The truly blessed man, or, The way to be happy here, and forever being…

2. That all men do not reach to be blessed, and there must be some reason for it. If all aspire after it, and lay themselves out for it, and yet but some are crowned with it, and others finally miss of it, they did not prosecute it alike, and hence that there is a bounded way to it; for it any way would do, why should any be frustrated in the ⟨p. 436⟩end? The Apostle tells us why the Jews, after so much labour, missed of obtaining, Rom. 9. 31, 32.

3. That blessedness is a reward promised in a Covenant. It was so to man in the First Covenant. Ro. 10 5. And it is so in the New Covenant, verse 9. And as God is the only Author of it, so he never offered it to any out of the way of a Covenant; and this infers a way to it; for,

1. A Covenant promise is a promise with a condition. Herein it differs from an absolute promise, for that is incondi•ionate. A Covenant promise is as binding as that which is absolute, only the obligation of one is single, and that of the other is mutual, and so dependent: See, Jam. 1. 19. Rom. 8. 13.

1. A Covenant promise is a promise with a condition. Herein it differs from an absolute promse, for that is incondi•ionate. A Covenant promise is as binding as that which is absolute, only the obligation of one is single, and that of the other is mutual, and so dependent: See,