To prove this to be the new and Gospel Covenant, I must have recourse unto Gen. 12:3 and chap. 22:18 where is the covenant most lively stated, and made to and with Abraham in Promise, as it was to be promulgated when the fullness of time was come, viz. In thy seed shall all the Nations of the earth be blessed, and ch. 22:18. God upon Abraham's obedience in offering his son Isaac (a lively type of Christ, the true seed that was to be offered) brings up his covenant into an oath, and swear to Abraham that he would perform it, that in thy seed shall all nations be blessed; that is, truly and eternally blessed. Hence it is that in the new covenant the blessing is eternal life, not only life as in the old, but eternal life. And doubtless, there is no blessing spiritual or eternal that the Saints are interested in, but it is the blessing of this covenant, and as God freely gives blessedness in this covenant, so he works all things in his people in order to do it, without which they could not be blessed; and that is evident in the promise of this covenant, Jer. 31:31, 32, 33. I will put my law in their inward parts, and write it in their hearts, &c. That is, I will work a willing mind in them, to what ever I do require of them in order to their true and eternal blessedness. This is the new covenant that God in Christ (the true seed) hath interested all his people in. Hence it is said that God made this covenant in Christ, Gal.3:17.
Thomas Collier, A Discourse Of the true Gospel Blessedness IN THE NEW COVENANT, or The distinction of the two Covenants, New and Old, First and Second (London: H.Hills, 1659), pp. 47-48.
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