Reformed Covenanter
Cancelled Commissioner
It [the covenant of grace] is called positively a new way. … Because it comes after another, as the apostle teaches us to argue, Heb. viii. 13. In that he saith, A new covenant, he hath made the first old. So may we say, when Christ is said to be a new way, there hath been then some way before, that is now made void, and made void by it, as this was. ...
The first covenant was, (1.) A covenant without a mediator, God and man treated immediately together; sinless creatures made in so great perfection, as God made them, were in case, if I may so speak, of treating with God. (2.) This covenant was made upon condition, that is to say, the blessings of that covenant were suspended until the duty of that covenant was fulfilled. ...
For more, see Robert Traill: The new covenant is the unconditional covenant of grace.
The first covenant was, (1.) A covenant without a mediator, God and man treated immediately together; sinless creatures made in so great perfection, as God made them, were in case, if I may so speak, of treating with God. (2.) This covenant was made upon condition, that is to say, the blessings of that covenant were suspended until the duty of that covenant was fulfilled. ...
For more, see Robert Traill: The new covenant is the unconditional covenant of grace.