Of Communion with God the Father, Son, and Holy Ghost

7. Being thus acquitted in the Covenant of the Mediator, (whence they are said to be circumcised with him, to dye with §. 18 him, to be buried with him, to rise with him, to sit with him in heavenly places, namely in the Covenant of the Mediator,) and it being Righteous, that they should be acquitted Personally in the Covenant of Grace, it was determined by Father, Son, and Holy-Ghost, that the way of their Actual Personal deliverance from the sentence and curse of the Law, should be in and by such a way and dispensation, as might lead to the praise of the Glorious Grace of God, Ehpes. 1. 5, 6, 7. The Appointment of God is that we shall have the Adoption of Children. The means of it is by Jesus Christ: the peculiar way of bringing it about, is by the Redemption that is in his blood, the end is the praise of his glorious Grace. And thence it is, that

7. Being thus acquitted in the Covenant of the Mediatour, (whence they are said to be circumcised with him, to dye with §. 18 him, to be buried with him, to rise with him, to sit with him in heavenly places, namely in the Covenant of the Mediatour,) and it being Righteous, that they should be acquitted Personally in the Covenant of Grace, it was determined by Father, Sonne, and Holy-Ghost, that the way of their Actuall Personall deliverance from the sentence and curse of the Law, should be in and by such a way and dispensation, as might lead to the praise of the Glorious Grace of God, Ehpes. 1. 5, 6, 7. The Appointment of God is that we shall have the Adoption of Children. The meanes of it is by Jesus Christ: the peculiar way of bringing it about, is by the Redemption that is in his blood, the end is the praise of his glorious Grace. And thence it is, that

8. Until the full time of their Actual deliverance, determined ¹and appointed to them in their several generations, be accomplished, they are Personally under the curse of the Law, and on that account are Legally obnoxious to the wrath of God, from which they shall certainly be delivered. I say, they are thus personally obnoxious to the Law and the Curse thereof, but not at all with its primitive intention of execution upon them, but as it is a means appointed to help forward their acquaintance with Christ and acceptance with God, on his account; when this is accomplished, that whole obligation ceases; being continued on them in a design of Love; their last condition being such, as that they cannot without it, be brought to a participation of Christ, to the praise of the Glorious Grace of God.