AnAppendix to this Préniönitiona that their fins may be blotted out, Ads 3. 19. So, Rev. 22. 14. Matt. 6. íj,15: Ezek.33.14,.i6, I Tim. 4.8. Godlinefi it profitable to all things, having the promifeof the Life that now is,and of that which is to come.] Call thefeLaws, or Coven/ow, or whatyou will, we are agreed that all this is the wordofGod. 9. Thefe termsof lifeand death are the rule of our pratïices, and our expeilations, by which wemuli live, and by which we (hall be judged: and therefore we may truly fay that they are Chriji's Law. And they are God's fignified determinationof the conditions of lifeand death, and his donationof our right to Cbrijt, Pardon and Life, is contained herein ; and therefore this may truly be called Chrijf's7egament andCovenant, in feveral refpe ts. Io. Though all dutiesbe prefcribed by God's Law, and fo each Precept isa material part ; yet formally or fpecificaly the Laws to which theft material parts belong, mutt be diftinguifhed by the diJlinl conditionsof life and death. II. God hath made more Promifes, Donations andCovenants, thanone or two; which n,ua not be confounded : o. HisLaw and Covenant made to and with man in innocency is one. z. And his Law and Covenant made to and with Chrift;. as Mediator, is another. 3. And his abfolute promife of a Saviourto the World, with theconditional promife or Lawof Grace conjunc`l, was the lira edition of another. 'And the Gofpel, as after the incarnation promulgate, was a more. perfeCr editionof it : (to pafs by Abraham's Covenant of Peculiarity, and theMofaical Law, as fuch.) 12. Though Chrifi be promifedin one of theft, and be God's antecedentgift, hemay neverthe.. refs be the Author of another, (and fo far the foundation,) as well as the meritorious' saute. 13. That may be offree Grace which is merited by Chi* ; yea, and that which is annexed to theEvangelical worthinefi of a believer. 14. That may be a condition required of us, to be done by thehelpof Grace, which yet is the effelt of that Grace, and given us by God. a 5. It is a true Covenant between God the Father, Son, and Hólÿ Gholl, and man, which is folemnly entred into in Baptifm: And this is a Covenant of Grace, even that pròceedeth purely fromGrace ; and of Grace, asgiven by God, andbytes accepted. He that will confound thefe Va- rious Covenants, Promifes, and Laws, on pretence of their unity, (though there is doubtlefs a wonderful unityiofall the parts both of God's moral (lignai) means, and his phyfical works) (hall confound much of Theology: 16. The Lawmadeto Adam never laid [either thou or another tbeeJhall obey;] but it bound man to perfeft, perpetual, perfoaal obedience. - 17. Therefore thatLaw, as it "obliged'us, is not fulfilled by the obedience of Chris, but only asfar asit obligedhim ;'nor can any mati be *lifted by it, as a fulfiller of it, by bimfelf, or by another: nor did Chrill fulfil it in anyother mans perfon, though in hishead, fo far as is aföre- faid. 18. The Lawdoth not command any man fineA_dàm, perfell,perfonal obedience, as the means orcondition of life ; nor promife any life on fuch a condition as is now naturally impollible : but though it be not repealed byGod, is fo far ceafed, by the ceffation of the fubjeots capacity tobe fo obliged. r9. The Laws obligationof us topun Ihment is difpencedwith, and diffolvedby a pardon put- chafed by our Mediator. 20. Chilli's righteoufnefsis neverthelefs the meritorious caufeof our righteoufnefs or juftifica- tion,though he jullifyus by the inftrumentality of his donative Covenant, as giving us right to our 4lnion, and JuilificationandLife ; and though our Faith and Repentance be the condition ofour Title. z 1. We accept two Conceffions as containing that truth, whichlheweththat we donot much differ de re, could we more happily orderour organicalconceptions : " 1. That Chrift's righteouf, "nefs is not the formal 'caufeof our Juffification: 2.p. 596. [Seeing thefatisfahion wasnot made "IN THE ,PE RS ON of the offender, but his fubfiitute; it was neceffary that 2 HE "BENEFIT of ANO "HERS fatisfadion fhouldbecommunicated in loch a way asmight bell pleafe that God wholeGrace was the only motive to his acceptation of a fubftitute: It is "the undoubted priviledge of the Giver, to difpofe of his own gifts in his own way: And it "was abfolutely and indifpenfibly necelfary that the firmer should be duly qualified to receive " fuchtranfcendent favours, purchafed at fo dear a'rate, and fittedto return the glory to a Re- "deemer 5 which anunhumbled, unbelieving, unconverted and unfanlfified tinier could not pof- " fibly be.] He that writeth this, cannot fore much differ from mehereabouts. But he ischaritably uncharitable, when he faith,[Never any ratan in his wits affirmed itfo, (that the righteóufnefs of Chrift is theformal caufe of our Julihcation.) It's too charitable to hide that which cannot be hid, of fo greata number; whom it feetrfs he never read(for all his Commit- . lion from all the Syftematical Divines of Germany, etc.p. 696.) And it's too uncharitableto judge fo /.
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