_ Covenant of Grace. 29 engaged him to propofe the repre!entation : and the love of the Son engaged him to accept of it. Thus God had one, with whom he might contraCl:, with the fafety of his honour ; _and who was able to fulfil the covenant, to the, reparation of the injuries done to his glory : ' and finners alfo had one, able to acr for them, and to purchafe falvation for them, at the hand of a holy jufi God. So a iure covenant was made, and a firm foundation laid, upon which God laid the , weight of nis honour' and on whieh finners may fafe. ly lay rheir whole weight. ' fherefore thus faith th~ Lord God, Behold, I lay in Sion-a fur~ foundati~ on: he that believeth {hall not mak~ hafie; Ifa. xx viii, .16. ' !hall not be ailiamed, Rom. ix. 33· Laflly, The way to enter perfonally into the cove– nant of grace, fo as to partake of the benefits thereof, unto falvation~ is, to unite with' Chrifi the he11d ofthe c·ov~nant, by faith . Being thus ingrafted into hi m, ye fhall partake of all that happinefs, which is fecured to Chrifi myitical, in the everla!ling covenant : even as, throqgh your becoming children of Adam, by 'Patural generation, ye are perfonally enter'd into-the.. ·. firfi covenant,fo as tofall under thatfin anddeath which· pa.!fed upon all men, by the breach thereof, ~om. v. 12. HI. Of the Party·contra[/ed anJ undtrtaken for. · AS the party~ contrac_ter and Undertak~r on man's fide, in the covenant of grace, was a Reprefen-. tative; fo the party-contraCt-ed and undertaken for, was reprefented by him. And th'!t thefe two, J;lamely, the reprefented, and thefe contraCted for~ are of equal latitude, is plain from the nature .ot the · thing: for, thefe whom one reprefents ,in a (::O._venant, he contracts for in that covenant, and thdt for whom one contraCt-s in a cG>venant, made with him as·R.e .. prefentative, are reprefented by him in that covet;~l~t.' · ...' Thus it was in the covenant of the firft Adam, who , , was a fi~ure ofChrift, the Head of the fecond cove- , nant.
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