A Body of Practical Divinity

1. The Form of the first Covenant in Innocency, was working; Do this and live. Working was the Ground and Condition of our Justification, Gal. 3.12. Not but that working is required in the Covenant of Grace: we are bid to work out salvation, and be rich in good works. But works in the Covenant of Grace are not required under the same Notion, as in the first Covenant with Adam. Works are not required to the Justification of our Persons, but as a Testification of our Love to God, not as a Cause of our Salvation, but as an Evidence of our Adoption. Works are required in the Covenant of Grace, not so much in our own strength, as in the strength of another. It is God which worketh in you, Phil. 2.13. As the Scrivener guides the Child's hand, and helps him to form his Letters, so that it is not so much the Child's writing, as the Scriveners that guides his hand; so not our working, as the Spirit's co-working.

1. The Form of the first Covenant in Innocency, was working; Do this and live. Working was the Ground and Condition of our Justification, Gal. 3.12. Not but that working is required in the Covenant of Grace: we are bid to work out salvation, and be rich in good works. But works in the Covenant of Grace are not required under the same Notion, as in the first Covenant with Adam. Works are not required to the Iustification of our Persons, but as a Testification of our Love to God, not as a Cause of our Salvation, but as an Evidence of our Adoption. Works are required in the Covenant of Grace, not so much in our own strength, as in the strength of another. It is God which worketh in you, Phil. 2.13. As the Scrivener guides the Child's hand, and helps him to form his Letters, so that it is not so much the Child's writing, as the Scriveners that guides his hand; so not our working, as the Spirit's co-working.