The life of faith in three parts, the first is a sermon on Heb.…

As the Promise to the Fathers that the Messiah should come, was absolute. God g•ve not a Saviour to the world, so as to suspend his coming on any thing to be done by man. The not drowning of the world, was an absolute Promise made to Noah: so was the calling of the Gentiles promised. But the Covenant of Promises sealed in Baptism, is conditional: and therefore both parties, God and man, are the Covenanters therein.

And in the Gospel the Promises of our first Justification and Adoption, and of our after pardon, and of our Justification at Judgement, and of our additional degrees of grace, and of our freedom from chastisements, have some difference in the conditions, though true Christianity be the main substance of them all. Mere Christianity, or true consent to the Covenant, is the condition of our first Justification. And the continuance of this, with actual sincere obedience, is the condition of non-omission, or of continuance of this state of Justification: And the use of prayer and other means, is a condition of our further reception of more grace. And perseverance in true holiness with faith, is the condition of our final Justification and Glorification (of which more anon.)

And in the Gospel the Promises of our first Justification and Adoption, and of our after pardon, and of our Justification at Judgement, and of our additional degrees of grace, and of our freedom from chastisements, have some difference in the conditions, though true Christianity be the main substance of them all. Meer Christianity, or true consent to the Covenant, is the condition of our first Justification. And the continuance of this, with actual sincere obedience, is the condition of non-omission, or of continuance of this state of J•stification: And the use of prayer and other means, is a condition of our further reception of more grace. And perseverance in true holiness with faith, is the condition of our final Justification and Glorification (of which more anon.)