CONTENTS

OF

VOLUME FIRST.

DEDICATION TO WILLIAM III. &c.

A Pacific Address, to the very reverend, learned, and cele-

brated Profeffors of Divinity in the Univerfities of the

United Provinces of Holland; Paftors of the Reformed

Churches, and zealous Defenders of the Faith once de-

livered to the Saints,

The Life of the Author.

BOOK FIRST,

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13

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CHA P. I.

Of the Divine Covenants in general.

CHAP. II.

Of the Contracting Parties in the Covenant of Works.

CHA P. III.

Of the Law, or Condition, of the Covenant of Works,

CHA P. IV.

Of the Promises of the Covenant of Works.

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46

56

67

CHAP. VIII.

Of the Violation of the Covenant of Works on the part

of Man.

CHAP. IX.-

Of the Abrogation of the Covenant of Works on the part

of God.

BOOK SECOND.

CHAP. I.

Page

139

155

Introduction to the Covenant of Grace.

167

CHA P. II.

Of the Covenant between God the Father and the Son.

169

СНА Р. III.

The nature of the Covenant between the Father and the

Of the Perfons for whom Chrift engaged and satisfied.

259

СНА Р. Х.

After what manner Christ used the Sacraments.

275

BOOK

BOOK THIRD.

CHAP. I.

Of the Covenant of God with the Elect.

CHAP. II.

Of the Oneness of the Covenant of Grace, as to its Sub-

ftance.

CHA P. III.

Of the different Economies or difpenfations of the Covenant

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285

295

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THE

LIFE

OF THE

AUTHOR.

HERMAN WITS (or, as he is commonly called, WITSIUs) was descended from reputable parents. His father, Nicolaus Wits, was a gentleman universally esteemed by his fellow citizens at Enkhuysen, to whom he endeared himself by his fidelity, modesty, justice, benevolence, and unaffected piety in every character he sustained, either in the church or in the city; for in the former he was first a deacon, and afterwards a ruling elder, and treasurer in the latter. His mother was Johanna, a gentlewoman of great piety and prudence, the daughter of Herman Gerhard; who, after many dangers and distresses, obtained a calm and secure settlement in the church at Enkhuysen, where he preached the gospel for upwards of thirty years, with great reputation; and such was the affection he bore to his church, that he rejected the most profitable offers that were made to him.

The parents of our Witsius, having vowed to devote a child to the ministry, did upon the birth of this son, call him after his grandfather, praying, that in Herman the grandson, might be revived the spirit of the grandfather; and that, endued with equal, if not superior talents, he might imitate his example.

Herman Witsius was born on the 12th of February, 1636, at Enkhuysen, a town of West-Friesland; one of the first that threw off the Spanish yoke, asserted their own liberty, and, once enlightened with the truths of the gospel, retained the purity of worship ever after, and in the very worst times VOL. I.

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