The fountain opened, or, The great gospel privilege of having Christ exhibited to sinful…The fountain opened, or, The great gospel priviledge of having Christ exhibited to sinfull…

2. The Covenant of Works, and the Sanctions of it. That there was such a Covenant plighted with man, the Word of God gives us sufficient intimations of: and as it was requisite that man should be a cause by Counsel of his own actions, or else he could not have, ⟨p. 74⟩been treated with in the way of a Cove••• which supposeth a mutual stipulation between the persons Covenanting; so the works •• quired of him in that Covenant, could […] have been performed by him according to the tenor of it, without the moral rectitude of […] nature, which we have taken notice of. No• in this Covenant there are considerable […] Sanctions of it, but for which man could no• have been happy or miserable according to […] and his carriage of himself towards it. Go• therefore, besides a Rule which he gave […] man di••cting him how he might serve hi• aright, annexed a promise of life in case […] Obedience full, and perfect, and threatened him with death i• •e should transgress the precept; which is intimated in that, Gen. • 17. In the day that thou eatest thereof thou sha•• surely die; and thus man, under the first Covenant, stood a probationer for life or death according as he should behave himself.

2. The Covenant of Works, and the Sanctions of it. That there was such a Covenant plighted with man, the Word of God gives us sufficient intimations of: and as it was requisite that man should be a cause by Counsel of his own actions, or else he could not have, ⟨p. 74⟩been treated with in the way of a Cove••• which supposeth a mutual ••ipulation betwee the persons Covenanting; so the works quired of him in that Covenant, could have been performed by him according to the tenour of it, without the moral rectitude of nature, which we have taken notice of. No in this Covenant there are considerable Sanctions of it, but for which man could no have been happy or miserable according to and his carriage of himself towards it. Go therefore, besides a Rule which he gave man dicting him how he might serve hi aright, annexed a promise of life in case Obedience full, and perfect, and threatne him with death i e should transgress the precept; which is intimated in that, Gen. 17. In the day that thou eatest thereof thou sha surely dy; and thus man, under the first Covenant, stood a probaioner for life or death according as he should behave himself.