III.

III.

That it is a sure Covenant. So David stiles it in my Text. The certainty of the Covenant, is the glory of the Covenant, and the comfort of all that are in it. The certainty of it in it self is past all doubt, by what hath been said before. It is certain God did make such an everlasting Covenant with his People in Christ, and it must remain an eternal Truth, that such a Covenant there is betwixt God and them. It is as impossible that this everlasting Covenant should not be made with them, as it is impossible for God to lye, Heb. 6.18. If he might make himself not have covenanted, everlastingly with them, when once ⟨p. 80⟩he had so covenanted, such a supposition would turn up the foundation of all Faith and Certainty, and overthrow the Apostles consequence on which the Faith and Comfort of Believers is built. Nor is it any infringement of the Almighty power, to say, God himself cannot do that which implies a plain contradiction, as factum infectum reader, to make that which was done, not to be done.

That it is a sure Covenant. So David stiles it in my Text. The certainty of the Covenant, is the glory of the Covenant, and the comfort of all that are in it. The certainty of it in it self is past all doubt, by what hath been said before. It is certain God did make such an everlasting Covenant with his People in Christ, and it must remain an eternal Truth, that such a Covenant there is betwixt God and them. It is as impossible that this everlasting Covenant should not be made with them, as it is impossible for God to lye, Heb. 6.18. If he might make himself not have covenanted, everlastingly with them, when once ⟨p. 80⟩he had so covenanted, such a supposition would turn up the foundation of all Faith and Certainty, and overthrow the Apostles consequence on which the Faith and Comfort of Believers is built. Nor is it any infringement of the Almighty power, to say, God himself cannot do that which implies a plain contradiction, as factum infectum reddere, to make that which was done, not to be done.