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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

spared not his own Son but delivered him up for us all Isa 53.8 For the transgressions of my people was he stricken 7. The Holiness of God is manifested in Christ his Holiness did appear in that holy Image which he put in Adam and the holy Law which he gave to him under a penalty but this holiness of the Image of God stamped on the creature was possible to be lost for both men and Angels were capable of sin and did fall but herein is a greater manifestation of Gods holiness that a Creature Christ-man Christ Mediator is made the Fountain of all Holiness Holiness cannot be lost in him yea it is derived from him Joh. 1.14 16 Full of grace and truth and of his fulness have all we received and grace for grace Chap. 3. v. 34 For God giveth not the spirit by measure unto him This is spoken of Christ man of Christ Mediator for one of the persons of the Godhead cannot receive another O what an impression of Holiness is this what a communication and manifestation of the Holiness of God! The fulness of the Godhead dwells bodily in the man Christ Col. 2.9 Where there is the highest union there is the greatest communion there was never such another union as that personal union and therefore there could never be such a communication of God 8. The All-sufficiency of God appears more in Christ than ever before the declarative glory thereof shines in the restoring of lost man for whosoever can restore lost man can raise him to a higher happiness than he fell from he is All-sufficient and Almighty and is thereby declared to be so this did God in Christ the Mediator this is a declaration of Gods All-sufficiency and of Christs Gen. 17.1 I am God almighty 2 Cor. 8.9 For ye know the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ that though he was rich yet for your sakes he became poor that ye through his poverty might be made rich Chap. 12.9 And he said unto me My grace is sufficient for thee for my strength is made perfect in weakness most gladly therefore will I rather glory in my infirmities that the power of Christ may rest upon me 9. The Patience and Long suffering of God was never heard of before until it was manifested in Christ God executed his Justice against the fallen Angels without exercising any Patience and Long-suffering towards them 2 Pet. 2.4 For if God spared not the Angels which fell but cast them down to hell But in Jesus Christ there is a discovery of the Patience of God and his bearing with sinners Isa 49.8 There is a Covenant to establish the earth that Justice do not ruine it Jesus Christ obtained pardon and reprival for some sinners that they should be spared Exod. 34.6 And the Lord passed by before him and proclaimed The Lord the Lord God merciful and gracious long-suffering and abundant in goodness and truth In him the Lord proclaims himself merciful and gracious long-suffering c. 1 Tim. 1.16 Howbeit for this cause I obtained mercy that in me first Jesus Christ might shew forth all long-suffering for a pattern to them which should hereafter believe on him to life everlasting Yea and by way of concomitancy and for the Elects sake reprobates reap some benefit by the Patience of God thus manifested He suffers the creatures to mock him and say Where is the promise of his coming 2 Pet. 3.4 Rom. 9.22 Endured with much long-suffering the vessels of wrath fitted to destruction 10. The Faithfulness of God is manifested in Christ he was known to be true and faithful in fulfilling the threatning and certification of the transgression of the first Covenant Gen. 2.17 In the day thou eatest thereof thou shalt surely die And in keeping the Covenant with all the creatures Gen. 8.22 While the earth remaineth seed-time and harvest-time and cold and heat and summer and winter and day and night shall not cease Jer. 33.20 Thus saith the Lord If ye can break my Covenant of the day and my Covenant of the night and that there should not be day and night in their season c. But this was but a small declaration of his faithfulness being compared with the manifestation of his Faithfulness in Christ which shines so brightly in keeping Covenant and Promises with him and with his people upon his account notwithstanding all your unfaithfulness to him hereby he is proclaimed to be the Lord abundant in truth Exod. 34.6 2 Cor. 1.20 For all the promises of God in him are yea and in him are Amen Psal 89.34 35 My Covenant will I not break nor alter the thing that is gone out of my lips Once have I sworn by my holiness that I will not lie unto David Mic. 7.18 20 Who is a God like unto thee that pardoneth iniquity Thou wilt perform the truth to Jacob and the mercy to Abraham which thou hast sworn unto our fathers from the days of old 11. The Majesty of the Lord something whereof is manifested in the Creation Psal 19.1 The heavens declare the glory of the Lord and the firmament sheweth forth his handy-work But much more in restoring man if there be a Majesty in Angels Heb. 1.7 And of his Angels he saith who maketh his Angels spirits and his ministers a flame of fire And in godly men which is but a little discovered here c. shall be more fully afterward 2 Thess 1.10 When he shall come to be glorified in his saints O what excellent Majesty must there be in Jesus Christ Heb. 1.13 But to which of the Angels said he at any time sit on my right hand until I make thine enemies thy foot-stool And what shall be revealed in him when he shall come in glory 2 Thess 1.7 When the Lord Jesus shall be revealed from heaven with his mighty angels Col. 3.4 When Christ who is our life shall appear then shall ye also appear with him in glory You see then all the Attributes of God are made more bright and get a new lustre in Jesus Christ the Mediator he is the brightness of his Fathers glory and the express Image of his Person 2. The distinct Subsistences of the Persons of the Godhead and blessed Trinity are more brightly discovered in Jesus Christ than ever before God was but darkly seen before in the distinct Subsistences of the persons of the Trinity but in the Gospel through Jesus Christ there is a glorious manifestation thereof 2 Cor. 4.6 For God who commanded the light to shine out of darkness hath shined in our hearts to give the light of the knowledg of the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ 1. The Eternal Son of God the second Person his taking on our nature doth clearly shew that there are distinct Subsistences or Persons in the Godhead There are two natures in one Subsistence or Person which illustrates the three Subsistencies in one nature or three Persons in the Godhead 2. By Jesus Christ from his own

who of God is made unto us wisdom and righteousness and sanctification and redemption There be who divide his Offices who would be saved by his Priesthood but will neither be taught by his Prophecy nor ruled by his Kingdom 2. Others who would be both saved and taught but not commanded by him Again There be who would divide the things belonging to his Offices As 1. who would submit to his teaching by outward Ordinances but will not submit themselves to the inward teaching of his Spirit 2. Who will be content to take his satisfaction and merit of his death but think they need not his intercession 3. Who would take the protection of his Kingdom but will not have the Laws and Government thereof 4. Who would be made happy by his means but will not be made holy 6. Let us labour to seek within us the experiment of the virtue of each of his Offices and of the several parts thereof and things pertaining to the same And 1. of his Prophecy and that not only of his doing the part of a Prophet in shewing to us things more pleasant but things more bitter also even our sin and his reproofs Joh. 16.8 And when he is come he will reprove the world of sin and of righteousness and of judgment Psal 50.21 But I will reprove thee and set them in order before thine eyes 2. Let us study to experience the power and efficacy of his Priesthood in both parts thereof of his Satisfaction and of his Intercession of the death and life of our Priest and that to all the intents of these parts of that Office for Reconciliation for access to God for bringing you in favour for keeping you in favour for perseverance for righteousness for holiness and for salvation Rom. 5.9 10 Much more then being now justified by his blood we shall be saved from wrath through him For if when we were enemies we were reconciled to God by the death of his Son much more being reconciled we shall be saved by his life Heb. 4.14 Seeing then that we have a great High-Priest that is passed into the heavens Jesus the Son of God let us hold fast our profession And 10.22 Let us draw near in the full assurance of faith having our hearts sprinkled from an evil conscience and our bodies washed with pure water 1 Cor. 1.30 But of him are ye in Christ Jesus who of God is made unto us wisdom and righteousness sanctification and redemption Acts 5.31 Him hath God exalted with his right hand to be a Prince and a Saviour for to give repentance to Israel and forgiveness of sins Heb. 9.15 And for this cause he is the Mediator of the New Testament that by means of death for the redemption of the transgressions that were under the first Testament they which are called might receive the promise of eternal inheritance 3. Let it he our endeavour also to feel within us the virtue of his Kingdom by taking on his yoke submitting to his commands Mat. 11.29 Take my yoke upon you Admitting him as a King upon a throne to rule within us Luke 17.21 Behold the kingdom of God is within you Yielding him service Psal 2.11 12 Serve the Lord with fear and rejoyce with trembling Kiss the son lest he be angry Subduing your lusts 2 Cor. 10.4 5 For the weapons of our warfare are not carnal but mighty through God to the pulling down of strong holds casting down imaginations and every high thing that exalteth it self against the knowledg of God and bringing into captivity every thought to the obedience of Christ Committing your selves to his protection and making it your refuge 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 Vse 5. Try your improving of Christs Offices and whether he carrieth them in vain as to your reaping profit by them 1. In general 1. By your delight in the wise conjunction of them insomuch that if it were at your disposing ye could not be content that any of them were wanting in him 2. By your unsatisfiedness with your selves until you have had some good and found some effect of each of them upon you 2. More particularly 1. If you have been under the efficacy of Christs Prophesie no outward teaching will satisfie you till you feel the power of his Spirit teaching you inwardly 2. If you have been under the efficacy of his Priesthood no sacrifice nor service nor prayers of your own will be rested on but his Sacrifice and Intercession only 3. If you have felt the efficacy of his Kingdom no externals of a well-ordered and ruled walk will content you without his Kingdom within you CHAP. XIV Of the Mediator's Vnction as it relateth to the endowing of him with all requisite Qualifications for that Work THE Second Part of Christ's Unction which is also consequent to his personal union is the furnishing and fitting of him with special Requisites and Furniture for the work of Mediation and particularly he is anointed with requisite qualifications for the discharge of these three high Offices unto which he was designed to be a King a Priest and a Prophet to his Church And this also is comprehended in the Anointing from which our Mediator has his name Messiah or Christ Joh. 1.41 Luke 9.20 Of this part of his Unction we shall speak 1. More generally laying open what it is and the comprehensive phrases of Scripture which speak of it 2. More particularly pointing at the special graces which were required and were found eminently in our Mediator And 1. of his Unction in general whereby the Godhead made the Manhead full of himself and of all the communicable graces and gifts of the Spirit to fit him for the work of a Mediator The Scripture-phrases concerning this unction or fitness and furniture of Christ for his Mediatorship are exceeding large and comprehensive Psal 45.2 7 Thou art fairer than the children of men grace is poured into thy lips thy God hath anointed thee with the oyl of gladness above thy fellows There his unction with the Holy Ghost and graces of the Spirit compared to oyl which in regard of its nature refresheth and maketh fit for use and in regard of its use was imployed for figuring and signifying mens fitness for the calling is extolled comparatively comparing it with the unction of believers a large effusion of the Spirit was upon him after an extraordinary measure and manner John 3.34 For God giveth not the spirit by measure unto him how then without measure i.e. most abundantly the like phrase see Ezra 7.22 And salt without prescribing how much Christ did receive the gifts of the Spirit in such abundant measure that he might have an overflowing measure in him that should run over and fill all his members Joh. 1.14 16 full of grace and truth And of his fulness have all we received and grace for grace

part also Joh. 11.42 And I know that thou hearest me always 2. From the special requisites and graces which shine forth eminently in Christs managing the work of Mediation Vse 1. If Christ be a condescending Mediator who hath stooped low to compass an union betwixt you and God Then it is your duty to stretch and raise your self to meet him Come and meet him Will you let all the condescendance be on his side and will you not yeild and bow to him in any thing Nay be it far from you 2 Chron. 30.8 Now be ye not stiff-necked as your fathers were but yeild your selves unto the Lord. Vse 2. If he be a mollifying Mediator who hath brought down God from high demands of Law Then 1. Consider with what ease your conditions with God is now granted Consider the terms upon which Christ hath brought you an offer of God 2. Be you brought off the terms of distance whereupon you stand proudly with him And 3. If Christ have broken you off from your proud terms wherein you stood with God then you may judg thereby and conclude that he hath mollified himself also Vse 3. If Christ be so affable Then put away your prejudices at him and your mishapen thoughts of him as if he were austere to his people and be encouraged to come to him with every thing relating to your peace with God you shall find courteous and kind entertainment and shall experience that the Mediator is good to speak to Vse 4. If the Mediator be so meek and gentle Then believers may expect that he will bear with their infirmities wherein they do not allow themselves yea cannot bear with themselves Psal 103.9 13 14 He will not always chide neither will he keep his angar for ever Like as a father pitieth his children so the Lord pitieth them that fear him for he knoweth our frame he remembreth that we are dust yet so as you would not tempt Christ 1 Cor. 10.9 nor abuse his meekness and gentleness for there is such a thing in Christ as Gospel-severity the Lamb of God is a Lion when he is stirred up to he angry Heb. 2.2 3 For if the word spoken by angels was steadfast and every transgression and disobedience received a just recompence of reward How shall we escape if we neglect so great salvation which at the first began to be spoken by the Lord and was confirmed unto us by them that heard him And 10.26 For if we sin wilfully after that we have received the knowledg of the truth there remaineth no more sacrifice for sins Vse 5. If the Mediator be so eminently merciful Then 1. if your condition be so miserable and the evils of your estate such that can plead pity put no doubt but they shall find pity with him even when you can scarce speak for pity to them but only lay them before him set them in his eye Luke 19.4 And he ran before and climbed up into a sycamore-tree to see him for he was to pass that way 2 Fear not to meet with rough dealing repulses untenderness harsh answers Isa 40.11 He shall feed his flock like a shepherd he shall gather the lambs with his arm and carry them in his bosome and shall gently lead them that are with young Believers beware that ye do not upon the matter deny your Mediators merciful disposition say not by your carriage that he is a hard man Mal. 25.24 Vse 6. Is he a Potent Mediator Then 1. let sinners only deal to get Christ engaged for their peace and the business is done he shall bring it about Isa 38.14 O Lord I am oppressed undertake for me And 53.10 And the pleasure of the Lord shall prosper in his hand 2. Believers know whom you have believed how potent he is to do what is entrusted to him Psal 89.19 I have laid help upon one that is mighty that you may be comforted and your faith strengthened Rom. 4.20 21 He staggered not at the promise of God through unbelief but was strang in faith giving glory to God And being fully perswaded that what he had promised he was able also to perform Vse 7. If he be a faithful Mediators Then 1. be perswaded to give him more trust in the employment you put upon him in all your business leave your care upon this trusty person 1 Thes 5.24 Faithful is he that calleth you who also will do it Psal 37.5 Commit thy way unto the Lord trust also in him and he shall bring it to pass 2. Then it must be a great sin and provocation in any who have employed Christ to be jealous of him and to distrust his undertakings sure such do not know him well whom they have believed 2 Tim. 1.12 3. Believers who have fled to him for refuge and rolled over your temporal and everlasting interests upon him you may quiet your minds and lye down securely without fear of the miscarrying of any thing that is good for you Phil. 4.6 7 Be careful for nothing but in every thing with prayer and supplication with thanksgiving let your requests be made known to God And the peace of God which passeth all understanding shall keep your hearts and minds through Christ Jesus Psal 3.5 6 I laid me down and slept I awaked for the Lord sustained me I will not be afraid of ten thousands of people that have set themselves against me round about Vse 8. If our Mediator be the Wooer and Sutor of both the parties unto the peace Then to be you willingly wooed by him be not nice and wild when he is courting your hearts to wed with him and to make peace with God 2 Chron. 30.8 Now be not yet stiff-necked as your fathers were but yeild your selves unto the Lord and enter into his sanctuary When he prays you and beseeches you to be reconciled to God be not hard to be entreated 2 Cor. 5.19 20. 2. Fear not if your hearts have become toward to his Propositions if you be content to be wooed by him doubt not but he will get his Father's consent to whatsoever he propounds to you yea he had his mind and good-will to whatsoever he propoundeth to you before he spoke with you Joh. 6.37 38 All that the Father giveth me shall come to me and him that cometh to me I will in no wise cast out And this is the Fathers will which hath sent me that of all which he hath given me I should lose nothing but should raise it up at the last day And 17.16 I have manifested thy name unto the men which thou gavest me out of the world thine they were and thou gavest them me and they have kept thy word 3. No thanks to us that ever God and we were in good terms but all thanks to the Mediator the Wooer of both parties the Peace-maker who came and preached peace and made peace 2 Cor. 5.20 Eph. 2.14 15 17. Vse 9. If our Mediator be of so heroick and so unsubdued

Covenant under the first consideration are all those who are within the visible Church whether Elect or Reprobate and their seed professing obedience to the Gospel-ordinances under which they are as I have at length proved else-where Psal 147.19 20 He sheweth his word unto Jacob his statutes and his Judgments unto Israel He hath not dealt so with any nation and as for his judgments they have not known them But the parties contracters with God in the Covenant considered in the second respect are only the Elect of Christ to whom the spirit is given as well as the ordinances to whom the promise of the new heart is made and in whom it is fulfilled Isa 59.21 As for me this is my covenant with them saith the Lord My spirit that is upon thee and my words which I have put in thy mouth shall not depart out of thy mouth nor out of the mouth of thy seed nor out of the mouth of thy seeds seed saith the Lord from henceforth and for ever 3. We are to distinguish betwixt Christs act of Suretiship and undertaking and some benefits which by concomitancy redound to them for whom he never was made Surety for many hypocrites and reprobates that have the Gospel preached by concomitancy because they are mixed with the Elect in the habitable parts of the earth and Societies of men where these have their abode yet Christ was never undertaker for them nor doth the preaching of the Covenant come to them from Christ as their Surety but this benefit they have by Christs undertaking and Suretiship for the elect that are among them and for the Elects sake concerning whom Christ undertook to preach the Covenant to them and to fulfil it in them therefore he is a light to the Gentiles Isa 49.6 with Act. 13.26 Men and brethren children of the stock of Abraham and whosoever among you feareth God to you is the word of this salvation sent 2 Cor. 4.15 For all things are for your sakes that the abundant grace might through the thanksgiving of many redound to the glory of God Joh. 17.19 And for their sakes I sanctifie my self that they also might be sanctified through the truth These things premised we answer to the question 1. Negatively 1. Sure he was not made Surety Cat. Racov. de Prophet Ch. munere Christ did not undertake for all Mankind in whom was ever the breath of life the Reprobate as well as the Elect Cain as well as Abel Judas as well as Paul as Socinians and Arminians tell us for the Apostle's all 1 Tim. 2.6 Jac. Arm. Orat. sacdotio Christi pag. 16 17. Who gave himself a ransom for all to be testified in due time can be no more than Christ's many Mat. 20.21 And to give his life a ransom for many Heb. 9.28 So Christ was once offered to bear the sins of many and unto them that look for him shall he appear the second time without sin unto salvation 2. Davenant dissect de morte Christi cap. 4. p. 48. Sure he was not Surety nor did undertake for all these who are within the visible Church or within the Covenant externally for many of these were neither given to him by the father nor undertaken for by him 1 Joh. 2.19 They went out from us but they were not of us for if they had been of us they would no doubt have continued with us but they went out that they might be made manifest that they were not all of us Mat. 22.14 For many are called but few are chosen 3. He was not made Surety for all men conditionally to wit if they should believe for 1. His Suretiship was an absolute act of his own will and grace and doth not depend upon our will over which Christ hath the dominion Joh. 6.37 All that the father giveth me shall come to me and him that cometh to me I will in no wise cast out Zech. 10.8 I will hiss for them and gather them for I have redeemed them 2. It was part of his undertaking to purchase by the meirt of his death grace to bow our will and to heal our nature Heb. 10.10 By the which will we are sanctified through the offering of the body of Jesus Christ once for all Isa 42.4 He shall not fail nor be discouraged till he have set judgment in the earth and the Isles shall wait for his law 3. God knew them all particularly whom he gave to Christ to be ransomed by him and Christ knew them all by name for whom he did undertake therefore we read of names written in the lambs book of life Rev. 21.27 2. We answer affirmatively That Christ undertakes in his bargain of Suretiship only for the Elect Christ from eternity came under an act of cautionry for all these and no other For 1. No other were given to him by the Father but these were given unto him and without question he became Surety for none but these who were given to him by his father Joh. 17.2 19 That he should give eternal life to as many as thou hast given him And for their sakes I sanctifie my self Joh. 6.37 All that the father giveth me shall come to me and him that cometh to me I will in no wise cast out Joh. 10.28 29 And I give unto them eternal life and they shall never perish neither shall any man pluck them out of my hand My father which gave them me is greater then all and no man is able to pluck them out of my fathers hand 2. He became Surety for none but for those for whom he died and in whose stead he answered the demands of the Law and satisfied the Justice of God now he died only for the Elect Rom. 8.33 34 Who shall lay any thing to the charge of Gods elect it is God that justifieth Who is he that condemneth it is Christ that died yea rather that is risen again who is even at the right hand of God who also maketh intercession for us Joh. 10.11 I am the good shepherd the good shepherd giveth his life for the sheep 3. He did undertake for these only for whom he doth pray and intercede with God and these were only the Elect Joh. 17.9 I pray for them I pray not for the world but for them which thou hast given me for they are thine 4. He did undertake for these only for whose believing his father did undertake to him and these were only the Elect 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 5. He did undertake for these only in whom the Covenant is fulfilled upon whose hearts it is really acted so that a new heart is given to them and life eternal and these were only the Elect Jer. 31.32 33 Not according to the covenant that I made with their