The Doctrine of Justification by Faith

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 ⟨p. 273⟩ever believed should be saved, it were possible that no one should be saved thereby; yea if he did no more, considering our state and condition, it was impossible that any one should so be.

3. All the Benefits of it were procured by him; that is, all the Grace, Mercy, Priviledges 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 ⟨p. 273⟩ever believed should be saved, it were possible that no one should be saved thereby; yea if he did no more, considering our state and condition, it was impossible that any one should so be.

To give the sum of these things, it is inquired with respect unto which of these considerations of the new Covenant, it is affirmed that it was procured by the Death of Christ. If it be said, that it is with respect unto the actual communication of all the Grace and Glory prepared in the Covenant, and proposed unto us in the Promises of it; it is most true. All the Grace and Glory promised in the Covenant was purchased for the Church by Jesus Christ. In this sense by his Death he procured the new Covenant. This the whole Scripture from the Beginning of it in the first Promise unto the end of it, doth bear witness unto. For it is in him alone that God blesseth us with all spiritual Blessings in Heavenly things. Let all the good things that are mentioned or promised in the Covenant expressly, or by just consequence, be summed up, and it will be no hard matter to demonstrate concerning them all, and that both jointly and severally, that they were all procured for us by the Obedience and Death of Christ.