84 Th'; Conditionary Part been already evinced ; and in virtue of the prom~fes of t~e covenant, they are produced in the elect: therefore they cannot be the condition of the covenant. And elect: infants are faved, tho' they are neither ea- · pable of believing nor of obeying : ·howbeit, the con– dition of the covenant, mufi·needs be performed, ei– ther by 'themfelves who are faved, or elfe by another . in their fiead. Therefore, Chrift's fulfilling all righ· teoufi1efs,, which is the only obedience performed in their fiead, mufi be the alone proper condition of the covenant. . L11jily, ·The covenant of grace cloth fq exclude our boafling, as the covenant of works did not. · This is clear from Rom. iii. 27. ' Where is boafiing then? 1t is excluded. B¥ what law? Ofworks? Nay : But by the law of faith.' But if any deed or work -of ours be the condition of the covenant of grace, in whole . or in part, our boafiing is not excluded, but hath place therein, as in the covenant of works; the difference being, at niofl:, but in point of degrees : for, accord– ing to the Scripture, it is working, or fulfilling the condition of a covenant, that gives the ground of boaiting ; forafinuch as, ' To him that worketh, the reward is re.ckoned of debt :' and life being of or by works in the covenant of works, tho' not in the way · of proper merit, but in way of paCtion or compact:' only, 'this gave men the ground of boafiing, in that covenant, according to the Scripture. Therefore, fo far as life and falvation are of or by any work or deed of ours, as fulfilling the condition of the c0ve· nant of grace, our boafiing is not excluded, but hath place therein as in the covenant of works. Where- · . fore, fince the covenant of grace is fo framed, as to . leave no ground for our boafiing," no work or deed of ours, but Chrifi's fulfilling all righteoufnefs, even · that alone, is the condition of the covenant ofgrace : and our life and falvation are neither of works, nor py works, as fulfilling the condition of the covenant. · . Tit.
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