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

USE 3.

For Consolation to the People of God. To all such as are in Covenant with God in Christ through Grace; or are made to Partake in the Grace of the new-Covenant: Everlasting Consolation flows down to you from this Covenant. Every Attribute of it distributes abundant comfort to the Souls of the Children of God. It is a Free Covenant; there was nothing to engage God to the making of it, but his own mere good pleasure: ⟨p. 163⟩and free applications are the most Potent and secure of any; because if they did not intend the Performance of them, there can be no reason given why they should bring themselves under the obligation of doing it. It is a Gracious Covenant; there was nothing in the creature to move God to it: it was because he would Gloriously Exalt His Grace in the pursuance of it, and therefore, though we are unworthy of, and can no way deserve the good which is provided in it, yet we may be confident, because it was the very aim and design of it to set forth the riches of Grace for ever. It is an Everlasting Covenant; it never had any beginning: and was contrived and concluded before time, and therefore it cannot have any end, but will last to Perpetuity. It is an Immutable Covenant, being made between Parties that are unchangeable, in whom there is no variation or shadow of turning: and hence whatever we have been and done, they can never repent of, or alter one syllable in it. It is a well ordered Covenant having provided every thing that is requisite to make us everlastingly happy, in the complete deliverance of us from sin and hell, and bringing of ⟨p. 164⟩us to the perfect fruition of God to all eternity. It is a stable Covenant that cannot fall, being made with one in whom all the fullness of the Godhead dwells; and was therefore furnished to answer all the demands of it to the uttermost. Hence therefore, you have no need to be afraid of the Law, and all its terrors and threatenings, for that is fully answered, and hath nothing to say against you: Nor of the Devil, for all his accusations are taken off, and by it rendered altogether insignificant: Nor of your own sins, how many and weighty soever they have been; for they are all of them satisfied for, and the acquittance is taken out: