A practical exposition of the X. Commandments with a resolution of several momentous questions…A practical exposition of the X. Commandements with a resolution of several momentous questions…

3dly When the Conclusion is drawn, Therefore I shall be saved, the Sacrament doth not confirm that simply to us, more than it did to Adam (who afterward brake the Covenant of Works, and so attained not the thing Promised) but it sealeth it conditionally. If thou Believe, thou shalt be saved, and so the Assumption must be made out by the search of the conscience before the conclusion receive any confirmation by the Sacrament; yet by strengthening the major proposition; Such as Believe shall be saved; it strengtheneth the Conclusion also: for if that were not true, my having Faith, or flying to Christ were no great comfort; and so consequently it has influence on the Believers comfort in the Conclusion, as God's Oath and Seal did confirm the Promise made to Abraham, and also strengthened his Faith in believing it should be made out to him, Rom. 4.11.

Again, it is to be considered that the Sacrament Sealeth particularly, not only as it sayeth, All that Believe shall be saved, but also as it says, Thou, if thou wilt Believe, shalt be saved; and the seal is so appended to that conditional Offer, that the Covenant standeth not only sure in general to all Believers, but to Me particularly upon my closing with it, as if God were particularly singling me out to make the offer unto me, and to take my engagement, and to put the seal in my hand, by which Faith is more particularly helped and strengthened than by the Word alone; there is great use therefore of the Sacraments, in that thereby we get Faith quieted in the believing of this, that God will lay-by his Controversy, and keep his Covenant, and make forthcoming his Promises to those who fly for refuge to Jesus Christ, according to his Oath and Seal: Thus he sealeth the ⟨p. 90⟩Major Simply, the Minor Conditionally, but Particularly; Or we may suppose God speaking to us from the Covenant thus, He to whom I offer Christ, he may receive Him; and all that believe, and receive the Offer, shall obtain the Blessing offered: But I offer Christ to thee: therefore thou mayst and shouldst receive him; and if thou accept the Offer, thou shalt obtain the Blessing offered, and shalt be saved: Thus the Major and Minor are simply sealed, but the Conclusion conditionally: Or the Sacrament sealeth the Offer simply; but the Promise as it is applied to such a particular Person Conditionally, if he receive the Offer; so that none needeth to question God's Offer, nor Christs Performance on our Acceptation. And thus the Sacraments may be called Testimonies, of Gods Grace to us, because particularly they seal that Offer of his Grace unto us, namely Christ, and Salvation by him, and his being content to give Him upon condition of our believing.