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

¹Q. 2. What was the special condition of the Covenant of Suretyship? Ans. The Covenant being a bargain of buying a people to God, then the payed price and ransom must be the duly formal condition. As for obedience to the Moral Law, it was the condition of the Covenant of Works, to which the Man Christ, as Man, was obliged, that he might have right to Law-justification and life eternal, jure & merito federally operum, by the Law and federal merit (I mean merit by paction and faithful Law-promise, not of condignitie) of the Covenant of Works, that he might be saved.

¹Q. 2. What was the speciall condition of the Covenant of Suretyship? Ans. The Covenant being a bargain of buying a people to God, then the payed price and ransone must be the duely formall condition. As for obedience to the Morall Law, it was the condition of the Covenant of Works, to which the Man Christ, as Man, was oblidged, that he might have right to Law-justification and life eternall, jure & merito foederali operum, by the Law and federall merite (I mean merite by paction and faithfull Law-promise, not of condignitie) of the Covenant of Works, that he might be saved.

1. 1The paying of the price of blood, and dying for man was the formal condition of the Covenant of suretyship.

¹But this Law-holiness had influence in that most solemn act of obedience in offering himself a sacrifice to death for our sins.

¹But this Law-holinesse had influence in that most solemn act of obedience in offering himself a sacrifice to death for our sins.

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