The display of glorious grace, or, The covenant of peace opened in fourteen sermons…

Answ. Had God only entered into Covenant with Christ, as a single Person and for himself, there had been no need of a surety; but since he entered into that Covenant as a public person, and that for broken and fallen ⟨p. 214⟩mankind, whom God regarded not, their Credit being for ever gone; there was a necessity of Christ's suretyship in that said Covenant, in respect had to those things, which Christ was to do for us, and also work in us; which he then engaged to the Father to perform, and if the Covenant of Redemption from Sin and Wrath was not confirmed by the Blood of that Covenant, one grand part of our safety and security is gone for ever.

Answ. Had God only entred into Covenant with Christ, as a single Person and for himself, there had been no need of a surety; but since he entred into that Covenant as a publick person, and that for broken and fallen ⟨p. 214⟩mankind, whom God regarded not, their Credit being for ever gone; there was a necessity of Christ's suretyship in that said Covenant, in respect had to those things, which Christ was to do for us, and also work in us; which he then engaged to the Father to perform, and if the Covenant of Redemption from Sin and Wrath was not confirmed by the Blood of that Covenant, one grand part of our safety and security is gone for ever.

My Brethren, Our Lord Jesus Christ when he first entered into the Covenant with the Father,¹ agreed to be the Mediator and Surety thereof; also evident it is, that there are some Transactions where suretyship is required, which a Surety must undertake to do, and readily agree unto; even all such things which the Creditor requires and the nature of the Covenant calls for: So that there are some things that peculiarly belong to him as surety, even so and in like manner it was here about the complete accomplishment of the Covenant of Grace entered into between the Father and the Son in behalf of the Elect. Yet all the good we receive through the applicatory part of the said Covenant, are but the effects, fruits or product of the same Covenant as it was made with Christ for us, as our Surety—Also among Men those things and Covenant Transactions betwixt the Creditor and the Surety which peculiarly appertain to him to perform and answer (though the poor debtor nevertheless is mainly concerned therein) they being such things that must be performed