: Reafon ~: ; Faith beR an• • fw~rs Gods · Covenant.. mifes) otherwifc it could never have beene · fure. uf d. am brake it;furely, ifhe brake it, · it, we tJJOuld have broken it, if it had bin any · other way but by faith: And theref0rewe fee . what the Apofile faith, Galat. 3. 2 r.Is the Law then againjl Jhe promife of Go D ~ G o ·n· foFhid:For if there had&eeneaLawgiven thal couldha'vegiven life,forely righteott(ne(Je had heene h.y the Law : If '..Adam had ftood,.and had kept the Law; and if men, could have entred into Covenant, and have kept it, Chrifl hdld beene fpared) the Covenant of Grace had beene [pared; ifrighteou£1efic had beene by the Law, there had needed no ~eJ!i~th, there had needed no Covenant, of Grace; ;, and therefore) through the injrmitieofthejlejh, (Adams flefh, that would not keepe the Law,. and ours., that is not able to keepe it) there · wa~no other way tomakem.ankin<le partaker· ofthe CovenamofGracc,butoneiybyFaith,. by heleevingGod, and·by taking the promife, and the gift of Righteoufneffe, through Iefm · Chrijl: foritcouJd neverelfe in Iik liho.C?d have beeneJure to tkefeede. This is theway ro make it fure,when there is no more but an acceptati- · on required~and not exact obedi·ence to the CQmmandement. · Thirdly., it is by Faith: .Becaufe nothing elfe can anfwenhe Covenant,but Faith: You· fee, the Covenant is not a Commandement, Doethis Andlivt; but the Covenant is apro.– mife, Iwill give thee, it runnes aU upon prom.ifes, '. . I
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