A learned and very useful commentary on the whole epistle to the Hebrews wherein every word and particle in the original is explained ... : being the substance of thirty years Wednesdayes lectures at Black-fryers, London / by that holy and learned divine Wiliam Gouge ... : before which is prefixed a narrative of his life and death : whereunto is added two alphabeticall tables ...

§. 52. Of the difference between the covenant of grace, as it is stiled old and new.

III. THe difference betwixt the old and new covenant, is

• 1. In the time. The old was before Christ exhibited: the new since, Heb. 1. 1, 2.
• 2. In the manner of delivering. The old was more obscurely delivered, under types and prophecies: the new more clearly, 2 Cor. 3. 13, 14.
• 3. In the extent. The old was restrained to a select people, Psal. 147. 19, 20. The 〈◊〉〈◊〉 is extended to all nations, Matth. 28. 19.
• 4. In the Mediator. Moses a meer man was made the Mediator of the old, Gal. 3. 19. But Jesus Christ, God-man, the Mediator of the new. Heb. 8. 6.
• 5. In the ratification. The old was ratified by the blood of beasts, Exod. 24. 8. The new by the blood of the Son of God, Heb. 9. 12.
• 6. In the efficacy. The old comparatively was a ministration of death: the new a ministration of the Spirit, 2 Cor. 3. 7, 8.
• 7. In the kind of confederates. Under the old Gods confederates were in their non-age: as children under Tutors and Governors, Gal. 4. 5, 7.
• 8. In the kind of Seales, or Sacraments. Under the old they were more in num∣ber, more various in rites, more difficult, more obscure, more earthly. By compa∣ring the Sacraments of the one, and the other together, this will evidently appear.
• 9. In the manner of setting forth the promise of God. In the old it was set forth more meanly under temporall blessings, Deut. 28. 2, &c. Under the new, more di∣rectly, under spirituall and celestiall blessings, Matth. 5. 3, &c.
• 10. In the yoke that is laid on the confederates by the one and the other. By the old, an heavy yoke was laid, Act. 15. 10. By the new, an easie and light yoke, 〈◊〉〈◊〉. 11. 30.

So great a difference there is betwixt the new covenant and all other covenants, as it is stiled a better covenant, v. 6. and Chap. 7. 22. See §. 24. and Chap. 7. v. 22. §. 94.