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

2. That Gods design in his Decree ⟨p. 38⟩was his own Glory; and that which Election had a peculiar respect to, was the Glory of his Grace. All Gods works of Efficiency were to set forth his perfections, and thereby exalt his Declarative Glory; which he accordingly disposed in his Eternal Decree, and hath a respect to in his Efficiency, Prov. 16. 4. In the choice which he made of men to Salvation, he contrived the advancement of that precious Attribute of Grace. This is pointed to as the end of all, Eph. 1. 4, 5, 6. It was to the praise of the Glory of his Grace.

2. That Gods design in his Decree ⟨p. 38⟩was his own Glory; and that which Election had a peculiar respect to, was the Glory of his Grace. All Gods works of Efficiency were to set forth his perfections, and thereby exalt his Declarative Glory; which he accordingly disposed in his Eternal Decree, and hath a respect to in his Efficiency, Prov. 16. 4. In the choise which he made of men to Salvation, he contrived the advancement of that precious Attribute of Grace. This is pointed to as the end of all, Eph. 1. 4, 5, 6. It was to the praise of the Glory of his Grace.

3. That the object of this Decree was Ens possibile, a possible Being. All Beings are either the first, or from the first. The first Being can be but one, and that is God. He only enjoyed a never Beginning Eternity; all other are the offspring of time, before which they had no Existence: and because they were to be from him, not by any necessity, but by a voluntary act, hence, God being a Cause by Counsel in all his free and transient acts, there must a Purpose pass with him in order to their Being: Antecedent to which purpose, in our conceptions, there could be no other consideration of the thing but as a mere possibility