The saints treasury being sundry sermons preached in London /

First, because of the breach of the first covenant that God made with mankind; for only men and Angels, the humane and angelical nature, are capable of a covenant with God, to speak of a covenant properly: and because they are capable of this way of Gods proceeding with them, God would go according to the nature of his creature; and therefore at first makes a covenant with them, and intended to convey ⟨p. 38⟩and communicate his goodness to them by that covenant; now this covenant being broken, and so there being a breach between God and man, there is a stoppage made by virtue of that breach: So that there is no good now to be had by virtue of the first covenant: and unless there be a second, there can be no good at all expected; the first being broken, and we being lost by that.

First, because of the breach of the first covenant that God made with mankinde; for onely men and Angels, the humane and angelical nature, are capable of a covenant with God, to speak of a covenant properly: and because they are capable of this way of Gods proceeding with them, God would goe according to the nature of his creature; and therefore at first makes a covenant with them, and intended to convey ⟨p. 38⟩and communicate his goodnesse to them by that convenant; now this covenant being broken, and so there being a breach between God and man, there is a stoppage made by vertue of that breach: So that there is no good now to be had by vertue of the first covenant: and unlessse there be a second, there can be no good at all expected; the first being broken, and we being lost by that.

And further, there is such an infinite distance between God and us, that there can be no coming together; and that not so much in regard of Gods excellency in himself, and our meanness, that we are such poor low creatures, as in regard of the infiniteness of his holiness, and our uncleanness and sinfulness, this makes the distance.