480 An Appendix. eitace cereria , certi condicione ci communican- da adDci glori- am. Paff um atra di- eimtcs,intelligi- mim mutuamDei 'horninis obli gatioxem ex(}i- pulatioate intervenientem, ut utrirnque reddatur quod ¡:romifJ'um eft. Du ergo Ant partes fizderis. 1. Promi1co Dei de vita xterna. z. Obligatio hominis ad obfervationem conditionis aDeo præ. (criptæ. Trima eft libera; fecunda eft necefJària, lation intervening, that what is promifed on both parties, may be per - formed. And farther faith, There are two parts of the Covenant. r. The promife o fGod concerning everlafiing life. 2. 'The obligation of man for performance of the condition prefcribed of God;the firfl is free, the fecand is nece ffary. And in conclufion,fuch a bottome I be- lieve is laid in the Introduction, that will beare the whole fa- brick that followes after. f unius and Gomaruu are as oppofite as maybe one to the o- ther in this difpute about the Covenant as may be teen in the Appendix to the firft Chapter : But they both agree in this that every Covenant of necefiity is to have mutual itigagements, and performances. Gomarus denies that the promife , Gen. 3. t5. container the Covenant of grace,becaufe no Conditions are there mentioned. And yunius to avoid conditions, denies that there is any fuch thing as a Covenant between God and man ; for if it were a Covenant he fayes it muff have conditions. Accord ing to them both therefore if we grant a Covenant we mutt grant conditions , and,the full nature of the Covenant is in no Scri- pture laid down where we have not there engagements or con- ditions. Some think to reconcile all this by the various acce; ptation of the word. Sometimes it is fo ufed in Scripture , that the free promife of God is thereby fignified,and the refliputation of our du- ty with it od requiring man to engage by Covenant to that which he might require did there no promife intervene yet fomnetimes in Scripture Covenant loth lignifie the abf elute promife of God, with- out any res`ílipulation, and of this kinde is that Covenant is Which Cjod prom feth to give to his ele61 faith and perfeverance, to which p romife there cannot be conceived any condition to be annexed, Which not comprehended in the promife it fell: So Learned Carnero de triplici fcedere,, Thef. I, 2. For this abfolute Covenant here (poke to , I deli -re the Reader to obferve what the fame learned Au- thour bath farther in his third Thefis. This difiinElion (faith he) of the Covenan cloth depend upon the diflintlion of the Joy. ve of God, for tl ere ù a love of Gacd to the Creature, from Whence every thing that
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