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

2 That it is of the nature of a Covenant Promise to be joined with some Condition. This Conclusion follows from the consideration of a Covenant in General, which is a Mutual Obligation, wherein there are two parties engaged each to the other: so that the engagement on one part, stands related to the engagement on the other part, & thereupon it is Hypothetical. A Covenant Promise is a Promise which is made with a relative respect to something that is expected from him to whom it is made, on the performance whereof the Obligation of the Promise stands and on the failure ⟨p. 117⟩whereof it becomes void: and therefore there is sometimes expressed, always intended, a Threatening to take place instead of the Promise, in case of such a failure: and a person hath no farther hold on the Promise, than as he is under the Condition of it. So was the promise of the first Covenant, Isa. 56.2. And therefore there was also a Threatening, Gen. 2.17. Thus also is the Gospel Covenant Promise […] pressed and connected, Mark, 16, 16.

2 That it is of the nature of a Covenant Promise to be joyned with some Condition. This Conclusion follows from the consideration of a Covenant in General, which is a Mutual Obligation, wherein there are two parties engaged each to the other: so that the engagement on one part, stands related to the engagement on the other part, & thereupon it is Hypothetical. A Covenant Promise is a Promise which is made with a relative respect to something that is expected from him to whom it is made, on the performance whereof the Obligation of the Promise stands and on the failure ⟨p. 117⟩whereof it becomes void: and therefore there is sometimes expressed, always intended, a Threatn•ng to take place instead of the Promise, in case of such a failure: and a person hath no farther hold on the Promise, than as he is under the Condition of it. So was the promise of the first Covenant,