A commentary vpon the Epistles of Saint Paul to Philemon, and to the Hebrewes together with a compendious explication of the second and third Epistles of Saint Iohn. By VVilliam Iones of East Bergholt in Suffolke, Dr. in Divinity, and sometimes one of the fellowes of the foundation of Emmanuel Colledge in Cambridge.

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Title: A commentary vpon the Epistles of Saint Paul to Philemon, and to the Hebrewes together with a compendious explication of the second and third Epistles of Saint Iohn. By VVilliam Iones of East Bergholt in Suffolke, Dr. in Divinity, and sometimes one of the fellowes of the foundation of Emmanuel Colledge in Cambridge.
Author: Jones, William, 1561-1636.
Publication: London :: Printed by R[ichard] B[adger] for Robert Allot, and are to be sold at his shop in Pauls Church-Yard, at the signe of the Blacke Beare,; 1635.
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VERSE 7.

THis better and more worthy Testament is illustrated two kinde of wayes.

1. By the necessity of it. 2. By the introduction of it. The necessitie was a fault or imperfection in the old.

That there was a fault and imperfection in it, hee proveth by the bringing in of another. If there had beene no want in the Old Testament, another had not beene brought in: but another was brought in: ergo, there was a want in the Old Testament. But what? was there a fault in that Testament? why, God was the Au∣thor of it, and God I hope makes no faults?

In the matter and substance of the covenant there was no fault: but in the circumstance, and that in respect of us, not of it. It was weake in regard of the flesh, Rom. 8.3. a condition of that covenant was, that we should serve God, and obey his Lawes: we were not able to doe it,* 1.1 therefore that covenant was weake and could not carry us to heaven: if it could, there should have beene no place for ano∣ther.

Such, as no complaint could be made any way of it.

The Old Testament was faultie: there is no fault in the New: because whatsoever is wanting on our part, is abundantly sup∣plyed by our SAVIOUR CHRIST, the Mediatour of the New Testament: therefore this is to be had in great price and estimation with us all.

Notes

* 1.1

Hebr. 7.19.

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