The Manifold Wisdom of God, Table of contents – Errata
The Contents of the severall Chapters.
Chap. 1. THe great profit and benefit which doth arise from the knowledge of the true difference betweene the Old and New Testament; the Covenant of Workes, and the Covenant of Grace; the Law and the Gospell. page 1.
Chap. 2. What the Word Testament signifieth, and what is the nature of a Testament. That the Scriptures both of the Old and New Testament are called Testaments onelyonly in respect of Christ, who by his death ratified them, and not in respect of God the Father, who could not die to make them offorce. The agreement and differencè betweene the Old and New Testament is plainly shewed. 11
Chap. 3. The doctrine of the former Chapter is applyed by way of use, to confute five differences which the Schoolemen have made, and three differences which the Iesuites have added to them, betweene the Old and New Testament, and the vanity of them is therby discovered, and a two-fold use is moreover shewed▪ 21
Chap. 4. What the Word Covenant signifieth, what is the Nature of a Covenant in generall. 38
Chap. 5: The severall kindes of Covenants betweene God and men. The Covenant of Nature is described. The Covenant of Grace is unfolded, and the blessings therein promised are rehearsed; That this Covenant is a Covenant of free grace is plainely proved. The division of it into the Old and New Covenant. 49
Chap. 6. The Covenant of Grace first made with Adam after his fall. The liberty thereby given to man, proveth that we gain more by Christ then we lost in Adam. Of the renuing of it with Noah. The form of renuing it with Abraham, and revealing it more plainly by 7 things. Of the renuing of it with Israel at mount Sinah and by Moses. That it is called the Old Covenant in respect of the New Covenant in the Gospell. That it is mixt of the Covenant of Workes, and of the Covenant of Grace. The reasons why God in making it did renue the Covenant of Workes, and mingle it with the Covenant of Grace made with man in Christ after his fall. 58
Chap. 7. Of the New Covenant of Grace, as it is made most plainely in the Gospell, and in the New Testament. The reasons why it is called the New Covenant. 72
Chap. 8. The Method and Order propounded, which is to be followed in shewing how the New and Old Covenants of Grace doe agree and differ. 86
Chap. 9. The threefold agreement between the Covenant of Nature, which is called the first Covenant, and the Covenant of Grace, which is called the second Covenant. 87
Chap. 10. The sixe notable things in which the Covenant of Nature doth differ from the Covenant of Grace. 90
Chap. 11. The profitable and holy use which may be made of the doctrine concerning those differences betweene the Covenant of Nature and the Covenant of Grace. 100
Chap. 12. The sixfold agreement betweene the Covenant of Grace, as it was revealed to the Fathers of the Old Testament, and the same renued and more fully explained in the Gospell. 103
Chap. 13. The sevenfold difference betweene the Covenant of Grace, as it was made with the Fathers, and the Covenant as it was made in the Gospell. 112
Chap. 14. A twofold use is made of the doctrine in the two former Chapters. 122
Chap. 15. The agreement betweene the pure and plaine Covenant of Grace in the Gospell, and the mixt Covenant which God made with Israel on mount Horeh, by the ministery of Moses, which consisted partly of the Covenant of Workes, and partly of the Covenant of Grce. 127
Chap. 16. The severall differences betweene the pure and mixt Covenant. 132
Chap. 17. The Use of the Doctrine is shewed for the discovering of Gods singular providence in preparing meanes of grace fit for the severall Ages of the World. 154
Chap. 18. The signification of the words, Law and Gospell. How they agree and differ, being taken in their severall senses. The Use of the Doctrine. 159
Iuly 30. 1640.
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The. Wykes.
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PAg. 1. line 4. for the, read their, p. 7. l. 2. for repentance, read regeneration. pag. 12. l. 6. read 9. for 19. and line 22. for New, read Old, page 13. line 13. read a for the, page 37, line 14 blot out, ye, pag. 39, last line. blot out of it, page 47. line 2. for order read frame, and line 14. after the word Greeke, put in word foreign, and line 16. after the word New put in, and the Septuagints in the Old. page 51 line 8. read tree of Knowledge page 56 line 4. read, in his owne person, page 77. line 19. put out, all. page 90. l. 19. put in, the. page 103. l. 7. read unprofitable servants, for unprofitablenesse. page 142. line 22. for Christs, read Christs blood.