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2. That except this Condition be wrought in them, they cannot be saved. That without it they cannot lay any claim unto salvation; and there is neither injury nor false dealing in God, if he with-hold it from them: this is very evident, because the Gospel promise which is declared unto men, hath brought him no farther under obligation unto them, than according to the terms of it. If he should deny Salvation unto him that doth believe, he would not be so good as his word, because he hath engaged it to all such, and made it their encouragement to believe, Joh. 3.16. that whosoever believes in him, should not perish, but have everlasting life: but if he with-hold it from an unbeliever, he is just, because he hath not performed the condition upon which it was tendered to him. But besides this, there is no hope that he ever will save such an one; nay he cannot bestow salvation upon any without the condition wrought in them: no unbeliever can be saved in his unbelief, because God should be equally false to his Creature in saving such an one, as in denying Salvation to the other; in as much as there is a Covenant threatening which includes this man in it, and hath something to say to him which must be accomplished upon him, and that is, he must be damned, Mark 16.16. there is no room therefore for any indulgence ⟨p. 92⟩to such an one, nor will Gods Holiness or Truth allow of it.

2. That except this Condition be wrought in them, they cannot be saved. That without it they cannot lay any claim unto salvation; and there is neither injury nor false dealing in God, if he with-hold it from them: this is very evident, because the Gospel promise which is declared unto men, hath brought him no farther under obligation unto them, than according to the terms of it. If he should deny Salvation unto him that doth believe, he would not be so good as his word, because he hath ingaged it to all such, and made it their encouragment to believe, Joh. 3.16. that whosoever believes in him, should not perish, but have everlasting life: but if he with-hold it from an unbeliever, he is just, because he hath not performed the condition upon which it was tendered to him. But besides this, there is no hope that he ever will save such an one; nay he cannot bestow salvation upon any without the condition wrought in them: no unbeliever can be saved in his unbelief, because God should be equally false to his Creature in saving such an one, as in denying Salvation to the other; in as much as there is a Covenant threatning which includes this man in it, and hath something to say to him which must be accomplished upon him, and that is, he must be damned,