The JJ1akiitg of the H E , IJ.. The Making of the Co?Jenant ofGrace. . ' HAv.ing confidered the parties in the covenant of grace, we cor11e now, to take a view of the mak- · ing or tha~ covenant, betwixt the parties contracting ·therein. And here we find ourfelves at the fountain– head ofthe.faivation of loft finners, the 'original and rife of the glorious plan, laid from et~rnity _in the fe– cret council of the ever.. bleffed Trinity; fbr remedy of man's mile1·y. A,nd this is a n1anifold myfiery, th(} . feveral folds of which we are not able fully todifcover. \:Vith God it was all one piece, if I may fo phrafe it~ for with him; all things are together and at once; anul not one thing before, and another after, as w,ith us. Howbeit, we - cannot conceive of it, but in parcels ; firfi one piece of the myfiery, and then another: and that, \becaufe ·of the wea,knefs of our capacity, as we -are cr~atores; and much more as we are creatures un– der much fpi!itual darknefs. Wherefore, we mufl, of neceffity, addrefs· ourfelves to the confideration of it,... in parcels: but Hill remembring we are in the eternal myfiery, tranfacted in the eternal decree of the holyTri..: niry, all at once, by one Eternal act of.the Divine will; in which nev~rtbelefs we are allowed to conceive a cer– tain order,fince otherwife we cannot take up the myfi.ery W € have already feen, that the Father, the party– conti'acter on HGaven's fide, is in that matter to be confidered as offended God, · but purpoflng to mani~ fefl: ,the glory 'Of his mercy i,r1 the falvation of fome of mankind loft; yet withal, as a jufi God, who can– not bur give fin a ju.fl: recompence: and alfo, that .Jtjus C!Jrifl, the party-cohtraB:er on mar:'s fide, is to · be confidered therein, as the h1fior fecondAdam,reere' . !entarive of a · f~ed: wherefore; firfl: of all, we are .to enqmre
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