grace 3●4 The Covenant of grace requires Works 35 The Covenant at Mount Sinai not a Covenant of Works proved 58 A man that is under the Covenant of Works cannot attaine sanctification 184 the reasons of it ibid. Our Works are dead works 295 good Works the fruit of the Tree of faith 9 justification cannot be attained by the Works of the Law 226. Z Zeale for God is an honour to God 149. FINIS