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But the Scripture hath concluded all under sin, that the promise by faith of Jesus Christ might be given to them that believe.
YOu see in this excellent portion of Scripture the two Covenants of Al∣mighty God: to wit, the Covenant of Nature, and the Covenant of grace. The first of Nature, which was writ∣ten by God in mans heart, and this is the holy Law of God, by vertue whereof a man was to conti∣nue in that integrity, holinesse, and uprightnesse, in which God had first created him, and to serve God according to that strength he first ena∣bled him with, that so he might live there∣by.
But now when man had broken this Covenant, and enter'd into a state of Rebellion against God, he's shut up in misery, but not in misery for ever, as the Angels that fell were, being reserved in chaines till the judgment of the great day: No, the Lord hath shut him up in prison, only for a while, that so he may the better make a way for their e∣scape and deliverance, and for their entrance into the second Covenant of grace: that so