An Alarm to Unconverted Sinners

4. The Terms of mercy are brought as low, as possible, to you. God hath stooped as low to sinners ⟨p. 196⟩as with honour he can. He will not be thought a fautor of sin, nor stain the glory of his holiness: and whither could he come, lower than he hath, unless he should do this? He hath abated the impossible terms of the first Covenant. Jer. 3. 13. Mark 5. 36. Acts 16. 31. Acts 3. 19. Prov. 28. 13. He doth not impose any thing unreasonable, or impossible, as a condition of life upon you. Two things were necessary to be done, according to the tenor of the first Covenant by you. 1. That you should fully satisfy the demands of Justice, for past offences. 2. That you should perform personally, perfectly, and perpetually the whole law for the time to come. Both these are, to us, impossible. Rom. 8. 3. But behold Gods gracious abatement in both. He doth not stand upon satisfaction: he is content to take of the surety (and he of his own providing too) what he might have exacted from you. 2 Cor. 5. 19. He declares himself to have received a ransom, Job 33. 24. 1 Tim. 2. 6. and that he expects nothing, but that you should accept his son, and he shall be righteousness and redemption to you. John 1. 12. 1 Cor. 1. 30. And for the future obedience, here he is content to yield to your weakness, and to remit the rigour. He doth not stand upon perfection (as a condition of life, though he still insists upon it as due,) but is content to accept of sincerity.