The covenant of life opened, or, A treatise of the covenant of grace

Obj. But final unbelief as against God Redeemer and so considered is the only breach of the Covenant of Grace: He that believes not is condemned, as the man that rejects the only remedy of sin.

Obj. But finall unbeleef as against God Redeemer and so considered is the only breach of the Covenant of Grace: He that beleeves not is condemned, as the man that rejects the only remedie of sin.

Ans. The only breach of the Covenant of Grace, is too narrow to be the adequate cause of damnation, for many Pagans who never heard of Christ and are under no Covenant,¹ but that of Works, are condemned not for not believing in him of whom they never heard, Rom. 10.14. nor for breach of the Covenant of Grace, but for breach of the Covenant of Works. 2. Unbelief may be called the nearest cause of damnation to such as […] within the Visible Church, as the wilful refusing of medicine which only and infallibly would heal the sick man of such a disease, is the cause of his death, but is the Moral cause. For the disease it self is the Physical cause, or the material cause of the mans death. And without doubt, uncleanness, covetousness, sorcery, lying, idolatry, &c. and many the like sins, beside unbelief, are, 1 Cor. 6.9. Eph. 5.5, 6. Rev. 21.8. Rev. 22.15. Jud. 6.7, 8. 2 Pet. 2.17.10, 11, 12, 13, 2 Thes. 2.9, 10.