Looking unto Jesus a view of the everlasting gospel, or, the souls eying of…

But you will say, Is not the Filth of Sin done away, when Sin is remitted? I answer, The Filth of Sin is not done away by Remission, but by Sanctification and Renovation; and because in this Life we have not a perfect inherent Holiness, (Sanctification at best being but Imperfect, and wrought in us by degrees) therefore during this Life, there is something of the Filth of Sin, and especially of the Effects of Original Sin, sticking and still cleaving to us. But, here is our Comfort, and herein lies the sweet of the Promise, that when God hath pardoned Sin, He takes away the Guilt, as to Condemnation; He acquits the Sinner of that Obligation; He now looks upon him not as a Sinner, but as a Just Man; and so in this Sense He will forgive, and never more remember his Sin. Ah Christians! Take heed of their Doctrine, who would have Justification an Abolition of Sin in its real Essence, and Physical in-dwelling; let us rather say with Scripture, that all justified Saints must take down their Top-sail, and go to Heaven halting, and that they carry their Bolts and Fetters of in-dwelling sin through the Field of Free-Grace, even to the Gates of Glory: Christ daily Washing, and we daily Defiling, to the end that Grace may be Grace.

I have run through all the manifestations of the Covenant of Grace, as we have them discovered in the Old-Testament: And yet, that we may see the better how these things concern us, I shall only propound these Two Queries more, and then we have done.

1. Whether is the Covenant of Grace the same for Substance, in all Ages of the World? We answer, Yea: The Fathers before Christ had but one Covenant, and we another; but the same Covenant of Grace belongs to us both. This appears, in that first, they had the same Promise; secondly, they had it upon the same Grounds.

1. Whether is the Covenant of Grace the same for Substance, in all Ages of the World? We answer, Yea: The Fathers before Christ had but one Covenant, and we another; but the same Covenant of Grac belongs to us both. This appears, in that first, they had the same Promise; secondly, they had it upon the same Grounds.