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A80141	A discourse of the true gospel blessedness in the New Covenant, or The distinction of the two Covenants, new and old, first and second. With the doing away of the first, and the establishment of the second, and likewise the mediatorship of Christ in the New Covenant, with some principles, duties, promises, and priviledges of the New Covenant. A useful companion for all saints at all times. / Written by Tho. Collier.	Collier, Thomas, fl. 1691.	1659 (1659)	Wing C5277; Thomason E1801_2; ESTC R35633	88,221	142

faith As God by it works faith so he supporteth and powerfully effecteth the work of salvation by the exercise imploying or working of the same faith for faith is of a working nature it worketh by love Gal. 5. 6. Therefore as it is your duty so let it be your work to live by faith and remember that word Heb. 3. 12. Take heed brethren lest there be in any of you an evil heart of unbelief in departing from the living God And that word Rom. 11. 20. Because of unbelief they were broken off thou standest by faith be not high minded but fear Remember thy duty as well as Gods Covenant and be faithful A second new Covenant duty is to live the life of love and that to God to his name to his word to his ordinances to his people and to all men enemies as well as friends this is the duty of the new Covenant And this faith and love where it is in truth worketh over the soul to a universal obedience to the whole will of Christ in the new covenant it saith Amen to eve y part thereof it dares not entertain thoughts of taking one part and leave another no that is carnal and too low for a new covenant spirited Christian It dares not change the ordinances of the everlasting covenant no nor trample the blood thereof underfoot But I forbear in this place because you will finde a more exact stating of the duties of the covenant in the end of this Treatise to which I refer you I shall close up the point in hand in answering two weighty Queries Q. 1. What should be the Causes or Reasons that God should adde a conditional ministry and several conditional Promises with positive duties to an absolute Covenant Answ 1. That therein he might hold forth as in the one the riches of his grace and absoluteness of his purpose concerning the salvation of his people so in the other he keeps up his authority as a father and the authority of Christ as our Lord and king That although the new covenant on Gods part be absolute yet had he not stated conditions on mans part his authority over his people must have fallen and they left without duty to God as a Father or to Christ as their Lord and King Joh. 5. 22 23. Mat. 7. 21. Luke 6. 46. Therefore it is conditional as to them that they might know their duty and have conscience of it And it is absolute on Gods part that so they might look to him and be comforted and live by faith in the stabillity and unchangeableness that is in the Father and the Son So that by this means the Saints are kept clear and conscientious of and to their duties in the covenant and comforted in looking up to the Lord from whence their strength comes 2 Because persons must be judged by the duties of the Covenant on mans part and condemned too for transgression of the conditions and duties of the covenant The absoluteness of Gods covenant shall not be the rule of judging Though that be the ground of all true happiness to the Saints yet the Saints themselves must be judged in the great day of the Lord and the conditions and duties of the Covenant shall be the rule by which they shall be judged See 2 Cor. 5. 10. Mat. 25. 34 35 36. we must not onely all appear before the judgement seat there to give an account but we must expect to give an account according to the things done in the body c. and the Lords own people many of them are like to have such an account to give as in which they may must suffer loss 1 Cor. 3. 12 13 14 15. and the eternal judgement of the wicked will be for the transgression of the rules conditions and duties of the covenant I mean such as have come under the sound of the doctrine of the covenant Mark 16. 15 16. Rom. 2. 7 8 9 10. So that by this means all the world shall stand guilty before God at that day Sutable to the preaching forth of the grace of the Gospel Whether in the works of creation and the daily good the world enjoys upon that account or the communications of God through the law or in the plain ministration of the Gospel And true believers shall then be acquitted and eternally pardoned by the grace of the covenant for then shall be the perfect and compleat administration of the grace of the covenant and in this manner and at this time it shall make the comers thereunto perfect Isay 33. 24. Heb. 8. 12. Then the inhabitant shall not say I am sick for the People that dwell therein shall be forgiven their iniquity 3 That the Saints being justified and eternally saved by the grace of the covenant might have the reward of the kingdom promised dispensed to them sutable to their faithfulness in the performance of the conditions and duties of the covenant for thus it shall be Let none through ignorance account it Popish but keep clear in this That justification and a state of salvation is clear by the blood of the covenant our interest and claimed by faith and hope which faith if true is the faith of the operation of God Col. 2. 12. That is of the work of God but the reward so much spoken of shall be given sutable to the work either active in doing or Passive in suffering else what means those Scriptures Luke 19 17 18 19. with 1 Tim. 6. 17 18 19. 2 Cor. 4. 17 18. and the condemnation of the wicked shall be given to them sutable to the nature of their sin against Christ c. Luke 12. 47 48. Thus hath God stated conditions and duties in an absolute covenant that his own name and honour as a Father and Christs authority as a head and Lord might be preserved that he might be just and righteous when he judgeth and condemneth Fourthly That the persons who through faith come to profess an interest in this covenant might be manifest by their performance of the duties of the covenant The truth of faith in Christ and love to him is manifest by obedience to him and the people that have no heart to the duties of the covenant may justly suspect themselves to have no share in the grace in that Covenant Joh. 14. 15. If you love me keep my commandements ver 24. He that loveth me not keepeth not my sayings c. 5 That believers might be kept humble and heedful Rom. 11. 20. Thou standest by faith be not high minded but fear Ver. 21. Take heed lest he spare not thee Heb. 4. 1. Let us therefore fear lest a promise being left us of entering into his rest any of you should seem to come short of it God would that his peoples confidence and watchfulness should go hand in hand till they are fully possest of the promised rest Psal 2. 11. Serve the Lord with fear rejoyce with trembling Saints must rejoyce and yet tremble

other makes void this is the first danger 2 It hath been an occasion of turning aside from Gods way in receiving members into the supposed Church of Christ Whereas Christs Rule is by faith and Baptism this hath brought in by natural birth and sprinkling and hath brought a generall odium and contempt upon Christs ordinance of dipping or baptizing believers in his name after the manifestation of faith and repentance a sin which many that arc otherwise precious have cause enough to repent of and bewail that their hand should be chief in such a trespass as this is 3. It hath been an instrumental means of deceiving millions of poor souls brought into the name of Christian on the old covenant account and so being deluded perish under the name of Christian without the Power Doubtless there will be a sad account for some one day for this very thing and its one among many of the greatest grounds of lamentation I know of this day in the world And as the Nominal Clergy have had and yet have the greatest hand in this trespass yet if God open their eyes to see into this great truth and their great miscariage herein certainly they will forbear their harsh censures for my plainness and zeal in this matter The Lord knows I do judge many among them in the main to be godly But it s my great grief and burden that godly men through mistake should have a hand in such a work as this is the Lord help them to lay it to heart in time In a word here lyeth the foundation of all mistakes Rightly to understand the covenant would rectifie all differences among all sorts of Professing people This is it hath brought in carnal seed carnal ministery carnal means of attaining to it and all to keep up carnal ends and interests Use 2. Of exhortation and oh that it might prevail to exhort and stirre you up to a more diligent search and enquirie into the covenants that you may be able to distinguish between law and Gospel For 1 Without the knowledge of the difference or at least some clear insight into the Gospel covenant you can never live clearly the life of faith but at best it will be with you as with the godly before Christ came a mixing of old and new together you can never be able ministers of the new covenant unless you are able to distinguish between new and old that so you may be ministers of the new 2 Without this you will never come clearly off the Babylonish apostacy Want of being cleared in this leaves you behinde at least in part come clear in this one truth and come away clear come to the clearness of the new covenant and keep in the carnal seed if you can and the sprinkling of Infants and the carnal ministry and maintenance I mean out of Christs way that he hath appointed come to the new covenant and be a free willer if thou canst nay or a Quaker either I say again its such a truth and of such concernment that it behooves you as you love God your own souls would be delivered from errour live to God here give up your account with joy in the day of accounts I say it behooves you to be deeply and diligently enquiring into the knowledge of the new covenant I do not intend that there is such a necessity for every believer to be able to give so exact an account of the difference but that it concerns every believer to know that they are two and distinct and to be inquiring into the new covenant as much as may be and let men of learning and natural parts take heed how they do endeavour any longer to darken this truth Object Some may object and say If the covenant be of such power as you speak of as to effect what it commands whence then comes it that godly people should be ignorant of it and what need is there so earnestly to exhort to the enquiring into it Answ The covenant is free and full of power and effects what it requires it is so in the first work of grace and converting sinners 1 hence it is that the Lord saith Isay 65. 1. I am sought of them that asked not for me I am found of them that sought me not c. and Joh. 5. 25. The dead shall hear the voice of the son of God and they that hear shall live Yet after God in the new Covenant hath communicated life to dead souls he expects that they should know from whence their life comes and seek him and wait upon him in the way that he hath appointed diligently enquiring after his will that they may know it and do it Ezek. 36. God having in the former part of the chapter promised what great and good things he would do for his People according to the new covenant yet ver 37. Thus saith the Lord God I will yet for this be enquired of by the house of Israel to do it for them And Prov. 2. 3 4 5. If thou criest after knowledge and liftest up thy voice for understanding if thou seekest her as silver and searchest for her as for hid treasure then shalt thou understand the fear of the Lord and finde the knowledge of God Seeking is a great and special duty of Saints in the new covenant and God will be found in this way of seeking and doing his will yet notwithstanding the ignorance and miscariage of the Lords people those that are in the new covenant indeed shall not destroy and damne them yet it may bring them under judgement and afflictions and will prove their loss in the great day of account 1 Cor. 11. 30 31 32. For if we would judge our selves we should not be judged but when we are judged we are chastened of the Lord that we should not be condemned with the world Chap. 3. 11 12 13 14 15. If any man build upon the true foundation Jesus Christ gold silver precious stones wood hay stubble if his work abide he shall receive a reward If any mans work shall be burnt he shall suffer loss but he himself shall be saved yet so as by fire So that notwithstanding the covenant is a sure covenant to those in it and full of power yet it requires diligence and seeking in Gods way and doing his will without which God may let his own people miscarry and in so doing they will be sure to suffer loss in the judgement although they may be saved I come now to the second lesson from the Text. The first truth being cleared that the Scripture doth present us with two covenants the second follows Doct. 2. That Jesus Christ hath taken away the first and hath established the second covenant And indeed it was the great design of God in sending Christ to effect the work the ending of the first covenant and the establishing of the second 1 That it is so viz. That Jesus Christ hath taken away the first and established the