V. .m This corruption of nature during this life, doth remain in those that are regenerated ;m and although it be through Christ pardoned and mortified, yet both itself and all the motions thereof are truly and properly sin." m 1 John 1: 8, 10; Rom. 7: 14, 17, 18, 23; Jam. 3:2; Prov. 20:9; Eccl. 7:20. n Rom. 7:5, 7, 8, 24; Gal. 5: 17. VI. Every sin, both original and actual, being a transgression of the righteous law of God, and contrary thereunto,° doth in its own nature bring guilt upon the sinner, whereby he is bound over to the wrath of God, and curse of the law, and so made subject to "death," with all miseries, spiritual, temporal," and eternal.w o 1 John. 3: 4. p Rom. 20: 15, and 3: 9, 19. q Eph. 2: 3. Gal. 3 10. Rom. 1: 23. Eph, 4: 18. "Rom. 8: 20; Lam. 3: 39. w Matt. 24: 41; 2 Thes. 1: 9. CHAP. VII. OF GOD'S COVENANT WITH MAN. I. THE distance between God and the creature is so great, that although reasonable creatures do owe obedience unto him as their Creator, yet they never could have attained the reward of life, but by some voluntary condescension on God's part, which he hath been pleased to express by way of covenant.a a Isa. 40: 13, 14, 15, 16, 17; Job. 9:32, 33; Psal. 113: 56, and 100: 2, 3; Job 22: 2, 3, and 35: 7, 8; Luke 17. 10; Acts, 17: 24, 25. II. The first covenant made with man, was a covenant of works," wherein life was promised to Adam, and in him to his posterity, upon condition of perfect and personal obedience.d b Gal. 3: 12. c Rom. 10: 5, and 5: 12 to 20. d Gen. 2: 17; Gal. 3: 10. III. Man by his fall having made himself uncapable of life by that covenant, the Lord was pleased to make a second, commonly called the covenant of grace; wherein he freely offereth unto sinners life and salvation by Jesus Christ, requiring of them Faith in him that they may be saved, and promising to give unto all those that are ordained unto life, his Holy Spirit to make them willing and able to believe.g e Gal. 3: 21; Rom. 3:20, 21; Gen. 3:5; Isa. 42: 6. f Mark, 16: 15, 16; John. 3: 16; Rom. 10: 6, 10; Gal. 3: 11. 8 Ezek. 36: 26, 27; John, 6 : 44, 45. IV. This covenant of grace is frequently set forth in Scripture by the name of a testament, in ref erence to the death of Jesus Christ the testator, and to the everlasting inheritance, with all things belonging to it, therein bequeathed." h Heb. 7: 22, and 9: 15, 16, 17; Luke. 22: 20; 1 Cor. 11:25. 4. Although this covenant hath been differently and variously administered in respect of Ordinances and institutions in the time of the law, and since the coming of Christ in the flesh,i yet for the substance and efficacy of it, to all its spiritual and saving ends, it is one and the same, upon the account of which various dispensations it is called the old and new testament.1 i 2 Cor. 3: 6, 7, 8, 9; Heb. 12: 18 to 24; Col. 2:11, 12; 1 Cor. 5: 7, 8 and 10: 25. k Gal. 3: 3; Eph. 4: 5; Jer. 30: 33, 34; Rom. 3: 21, 22, 30, and 1: 16. 12 Cor. 3:6, 14. CHAP. VIII. OF CHRIST THE MEDIATOR. I. Ir pleased God in his eternal purpose, to choose and ordain the Lord Jesus, his only begotten Son, according to a covenant made between them both, to be the Mediator between God and man ; the prophet, priest, and king,a the head and savior of his church, the heir of all things, and judge of the world : unto whom he did from all eternity give a people to be his seed, and to be by him in time redeemed, called, justified, sanctified, and glorified.h 5. 33. a Isa. 42: 1; 1 Pet. 1: 19, 20; John 3:16; 1 Tim. 2: d Psal. 2: 6 ; Luke 1: 2. g Acts, 17 31. h John 17: 6; Psal. 22:30; Isa. 53:10. i 1 Tim. 2:6; Isa. 55: 45; 1 Cor. 1: 30. II. The Son of God, the second Person in the Trinity, being very and Eternal God, of one substance and equal with the Father, did, when the fullness of time was come, take upon him man's nature, with all the essential properties and common infirmities thereof, yet without sin,1 being conceived by the power of the Holy Ghost, in the womb of the Virgin Mary, of her substance; so that two whole perfect and distinct natures, the Godhead and the manhood were inseparably joined together in one person, without conversion, composition, or confusion ;" which person is very God and very man, yet one Christ, the only Mediator between God and man." .n k John, 1 : 14, 17, and 5: 20; Phil. 2.6, Gal. 4: 4. 1 Heb. 2: 14, 16, 17, and 4: 15. m Luke, 1: 27, 31, 35; Gal. 4: 4. n Luke, 1: 35; Rom. 9:5; Col. 2:9; 1 Pet. 3:18; 1 Tim. 3: 16. • Rom. 1:31; 1 Tim. 2: 5. III. The Lord Jesus Christ, in his human nature, thus united to the Divine, in the person of the Son, was sanctified and anointed with the Holy Spirit above measure, having in him all the treasures of wisdom and knowledge, in whom it pleased the Father that all fullness should dwell, to the end that being holy, harmless, undefiled, and full of grace and truth," he might be thoroughly furnished to execute the office of a Mediator and Surety;' which office he took not unto himself, but was thereunto called by his Father, " who also put all power and judgment into his hands, and gave him commandment to execute the same. P Psal. 45: 1; John, 3:34. 10. s Heb. 7:26; John, 1: 14. 12: 24, and 7: 22. u Heb. 5 Matt. 28 18; Acts 2:36. IV. W q Col. 2 : 3. r Col. 1: t Acts, 10: 38; Heb. 4, 5. w John. 5: 21, 27; The office the Lord Jesus Christ did most willingly undertake, which, that he might discharge he was made under the law, and did perfectly fulfill it," and underwent the punishment due to us, which we should have borne and suffered, being made sin and a curse for us, enduring most grievous torments immediately from God in his soul, and most painful sufferings in his body, was crucified and died, was buried and remained under the power of death, yet saw no corruption, on the third day he |