A brief discourse of justification. Wherein this doctrine is plainly laid down according to…

3. That he who performs the condition of the general Gospel Promise, doth in so doing make the good of it so to become his own by promise. If there were no promise made to such a thing, or if the party doing it were no way related to it, it not being propounded and offered to him, the performance were then of no force; but if there be a promise made and offered, and accepted, and the demand of it performed, the fulfilment of it stands engaged. If God saith, let him that will believe in Christ, and if he doth, I will certainly justify him, then whosoever hears the condition, is persuaded by the promise to entertain it, and accordingly doth believe, he thereby comes under a particular and personal relation to the good exhibited, and hath a security of it in the promise: If Christ invites a whole company of weary and heavy laden sinners to come to him, and tells them, that he of them that doth come shall find rest to his Soul, then if this or that person, if one or more of the company come, though all the rest stay away; they take him at his word; they do, as it were bi•d the Covenant ⟨p. 92⟩and bring Christ himself into Bonds; so that God can as well deny himself, as refuse to justify such; his word is past, the offer is his own, and he neither may, nor can, nor will in any wise reverse it.

3. That he who performs the condition of the general Gospel Promise, doth in so doing make the good of it so to become his own by promise. If there were no promise made to such a thing, or if the party doing it were no way related to it, it not being propounded and offered to him, the performance were then of no force; but if there be a promise made and offered, and accepted, and the demand of it performed, the fulfilment of it stands engaged. If God saith, let him that will believe in Christ, and if he doth, I will certainly justifie him, then whosoever hears the condition, is perswaded by the promise to entertain it, and accordingly doth believe, he thereby comes under a particular and personal relation to the good exhibited, and hath a security of it in the promise: If Christ invites a whole company of weary and heavy laden sinners to come to him, and tells them, that he of them that doth come shall find rest to his Soul, then if this or that person, if one or more of the company come, though all the rest stay away; they take him at his word; they do, as it were bi•d the Covenant