Ch ap. 6. and the Covenant of Grace. 2 'I befades this were (faith he, pag. 80 upon a ftipulation,and the' pro- mile was altogether upon conditions on bothfides. But in this d'ove nant ofGrace,viz. the ne* Covenant , it ii farre otherwife, there is not any condition in this í: ovenant, I fay the new Covenant ù t'it hoist any condition ,vhatfoever. Sermon on Covenant of free grace. page 15. 9. And page 166. he tells his hearers, that he is on a nice point, Faith is not the condition of the Covenant. Others utterly di-flailing the aforenamed opinions of juflification without faith, or falvation without_ obedience, or repentance (which feeme to be the natural iffue and neceffary conlequents of an unconditi- onal Covenant,) yet with great refolution do affirme, the Co- venant to be without conditions, joyning in the premiffes with thefe heterodox teachers, but peremptorily denying the conclufi- on. Therefore Mailer Baxter finding Mailer Owen (in his learn - ed°work againil Vniverfal Redemption) affirming the Ceivenant to be without all condition on mans part, gives his reafon (in his appendix to his aphorifines) againft Juflification before Faith, as militating againil Mailer Owen, of which Mailer Owen complains, utterly difclaiming the opinion. But 1611 perfifls in this that the Covenant' is without conditions And I fhould hope if things were examined, with candor,it would be found little more then a ffrife of words, which Mailer Owen bath fomewhat unhappily brought in,affirming a neceílity of faith and obedience in all that enjoy the mercies of the Covenant,which we fay are conditions,yet de- nying them to be conditions, granting the thing, but denying the word. Yet againil both, (that oppofe it either more defperate- ly or more innocently) I affirme and might quote a cloud of wit - neffes, that the Covenant of grace hath its conditions ; which to me is clear. Fiat, by the definition of a Covenant given in by the Do6tor a few pages before his affertion before mentioned. ft is a mutual agreement between parties upon certain Articles or Propo /itions on both fades, f o that each party ù bound and tied to perfórme his own con- dition,. It is in the definition and effence of a Covenant in gene- ral- according to him, to have conditions, but this Covenant in particular with him, is without condition ; here is a J ecies that partakes not of the nature of the gentm, a particular Covenant that wants the effence of aCovenant,which is the fume as though he fhould finde us a man, that is no living creature, a Vine or Fig- E 2 tree Arguments for a conditional Covenant. i
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