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

1. That the Covenant of Works did not exclude the Intervening of a Redeemer ▪ to take up the matter between God and the Sinner. It is true, it did not make mention of such a thing; nor was it then meet to tell man, that if he should undo himself, he should be repaired by another: that was not an Article accommodated ⟨p. 82⟩to a Covenant of Works; but it was reserved for another Covenant▪ viz. that of Grace. But there was no obstacle there, or provision against it; for indeed that Covenant was one of the Media for the Illustration of the Glory of Grace, and therefore it could not in Wisdom be made obstructive to it. God is the best Interpreter of his own mind, and he hath thus expounded it, by declaring that he hath ordained his Son to be the Repairer of the Breach, and to Redeem us from the Law, Gal. 4.4, 5. That when the Law could not Save us, he should, Rom. 8.3. and by making of so many precious Promises to all that believe in his Son, of Pardon, Peace, Salvation; of delivering them from the Curse of the Law, &c. God therefore purposed this when he gave the First Covenant, though he did not reveal it till afterwards.

2. Yet the Covenant of Works positively and inexorably requires Satisfaction for all the breaches made upon it. It will have Reparation for all damages, and Thunders Curses upon all that become Transgressors of it in any one Article, Gal. 3.10. and God, whose honour •ands engaged to it, to see that there ⟨p. 83⟩be no injury offered to it, will take care that it shall be answered to the least punc lio,