And as for grace it cannot preserve it self, that it is not amissable, it is not from the nature of grace, but from divine ⟨p. 58⟩compact, Jer. 32.40. and the intervention of a Mediator, John 14.19. The whole New Covenant is made up of pure grace, from election to glorification, and all put into the hands of a Christ, who is made of God, Wisdom, Righteousness, Sanctification, Redemption; And why all this, but that no flesh might glory, but as it is written, He that glorieth might glory in the Lord? This is the plot of divine Providence, which he hath been contriving from the days of eternity; the miscarriage of the first Covenant, was not of Improvidence but of Ordination: and it was in order to this very design, and therefore for flesh to be glorying, is to cross Gods highest project, and ⟨p. 59⟩to oppose him in that upon which his heart is set.
And as for grace it cannot preserve it self, that it is not amissable, it is not from the nature of grace, but from divine ⟨p. 58⟩compact, Jer. 32.40. and the intervention of a Mediatour, John 14.19. The whole New Covenant is made up of pure grace, from election to glorification, and all put into the hands of a Christ, who is made of God, Wisdome, Righteousnesse, Sanctification, Redemption; And why all this, but that no flesh might glory, but as it is written, He that glorieth might glory in the Lord? This is the plot of divine Providence, which he hath been contriving from the dayes of eternity; the miscarriage of the first Covenant, was not of Improvidence but of Ordination: and it was in order to this very design, and therefore for flesh to be glorying, is to crosse Gods highest project, and ⟨p. 59⟩to oppose him in that upon which his heart is set.
