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

Obj. Then in all threatenings and promises we are not to believe, that though we sin, we shall actually & quoad eventum die, and though we obey and believe, we are not to believe that GOD shall fulfil his promise, and that our salvation shall come to pass, only we are to believe jure, that we deserve to die, and that we shall have eternal life, jure promissionis, but not actually and according to the event. Answ. Something is to be said of the threatenings, then of the promises: As▪ touching the sense, we are to believe. In the threatenings conditional as (yet forty days and Nineveh shall be destroyed) and (in that day thou eats thou shalt surely die, in thy person and all thine the first and second death) we are not to believe the event, nor is it carnal security, not to believe such an event,¹ we are only to have a godly fear and to tremble, at the dreadful deserving of such threatenings legal, as alway are to be exponed and believed by all within the Visible Church, with an Evangelic exception of repentance. If therefore Adam did believe that he and all his should in their own persons actually suffer the first and second death, and that irrecoverably, he had no warrant, for any such belief, and the like may be said of Nineveh. For when the Lord said, in the day that thou eats thou shalt die, the first and second death, thou and all thy children personally; His meaning was, except I provide an Evangelic remedy and a Saviour. Godly fear trembles more at the darkening of the glory of the Lord in a broken Law, then at the event of inflicted wrath, were it even Hells fire.

Obj. Then in all threatnings and promises we are not to believe, that though we sin, we shall actually & quoad eventum die, and though we obey and beleeve, wee are not to beleeve that GOD shall fulfill his promise, and that our salvation shall come to passe, only we are to believe jure, that we deserve to die, and that we shall have eternall life, jure promissionis, but not actually and according to the event. Answ. Something is to be said of the threatnings, then of the promises: As▪ touching the sense, we are to beleeve. In the threatnings conditionall as (yet fourty days and Nineveh shall be destroyed) and (in that day thou eats thou shalt surely die, in thy person and all thine the first and second death) we are not to believe the event, nor is it carnall security, not to beleeve such an event,