The Lord's-Day Evening Entertainment, 52 Discourses

Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: SERMON III. The Covenant of Gra: e opened and explained. H E B. But now hath he obtained a more excellent Mini/try, by how much alfo he is the Mediator of a better Covenant, which was eftabHJhed upon better Promifes. H E S E Words are an Introduction to the Apoftle's Dif- courfe concerning the Nature and Excellency of the GOfpel- to which he gives the Preference above the Mofaic Covenant, in one refpeft efpecially; Covenant efpecially; viz. becaufe it is eftablifoed upon Serm. better Promifes. I have therefore chofen them as a proper Foundation for a particular Difcourfe on the Covenant of'Grace: which we, who are fo happy as to live under it, muft be fuppofed to defire adiftind: and particular Acquaintance with. Without further Introduction therefore I would obferve, that the Words evidently contain three Proportions, which I intend particularly to handle, viz. I. That1 the GOfpel-Difpenfation under which we live is properly a Covenant. II. That Chrift is the Mediator of this Covenant. / III. That it is a better Covenant than that under which the Jews lived. All which are plainly contained in thofe Words?He the Mediator of a better Covenant. I. That the GOfpel-Difpenfation under which we live is properly a Covenant. Under this Head I propofe to give you as plain and diftinct an Account as I can of the 4 Co- Serm. Covenant of Grace: a Subject we often hear and read, and talk of; but, perhaps, without thofe regular and clear Conceptions of it we may defire to have. Here then I propofe, 1. To fhew what we are to underftand by a Covenant in general. 2. What by the Covenant of Grace in particular. 3. To illuftrate two or three particular Points which have created fome Doubts and Difficulties in this Subjed: . And, 4. ...