I. Scripture-light the most sure light ... delivered in three sermons on 2 Pet.…

Object. But our Lord and Saviour Christ did die conditionally, and merited the blessings of the New Covenant conditionally, to be given out upon condition of Faith and Repentance, which are the Condition of the New Covenant; and therefore though men do not obtain all the blessings of the Covenant, yet Christ shall not lose his Ends, nor the thing purchased by his Death; because if men do not perform the Condition, he never did intend they should have the blessing, or the thing purchased.

Object. But our Lord and Savior Christ did die conditionally, and merited the blessings of the New Covenant conditionally, to be given out upon condition of Faith and Repentance, which are the Condition of the New Covenant; and therefore though men do not obtain all the blessings of the C•venant, yet Christ shal not lose his Ends, nor the thing purchased by his Death; because if men do not perform the Condition, he never did intend they should have the blessing, or the thing purcha•ed.

Answ. But did Christ merit Grace and Holiness conditionally? the Question now is: not about Salvation, or Justification; but about our Sanctification. If you speak of our Salvation in remission of Sin, you speak not to the matter in hand; and if you speak of our Sanctification, what Condition can be performed before that? 1. And if Christ did merit, and intend that our Holiness, and Sanctification should be bestowed on us, upon condition of Faith and Repentance; then a man may repent and believe▪ before he be Sanctified, and before he have any true saving Grace and Holiness. 2. No Condition can be performed before Grace and Holiness, but a work of Nature; and hath Christ merited that Grace shall be bestowed upon a work of Nature? the Apostle speaks directly contrary, 2 Tim. 1.9. Who hath saved us, and called us with an holy calling, not according to our Works, but according to his own purpose and Grace. And 3. If Christs Merits were thus conditional; then the Will of God the Father must be also conditional, for there is a correspondency between the Merits of Christ, and the Will of the Father; the Father wills that to us, which the Son hath merited for us; and as the Son merited, so doth the Father will the bestowing of the blessing: but the Father doth not will our Grace, Holiness, and Sanctification upon condition; for the Maintainers of that Doctrine of Universal Redemption, say, That Gods secret Will, and his revealed Will, are one and the same, nothing different; if therefore, God doth will our Sanctification, and Holiness, upon Condition, then, when he commands us to believe, repent, and obey, his Commandment