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This Covenant is either expressed without condition, or else such a condition as he will give us power to perform, or else such a condition as Christ will perform for us, therefore cannot be broken.

This Covenant is either exprest without condition, or else such a condition as he will give us power to perform, or else such a condition as Christ will perform for us, therefore cannot be broken.

Obj. Is it possible that any Covenant should be without condition? Is it not the nature of a Covenant, to have a condition on both parts?

A. It sometimes requires none, as Gen. 9. to 17. the Covenant God made with Noah, he made a Covenant never again to destroy the whole World by a flood, and yet there is no condition expressed on mans part, but all the world knows, that whatsoever the lives of men be, be their sins never so great, even as the sins of the Land, yet God will keep this Covenant with them, and not destroy the World by waters any more; now this Covenant of Grace is likened to the Covenant he made with Noah, that as that Covenant was without all conditions, so the Covenant of Grace that God makes with us, is absolute without condition, so that he will remember us with everlasting mercy, Isa. 54.8, 9, 10. so that whosoever have made a Covenant with God to cleave to him in Christ, he will never cast them off, no more than he will drown the world.