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

2 This will be farther pleaded: because the Individual names of those who were thus to be redeemed by Christ, were put into the Articles of this Covenant. There was not only an agreement made, that there should be a Common price paid, a Common stock laid in, which might be sufficient for as many as would make improvement of it; It might then have been uncertain whether any at all should have been saved by it: but the very persons were covenanted for; and this is evidently intended by the writing of their names in the Book of life, of which mention is made in the Scripture, Rev. 13 8.17.8. Which is nothing else but the book of the Covenant of Redemption, in which provision was made for the restoring of dead sinners to life again by Jesus Christ, it is therefore called the Lambs book, because these were given to him to redeem. And Names must needs indigitate persons: so that the individuals were indented for, and this is a book which hath no blots in it: those that are here written must needs be saved: what saith Christ himself about it? Joh. 6.37. All that the Father hath given me shall come unto me.

3. All these are firmly promised and engaged to Christ in this Covenant, they shall be his Seed, upon the performance of the Articles that were proposed unto him. This was one Encouragement that his Father offered to him, see Isa. 13.10 Psal. 22.30. and how do they come to be the Seed of Christ, and consequently the Children of God, but by being brought into the Covenant of Grace, and under the Promise of Eternal Life, Gal. 3.26. Now this was the Word and Promise of God himself; The Unchangeable God, the God that cannot Lie: and it is made to his own Son; and upon it he undertook the work, and went through it, in expectation of the complete Accomplishment of it,