Christs eternal existence, and the dignity of his person asserted and proved in opposition…

2. The grant of the New Covenant which is therefore called the Covenant of his peace, Isa. 54.10. The Covenant of my peace shall not be removed, Ezek. 37.26. I will make a Covenant of peace with them, it is so called not only because thereby this peace and Reconciliation is offered to us, but the terms are stated and the conditions required are ⟨p. 235⟩far more equitable, gracious, and commodious for us then the terms of the Law Covenant: Man as a sinful creature is obnoxious […] Gods wrath for the violation of the Law of nature, and so might perish without remedy, and no impeachment to Gods goodness can happen thereby, but when God will give bounds to his sovereignty over him▪ and c•ter into terms of Covenant wit• him, and give him a bottom to stand upon, whereon to expect good things from him, upon the account of his faithfulness and righteousness; this is a condescension, and so far condescended in the first Covenant, that after that man hath cast away the mercies of his creation, and his capacity to fulfil that covenant, this was mere mercy and grace; that God would enter into a second Covenant, it is not from any mutableness in God, but from the merit and satisfaction of a Redeemer. Surely there must be some great and important cause to change, alter and abrogate, a covenant so solemnly made and established, to lay aside one covenant and to enter into an other, especially since the former was so Holy, Righteous and Equal, fit for God to give, and us in the state we then were in to receive. Now what was the important reason; Christ came to salve Gods honour ⟨p. 236⟩in the first covenant, and to secure the ends of his Government, though a second covenant should be set up, the blood of his cross hath made this Covenant everlasting, Heb. 13.20. and upon gracious terms doth convey great and precious privileges to us.