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

Show how faith is made possible by Christs death, when it is not purchased to the reprobate by Christs death, it is not surely made physically possible by Christs death, if it be said that it is made possible morally, rationally, and objectively to them, because there cannot be an offer of life made to Reprobates and to all, upon condition of faith, except Christ have died for the Reprobate, that is denied, and never proven: If one should come (say they) to the Antipodes or to such as never heard of Christ and Preach the Gospel, he should not, before he Preach, look for any new establishing of the conditional Covenant (who ever believes in Christ shall be justified and saved) but should take it as granted, it was made with them before; therefore by Christs death the Gospel of it self is Preachable and may be Preached to all Nations, ⟨p. 242⟩quovis seculo, in any age, as it was to Job. Ans. If any come to the Antipodes and any Nation that never heard of Christ, having the gift of Tongues, and Preach to such, or by his own industry acquire the gift of such Tongues,¹ and by the strong hand of providence Preach the conditional Covenant, these providences should be a command, and the setting up of a shining torch there should prove these people (as to the elect among them) in Gods mind were a Covenanted people no less then the Church of Samaria. And there were no need to expect a new establishing of the conditional Gospel-Covenant: But how is that proven to be from this, because God sent his Son to die for all and every one of these Antipodes, and made the Gospel-Covenant with all and every one of them before: the Authors shall be ebb of Scripture here. And if these Antipodes should, all and every one, refuse the Gospel and kill the Preacher, and never one either receive the Gospel, or propagate to any that may receive it; Then such an Apostolic mission is not in Scripture, and the lawfulness of that mans call to me is to be questioned: and I should judge, his own Spirit, not God sent him. Nor is this true, that the Gospel is and was Preachable, and of it self, may be preached to any age. Job lived before the giving of the Law, and Melchizedek, and they had the call of God to Preach to them to whom they Preached.² 2.

Show how faith is made possible by Christs death, when it is not purchased to the reprobate by Christs death, it is not surely made physically possible by Christs death, if it be said that it is made possible morally, rationally, and objectively to them, because there cannot be an offer of life made to Reprobates and to all, upon condition of faith, except Christ have died for the Reprobate, that is denyed, and never proven: If one should come (say they) to the Antipods or to such as never heard of Christ and Preach the Gospel, he should not, before he Preach, look for any new establishing of the conditionall Covenant (who ever beleeves in Christ shall be justified and saved) but should take it as granted, it was made with them before; therefore by Christs death the Gospel of it self is Preachable and may be Preached to all Nations,