A practical commentary, or an exposition with observations, reasons, and uses upon the first…A practicall commentary, or an exposition with observations, reasons, and vses upon the first…

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.

2 Though he do require a condition, yet it […] such as he himself will perform, so that I shall never forfeit his Covenant, Jer. 32.40. God will never depart from them, I but we may depart from him; no, God will put his fear in our hearts, that we shall not depart from him, so that though God requires faith, and repentance, and obedience, yet he gives it to us, or else we have Christ as a Surety, that hath fulfilled all righteousness for us, Heb. 7.22. if therefore I, or my Surety pay, as he hath done here, no breach of Covenant can be made on our part, because Christ hath fulfilled all righteousness; so that though we be unfaithful and disobedient, yet Christ hath undertook for us.

2 Though he do require a condition, yet it 〈…〉 such as he himself will perform, so that I shall never forfeit his Covenant,