Chapter 7
Of God's Covenant
- The distance between God and the
creature is so great, that although
reasonable creatures do owe obedience
unto Him as their Creator, yet they could
never have attained the reward of life,
but by some voluntary condescension on
God's part, which He hath been pleased to
express, by way of covenant.1
- Moreover, man having brought himself
under the curse of the law by his fall,
it pleased the Lord to make a covenant of
grace,2 wherein He
freely offereth unto sinners life and
salvation by Jesus Christ, requiring of
them faith in Him, that they might be
saved;3 and promising
to give unto all those that are ordained
unto eternal life, His Holy Spirit, to
make them willing, and able to
believe.4
- This covenant is revealed in the
gospel first of all to Adam in the
promise of salvation by the seed of the
woman,5 and afterwards
by farther steps, until the full
discovery thereof was completed in the
New Testament;6 and it
is founded in that eternal covenant
transaction that was between the Father
and the Son about the redemption of the
elect;7 and it is
alone by the grace of this covenant that
all of the posterity of fallen Adam, that
ever were saved did obtain life and
blessed immortality; man being now
utterly incapable of acceptance with God
upon those terms on which Adam stood in
his state of innocency.8
Footnotes:
1. Lk
17:10; Job 35:7-8.
2. Ge
2:17; Gal.3:10; Ro 3:20-21.
3. Ro
8:3; Mk 16:15-16; Jn 3:16.
4. Eze
36:26-27; Jn 6:44-45; Ps 110:3.
5. Ge
3:15.
6. Heb
1:1.
7. 2Ti
1:9; Tit 1:2.
8. Heb
11:6,13; Ro 4:1-2; Ac 4:12; Jn 8:56.
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