Institutions of Christian religion framed out of Gods word, and the writings of the best diuines, methodically handled by questions and answers, fit for all such as desire to know, or practise the will of God. Written in Latin by William Bucanus Professor of Diuinitie in the Vniuersitie of Lausanna. And published in English by Robert Hill, Bachelor in Diuinitie, and Fellow of Saint Iohns Colledge in Cambridge, for the benefit of our English nation, to which is added in the end the practise of papists against Protestant princes.

But doth not the scripture mention two couenants?

It doth indeed, because of the dispensation of the same couenāt which at diuers times was diuersly appointed by god, wherof the one is called the Old Testament, & the other the New. Yet we must note that the old Couenant, is vnderstood and called two waies: somtimes in respect onely of Moses his lawgiuing, and it is called the couenant of the law, the sanction and establishing whereof is described, Exod. 24. and sometimes to signifie the couenant of grace or free couenant, in what manner it was made with Abra∣ham and his posteritie, Gen. 17.7.

But by the appellation of the new couenant, is vndestoode no more then the free couenant. Of both these Ierem. 31.31.32. spea∣keth thus. Bebold the daies shall come saith the Lord, and I will make with the house of Israell, and with the hovse of Iuda my couenant, not according to that couenant which I made with their fathers in the day when I tooke them by the hand to lead them out of the land of Aegypt, but this is my couenant which I will make with the house of Israell. After those daiet (saith the Lord) I will giue my law in the mid∣dest of them, and I will write in their heart, and I will bee their God, and they shall be my people, and I will be mercifull to their iniquities. After which words the Apostle addeth, Hebr. 8.13. ƲƲhen he saith a newe one, he hath abrogated the former. And Galat. 4.24. He teacheth that Agar the seruant was a sha∣dow of mount Sinai, from which was giuen the Law, and that Sarai the free woman was a f••gure of the heauenly Ierusalem, from which sprung the Gospell: and he addeth, that by these are signified the two Testaments, the one bringing forth children vnto bondage, that is slaues, and the other to libertie, or free men▪ and in the ninth Chapter to the Hebrewes, he maketh a compari∣son of the Old and New Testament, the summe whereof com∣meth to this purpose, that the Old testament was a shadowe of the New, and the New a fulfilling of the Old: the new was folded vp in the Olde, and the New enfolded in the Newe.

But in this place where the question is concerning the likenes and difference of the Old and New Couenaunt, we by the name of old vnderstand onely the free Couenant, in such sorte as it was made with our fi••st parents straight after the fall, and was confir∣med to Abraham, of which the law of Moses was an helpe, and at length it was renued in Christ. Dan. 9.27.