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

3 That these Absolute Promises are therefore called Absolute, because they have no depending Condition in the Covenant of Grace. Hither we are to refer all such Promises as do engage the giving of the conditions of the Covenant of Grace to these or those. Many such as these are to be found in the Book of God, particularly in Isa. 57.18 Ezek. 36.25, 26, 27. And several more of the same Tenor.

3 That these Absolute Promises are therefore called Absolute, because they have no depending Condition in the Covenant of Grace. Hither we are to refer all such Promises as do engage the giving of the conditions of the Covenant of Grace to these or those. Many such as these are to be found in the Book of God, particularly in Isa. 57.18 Ezek. 36.25, 26, 27. And several more of the same Tenour.

These Promises can have no condition depending in the Covenant of Grace, for so they would argue a contradiction; for God to say, I will Convert you, if you will Convert yourselves; I will give you a New heart, if you will make a New Heart to yourselves; I will give you Faith to believe, if you will believe in your own strength. These promises represent ⟨p. 118⟩God plainly undertaking, freely and fully to work that in sinners, which is required in the Gospel Covenant, in order to their being made partakers in the good therein promised; and for that reason are they said to be Absolute, with respect to the Gospel Covenant, because they bear no respect to the Condition which is therein propounded and required so as to engage for it.