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A26654	God's covenant displayed by John Alexander, a converted Jew ; with a proœmial discourse of the reasons of his conversion.	Alexander, John, Converted Jew.	1689 (1689)	Wing A914; ESTC R18631	21,651	38

3. upon the res substrata the mystical meaning involved in this Veil which the LXX might also have hinted at For the piercing or boring the Ear with an Awl was of Mosaical Institution for such Israelites who having served six Years with their Brethren Masters were willing to continue in that state of servitude till Death had freed them Deut. 17. 16 17. By which piercing of an Ear the Israelite Servant took upon him as it were a new political body whereof being thus inaugurated he could not be divested till the period of his Earthly Life So that this is the true reason why the LXX and greater than them the Apostle as being the immediate Penman of the Holy Ghost rendred the word 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 by fitted and 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Metonymically by body especially the promised Messiah not only taking upon him the seed of Abraham Hebr. 2. 16. In the shape of a servant Phil. 2. 7. whence he is called a righteous servant Isai 53. 11. with all due attendance to the Word of God piercing his Ears to preach righteousness Psal 40. 9. but being also the Word which becoming flesh Joh. 1. 14. had pierced them To pass by the mystery taken from six years labour and an entrance upon servitude at the beginning of the seventh to denote the time of God's Promise concerning the Seed Gen. 2. at the brink of the seventh day when God having put an end to the work of Creation rested upon that of Redemption through the agreement of his righteous servant in order to the purchasing of that rest which remaineth to the people of God Hebr. 4. 9. I have to my small capacity clear'd the Text with all possible brevity not willing to enlarge upon what the Holy Ghost hath by the hand of the holy Apostle convey'd to the Church for a Truth And though I be not so far a Pythagorean or rather a nice Cabalist as to espouse the numbers for undoubted verities yet when mystical predictions calculated with event suggest such like observations I judge it an office of every Christian as well for their own comfort as to invite the curious whom Grace hath endowed with more critical Wits in order to a narrower search to lay hold on them no ways letting slip the opportunity of admiring the supream wisdom which hath thus liked All in numero pondere mensura in number weight and measure But now to the matter God who is a Being by way of Excellency and by reason of the inseparable goodness from his Essence is Communicative willing to display his Power and Wisdom resolved to Create the World over which he thought fit to set a Ruler as well as a Beholder And because the Universe was to be material the Ruler of it was to participate of matter But moreover for the contemplating of its decency and order he was to be indued with a Mind able to admire and to adore the supream Architect 1 Cor. 6. 20. whom as he could not suppose corporeal at least for the immensity of his unsupported Work Job 38. 6. so he could not apprehend him as such without having something of immateriality within him This Ruler therefore was to be MAN and to be created after the Image of his Maker Gen. 1. and to consist of Body and Soul Gen. 2. 7. He was to live for ever by the natural means of the Tree of Life which was able to continue his vigour under God if so be he would stand to his prescript nor was any consequence of Nature able to usher death upon him whilst obedient else destruction should accost him and he perish Gen. 2. 17. But again as his goodness would and his power could accomplish so his wisdom that knew how to contrive the project loquimut humano more did foresee the flexibleness and frailty of the material part of Man by a natural drift to things inviting even forbidden Ja. 1. 13 15. and that the Soul which was to restrain the body and its sensitive Appetites should by the suggestion of Sathan who was to fall before Man yield to them as having a power that it might not not that it should not exorbitate in a sinless capacity of sinning and thereby draw upon it self not only everlasting confusion but also for a punishment be for the future subject to what it was to command GOD in his Justice whose Eyes are purer than to behold Sin did in his predetermination condemn Man for Sin which he had foreseen and consequently concluding all his Posterity under the same guilt Rom. 3. 9. Gal. 3. 21. condemn'd them also for it Rom. 1. 8. By the by I quote these Scriptures for that there is nothing comes to pass in time which hath not been in the Idea of GOD from Everlasting Thus a Man being ideally come to nothing before he was something the second person of the most holy Trinity out of a meer compassion to so noble a Creature in the production of whom he was if I may say so to be instrumental Psal 33. 6. Joh. 1. 3. enters upon a Covenant with his Father and for making an atonement since no other sacrifice would do condescends to the taking upon him the humane nature therein to take away the guilt of the future Man and his Posterity by offering up his own self a Sacrifice Rom. 2. 2 24 25. and by becoming a Mediator between God and Man Gal. 3. 19 20. The ratification whereof on both sides was grounded upon the name 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Exod. 6. 3. Rev. 1. 8. to which in token of approbation the Father added an Oath The LORD hath sworn and will not repent Thou art a Priest for ever after the order of Melchizedeck Psal 110. 4. by two immutable things viz. his name 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 and his oath to ratifie his acceptance of that paction for the comfort of such who from the Snares of Sathan should fly to it for a refuge and lay hold of the hope set before them Hebr. 6. 18. And the Son on the other side declared his readiness to stand to his stipulation by a present compliance Lo I am to do thy will O GOD Hebr. 10. 9. Hence it proceeded that this name 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 by the custom of the Israelites was only once in a year at the day of propitiation pronounced by the chief Priest at the solemn blessing of the people Num. 6. 24 25. Here is the true order of the Covenant betwixt God the Father and his Son Jesus in order to our Salvation on which depends that Grace whereby we are saved and the administration whereof to us in Christ is called the Covenant by way of excellency and more significantly the COVENANT of GRACE From hence it is that it is called the everlasting Covenant none in order to the effecting of Gods final purpose before it none after it Hebr. 13. 20. through the blood of the everlasting Covenant hence it is that the

and a reasonable service Rom. 12. 1. Which works are acceptable to God upon the score of their being the gifts of GOD whereof he doth not repent Rom. 11. 29. but as such coronat Deus dona sua non merita nostra rewards them with a Crown of Righteousness 2 Tim. 4. 8. according to promise Jam. 1. 12. to shew himself a righteous judge by granting an Equivalent for the purchace of his Son. And here falls the conceit of meritoriousness of Works because they being no ways ours but Christ's and his holy Spirit 's within us can no more of themselves deserve Heaven than they could Redemption whose effects they are in order to the better fitting of us for that end thence via ad regnum Bern. for which we were pre-ordained by Grace Thus all things have their Off-spring from GOD and through him end in him not unlike to the periphery of a Circle the most perfect figure and sustaining its own self ending in the same point from which it began Of him through him to him are all things to him be glory for ever Rom. 11. 36. Fourthly After the Conditions follow the signs and seals of the Covenant In the first place Baptism a sign of initiation into the benefit of Christ's Death Burial and Resurrection Rom. 6. 3 4 5. for that we may put on Christ Gal. 3. 27. and even as water be united in one Body until the whole Church being by it and the word sanctified and cleansed Eph. 5. 26 27. we become an aggregate Christ 1 Cor. 11 12. The manner of its administration I will leave untoucht and straight proceed to the second sign viz. the Supper of the Lord which to be short for I have already gone beyond the limits of my Province is a visible sign of invisible grace purchased by the Sacrifice of Christ which to our comfort and for the sealing up of God's Promises it doth efficaciously represent to us To give an insight into the nature of it without launcing into the doleful Chaos of unnecessary and sometimes blasphemous Controversies about it I will only take notice of a passage amongst the Jews which if it should not clear the doubt will yet give some light to the lovers of truth 'T was therefore and is now a common Custom amongst the Jews for the chief of the Family after the eating of the Passover at their going to rest to take the Unleavened-Bread and to distribute the same amongst his Houshold and after that Wine with that nicety that not one crum of the Bread nor one drop of Wine is to be left and this they do in remembrance of the Sacrifice of the Lamb and separately of its Body and Blood having no Temple wherein to offer as those that were at the standing of the Temple without Jerusalem could not and this they call 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Whereupon Christ the true Passover-Lamb who was to bear the iniquity of the people and to take away the Sacrifice and the oblation by his Death following this Rite instituted his Sacrament by Bread and Wine and call'd it his Body and Blood in remembrance of his Passion and Death Lastly Upon this Covenant is grounded our hope of Resurrection Christ himself insists upon it Matth. 22. 31 32. I am the God of Abraham c. Here Christ puts the Sadducees in mind of God's Covenant grounded upon his name 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Exod. 3. 6 7 8. For if God be an Essentiator of Beings by way of a Covenant he cannot call himself an Essentiator of what is devoid of being If therefore God be a Jehova of Abraham c. it must be by making them existent for their upholding of the impression of that Covenant by which he is theirs If so the Patriarchs must be still existent after death since that after it God bears that denomination in reference to them a non Entity not being able to bear the stamp of an Entity as a shadow or nothing cannot represent the lineaments of a Seal Hence it proceeded as we mentioned before that at the day of annual propitiation this name was thrice not without a mystery put upon Israel Num. 6. 27. to remember them of God's Covenant and their Eternal Welfare To which all spiritual Israel being brought once at the Consummation of the World and Christ having finished his work shall lay down the Office of a Mediator and deliver the Kingdom to his Father that then being only conspicuous by his name 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 and needing no further Covenanting he together with his Father may begin the period of an Everlasting Sabbath FINIS ERRATA PAge 4. line 27. add after and they p. 5. l. 2. for fooling read footing p. 18. l. 15. add after that is p. 21. l. 9. for liked read linked As for some Hebrew Letters the Ingenious Reader is able to perceive the Mistakes of himself GOD'S COVENANT