2 64 The Nature of Chr fi's Suretifhip. ly neceffiry that the Grace and Glory prepared in the Cove- nant might be communicated unto us. Without this under- taking of his, and performance of it, the Righteoufnefs and Faithfulnefs of God would Rot permit, that ¡inners, fuch as had Apoflatized from him, de ¡piled his Authority and rebel- led again¡$ him, falling thereby under the fentence and curie of the Law, fhould again be received into his Favour, and made Partakers of Grace and Glory. This therefore the Lord ChrifI took upon himfelf, as the furety of the Co- venant. 2. That thofe who were to be taken into this Covenant fhould receive Grace enabling them to comply with the Terms of it, fulfill its Conditions, and yield the Obedience which God required therein. For by the Ordination of God, he was to procure, and did merit and procure for them the Holy Spirit, and all needful fupplies of Grace to make them new Creatures, and enable them to yield Obedience unto God from a new principle of fpiritual Life, and that faithfully unto the End. Scr was he theflinty of this better Teftament. But all things belonging hereunto will be handled at large in the place from whence as I faid thefe are taken, as fuitable unto our prefent occafion. But force have other notions of thefe things. For they fay, that Chri.s`l by his Death, and his Obedience therein, where- by he offered himfelf a facrifaee of Greet fmelling favour unto God, procured for us the New Covenant, or as one (peaks, all that we have by the Death of Chris`s k, that thereunto we owe the Covenant of Grace. For herein he did and fufered what God required and freely appointed him to do and fitter. Not that the 7uflice of God required any fuch thing with refecl unto theirfins for whom he died, and in whofe flead, or to beflead whom, he fured, but what by a fee Conflitution of Divine Wfdom and Soveraignty was appointed unto him. Hereon, God was pleaf cl to remit the Terms of the Old Covenant, and to enter
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