The Scripture Gospel defended, and Christ, grace, and free justification vindicated against the libertines…

It was not said to Christ, but by Christ, [Repent ⟨p. 77⟩and believe in Christ, or be damned.] Pardon and Salvation are not offered to Christ to be received by Faith in himself. Yet as the Laws of the Land though several, are One Instrumentum Regiminis: So we call all the Laws of Nature usually singularly. The Law of Nature, (and so we say, The Civil Law, the Canon Law, Gods Law, &c.) Now the question is, what Covenant Christ was the Sponsor of? 1. In his own proper Covenant he did Spondere & praestare, to suffer for us, and to obey for us, (in the just sense in due place explained,) to rise and ascend for us, to intercede for us, to Teach us, Guide us, give out his Spirit, and to Justify and Sanctify and Glorify his chosen: So that it was part of his Undertaking and Performance to do all this for us; and this may well be called his becoming a Sponsor for us, and to be made to us, Wisdom, Righteousness, Sanctification and Redemption.

It was not said to Christ, but by Christ, [Repent ⟨p. 77⟩and believe in Christ, or be damned.] Pardon and Salvation are not offered to Christ to be received by Faith in himself. Yet as the Laws of the Land though several, are One Instrumentum Regiminis: So we call all the Laws of Nature usually singularly. The Law of Nature, (and so we say, The Civil Law, the Canon Law, Gods Law, &c.) Now the question is, what Covenant Christ was the Sponsor of? 1. In his own proper Covenant he did Spondere & praestare, to suffer for us, and to obey for us, (in the just sence in due place explained,) to rise and ascend for us, to intercede for us, to Teach us, Guide us, give out his Spirit, and to Justifie and Sanctifie and Glorifie his chosen: So that it was part of his Undertaking and Performance to do all this for us; and this may well be called his becoming a Sponsor for us, and to be made to us, Wisdom, Righteousness, Sanctification and Redemption.

In our Covenant with Christ, he is the Imposer and Stipulator, and we are to Promise for our part, to be done by his promised help. But on Gods part, it is in this that he is the Sponsor, and not in the former, where God the Father is the Promiser to Christ, and not Christ to himself as a Covenanter: So that it is in one Covenant that he promiseth to God for Man, and in another that he promiseth for God to Man: And the question is which of these Covenants it is that the Apostle calleth him the Surety of? If you say that the Apostle taketh both here as parts of One, and so meaneth both; I find no proof of this in the Text: And if it were so, it is all one; for it were then spoken of the whole, but respectively to what Christ did in the two which are the parts: Indeed it is [Greek or Hebrew], and not [Greek or Hebrew], that is the Covenant mentioned in the Text: and as Grotius in praesat. ad notas in N.T.