NE VV' G 0 V EN ANT. him offer his fonne, he did it: Was not that · an exceedinggreat worke ':' Saith the Apofile there: So fay I, no wonder that it is by Faith, that the Lord requires no more but to be– leeve: For when a man beleeves, workes witi– follow, it will breede holineffe of life ;let h.im beleeve God to be an exceeding great re- · ward, that he is a Sunne and a Shield,he wi11 follow God wherefoevcr he Ieades him; Let h.im belecve the promife of God, when he defcribes himfelfe, he mull: needes have a good opinion of him, and love him, and be exceeding fruitfull in good workes, and obe– dience to him ; therefore that is one reafon for it. . Afecond reafon ofit is, becaufe itcouldnot be 'done by obedience to the' Law, it was impoffible to have made the fonnes ofmen partakers .of the Covenant that way : Forifit could have bin done by the Law, and by the Commandement, it fhould have beene; but the . Lord tryed that in Adam, hee gave Adam a Commandement, and abilit!e to keepe it(for hemade him p0rfedly righteous and innocent) yet Adam did not keepe it• Re-tf. z~ Nothing but Faith could be the condjtion ofthe Cove· oant. . Put the cafe that God fhould have tryed him the fecond time,and ·have given him a Corn mandement againe, and not have required the Condition of Faith, but of obedience, h~ would have broken ir, as he did before ; and therefore it could not be by the Law: Therefore it muft needes he by Faith, and theproi Dd 3 mifes l ------------------~-~ ----~--------=---~ •
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