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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
work_n	apostle_n	covenant_n	law_n	4,970	5	5.7445	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A47066	Even lero'sh pina, The Jevv turned Christian, or, The corner-stone wherein is an assertion of Christ being the true Messiah / by John Jacob, formerly a Jew, but now turned a Christian.	Jacob, John, 17th cent.	1679 (1679)	Wing J98; ESTC R5620	15,760	42

promise of the blessed seed might be confirmed by an external worship adumbrating the propitiation of Christ with whose righteousness Adam should be clothed as he was by the skins that so he might appear in the eyes of the Lord not only free from debt but also in holiness As touching these words Gen. 3.22 The man is become as one of us knowing good and evil they are worthy of observation and comfortable to them that search after Christ and his goodness They are surely spoken in the Council of the Holy Trinity by reason they are spoken as unto equals and then they are spoken as to one of that Council as one of us saith God which cannot pass upon any else besides Christ who already in idea had the knowledge of the experimental evil that is of passions and afflictions which he was ordained to suffer for us For we have not an High-Priest which cannot be touched with the feeling of our infirmities but was in all points tempted like as we are yet without sin Heb. 4.15 So then none can come to the enjoyment of God but he that is under the Covenant of Grace and by no other means but by faith in him who is called the messenger of the Covenant Mal. 3.1 by reason of his being sent into the world for the fulfilling of those conditions which the Covenant doth require by him who is the Angel of Gods presence Isa 63.9 by reason God sheweth all the kindness unto men by and in him because his countenance in this case signifieth his loving propension by him who is the Son of God in whom we must trust and kiss him lest he be angry and we perish from the way Psal 2.12 That is by Christ who is the author and finisher of our faith Heb. 12.2 and without whom there can be no salvation Act. 4.12 and so consequently no enjoyment of the chiefest good which is God And this is the reason that the Almighty and just God hath not only dispersed the Nation of the Jews which was a peculiar treasure unto him above all people a Kingdom of Priests and an holy Nation Exod. 19.5 6 but likewise hath broken them off as branches and cut them out of the Olive-tree Rom. 11.17 24 that is from Christ because they would not enter into that Covenant of Grace which God proposed in his own Son but rejected the Son and the Covenant and so became Lorachama and Loammi Hos 1.9 It is observable from the beginning that the Jews have always been a stiff-necked people and such as did ground their salvation more upon their own righteousness than the mercy of God in Christ and thence proceeds the complaints which God maketh of and about them and that great work the Apostle Paul did undertake to shew them there was no justification by the works of the Law Rom. 9.30 31 32 33 and many other places For when God after he had brought them out of Egypt would have renewed his Covenant with them which he had made with their Father Abraham he had no mind to enter into a Covenant of Works with them which they had already implanted in their hearts by nature but into a Covenant of Grace as we may see by two or three Arguments 1. When God had charged Moses to sanctifie the people that they might be ready to receive the conditions of the Covenant he saith if they would keep his covenant they should be a peculiar treasure c. Exod. 19.5 Which to be Evangelical and a meer effect of the Covenant of Grace the Apostle doth plainly shew 1 Pet. 2.9 2. The preface before the decalogue is Evangelical likewise Exod. 20.2 I am the Lord thy God Now that God cannot be said to be the God of any Man People or Nation but by vertue of the Covenant of Grace is plain through all the Scriptures 3. The Law was ordained by Angels in the hand of a Mediator Gal. 3.19 That is in the hand of Christ because there is but one Mediator between God and man the man Christ Jesus 1 Tim. 2.5 And whatsoever is one is indivisible and cannot be communicated to any other but Christ cannot be a Mediator of the Covenant of Works Now the Jews proud by nature and confident of their own righteousness change the order of Gods purposes and so by their ratihabition makes a Covenant of Works out of a Covenant of Grace When God entred into a Covenant with Abraham he uses two kinds of expressions but both of the same nature the 1st is Gen. 15.1 The word of the Lord came unto Abraham in a vision Fear not Abraham I am thy shield and thy exceeding great reward The 2d Gen. 17.1 The Lord said unto Abraham I am the Almighty God walk before me and be thou perfect And then God promised him Christ and likewise not only an innumerable multitude of posterity but also the everlasting happiness unto his seed Gen. 15.5 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 which Hebrew word 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 signifieth not only a similitude but also a place that is look now towards Heaven 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 there shall thy seed be and tell the Stars 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 so shall thy seed be Let us now observe the order of Gods words and of Abrahams proceedings God professeth himself to be his shield his reward his God and then exacts an obedience from him walk before me saith he and be perfect And upon that Abraham he believed first And Abraham believed in the Lord and he counted it to him for righteousness Gen. 15.6 He believed that God was his God and not only able but willing to perform that which he had promised and then being supported by God through his Faith did work the works of righteousness There Abraham observed the order of the Lord and did not boast of his own righteousness or ableness to perform those things which God did require of him as the Jews did in the Wilderness unto whom God did propose his Covenant according to that same order he did unto Abraham saying I am the Lord thy God thou shalt not c. who after the proposing of Gods Covenant returned presently All that God hath spoken we will do Exod. 23.2 setting their works before their faith And although their foolish ratihabition could not disanul the Covenant made with Abraham and confirmed by God in Christ That it should make the promise of of none effect Gal. 3.17 which was adumbrated or shadowed by the sacrifices and offerings under the dispensation of Moses yet God in many places doth reflect upon their agreement and makes them ashamed of the conceit of their own righteousness as when he says Isa 5.4 What could have been done more to my vineyard that I have done in it Wherefore when I looked that it should bring forth Grapes brought it forth wild grapes Surely God could have done more to his Vineyard than those outward helps of Grace which he doth speak of in the following verses