Excerpt from A View of the Covenant of Grace From the Sacred Records: Wherein the Parties in That Covenant, the Making of It, Its Parts Conditionary and Promissory, and the Administration Thereof, Are Distinctly Considered AS man's ruin was original'y owing to toe breal. Degreesng of the covenant of works, {0 his recovery, from the full to the lafl fiep thereof, is oning purely to the fulfilling of the covenant of grace uhich covenant, being that' wherein the hole myfiery of our falvatit n lies, 1 am to ciray the opening of, as the Lerd il'all be pleafrd to afiitl. And there is the more need ofhnrnhle dependence on the Father of lights, through Jefus Chrifl his Sun, for the ma. Nitefiation of his Spirit in this manner, that whereas the firfl covenant is known, in part by the light ofnature, the knowledge of this fecond is owing entirely to revelation. It was from this covenant the Pfalgrifi, in the veric im mediately preceding the firfl text, took a comfortaue view of a glorious building, infallibly going up in the midlt of ruins even a building of mercy: For I bane/edd, fifer cy/ball 65 built upfor efcer the ground of hicb confident afl'ertion is, in our text, pointed out to he God's covenant with his Choien. From the type ofthe covenant ofgrace, namely the covenant of royalty made unto David, he [aw a building Up of mercy for the roval family of jndal when they were brought exceeding low. Frsm the feb llauce of ii, be law a building of mercy for flamers o. M b'nd, who were hid in ruins by the breach oi the fish to epartt. This 18 that new building, free grace'iet on hot. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.