(.11 Q The ige and CovenantNboline Ch 34 i 1 { The Covctilnt entitles to fpi- ritual: mercies, and life etcrn 1 upon Gods ternies and i conditions It is not as man that Cod enters Covenant in this latitude fo Abraham himfelf was not in Covenant, if h e rd beenin Cove- nant as a man then no man had been out of Covenant: neither is it as upright before God ;Ithd. keeping Covenant. Thofe of his pofterity, whole hearts were not ftedfaft , were in. Covenant,, and did hand it over to their feed: but as a profeffour,of the Faith accepting the Covenant, taking God for his God' ; he accepted it for himfelfand for his.feed, his natural! pofterity. And all that profeffe the Faith hold in the like tenure., are in Covenant, and have the Covenant ; not veiled in their own perfons but', enlarged to pofterity. Thirdly, We entitle the feed of Ab raham,as before,to fpiritu- all mercies, (and fo the feed of all that hold in the tenure of e4- bruham) to laving grace andjuftification;: to life eternal ; not by an abfolute conveyance, infallibly to inherit, (we know thot.gh Ifrael be a4 the f nd of the fea , yet a remnant only fhallbe faved,' i Rom. 9. 2,7.) but upon Gods termes, and conditions in the Gol- ` p.l of God., held. out. of God. to his people ; falvation is made over by vertue of Covenant, to all thus in Covenant, in that fenfe as Chrift fpeaks,lohn 4,22. Salvation it of the yews. In t. that f.:.nfe as Chriff Meth it of Zachemu family ; This day v falva- tion c.me to t.hia ho ife, Luke 19.9. In that fenfe as the' Apoftle to the Hebreves.fpeaks of it , where he lets out the danger of' ne- gleEiing fogreat falvaa. iorì, Heb, 2. 2. In that fenfe- (as.l conceive). Í the Apoftle (peaks of it , where lie faith, that upon the call of the Jews, all Ifrael (ball be Paved, Rom. 11.26. they (hall enjoy thole priviledges, in. which falvation.upon Gods termes may be obtained. And this is all that can by any means: be fqueezed out , of their words that fay, the Covenant of Grace was. made of God., with .Abraham and his naturall feed , or with Beleevers Ì and their feed. It is even irkfome to read the large buf neffe that I Mafter To obes makes of it to.finde out Mailer z11arJhal's mean- ing about the Covenant, of God 'made with Abraham and his,; feed ; and both Matter .4íaraal and my felf mutt perforce con- feffe that we mean it of a Covenant, infallibly abfolutely to con- ferre grace, and confequently falvation. To be fo in Covenant, as page 5.3. Ile interprets himfelf, as that he cannot fall from it. pag.. 356... of.his, Apology. ' the. laft.pase but one,forafarewell to me) he quotes two places,where I expreffely deny what he would falten upon
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