· for t!Je ·covenant~' ~Q{ ' ~nd : xvi. 29, 3o; Thus the ' law is our fchool-maffer to bring us unto Chrifi ; and the faith of the law makes way for the fai~h of the gofpel. Not that, ei· ther this legal faith, or legal repentance, is the con– dition of our. welcome to Chrifi and the _covenant of grace: our-accefs to Chrifi and the covenant is pro- · claimed free, without any conditions or' qualificati· ons' reqllired in1us, · to warrant us finners ofmankind to beHeve on Jefus Chrifr, as was fuown before. But they ·are neceffar.y to move and excite us, to make ufe of our privilege of fre·e accefs .to Chrifi and the covenant ; infomuch that none will come to Chrifi, nor embrace the covenant, without them in greater or leffer ~ meafure. Even as if a phyfician fhould caufe proclaim, That he will freely cure all the fick offuch· \ a place, that will employ him : in which cafe, 'tis plain, none will employ him, but fuch as are fenfi– ble of fome malady they labour U!Jder; yet that fenfe of a malady is not the condition of. their welcome to that phyfician ; nor is it requifite .f01; his curing them., but for their employing him. · Now, in calling you to embrace the covenant, ye . are called indirectly, · and by confequeqce, to ,this , faith of the law: namely, to believe that ye are finners· in life, heart, aad nature ; loll: and undone, under the curfe ; and utterly unable to recover yourlelves. ·.. Jet it is not faving. faith, nor cloth it enfiate one in the covenant ofgrace : that's peculiar to another kind. of believing, of which in the.next place. . - 1:he Faith of the Gofpel, en/}ating in the Covenant.' SAving faith, which unites to Chrifi, is the faith · of tht gofpe!. For the gofpel only is the mini-· ,# jlration of righteoufnefi", 2 Cor~ iii. 9· 'Tis in it that the righteo,ufne'!s of faith is revealed unto faith, revealed to be believed on, Rom. i. 17. It is the a– lone word which gave finners the notice, of a Saviour, · of the ntonipg blood, , and the new cevenant in that . ~V • 'f 3 blo~d :
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