28 ' TOe Partier in tht · 1olid anfwer, for. believers, .unto the Iaw~s demand of obedience and fuffering for life and falvation. 3· Believers are jufiified immediately, by the righ– teoufnefs of ,Chvifi, without any righteoufnefs of their own interveening: even as all men · are condemned, upon 'Adam's fin, ' before they have do'ne good, or evil in' their own perfons. Rom. xv. 18. ~As by' the offence of one, judgment came upon .all men to conI demnation : , even fo by the righteoufnds of one, the free gift came upon all 'm.en unto jufiification of life.' And thus believers are righteous before God, with the felf fame righteoufnefs, which was wrought by Jefus Cbrifi, in his fulfilling of the covenant. The which righteoufhefs is not imputed to them in its effeCl:s on.. ly; fo as their faith, re.pentance, and fincere obedi– ence, are therefore accepted as their evangelical righ.. teoufnefs, on which they are jufiified : but it is im.. puted to them in hfelf, even as Adam's fin was. 4· The covenant of grace is abfolute; and not con." ditional to us. For being made with Chrift, as repre– fentative of his feed, all the conditions of it were laid on him, at1d fulfilled by him. Wherefore all that re- · mait).s of it to be accornpli!hed, i~, the fulfilling the promifes unto him and his fpiritual feed : even as it w0uld have been, in the cafe of the firfi covenant, if once the firil Adam had fulfilled the condition thereof. 5· The covenant of grace is. a contrivance of infi· nite wifdom and love, worthy to be embraced by poor finners, as ' well ordered in all things,- and fure,' 2 Sam. xxiii. 5· 0 admirable contrivance of help for a defpet:ate cafe ! Wonderful contrivance of a cove– nant of God, with-them who were incapable offiand-. ing in the prefence of ·his holinefs, or of performing th~ leafi condition ·for life and falvation ? A new bar– gkin for the relief of loft finners,. made on the high· efi terms with thefe who were not able to come up to the lowefl: terms! lnfjnite wifdom found out the way, to wit, by a Reprefent'ative. The love of the Fathet ·· engaged
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