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Quest. Is Christ a Surety to God for us, or of us to God?

An. I answer; God on his part had no need of a Surety to undertake for him; he never failed nor broke at first with Man, it was Man that broke and failed in his Covenant with God. "But we on all Accounts (saith Dr. Owen)¹ stand in need of such a ⟨p. 208⟩Surety for us, or on our behalf: Neither without the interposition of such a Surety, (saith he) could any Covenant between God and us be firm and stable, or an Everlasting Covenant ordered in all things and sure."

1. 1Dr. Owen on Heb. 2. 22. p. 223.

4thly. Because this Covenant is made upon the unchangeable Decree and Counsel of God: My Covenant I will not break; nor alter ¹the thing that is gone out of my Mouth. If you can break my Covenant of the Day and Night, then may also my Covenant be broken with David. Now Christ and his Seed, his Elect, are but one Party in this Covenant; ²it was made with him, and with us in him, before the World began. See Paul; Who hath saved us, and called us with an holy Calling; not according to our Works, but according to his own Purpose and Grace, which was given us in Christ Jesus before the World began. It was made as firm to us in Christ who do believe, as it was made to him, and only made with him for us; to this End, even to secure Eternal Life for us, that we might not lose it: and it is as firm by the Decree and Counsel of God, as the Covenant of Day and Night. And thus it is of Grace alone; the Reason of which the Apostle gives us; Therefore it is of Faith, that it might be of