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

1. It supposeth subject that stands in need of Redemption. To have undertaken it for any other, had been Supervacaneous. And ⟨p. 48⟩there could be no other such monument but such a creature as is forfeited, and fallen into misery, and cannot get out of it again, till it be bought out, and rescued from it, Rom. 5.6.

2. There are two sorts of creatures that are reduced to this exigency, viz: fallen Angels and men. As to the Angels which kept their first station, though they needed Confirmation, yet not Redemption: and that this Confirmation of theirs doth derive from this Covenant to them, is no-where in Scripture so much as insinuated. But those once Angels, now Devils are become miserable by their woeful revolt from God, being fallen under a Righteous Condemnation; and therefore they so far need Redemption, as that without it they must needs be Eternally miserable, and all mankind are by the Apostasy come under this infelicity: they are a company of dead Creatures, by virtue of that sin, the Guilt whereof lieth heavy upon them, Rom. 5.12.

2. There are two sorts of creatures that are reduced to this exigency, viz: fallen Angels and men. As to the Angels which kept their first station, though they needed Confirmation, yet not Redemption: and that this Confirmation of theirs doth derive from this Covenant to them, is no-where in Scripture so much as insinuated. But those once Angels, now Devils are become miserable by their woful revolt from God, being fallen under a Righteous Condemnation; and therefore they so far need Redemption, as that without it they must needs be Eternally miserable, and all mankind are by the Apostasy come under this infelicity: they are a company of dead Creatures, by vertue of that sin, the Guilt whereof lieth heavy upon them,