. ___ ._ if Preface to the Reader. handling the whole of the work, and all the Offices inci- .dent to.his Mediatorfhip : To fpeak of his death ratifying the Covenant of grace, waving the controverfie of the extent of it, in the intention of God, or purpofe of Chrift ; It is fiifficient to me to offert Faith to be a con- dition of the Covenant neceflary to be put in by us to attain the mercies in the Covenant, to fpeak of it fo far as is here concerned without a large Treatife of the nature, requifites, and life of it ; fo I may fay of godly farrow, ceffation from fin, fincerity of obedience, and the like. Thirdly,Thofe particulars relating to this fubjeet, which are molt controverted,and in this age difputed,I have fpoke to more at large ; to inftance in force. The Conditions of the Covenant of Grace, as well to the an lint,? whe- ther there be any fuch conditions at all which in our times by feverall hands out of feveral Principles is denyed ; Or the u e tint ? what there conditions belaying down rules and helps for the better difcovery of them. The fup- pofed differences between the old and new, Whether fuch that offer injurie to the Covenant, under which the Fa thers lived, under Mofes his adminiftration, or before his dayes, making it a meer carnal Covenant , confifting of temporall promifes, as the poffeffion of the land of Cana- - an, and proteí`tion there, or at the leaft a mixt Covenant, and no pure Gofpel - Covenant,and the feals fuiteable ' Or fuch that put too great a limit to the Covenant in Gofpel- times,vefting it onely in the elec± regenerate,excluding all profeffed ones not yet regenerate, not onely from Cove -1" pant-mercies,but allCovenant- terms,not admitting any to ftand in any relation to God,but thofe onely whom hisSpi- rit hash changed,making the call of God in the largeft fenfe convertible with Election, and the foal of Baptifm to be of no greater latitude (unleffe a miftake mif-applied) then the feal_of the Spirit, and determining it in the perlons of the elect
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