An introduction to the sacrament, or, A short, plain, and safe way to the communion table being an instruction for the worthy receiving of the Lords Supper / collected for and familiarly addressed to every particular communicant.

V.

Now in tracing out the na∣ture of this Covenant, you will finde it was made with all Man∣kind in Adam immediately up∣on his Fall: I say, immediately upon his Fall; for considering the great love God ever bore Man, you may imagine he would not suffer our Great Pa∣rent to lie long under the tor∣turing reflections and hellish pains, with which his Conscience was loaden by the consideration of his sin, and which have ever been found to be the most na∣tural effects of doing vitiously; but that he presently relieved his afflicted mind, by entring into a gracious Compact with him, and shewing him how he and his Off-spring were to be saved from that destruction he had brought upon both. And

the first revelation of this Co∣venant is met with in Gen. 3. 15. which with greater plain∣ness is repeated, Gen. 22. 17, 18. compared with Gen. 12. 3. and Gen. 18. 18. The contents of which Texts, the Son of Sirach calls the Blessing of all Men and the Covenant, Ecclesiasti∣cus 44. 22.