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

Here we Learn that mans whole Salvation proceeds from God himself, It plainly tells us how little hand poor man hath in his own deliverance from misery, and obtaining of blessedness, and this will be discovered in two Propositions.

I That the foundation of mans Salvation was laid in this Covenant. From hence it is that it derives its rise and original, that any of the undone Children of Adam are brought to Inherit eternal Glory, they owe the whole acknowledgement of it hither. Fallen man could not have bin saved without such a Covenant: his happiness absolutely depended upon the good will of God; and these are the first thoughts that God entertained in himself about mans delivery; and here began ⟨p. 134⟩the futurition of it. If God had not Chosen them first, they would never have Chosen him. If Christ had not come to be a Redeemer, all the children of men must have died hopelessly in their sins, and if God the Father had not Covenanted with his Son about his coming on this great errand, he had certainly never come. again, if Christs obedience had not been accepted with God upon the account of those for whom he both Did and Died, it could never have been Imputed to them so as to be accounted the procuring cause of their Salvation, and if God had not thus Covenanted with his Son about it, it had never been thus accepted. No one of these things could have been left out, in this great affair. Now all this proceeds from God himself, it is his own doing, The creature that is to be saved by it, was not there to speak for it self▪ for it was before the Creation; so that neither was there any other Created being to speak unto God in its behalf. If God had not thought of it and done it, it had never been; for this was an eternal act; it past in the Divine Counsel, and was ratified there before the world was.

I That the foundation of mans Salvation was laid in this Covenant. From hence it is that it derives its rise and original, that any of the undone Children of Adam are brought to Inherit eternal Glory, they owe the whole acknowledgment of it hither. Fallen man could not have bin saved without such a Covenant: his happiness absolutely depended upon the good will of God; and these are the first thoughts that God enterteined in himself about mans delivery; and here began