their Fathers 5, in the day when I tcok them by the | , ' Author of all Good, Gen. 15. and 17,1, 7. what he is, hath, or
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nied, not the fame Covenant for habit or torm, ncr 2ny {ke unto the ſme tor the manner of its Adminittration, 25 vz4s mage by the Lord with the Hebrews their Pro emtors, when th. y *WETe Stranocr: in Egypt, and under great Bondage there. c The Cy that L laid 7»; Hand on them, and took hoid of theirs, cven the {it day of thi 430 Tears forctold to 4branym, Gen, I 5. 12. 15, comp. Fad, I2. 40, 4. AS 4 Father takes hold of ti5 Ciild to pluck it 0 of Danger. It 13 a Metaphor tettinz out God's etpecial At vidence, 1n their miracuious Ecliverance out Of Foy; them in his Hand, while ne-was fipitns their enemies, {£555 them at Liberty, and then itrikin; Covenant wills them 2: vinding them by 1t to be his obudient People, as fec'r Redemry*: mercy 61d deſerve. At which tune the Covenint vas untkeo ! Promiſe or Goſpeone for estcrnal Hal;it and form only, as carricc on by * a Ceremonial Law and Priefthood, over which Ciariti's wa: to have the Preeminency for Power and Ericacy of Adminiſter. on, de Theſe unhelieving Hebrews under that Adminittrut on of the Covenant, continued not taithful to if, as by ticir own VWord and Conſent they bound themſelves to :*7, but apottatized trom God and his Truth, ea. 4. 2%: The Word wcid by tne Pro p:2ct Tho
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Adminiitration ot it did nut hold them 11 truſtrated all God's Ordinances, turned Idolaitcr:, torfock the 1 ord, and worthipped the God: of the Nations round about, I tle no care of them, 1 did neither eftcem nor regard them, b caii them off, from being my People, tor their Jeud freachor ous Covenant-breaking with ime ; they would not return unto me,anc [ re;zeted them from bcing my People, or a People as they were before. Who knows where the Nine Tribes and the haltare ; and in what a diſpertcd ſhattered Condition are the remaimn.,; |-ws to this day? The Apottie in this follows the Septuagint, who read the effet ot their Sin, their Rejection, for what was their S1o 1t tel: YI Mya, fould IT &» 4 {rd or Huso.md ty thim ? which ws an Aygravation of their 5111 from Gods Dominion over them, or Marriayc kelation to them ; yet did they break his Marriage-covenant with them, according to thers leud and. whoriſh-Heart. See Exch. cheep. 16. and bp. 23, But in this Quotation by the Apoftle, and Trantlation of the Septuagint It is a Metonymy of the EffcF for the Cauſe, to reve, onft off, © F f AMarrtage-Covenant, which was the true Cao of it, The Verb it ſelf ZYA may tign! fie to n-glef or defite and fo Keamcni reads it, Jr. 2. 1. and 151 rendred in this place by other Ribhies, and fo it figmificth in ous Lanzuyies, f This 16 Gd trrcvocabie Word, utcd four times by the Prophet, Jer. 31. 31, 32, 33, 34- and thirce times repeated the Apoſtle here, as propcr only to the Lord, none can ſpeak {2 tru ly, certunty, infallioly, as He,
Io For ths iS tie Coveilint g thatk will make with the houſe of Itracl » atrer thoſe days z, faith rhe Lord : 2X them | in their hearts / /1, and they thall b2 ro me a people 7.
g For, fheweth -1t fhouid not be ſuch. a Covenant-form as was g1- ven on Mount Siny, it beins wholly different, and that denied be- fore, being carnal and ceremontous, full of Types and Shadows, and through their Sin incftefual to them, this is the firm Admini- firation of the 'Covenant which IT will $;ibe. To which three words
| an{iwer, in this Scripture, L will perfe&r, make, and diſpoſe , which laſt 1s the Root from whence the Notion of a Covenant tin the G; ooh
is derived, f2camua h Tiracl t> the compreheniive Name of al! the twelve Tribes, as ver, 8, compare Exod. 16. 3. and 49. 32.:nd is {9 uſed by the Lord lnmlclt, 3f.:rth., 10. $. and by Peter, 4%; 2: 35, 7 In the Prophet it is, after t45/s days of their Delivery from Babylon, Jer. 31. 1, 8, 11, 15, 21. but eſpecially when thoſe days of the firſt Adminiftration of the Covenant are accompliſhed.
4. 4 Tothis God again puts his Seal, he ſaith it, þ The great God, the Redeemer himſcl:i, the infinitely wiſe, and good, and powerful Spirit, who can only reach the Soul, wil! mabe Tnpreſſe. -ns and write clear Charafers of Divine T;uth on it; 2 Cor. 3. 2. None can alter, new mould, frame and temper a Spirit, but him who hath a rruc Original Right of all the Good he promiſeth, which he will treely, gracioully diſpenſe from himſelf, ]-hn 4. 10, 1.4 All tie Dottrincs of the Goſpel which include in them the Moral Law, as now managed by Chriſt, all the Wilt of God concerning our Salvation, Promites, and Commands; and theſe in their Spirit and Power, which God, not onlv ratified in, but conveyed to the World by jetus Chritt, and efpectally into the mind. &:zrzay ren.
ders the Hebrew RAPDA theiward parts, in the Prophet's Text,
The Mind or Underitanding veing the innermoſt part of the Soul, 15 capable of receiving [ipreties of Divine Truth, and its Chara &ers are by it made [ca1vle to the Soul ; which as promiſed here, 13 ſo prayed for by the &aroſtle, Fpheſ. 1. 17, 18. | "Emyez3z 1s 2 Metaphor fettinz out a rca!, actual, powerful Work of the Spirit of Chriſt, which leaveth the expreſs CharaRters of all God's faving Mind and will upon the Heart or Soul, as plain as Writing upon Paper, or Engraving upon Stones ; ſuch an operation of the Spirit of Chriſt on the Souls of them, as whereby is conveyed into them a New Light, Ie, Power, fo that they are made by it Partakers of a Divinc Nature ; and thouzh they are not other Facultics, yet they are quite other Thinzs, than they were for Qualities and Opera- tions, ſo as they are enabled to know, obſerve, and keep his Laws, which arc ict up in Authority and Domimon in their Souls, rulins and ordering all there, Erzeb. 11. 15,*'20. and3S. 25, 27. 2 Cor. 3. 3, &, 9, 10,18. m As in the former Word, was the projiſe of Convertion, Regeneration, and Renovation, fo joyned with, it is the Promiſe of Adoption. In which God ingageth in Chrift tc be to pemtent Eclevers, Rom. 9.6, &. A Gol, i.e. the Cauſe and
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