Hebrews 8

Well may it be called Foedus Gratiae, a covenant of grace; it is bespangled with promises, as the heaven with stars. When the angels, those glorious spirits fell, God did not enter into a new covenant with them to be their God, but let those golden vessels lie broken; but has en…

When God pardons a soul, he will not reckon with him in a purely vindictive way, he stops the execution of justice. Aphorism 6. By virtue of this pardon, God will no more call sin into remembrance (Hebrews 8:12). Their sins and iniquities will I remember no more.

So that phrase (Ephesians 6:12) 'we wrestle with spiritual wickednesses in heavenly things' is rather to be understood of 'heavenly things' than of 'heavenly places' — the word signifying rather supracelestial, in the highest heavens, where (if rendered of places) the devils nev…

His exaltation is such as has a dominion and supremacy with it over every name; he having as it is (Colossians 1:18) in all things the preeminence. The third place is (Hebrews 8:1), of the things which we have spoken, this is the sum, we have such a high priest who is set on the…

2. It is Antinomian doctrine to make opposition between the Gospel promise, and the debt of the promise: the debt of works (Romans 4 and Romans 11) is law-debt due to the worker, as a hireling is worthy of his wages, because he has done the work perfectly, according to a covenan…

It is true, Christ takes not from David, Abraham, prophet, apostle, or from any men or angels that are to be saved the natural created power of nilling and willing, purum [illegible] posse nolle, Christo trahente, but he takes away the moral wicked, and godless power hic & nunc,…

Remission of sins in his blood (Ephesians 1:7; Colossians 1:14); blotting out of transgressions ([reconstructed: Isaiah 43:25]) as a thick cloud (Isaiah 44:23); a not remembering of sins (Isaiah 43:25; [reconstructed: Jeremiah 31:34]). Such a taking away of sins as is promised i…

You must know that Christ has not entered into heaven simply as a forerunner (which has been explained) to take up places for you, but as a priest also — made a priest after the order of Melchizedek, which is more than simply a forerunner. Indeed his sitting at God's right hand…

The Work of Ministers is in many Respects like the Work that Christ himself was appointed to, as the Savior of Men; and especially the same with the Work which Christ does in his Prophetical Office; only with this Difference, that Ministers are to speak and act wholly under Chri…

Fifthly, the law was in nature by creation: the Gospel is above nature, and was revealed after the fall. Sixthly, the law has Moses for the mediator (Deuteronomy 5:27), but Christ is the mediator of the new testament (Hebrews 8:6). Lastly, the law was dedicated by the blood of b…

Her estate then shall be perpetual, after God shall have once again restored her: for which cause, he mentions two excellent benefits; to wit, restoration, and eternity. When he speaks of the new heavens, and new earth, he has respect to Christ's kingdom, by whom all things are…

For however obscurely and at a distance Moses may exhibit Christ in shadows, rather than in a full portrait, (Hebrews 10:1,) this, at least, is beyond dispute, that unless there be in the family of Abraham one exalted Head, under whom the people may be united in one body, the co…

All the promises of God, are in him Yea, and in him Amen; that is, faithfully, and irrevocably, and immutably established. And therefore the apostle having told us, that this is the covenant of God, that he would be merciful to our sins and iniquities, Hebrews 8:12. He informs u…

Yet if you cannot always say, that grace is yours, Christ is yours, and Heaven is yours, yet be much in the thoughts of free grace; pore not upon your vileness and unworthiness, but ponder upon that which can answer all in one word, I will have mercy, because I will have mercy,…

Yes certainly, these do not decay through age. It was the matters belonging to the old covenant, or Legal-dispensation that decayed and grew old, and so by degrees did vanish away (Hebrews 8:13). New-covenant mercies, are the sure mercies of David (Isaiah 55:3), and they are alw…

The law itself is now such that it cannot give life, Galatians 3:21. God himself found fault with this way of attaining righteousness, Hebrews 8:7-8. Now there are two considerations that discover to men the vanity and hopelessness of seeking righteousness in this path.

Those that are to be wrought in us, are sometimes set forth in Scripture, as Duties to be performed by us, to stir us up in a rational way to seek them; and those that are only to be bestowed upon us, are set forth as Blessings to be conferred in consequence upon such Duties per…

Secondly, let us look upon God with respect to a Mediator; for so I think we are chiefly bound to consider our Father in Heaven, because of Christ, who sits there at his right hand. (Hebrews 8:1) It is said there, He sat down on the right hand of the Throne of the Majesty in the…

He is a King, not only to require, but to give repentance, (Acts 5:31); not only to make a law, but to write and work a sense of this new covenant-gift upon the heart. (Hebrews 8:10) He does not only set up his ordinances, laws, and constitutions; but there is power that goes al…

Nay, grant that you have been a stranger to Christ, yet restore the love of Christ to life again in your soul, and when you come to his ordinances where he dwells, your soul will make its first inquiry for him, neither will it be satisfied till it has seen him, as we do them we…

If the Law might be disannulled as to new creatures, then why does the Spirit of God write it with such legible characters in their hearts? This is promised as the great blessing of the covenant of grace (Hebrews 8:10). Now that which the Spirit engraves upon the heart, would Ch…

They that neglect to search and hide the Word in their hearts, they have not such seasonable refreshment; for God works more strongly with the strongest graces; there where there is the greater receptivity, there's the greater influence; those that are ignorant cannot expect suc…

Others have but a hearsay knowledge gathered out of books, and sermons, and the common report which is made of Christ; but he that is divinely enlightened, drinks of the fountain, and so his draught is more fresh and sweet; they do not talk of things by rote after others, but it…

In the heart two things are considerable, the understanding and the affections. God undertakes in the Covenant for both (Hebrews 8:10). I will put my law in their mind, and write it in their hearts.

1. The benefit asked, Grant me your law. David had the book of the law already, every king was to have a copy of it written before him; but he understands it not of the law written in a book, but of the law written upon his heart; which is a privilege of the covenant of grace (H…

When the heart is fitted and suited by principles of grace, the work is not tedious, but delightful. Things are easy and difficult, according to the poise and inclination of the soul; so (Hebrews 8:10): I will write my laws upon their hearts, and put them into their minds. The l…

These laws were written upon man's heart at his first creation, and though somewhat blurred, we know the better how to read a defaced writing when we get another copy or transcript to compare with it — especially when the heart is renewed, when the Spirit has wrought a suitablen…

1. Sometimes it is described by its radication, and so it is called the ingrafted word that is able to save our souls (James 1:21). The root of the matter is within; it is not tied on, but ingrafted: so in that promise of God (Hebrews 8:10), I will put my law into their minds, a…

The preciousness of this mercy, namely forgiveness of sins, appears in this: That 'tis (1) new covenant-mercy; the new covenant is called a better covenant, and its promises, better promises (Hebrews 8:6); the old covenant, that of works, vouchsafed no pardon; but this is the me…

Men entail their land upon those they adopt; God does more — he not only entails his land upon his children but entails himself upon them. Hebrews 8:10: I will be their God. Not only heaven is their portion, but God is their portion.

Repent and believe: for they are neuer disjoyned. If you find the worke of repentāce be not wrought throughly & soundly in you, if you finde your heart not purified, if you be not sanctified, if there be not a sanctified disposition in you, be sure it is a delusion, it is not f…

The Reasons which are given for this Interpretation are weighty. First, the word elsewhere indefinitely set down, is taken for things, not places, Hebrews 8:5. nay, one observes this word to be used almost twenty times in the New Testament, and never for any aërial place, but al…

It's true that the first covenant had Moses for its mediator, but as he was a type of Christ, so Christ yesterday and that day was the real mediator, but veiled. The New Covenant has better promises (Hebrews 8:6; Hebrews 7:22); it's a better covenant (Hebrews 7:22), has a better…

Answ. It cannot be denied, except the threats of the Sword, Famine, Pestilence on Jerusalem, and the desolation upon the Jews (Matthew 23; Matthew 24) but in place of all the diseases of Egypt (Leviticus 26) and the long roll of dreadful judgments and curses temporal (Deuteronom…

Which is prophesied of the Gentiles under the New Testament in Ezekiel 11:17-20, Ezekiel 34:23-25, Jeremiah 31:31-36, Jeremiah 32:36-40, Zechariah 13:9, Hosea 1:10-11, 1 Peter 2:9-10. And it is made to the Gentiles with an addition of a new heart and a larger extent of the Coven…

It should not move us, that infants understand neither command nor seal, nor Covenant, for the argument is against the Holy Ghost, and they are obliged to answer it; for infants are as ignorant of the promises and the special mysteries of the Gospel, as of precepts of the Gospel…

6. (Jeremiah 31:[reconstructed: 38]) Behold the days will come, says the Lord, that the City shall be built to the Lord, etc. There is a promise of spiritual right in Christ made to the blessings of this life, to these that are personal Covenanters; as (Jeremiah 32:41; Ezekiel 1…

Question 2. What is the first principal and only proper subject of the promises of special note, in the mediator, of the promise of a new heart, of the styles, properties and privileges of special note; that is, to be called the body of Christ, the anointed ones, and such as sha…

Second, the second and principal property of the Covenant is the graciousness and freedom thereof; therefore it is made with sinners, without hire or price, and every article and link of it is Grace. First, the whole Gospel is the word of Grace (Acts 20:32; Colossians 1:6), the…

2. These influences were free gifts, but not promised. 3. They seem to be ordinis naturalis, natural, though they did bow and previously incline the will, but not so in the New Testament, for the whole Covenant is called by the promise of the giving of a new heart (Hebrews 8:10)…

Such are expectants of grace and glory; to such the marriage table is covered — eat if they will. But the parties contractors of the covenant in the latter respect are, as in (Jeremiah 31; Hebrews 8), only the house of Judah, the taught of God, the people in whose heart the law…

As Isaiah 49:6 says, "I have given you for a light to the Gentiles, that you may be my salvation to the end of the earth" — that is, as Acts 13:46-47, I have you, O Christ, to be the preached light and guide of the Gentiles, and the preached Savior, declared and proclaimed by th…

Then if both agreed to dispense with that law-way to save man; here is covenant-condescension between Jehovah and the Son, of quieting law, and pitching on a mild Gospel-way. 7. Argument, from the promises made to Christ: He to whom the promises are made, as to the seed, so as i…

2. It is necessary that the promises that are our writs and charters of heaven be in a surer hand than in our own, to wit, in the keeping of Christ: for this is an absolute promise made to us (Ezekiel 36:26), "A new heart also will I give you, and a new spirit will I put within…

For justification is certainly not without faith. Second, the word 'all' is sometimes used for some of all sorts (Jeremiah 31:34; Hebrews 8:11; John 12:32; 1 Timothy 2:1-3), which is made apparent by the mention of kings as one sort of people there intended. And I make no doubt…

2 Corinthians 1:20: all the promises of God are in him, yes, and in him Amen — confirmed, ratified, unchangeably established, and irrevocably made over to us, confirmed by the death of him the testator (Hebrews 9:16), who was the surety of this better testament (Hebrews 7:22). T…

The promise is the declaration of the purpose of God before declared, or the free Determination and counsel of his will, as to his dealing with sinners on the supposition of the Fall, and their forfeiture of their first covenant state. Hereof the grace and will of God was the on…

To make this more plain, these being the three main things that you aim at, I shall lay before you three promises suited to these several things, which or the like you are to view in all your actings, all staggering at them being from unbelief. 1. The first thing you are to beli…

But I prove both the one and the other. And first, that Christ committed and did no act, nor deed against Law, for which he should be intrinsically and inherently the sinner, is clear — because that holy thing Jesus, being God-man, could not sin, nor did he ever any violence or…

Objection 2. (I will put my Law in your inward parts) is no condition to be performed by us, but by God only, and so all the tie lies upon God, if God does not this as he promises (Jeremiah 31), must not the fault or failing be his who is tied in a covenant to perform his part,…