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A View of the Covenants of Works and Grace
A View of the Covenants of Works and Grace Author:Thomas Bell 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: ON THE COVENANTS OF WOBKS AND GRACE. PART II. Gal. iv. 24. For these are the two covenants, i§.c. L HE second general head of discourse was to she... more »w what are meant by the two covenants mentioned in the text. Our apostle having spoken of the two typical women, the bond and the free, adds, that these women Ot) are the two covenants, /. e. types, figures or representations of them. Alter the same manner of speaking, the seven kine in Pharaoh's dream are called seven years, Gen. xli. 2t. These are, /'. e. these signify the two covenants. But what these two covenants are, is the question. Some, adhering to the marginal reading of the text, understand the two Testaments, or the old and the new dispensations of grace, so beautifully contrasted in the epistle to the Hebrews: the one taking place from Adam to Christ, the other from Christ till the end of the world. Others understand the covenant of works and the covenant of grace, or what is called in the epihtle to the Romans, the law So Cocceius Summa Theol p. 596. Witsius Misce!!. vol. S. p. 161, 162. Pool' Oontin Henry's Concin. Ridi.lev's Body of Divin. p. 3GJ, 363, Doddrjdge ia his Fan. Expos. Oitervald't Cempcd. p. 50, of works, and the law of faith, chap. iii. 27t. After paying all the attention to the subject of which I afh capable, it appears to me with convincing evidence, that the two covenants mentioned here, are not the Old and New Testaments, but the covenants of works and of grace. Before I offer any arguments in proof of this position, permit me to observe, 1st. That nothing for or against this opinion, can be drawn from the original word 3ifcix,, used by the apostle: translated covenants in the text, and testaments in the margin. It is used in holy scripture, either for a mutual compact between two...« less