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

2 The Application of the Grace of the Covenant of Reconciliation, whereby any of the children of men are brought into ⟨p. 98⟩that Covenant, and truly entitled to all the good which is therein promised to the Children of God, bears an entire respect to the Covenant of Redemption. That all the Children of men are not taken into the New and Everlasting Covenant, is certain. That all those to whom it is offered in the Gospel, do no• cordially embrace it, is also evident upon observation. So that the reason of the difference cannot be because some do hear of it, and others do not. That any refuse to come into this Covenant, and remain in their unbelief, when they are outwardly called, is their own fault, and it will be charged upon their wilfulness, Joh. 5.40. But that an• do entertain it, and actually close in with the terms of it, and believe in Christ for salvation, is not of themselves or by any power of their own, but of God, Eph. 2.8 And if he should have done no more towards their believing, than he did to the other, they would have been for ever under their unbelief. Now there must be some reason assigned why God applies it to this and not to the other. This cannot be in the Creature, because all are alike Children of wrath, and equally guilty and filthy in their natural state as born, Eph. ⟨p. 99⟩2.3. It must then be in God. And as the Covenant of Redemption was a result of his mere good pleasure, so the Application of the Grace of the New-Covenant, is an act, of his faithfulness to his promise to Christ in that Covenant. Hence, when God comes with his Converting Grace, to bestow it upon any; when he powerfully persuades the man to receive the word of truth, and accept of Jesus Christ upon his offer and terms; and passeth by that other who •its by him, and leaves him to despise, and make light of the Grace exhibited to him; he evermore hath his eye upon, and proceeds according to the tenor of this Covenant. So that those who were Covenanted for by Christ, and given him of his Father, are brought into the Covenant of Grace by the Holy Ghost. The Spirit of God, when he comes to make the Gospel Efficacious unto the salvation of sinners, by putting them into the Covenant of Grace, he takes his measures by this Covenant: he reads these ancient records, observes who they were by name, that were given to the Son of God in that transaction;