A treatise of the covenant of grace, as it is dispensed to the elect…

1. That God doth give himself, the Father, the Son, and the Holy Ghost; the whole Nature of God, and all the Persons of the Godhead, with all the Attributes of that Nature, and all the Offices of those Persons: For it is not a confused God, that vanisheth away in a general ⟨p. 7⟩imagination, but God distinctly considered in his Persons, Attributes, Properties, &c. thus the Lord giveth himself to Abraham and to his seed: I will be a Father unto you, 2 Cor. 6.28. and that is not spoken to the Jews only, but unto all the Israel of God: He giveth the Son also, Isa. 9.6. Unto us a Son is born, &c. and God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son: Joh. 3.16. And for the Holy Spirit, This is my Covenant with them, ¹saith the Lord, (Isa. 59.21.) My Spirit that is upon thee, and my words that I have put into thy mouth, shall not depart out of thy mouth, nor out of the mouth of thy seed, nor out of the mouth of thy seeds seed from henceforth, and for ever: and this is it which the Apostle also saith, Gal. 4.6. God hath sent forth the Spirit of his Son into your hearts, crying, Abba, Father: thus the Lord giveth himself unto his servants from one generation to another. If therefore the Lord God the Father give himself, he will not be wanting to draw his people unto the Son, Joh. 6.44. No man can come to me, except the Father which hath sent me draw him: And what is the chief business, and work that the Son hath to do about us? No man can have fellowship with the Father, but he must have fellowship with Jesus Christ; so our Saviour himself saith, Joh. 14.6. No man can come unto the Father but by me: this therefore the Lord Jesus Christ will do for all the elect seed of Abraham: He will open their eyes to see, that the Father did not draw them to Damnation, nor utter desolation, but unto Salvation by him: this hath he promised to