Covenant of Grace. 37 and performed by him, the condition of the other un• , dertaken and performed by u~. Accordingly that o– pinion,concerning the covenant is readily e"?brac'd by univerfalifls of different denominations. But that .doCtrine is l;ltterly inconfifient with this a~count ofthe , covenant, which cloth at once overthrow .univerfal redemption or atonement, together with the federal ·. conditionality of our holinefs and good works, in the covenant ofgrace. For, if the covenant of grace was made with Chrifl: as a Reprefentative, and the elect only·were the party reprefented by him in it; the~ furely the conditions of the covenant, his doing and " dying, were -accomplHhed for tpem on~y _; and he died for no other : as when one··hath ent_~ed into <t bond of furetifhip, .his payment of that bond can :never be rec~oned a payment of their debt, whofe names were not in the· bond, and whom he was not furety for. Inf. 3· and !aft, Wh'oever they' be that rejeCt: the covenant of grace, offered to them in the gofpel; and fo peri!h : all God's eleCt: fhall infallibly be entred per– .fonally into it, and be faved. Likeas, all thefe whom . Adam reprefented in the covenant of works, have . been, are, or !hall be brought perfonally into that . covenant; and fin and death pafs upon them, Rom. · v. 12. Even fo, all thefe whom Chrifi reprefel)ted in the covenant of grace, have been, are, or fhall be brought perfonally ~ into thiP covenant, and partake of 1·ighteoofnefs and life, Ver. 18, 19. Our Lord Jefus has fulfilled the conditions of the covenant for them. whom he reprefented : and it would neither be fuita– ble to the juftice of God, nor to the wildom of ChriJl: the party-contraCting with him, that he fhould repr~fent,_contract and fulfil the conditions, for any who ihall never enjoy the benefit of the contract . Where– fore, fince there are who, by a purpofe of God that cannot be fn:tfl:rated, ihall, without peradventure, be brought perfonally into this covenant; and ye who hear the g0fpel, having the rne~ns, fo.r c'ompafiing C 4 that
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