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prince_n	eternity_n	everlasting_a	transact_v	56	3	16.4432	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A65373	David's testament opened up in fourty sermons upon Samuel 23, 5 wherein the nature, properties, and effects of the covenant of grace are clearly held forth / by Alexander Wedderburn.	Wedderburn, Alexander, d. 1678.	1698 (1698)	Wing W1239; ESTC R26311	330,515	376

belonging to the Covenant of Works Quest First In what sense the Covenant of Grace is said to be everlasting Answ For opening this take notice that a thing is said to be everlasting in a two-fold sense 1. That is said to be everlasting that is never to end though it had a beginning So ye find it Psal 24. Lift up your heads ye everlasting doors that is meant of the heart and Soul of man which though it had a beginning yet it 's to endure for ever so Everlasting and a proper Eternity are not one thing it will take two Everlastings to make one Eternity from everlasting to everlasting thou art God mark there an Eternity takes two Everlastings 2. A thing is said to be Everlasting when it hath a proper Eternity So Isaiah 9.6 Christ is called wonderful counsellor the mighty God the everlasting Father the Prince of peace now Everlasting is to be taken in the second sense it 's an eternal Covenant not only is it never to end and is everlasting but it 's from everlasting however it was Transacted in time with man yet it was Transacted with Christ from all Eternity and it 's as antient as the Covenant of Redemption so ye see in what sense it 's called an everlasting Covenant that is an eternal Covenant from Eternity to Eternity Quest 2. Whether is this a peculiar Priviledge of the Covenant of Grace that it 's everlasting The reason of this Difficulty is 1. The Covenant of Works is older in Time for it was made with man in a state of integrity 2ly The covenant of Works is first in the order of nature for the covenant of Grace being made with lapsed man it supposes the covenant of Works to be broken 3ly It 's supposed by many great Schollars that if Adam had not broken the covenant of Works he had been everlastingly in Paradise and would have continued in pleasure without death so the covenant of Works in the nature of it was an everlasting covenant and consequently this is no peculiar priviledge of the Covenant of Grace Answ For Answer to the Question however the Covenant of Works was treated with man in time and though it be in the order of nature prior to the covenant of Grace yet in the counsel of God the covenant of Grace is before the covenant of Works the reason of it is that which famous Doctor Twisse lays as a Principle that a rational Agent intends first the end and then the midses as a man going to War intends first the end and then the midses the covenant of Grace being the great end in making the covenant of Works that by it he might make way for the end the covenant of Grace the covenant of Grace is first in his purpose in regard it 's the great end of the covenant of Works and he intended the end before the midses 2ly Whatever the covenant of Works should have been is a Question of which the Scripture is silent yet the covenant of Works if Adam had not broken it would have been everlasting but being broken it 's laid aside so that it 's far from being everlasting in regard of duration that it 's supposed that man stood but few hours and it was broken and he was lyable to the Penalty so the covenant of Grace is not only everlasting but the only everlasting Covenant So having cleared that this Covenant is everlasting I will take only this Note and handle it this day Doctrine That the Covenant with Believers is an everlasting Covenant so ye find it frequently called in Scripture Isaiah 55.3 Incline your ear and come unto me hear and your soul shall live and I will make an everlasting Covenant with you even the sure mercies of David So Ezekiel 16.60 Nevertheless I will remember my Covenant with thee in the days of thy youth and I will establish unto thee an everlasting Covenant It is frequently called an everlasting Covenant in Scripture I shall not need to insist to prove so well a known Truth but to take way to the Doctrinal Part I would Doctrinally enquire into two things First In what respects the Covenant of Grace is an everlasting Covenant 2ly I would enquire into the Grounds why the Lord in his making a Covenant would not have it a Tack for a lease of years but an absolute Gift and an everlasting one Quest First in what respects it is an everlasting Covenant Answer For clearing of this I desire ye may notice these two generals 1. It 's an everlasting Covenant in regard of Duration it 's from Eternity to Eternity it 's remarkable Psal 103.17 The mercy of the Lord is from everlasting to everlasting upon them that fear him it 's as antient as God and will endure as long as God for all his Decrees and Purposes are everlasting and eternal and an Eternity hath no beginning nor end this Covenant was treated with the Mediator from all eternity and will endure with him to all eternity But 2ly Take notice of this in the general that when God transacted the Covenant with man he intended not to set him a Tack or Lease with reserves but he intended to make an absolute irrevocable Gift therefore it 's exprest in the New Testament not by way of Tack having a number of Clauses in it but by way of Testament it 's the Gift of a Testator ratified by his death and none can revock his Will no he cannot revock it himself so that in effect it 's not a Tack or a Lease made of Pardon or Peace or a Heaven in the Covenant with many reserves but it 's an absolute Gift like the Gift in the Testament that cannot be revocked by any no by him that made it which will appear if ye notice three things First Take notice that when God transacted the Covenant himself and his Son he in a manner bound up his own hands from ever revocking the Gifts contained in the Covenant if once he give them then he cannot revock them Psal 89. If his children forsake my Law and walk not in my judgements if they break my statutes and keep not my commandments then will I visit their transgressions with the rod and their iniquity with stripes nevertheless my loving kindness will I not utterly take from him nor suffer my faithfulness to fail my covenant will I not break nor alter the thing that is gone out of my lips Mark there he binds up his own hands he hath made the Gift so absolute that though he be provocked he will not break it 's not like a Tack made betwixt a Lands-lord and a Tennent that if the Lands lord be forefaulted the Tack will fall he hath past from all these Articles and Clauses and bound up his own hands that if my children offend I will correct them with the rod of men but my Covenant I will not break 2ly I deny not but there are conditions in the Covenant but the man that gets the Gift cannot