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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A36882	The theologicall key of the three first covenants made by God with man, in the severall state of man, obliging man to his law, after a severall formall manner, from the beginning according to his sacred decree of predestination, fundamentally declared, according to his sacred word and truth / by David Dunbar, Esq.	Dunbar, David, 17th cent.	1646 (1646)	Wing D2597; ESTC R7326	240,626	248

any such cruelty But that Abraham and all men of the faith of Abraham might understand that God spared not his only Son the Son of his love to sacrifice him as it were with his own hands for his love which he doth bear to man For all the created powers of God were not able to bereave our Saviour of his life without his own gracious permission who out of his infinite love and mercy to man did most lovingly and mercifully lay down his life for man Here the question may be moved Was the Church of God upon earth then only in Abrahams family and his posterity and no where else I answer As the Lord Jesus Christ is the head of all his redeemed members the Lord from the beginning had his universall Church through all the Nations of the earth though his particular Church according to his promise was then in Abraham and in the posterity of Abraham for the time And therefore though the Apostle did tell the Gentiles that they were not of the circumcision Ephes 2.12 but aliens from the common wealth of Israel and as it were without any Christ and consequently without God For Christ according to the flesh was to descend of the circumcised yet the Gentiles had the propheticall Sabbath and the altar and sacrifice as it was prescribed to Adam and the Fathers before the promise was made to Abraham and consequently the covenant and formall obligement of the Law really one from the beginning And the Apostle doth acknowledge that the Gentiles did do the things contained in the Law Rom. 2.14 which was the ceremoniall works of the Law though the Gentiles did them not in that precise manner as they were done by the Jews And through the Apostle saith that the Gentiles did do the things contained in the Law by the light of their conscience yet that light was the light of the redeemed word of the Law of Righteousnesse of faith written in their heart which was really one with the light of the seventh day of the propheticall Sabbath and with the ceremoniall light of the altar sacrifice whereby they were inabled to do the things contained in the Law And who should bar the free Spirit of God to blow where it listeth John 3.8 and to enlighten many of the Gentiles Did not the Lord commend the Centurions faith and say Luke 7.9 that he did not finde such faith in Israel And how greatly did our Saviour commend the faith of the Canaanitish woman Mat. 15.28 and the faith of one of the ten Lepers and Luke 17.19 yet the promise made to Abraham was not then fulfilled And did not Christ himself him according to the flesh descend of the Gentiles though immediately of the seed of Abraham Let no man therefore think but that the Lord had his universall Church in all ages though his particular Church was then in the family and posterity of Abraham And so much for the second age of the Church and for the reall unity of the covenant and formall obligement of the Law as the promise was made to Abraham which was really one with the covenant made with Adam CHAP. XXXI The continuation of the formall propheticall ceremoniall obligement of the Law in the third age of the Church THe third age of the Church from the beginning was in the time of Moses descended of Abraham whom God raised for the preservation of his Church then in the posterity of Abraham whose posterity the Lord according to his eternall purpose would not permit to be established in the Land of Canaan for the space of forty yeers to the end that God by the Ministry of his servant Moses might manifest the glory of his power in the protection of his Church against the great power of Satan and of his mighty instruments for which cause God inabled Moses with the power of wisdome valour and faith amongst the number of whose memorable acts I will only touch three leaving the rest to the Reader to be informed by the sacred History my purpose being only to shew that the covenant and the formall obligement of the Law was really one and the same from the beginning as it was made to Adam and to Abraham The first memorable act of Moses Ministry was in the delivery of the people from the Egyptian servitude who were the seed of Abraham of whom the promised blessed seed according to the flesh was to descend and were then miserably oppressed under the tyrannous hand of great King Pharoah the proud Egyptian King stirred up to that cruelty by the instigation of Satan and of his wicked seed For whose delivery God raised up his servant Moses To this end first God sent Moses to King Pharoah commanding King Pharoah that he would permit the people of Israel to depart from the Land of Egypt but God according to his eternall decree did harden the heart of Pharoah that he should not let the people of Israel depart from Egypt untill such time as God should make his continuall care appear in the preservation of his Church against the great power of Satan and the power of his mighty instruments in this life And therefore upon Pharoahs rebellious restraining of the people of Israel from time to time contrary to the Lords command God by the Ministry of his servant Moses from time to time did plague the proud Egyptian King and his kingdome and though plague after plague was with such fearfull miraculous and wonderfull judgements as did astonish the hearts of the whole world ye such was the obstinacy of Pharoahs rebellious heart stirred up by the inchantments of his Sorcerers whose power God did of purpose permit as Pharoah did resist the command of God with such a high hand thirsting after the destruction of the Church till Pharoah with his great army was overwhelmed in the red sea of Gods raging wrath which mighty act was done by the Ministry of Moses by stretching out his hand upon the red sea at the command of God By this miraculous overthrow of the Egyptians the mighty deliverance of the Church of God from the Egyptian servitude was wrought to the amanement of the world to the end that the Church of God in future ages might never distrust the Lords continuall care in the preservation of his Church against the power of Satan and against the power of his mightiest instruments upon earth In that night of the fearfull Egyptian plague of the born the sacrament of the Passeover was institute by God to remain in the Church with the sacrament of circumcision during the formall propheticall ceremoniall obligement of the Law by which ceremoniall sacrament of the Passeover the promise of the blessed was more significantly prefigurate then formerly For first by the sacrifice of the Paschal Lamb which was commandded to be eaten the Lamb of God the promised blessed seed was signified who was to be sacrificed for the sins of man Secondly by the bitter herbs Exod. 12.8 with which