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§. 4 Secondly, The Law of Creation had a Covenant included in it, or inseparably annexed unto it. This also we have before declared, and what belonged thereunto, or ensued necessarily thereon. Thus therefore must it be also in the new Creation, and the Law thereof: Yea because the Covenant is that which as it were gathereth all things together, both in the Works and Law of God, and our Obedience, disposing them into that order which tendeth to the Glory of God, and the Blessedness of the Creatures in him; this is that which in both Creations is principally to be considered. For without this, no End of God in his Works, or Law, could be attained, nor man be made Blessed in a way of Righteousness and Goodness unto his Glory. And the Law of Creation no otherwise failed, nor became useless as to its first End by sin, but that the Covenant of it was thereby broken and rendered useless, as to the bringing of man unto the enjoyment of God. This therefore was principally regarded in the new Creation, namely the making, confirming, and ratifying of a new Covenant. And the doing hereof was the great promise under the Old Testament, Jerem. 31. 32. whereby the Believers who then lived, were made partakers of the benefits of it. And the confirming of this Covenant in and by Christ, is expressed as a part of the new Creation, Heb. 8. 9. and it is indeed comprehensive of the whole Work of it.

§. 4 Secondly, The Law of Creation had a Covenant included in it, or inseparably annexed unto it. This also we have before declared, and what belonged thereunto, or ensued necessarily thereon. Thus therefore must it be also in the new Creation, and the Law thereof: Yea because the Covenant is that which as it were gathereth all things together, both in the Works and Law of God, and our Obedience, disposing them into that order which tendeth to the Glory of God, and the Blessedness of the Creatures in him; this is that which in both Creations is principally to be considered. For without this, no End of God in his Works, or Law, could be attained, nor man be made Blessed in a way of Righteousness and Goodness unto his Glory. And the Law of Creation no otherwise failed, nor became useless as to its first End by sin, but that the Covenant of it was thereby broken and rendred useless, as to the bringing of man unto the enjoyment of God. This therefore was principally regarded in the new Creation, namely the making, confirming, and ratifying of a new Covenant. And the doing hereof was the great promise under the Old Testament,