No proper Penalty of, &c: 1~7 , ' tis fure, trom the nature of God, who rhade it; even from his infallible truth, and from his juftice too in refpeCl: of Chrifr, 2 Thelt i. 6, 7• Thus fat of the fecohd part of the covenant, name· Iy, The Protnijfoty Part. No proper Penaltyof the Covenant ofGrpce. , /i Petu~ty is ho effenrial part of a proper .covenant. 'Tis but accidental 6nly, ·arifing not from tl)e nature of a covehant ; but from the nature of the covenan• ters, who being fallible, ·may bteak, either the con– dition, or the promife : in whiCh cafe a perialty is annexed, to ~ecure the_performance of the condition, on the one fide, andof the promife, ori ,the other. Wherefor.e, fince the party cohtraCl:ing on man's fide, on whom it lay to' perform the condition of this eo- · vehan,t, was infallible ; as wds the party conttaCl:ing On Heaven's fide, on whotn it lay to perform the pro– mife of it : there was no place at all for a penalty · thereof, properly fo called ; as there was none in the firfi covenant, but upon one fide. In the fecond eo- . venant, the Father and the Son abfolutely trufted each the other: upon ~he credit ofth~ Son; the Father re.:. ceived all the Old-Tefiarnent fa~~lts into heaven, be– fore the price of their redemption was paid; and up– on the credit of the father, the Son, near feventeeit hundred years ago, paid the full p~ice of the tedemp_. tion of the eleCt, white vafi multitudes of them Were not as yet born into the world, ahq many of them are not even to this day. 'Tis true, the parties contraaed-for are infallible: but then the performing of the cohdition of this co– venant as fuch, doth in no cafe ly upon them : Chrifl: having takeh it entirely ou himfelf, and accordingly performed already. Whilfi they c;ontinue i,n their n~tutal fiate, withoUt Chrifr, they are' perfonally in the covenant of works, not in the covenant of grace. And being 911ce b~come believers in Chrifr, the proN 4 mife
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