The doctrine of the covenant of redemption Wherein is laid the foundation of all…

Here it was that all was laid in that needed to satisfy that to the utmost farthing: and when that is once appeased and its mouth stopped, so that it hath no more to say, Grace hath now its full and free scope. In this regard we shall find, the Apostle reducing of our Salvation to this Covenant which was made with Christ before time, as the Root and Original of it. 2. Tim. 1. 9.

Here it was that all was laid in that needed to satisfy that to the utmost farthing: and when that is once appeased and its mouth stopt, so that it hath no more to say, Grace hath now its full and free scope. In this regard we shall find, the Apostle reducing of our Salvation to this Covenant which was made with Christ before time, as the Root and Original of it. 2. Tim. 1. 9.

2. The Application of the Grace of the Covenant of Reconciliation, whereby any of the children of men are brought into ⟨p. 98⟩that Covenant, and truly entitled to all the good which is therein promised to the Children of God, bears an entire respect to the Covenant of Redemption. That all the Children of men are not taken into the New and Everlasting Covenant, is certain. That all those to whom it is offered in the Gospel, do not cordially embrace it, is also evident upon observation. So that the reason of the difference cannot be because some do hear of it, and others do not. That any refuse to come into this Covenant, and remain in their unbelief, when they are outwardly called, is their own fault, and it will be charged upon their wilfulness, Joh. 5. 40. But that any do entertain it, and actually close in with the terms of it, and believe in Christ for salvation, is not of themselves or by any power of their own, but of God,