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 to make a Second, commonly called the Covenant of Grace: Wherein he freely offereth unto inners Life and Salvation by Jeus Chrit, requiring of them Faith in Him that they may be aved , and promiing to give unto all thoe that are ordained unto Life, his holy Spirit, to make them willing, and able to beleeve.

This Covenant of Grace is frequently et forth in the Scripture by the name of a Tetament, in reference the death of Jeus Chrit the Tetator, and to the evelating Inheritance, with all things belonging to it, therin bequeathed.

This Covenant was differently adminitred in the time of the Law, and in the time of the Gopel : Under the Law, it was adminitred by Promies, Prophecies, Sacrifices, Circumciion, the Pachal Lamb, and other Types and Ordinaces delivered to the people of the Jews, all fore-ignifying Christ to come, which were for that time, ufficient and efficacious through the operation of the Spirit, to intruct and build up the Elect in Faith in the Promied Meiah , by whom they had remiion of ins and eternal Salvation: and is called, the Old Tetament ,

Under the Gopel, when Chrit the ubtance, was exhibited, the Ordinances in which this Covenant is dipened, are the Preaching of the Word, and the Adminitration of the Sacraments, of Baptim, and the Lords Supper. Which, though fewer in number, and adminitred with more implicity, and lee outward