Caufis of the New Covenant. 271' veraignWifdom and Grace. God fo loved the world as to fend his only begotten Son to dye, not that Faith and Repen- tance might be the means of Salvation, but that all his Elect might believe, and that all that believe might not perifb, but have Life Everlafling. But yet it is granted that the ConJli tution of thefe Terms of the Covenant doth refpe& the foederal TranfaCtion between the Father and the Son, wherein they were ordered to the praife of the Glory of Gods Grace and fo although their conflitution was not the procurement of his Death, yet without refpe& unto it, it had not been. Wherefore the file carafe of Gods malting the New Covenant, was the fame with that of giving Chrif hirnfel f to be our Me- diator, namely, the Pnrpefe, Counfel, Goodnef, Grace and Love of God, as it is every where expreflëd in the Scri- pture. 4thly, The Covenant may be confidered as unto the aalnal Application of the Grace, Benefit and Priviledges of it unto any perfons, whereby they are made real partakers of them, or are taken into Covenant with God. And this alone in the Scripture is intended by Gods making a Covenant with any. It is not a general Revelation, or Declaration of the Terms and Nature of the Covenant ( which fome call an univerfal conditional Covenant, on what Grounds they know bet , -Being the very formal nature of making a Covenant with any, includes the a &ual Acceptation of it, and Parti- cipation of the Benefits of it by them) but a Communica- tion of the Grace of it, accompanied with a prefcription of Obedience, that is Gods making his Covenant with any, , as all Inflances of it in the Scripture do declare. It may be therefore enquired, what refieît the Covenant of Grace bath unto the Death of Chr, or what Influence it . bath.. thereunto. I anfwer, fuppofing what is fpoken of his being a f«rety thereof; it hath a threefold refpe& thereunto.: Iäln:,
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