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Indeed the Law and obedience are Correlatives. But in this case we are not to look to the Law as merely mandatory; we gave you the sense of the word, and how it is used as a covenant of grace? remember only this; the Law is considered either more strictly, as it is an abstracted rule of righteousness, holding forth life upon no other terms but perfect obedience; or more largely, as that whole doctrine delivered on Mount Sinai, with the ⟨p. 75⟩preface and promises adjoined: in the former sense it is a Covenant of works? but in the latter sense it is a covenant of grace. — And yet I dare not say, that as the Law is a covenant of grace, it doth exclude obedience. In some sort obedience as well as faith may be said to be a condition of the covenant of grace; I shall give you my thoughts in this distinction, obedience to all Gods commandments, is either considerable as a cause of life, or as a qualification of the subject; in the former sense it cannot be a condition of the covenant of grace, but in the latter sense it may, if by condition we understand whatsoever is required on our part, as precedent concomitant, or subsequent to the Covenant of grace, repentance, faith, and obedience are all conditions; but if by Condition we understand whatsoever is required on our part as the cause of the good promised, though only instrumental, why then faith, or belief in the promises of the covenant is the only condition: faith and obedience are opposed in the matter of justification and salvation in the Covenant, not that they cannot stand together in one subject, for they are inseparable united; but because they cannot concur and meet together in one court, as the cause of justification or salvation. Now when we speak of the condition of the Covenant of grace, we intend such a condition as is among the number of true causes; indeed in the Covenant of works, obedience is required as the cause of life; but in the Covenant of grace, though obedience must accompany faith, yet not obedience, but only faith is the cause of life contained in the Covenant.

Indeed the Law and obedience are Correlatives. But in this case we are not to look to the Law as meerly mandatory; we gave you the sence of the word, and how it is used as a covenant of grace? remember only this; the Law is considered either more strictly, as it is an abstracted rule of righteousness, holding forth life upon no other terms but perfect obedience; or more largely, as that whole doctrine delivered on Mount Sinai, with the ⟨p. 75⟩