(lin) part ofit is void, God being, as we may fay, difobliged upon mans fin,and man made utterly uncapable ofbeing the fubjed towhom fuch a Promife can Band in force : And therefore that it is fitter to fay the Covenant of Works is null and void, becaufe it is from the prorniffory part that the whole wascalled (if ever fo called) a Covenant. ( In this point I retrad what I delivered in my Apho- rifms.) Yea the Law it felf bath received fo many extrinfick al- terations, as in its ufe, its Adminiftrator, &c. that I will not con- tend with anyabout the name, whether it fhould be called the fame or another, as long as we agree of the degree and matter of Change. But the great change is, that it hath now a Reme- dying Law conjund, when before it flood alone, and its obliga- tion had no remedy known. Then perfect obedience was the only Condition of Life ; now its neither the foie , nor any condi- tion at all. Forwhere the Promife it felf is ceafed, there is no con- dition of it. Conc/o. 6. I believe that by the new Law of Grace, or the Promife, God hath delivered all men (in the Tenor of the Pro- mile, though the promulgation reach not to all) from the guilt of fin, as to the deftrudive punifhment , on condition they will ac- cept of Chrift and Life ; and that no man is excepted out of this Promife ( till they remedilefly rejed it), but it is fo general, that whoever will have Chrifl may have him ( on his terms ) Though none will have him, till Gods fpecial effectual Grace do make themwilling. Yet whoever will, is called to drink of the water of Life. Conclu. 7. I believe that this Promife of deliverance to All, is fo free, that no price isrequired of any to procure it : It is but the Acceptance of a free Gift. And therefore nowonder if Chrift be laid to have taken away the fins of the world or if God were faid to pardon them , when God bath as far as belongeth to him (I fay not, as much as belongs to him abfolutely and in all refpeds, but) as the free Donor by Promife, .per LezemRemeoltantem, deli- vered them; and the flop is only in their not .confentingor acce- pting : and when.among men confent is fonaturally implyed, that ( though it be a true Condition, yet) it is feldom ufed to be ex- preffed;butwhere confent only is the Conditionof a Gift, it is ufed to be put in abfolute terms, Condoi. , $ I fully believe that as loon as ever any foul bath fa- () 3
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