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

2. But faith as lively and sincere is the condition of the Covenant, the nature and essence of this faith is to continue to the end, but continuance to the end is an accident all condition of this only essential condition of the Covenant, faith quae, which endures to the end, but not quâ aut quatenus, as it endures to the end is that which saves us and justifies us as the condition of the Covenant. 1. Faith as lively units us to Christ and justifies whether it be come to the full perfection or not. Otherwise 1. no man should be ingrafted in Christ as br•nches in the Vine Tree, no man partakers of the Divine nature, no man quickened, but he that dies in final believing: Whereas, Joh. 5.24. he that believeth before his final continuance to the end, [Greek or Hebrew],¹ hath passed from death to life and shall never come to condemnation. And in this is the difference of the condition of the Covenant of Works, that Adam had no right to life by one or two the most sincere acts and highest in measure, except he continue, [Greek or Hebrew] (as the Law saith, Deut. 26.27. Gal. 3.10.) to the end, otherwise at the first act of ⟨p. 202⟩obedience perfect in degrees and parts, God behoved by Covenant (except the Lord should break the first Covenant himself, before man sin, which is blasphemous) to have given him confirming grace and the reward of life; but the condition of the Covenant of Grace is that, He that believes, Joh. 3.36. [Greek or Hebrew], is not condemned, yea is freed from all condemnation, Rom. 8.1. and [Greek or Hebrew] hath life being really united as the member to the head, as the branch to the tree, mystically, as the wife to the husband, legally, as the debtor and the surety becomes one person in Law, the sum one and not two. 1 Joh. 5.11. And this is the witness that [Greek or Hebrew] he hath given us life eternal, and this is in the Son 12. He that hath the Son hath life: He that believeth hath the Son dwelling in his heart by faith,