A treatise of Mr. Cottons clearing certain doubts concerning predestination together with an examination…A treatise of Mr. Cottons clearing certaine doubts concerning predestination together with an examination…

Because still the condition of the Covenant was the same in both, to reward them both according to their works. So is it still but the same Covenant of works which God makes with mankind, when he offereth them in Christ, greater grace and helps to keep it, then after the fall they could have attained unto without Christ, because still the condition of the Covenant runneth in the same tenor, to deal with them according to their works.

Because still the condition of the Covenant was the same in both, to reward them both according to their works. So is it still but the same Covenant of works which God makes with mankinde, when hee offereth them in Christ, greater grace and helps to keep it, then after the fall they could have attained unto without Christ, because still the condition of the Covenant runneth in the same tenour, to deal with them according to their works.

Neither do I conceive any danger in the point, though by this means obedience to Christ, and walking worthy of him, should be commanded in the Law, which is a covenant of works. For if the infidelity and disobedience of the men of this world to the Gospel of Christ be sin, then are they also transgressors of the Law, and then the contrary virtues are commanded in the Law.

Neither doe I conceive any danger in the point, though by this means obedience to Christ, and walking worthy of him, should bee commanded in the Law, which is a covenant of works. For if the infidelity and disobedience of the men of this world to the Gospel of Christ bee sin, then are they also transgressors of the Law, and then the contrary vertues are commanded in the Law.

Thirdly, the Ceremonies of the Old Testament, which were ⟨p. 261⟩