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

3. Christ merely considered as the Eternal Son of God, and the Second Person in the Blessed Trinity; and not as God and Man, by the Assumption of our Nature, is the other party in this Covenant. I know there are weighty Divines of another Persuasion, who labour by many arguments to prove that the Son of God, was looked upon as in our nature, or with respect to the Futurition of ⟨p. 26⟩his assuming it, in the Indenting of this Covenant: But I suppose that conception will overthrow the very notion of a Covenant in this matter. The present conclusion that hath now been laid down, will be apparent by these things.

3. Christ meerly considered as the Eternal Son of God, and the Second Person in the Blessed Trinity; and not as God and Man, by the Assumption of our Nature, is the other party in this Covenant. I know there are weighty Divines of another Perswasion, who labour by many arguments to prove that the Son of God, was looked upon as in our nature, or with respect to the Futurition of ⟨p. 26⟩his assuming it, in the Indenting of this Covenant: But I suppose that conception will overthrow the very notion of a Covenant in this matter. The present conclusion that hath now been laid down, will be apparent by these things.

1. This is (as hath already been observed) called a Covenant only by way of Analogy, as it is accommodated to our understanding; it being nothing else but that Article in the Decree, which concerns the Redemption of Man by Christ. There must therefore be such an Analogy observed in our conceptions of it, and it must be Interpreted by notions proper to a Covenant. Now, though the Father and the Son be one in Essence, and so have not two Wills, but one undivided; yet they are Two Persons, and as such, are conceived by us as consulting, deliberating and concluding about things: hence the Divine Persons are so represented,