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

1. God is one Party, Psal. 89.3. I have made: The Party that speaks there is God himself. But it may be asked, whether he be to be considered Essentially ⟨p. 21⟩or Personally; and so is to be […] the Father? In the former Descrip•••• given of this Covenant, I have expressed it as belonging •o God the Father. There are some Divines who would have it taken Essentially, and assigned to the Deity, considered in the Essence, and not in any particular Subsistence, left otherwise the Holy Spirit, the Third Person in the Sacred Trinity should be excluded from being personally concerned in this Covenant. This Debate needs not be eagerly pursued, being easily reconcilable: here then observe.

1. God is one Party, Psal. 89.3. I have made: The Party that speaks there is God himself. But it may be asked, whether he be to be considered Essentially ⟨p. 21⟩or Personally; and so is to be 〈…〉 the Father? In the former Descrip•••• given of this Covenant, I have expressed it as belonging •o God the Father. There are some Divines who would have it taken Essentially, and assigned to the Deity, considered in the Essence, and not in any particular Subsistence, left otherwise the Holy Spirit, the Third Person in the Sacred Trinity should be excluded from being personally concerned in this Covenant. This Debate needs not be eagerly pursued, being easily reconcileable: here then observe.

1. That the Decree in which this Covenant is to be found, is properly an Essential Act, or belongs to all the Three Persons in common, as they are one in the Essence. Acts properly personal are only such as flow from their Relative Properties, or at least have their Foundation in these Relations. The Decrees is an act of Divine Counsel, exerted by the Divine Will, which is undivided, and common to the three persons: and thus the Deity is the one party Covenanting, because the Essential acts of the Trinity are undivided,