·of the Covenant. IT"/ part, as the Mediator bath already performed his. And, in thiS' fenfe indeed, 'the cQvenan_t ofgrace is not con.., ditional,, but confifis of abfolute promifes ; that is; promifes become abfolute, through the condition thereof atl:ually performed already : but being confi– dered in its full latitude, and ,,.in refpeCl:.of Chrifi, the cgvenant, and all the promifes thereof, are properly I and firitl:ly conditional. I • Thirdly, The promifes of the covenant are the pur– {:hafe of the blood ofChrifi ; the fruit of his fulfilling all righteoufnefs., in h~s birth, life, and · death. As the curfe came by the demerit of 4dam's ftn; fo the promifes are owing to tbe merit ,of Chrifi's righteouf.. ne(s, _they are'the New-Tejlament in his -blood, 1 t:or. xi. 25 - From the promife of the bread and water · (lfa. xxxiii. 16.) to the promife of ajeat'with him on his thronr,, (Rev. iii. 21.) they are all the purchafe ofhis meritorious obedience even to tne death. ]ufily ar~ they called exceeding preciouJ promifes, 2 Pet. i. 4· as being the price of his blor;d. Ofwhat unfpeak– able weight and importance mufi they be, that coft foch a price, between the Father and his·Son t - _Fourthly, The great defign and end of the cove– Dqnt, is a(:complifrled in the performing of the pro– miffory part thereof: and that is the glory of God, and the Salvation .offinners. The great glory to God, and grace tO 'finners, fpringing up from tpe whole·· of the covenant, met together here, namely, in the ae– complifument of the promifes, as a!l the rivers meet together in ~he fea. 'The promifes wer:: the great thing the parties·contracrers had in vie\li.', when they entred in to the coTenant : it was room for them the , Father fought, by his propofal ofthe covenant; and that was what the Son intended to purchafe, by his fulfil– ling the condition. The condition of the covenant is . t~e foundation of the promifes ; the promifes, the ~lo• · nous fL1perfiru8:ure rear'cl upon the cofily foundatio17. _ The adminifiration of the covenant is fqbfervient to H 4 the
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