33 Chrift did not procure by his death the New Covenant. C R A TY; Z5, imputeth faith to us unto righ. teoufnefr. And againe in his Artie. perpend: de ja- ßif. What fault is it fo fay , that faith by free d?' gracious acceptation is accotin- ted for right,;ou fnef s, Gecattle of Mill's obedience. But with this affertion , we are not fatisfied , for thefe reafons I. The Arminianr, who maintaine this fo confidently , make it the who- le of what Chriff merited by his death & Satisfathon Paying that Chrift by his death did fo fatisfie the offended party , as he would be favourable to the offender ; and fo fay , that he acquired to the father a jur & a will to enter into a new Covenant with men. See Their Confeff. c. S. §. 9. collar, cum Apolog. c. S. §. 9. and as the learned Voetiur inferteth Select. dsfpp. p 2. p, 23 3, 234.. it tolloweth hence that Chrift was not in very deed our Cautioner; that he died not in our room & flead ; that he did properly obtains & ac ui- re nothing to us; & that he did not fuftaine the perfon of the elect , while he fuffered on the croffe. 2. , that ChriIi procured no more , but a power or liberty unto God of :prefcribing new Conditions ; and fume go fofar, as to fay , that this liber- ty was Inch only , at the Lord might , if he had pleated have appointed the old way of works againe , for the condition , So Paid Grevinchovius ag. Ame- f us. But iris true, they yeeld more, who grant , that he purchafed the New Covenant : Yet by this purchafe , they can not fay , that Chrift died to redeem us from our finnes from the wrath of God , from a vaine conver- íation , & to rave us : And indeed the fame perfon Taft named, faith expref- . ly that- Chrift died not properly'to fave any one. And what can elfe be faid by fuch,as make this the whole of what Chrifl did purchafe ? And how- ratio- nal is that confequence, which the fame perfon hath , when he faith it might fo have come to paffe, that Chrifl had had the end of his death , & that no one had fulfilled the new Covenant, & had been faved ; for they will not grant, that Chrift did purchafe faith. 3. Hence we fee , that fuch as fay , that this was all which Chrift procu- red by his Death & Merites, do manifeftly fpoile us of all the rich Benefi- tes , which Chrift hath purchafed , as being noimmedíat fruites of his death; filch as Faith, Juftífication , Adoption, San ftification Grace, & Glory , & thus evacuattthe whole vertue of the death of Chrift : And this do Mr. Allen's words p. 54. import while he faith , that all the benefites of the Covenant accrue to us upon our beleeving & obeying , upen his account d5' for his fake : and fo they do not accrue to us upon his account & for his fake irnmediatly ; but immediatly upon the account & for the fake ofour Beleeving& Obeying ; only for Chrift's fake is thisconnexion made. 4. Whoever afl'ert, that Chrifl bath purchafed the framing & Conftitu. tion of this Covenant, in its termes &conditions, ought to confirme this eheir afertion out of Scripture; & till this be done we area liberty to deny it, how confidently foeverit he affirmed. It is certane , that filch a prin- cipal point & ground article of our Religion would not be darkly expreffed in the Scriptures, far Iefs wholly paffed over in filence, as , for any thing that yet is made to appear, ii is :for aS for I. Cor. 1: 30. & jer. 23: 6. which Mr. Allen citeth,any may fee how impertinent they are, that we fay no more. 5. If
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