The covenant of nature made with Adam described and cleared from sundry great mistakes. And thereby proving, I. That the kind of death that was threatned in that covenant, in Gen. 2.17. ought not to be understood of any other kind of death but of a double spiritual death, 1. By depriving Adam of Gods concreated image: and 2. By corruption of nature that followed thereupon. II. Proving that the said covenant was totally extinguished and made utterly null, as soon as Adam had but tasted of the forbidden fruit, and received the said threatned punishment. III. Expounding Gal. 3.10. and proving that the curse therein threatned must not be understood of the curse of the said covenant of nature, but of that curse that is threatned in the covenant of grace to the fallen posterity of Adam, for their not doing of Moses law by faith in Christ, which was given to them for the covenant of grace and reconciliation only. ... VIII. Expounding Rom. 8.1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 6, 8. in ch. 25. By William Pynchon.

SECT. 1.

Being an Exposition of Dan. 9. 24, 25, 26, 27.

Mr. Broughton doth thus translate Daniel 9. 24. in his last Edi∣tion, printed at Hanaw Seventy Sevens (of Yeares) are exactly accounted. (1) For thy people and Holy City. (2) To finish Trespass, and end Sins. (3) To make Reconciliation for Unrighteousnesse, and to bring in Righteousness Everlasting: And (4) to Jeal Vision and Prophet. And (5) to shew Christ to be the Holy of Holies. * 1.1

THis Number of Seventy Sevens must not be understood of weeks (as some translate it, though much amiss) but of Years: (and therefore Broughton puts in Years in a pa∣renthesis.) For it is most plain and evident by Gods ex∣press Command in Levit. 25. 8. Thou shalt number unto thee seven Sabbaths of Years, seven years seven times, and the dayes of the seven Sabbaths of years shall be unto thee nine and forty years: And saith Ains. The Hebrews hold that this Commandment of numbring seven times seven years: and the Com∣mandement of Sanctifying the fifty year in v. 10. was given to the High Syne∣drion, (or greatest Senate of Israel) onely: and saith he in Numb. 14. 34. A day for a year, A day for a year: That is a year for every day, namely, 40 years for 40 dayes: And so in Ezek. 4. 6. The Prophet in a Figure bare the iniquity of Israel so many dayes as they had sinned years: hereupon in prophesies dayes are put for years, Dan. 9. 24. Rev. 11. 3. Mr Broughton doth much lament the wrong that is done to Dan. 9. 24. in that Translators do render it Weeks, seeing it is so plainly meant of Years: and I have shewed it more at large in ver. 27.

Notes

• * 1.1

  The Seventy-se∣vens in Dan. 9. 24. ought not to be translated weeks, but years.