The Doctrine of Justification by Faith

1. In that the Covenant, as the Grace and Glory of it were prepared in the Counsel of God, as the Terms of it, was fixed in the Covenant of the Mediator, and as it was declared in the Promise, was confirmed, ratified, and made irrevocable thereby. This our Apostle insists upon at large, Heb. 9.15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20. And he compares his Blood in his Death and Sacrifice of himself, unto the Sacrifices and their Blood whereby the Old Covenant was confirmed, purified, dedicated or established, ver. 18, 19. Now these Sacrifices did not procure that Covenant, or prevail with God to enter into it; but only ratified and confirmed it; and this was done in the New Covenant by the Blood of Christ.

2. He thereby underwent and performed all that which in the Righteousness and Wisdom of God was required, that the Effects, Fruits, Benefits and Grace, intended, designed, and prepared in the New Covenant might be effectually accomplished, and communicated unto sinners. Hence although he procured not the Covenant for us by his death, yet he was in his Person, Mediation, Life and Death, the only cause and means whereby the whole Grace of the Covenant is made effectual unto us. For,

3. All the Benefits of it were procured by him; that is, all the Grace, Mercy, Privileges and Glory that God hath prepared in the Counsel of his Will, that were fixed as unto the way of this communication in the Covenant of the Mediator, and proposed in the Promises of it, are purchased, merited, and procured by his Death; and effectually communicated or applied unto all the Covenanters by virtue thereof, with others of his Mediatory Acts. And this is much more an eminent procuring of the New Covenant, than what is pretended about the procurement of its Terms and Conditions. For if he should have procured no more but this, if we owe this only unto his Mediation, that God would thereon, or did grant and establish this Rule, Law, and Promise, that whoever