3 98 The nature of yuf1ícation proved whir ft this is fo, as was before obferved, the Covenant is flill the fame ; however the Difpenfation of it may be re- formed or reduced, to fuit unto our prefent [tate and condi- tion. What Grace foever might be introduced into it, that could not be fo, which excluded all Works from being the caufeof our Juftification. But if a new Covenant be made, fuch Grace mutt be provided as is abfolutely inconíiaent with any Works of ours, as unto the firft ends of the Cove- nant, as the Apoftle declares. Rom.r r. 6. S. Wherefore the Covenant of Grace, fuppofing it a new, real, abfolute Covenant, and not a Reformation of the Dif. penfation of the old, or a Reduâion of it unto the ufe of our prefent condition (as föme imagine it to be) mutt differ in the E nce, sub, fiance, and Nature of it from that firft Covenant of Works. And this it cannot do, if we are to be juftified before God on our Perfonal obedience, wherein the effence of the firft Covenant confided. If then the Righte- oufnefs wherewith we are juttified before God, be our own, our own Perfonal Righteoufnefs 3 we are yet under the firft Covenant, and no other. 6. But things in the new Covenant are indeed quite other - wife. For (t.) it is of Grace, which wholly excludes Works ; that is, fo of Grace, as that our own works are not the means of Juftification before God ; as in the places be- fore alledged. (2.) It hath a Mediator and Surety, which is built alone on this Suppofition, That what we cannot do in our felves which was originally required of us, and what the Law of the firft Covenant cannot finable us to perform, that tliould be performed for us, by our Mediator and Sure- ty. And if this be not included in the very firfl notion of a Mediator and Surety, yet it is in that of a Mediator or Sure- ty that doth voluntarily interpole himfelf upon an open ac- knowledgment, that thole for whom he undertakes, were utterly iufitf icient to perform what was required of them; on
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