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A94353	Elijah's mantle: or, The remaines of that late worthy and faithful servant of Jesus Christ, Mr. John Tillinghast. Viz. I. The conformity of a saint to the will of God. On Act. 21.14. II. The will of God and Christ concerning sinners. On Gal. 1.4. III. No condemnation to them that are in Christ Jesus. On Rom. 8.1. IV. Christs love to his owne. On Joh. 13.1. V. True gospel humiliation. On Zach. 12.10. VI. The most effectual means to kill and subdue sin. On 1 Joh. 2.2 VII. The advocateship of Jesus Christ, a great ground of saints comfort and support under sins and infirmities. On 1 Joh. 2.2. VIII. The only way for saints to be delivered from the errors and evils of the times. On 1 Tim. 6.11. IX. Of the Old Covenant, from Gal. 4.30. being so farre as the author had proceeded, in a treatise of the two covenants, before his death. Published by his owne notes.	Tillinghast, John, 1604-1655.; Manning, John, d. 1694.	1658 (1658)	Wing T1172; Thomason E1557_1; ESTC R203796	263,858	498

justification from death eternal hath respect to his passive Rom. 5.10 Christs Passive obedience viz. his death and sufferings is that frees us from condemnation for herein hee bare the curse of the Law and was condemned for us So that all the free dome poor souls have from that guilt which is brought in by sin and the consequence thereof viz. a sentence of condemnation here with its effects and the final execution thereof hereafter is by the death of Christ his blood his passive obedience 1 Joh. 1.7 Rev. 1.5 Hence these and such like Scriptures which attribute justification to the blood death and sufferings of Christ speak not of justification fully but onely of a part of it viz. Justification from death eternal Hence also wee learn how exceedingly every Saint is beholding to Christ for dying for had hee not dyed wee had been all to this very day under the fearful sentence of condemnation with all the effects thereof and should have been under the final execution thereof for ever in hell hereafter and also for fulfilling the Law of God actively for him which had hee not done though his death shoud have freed him from hell yet could hee not have had an entrance into Heaven 4 But wherein doth it appear that this freedome from condemnation is such a great and glorious priviledge Answ 1. Is it not a great and glorious priviledge for a man to have all his accusers mouths stopped This is the priviledge of those who are freed from condemnation Suppose a Malefactor under sentence hath a pardon that very act stops all his accusers mouthes as to that thing for which hee was condemned So the act of Gods pardoning grace stops sins mouth consciences mouth the Devils mouth As there can bee no legal condemnation without a precedent accusation so there can bee no accusation as touching things remitted after pardon When Satan accused Joshua Zach. 3. begin Christ stops his mouth Is not this a brand plucked out of the fire So when the Devil accuseth any soul which hee hath delivered from condemnation Christ stops his mouth is not this Satan one whom I have freed from condemnation Have not I plucked him out of the fire Are not his sins pardoned Why then Satan doest thou rake up these old businesses again 2 Is it not a great and glorious priviledge to bee freed from that which to bee under would make one unspeakably miserable for ever Soules freed from condemnation are so under condemnation and under the wrath of God which burnes like devouring flames of fire I Under condemnation and under all the plagues and judgements of God under the weight of all thy sins each of which will one day weigh like a mountain of lead under all the dreadful curses of the Law under the sting and biting of a tormenting conscience under the power of the Devil under all afflictions as legal punishments for sin c. 3 Is it not a great and glorious priviledge to have ground to beleeve that I shall injoy an eternal life with God in glory after this short life is ended This is the soules that is freed from condemnation Christ would never have freed him from the one but in order to the other Hee would never have plucked him out of hell but in order to the putting him into Heaven and therefore once freed from hell and thou art safe for ever returning thither again Joh. 5.24 There is a passage from death to life but none back again 4 Is it not a great priviledge to bee in such a condition wherein I can triumph over all my enemies spiritual and temporal Soules freed from condemnation are in this condition they can triumph over sin because they see the guilt thereof taken away and have the promise and strength of Christ to mortifie it in them over the Law because the curse is gone Gal. 3.13 over the Devil because they see principalities and powers spoyled over death because it s but an entrance into life and so far as there is evil in it it s swallowed up into victory over hell because Christ hath delivered them from wrath to come over the malice reproaches contumelies of the world because Christ hath overcome the world and also they behold all the malice of the world bound up in a chain and that chaine to bee at the disposal of their Father 5 Is it not a great and glorious priviledge to know assuredly that although through infirmity I fall into sin yet sin shall never be laid to my charge This is that souls also which is freed from condemnation Rom. 8.33.34 6 Is it not a great and glorious priviledge to have a share and propriety in all that is Christs this is their's they are heirs of God and coheires with Christ and so Christs life death riches wisdome righteousness strength grace glory all is theirs 7 Is it not a great and glorious priviledge to have all our afflictions and crosses turned into blessings and mercies This also is their's they meet with no affliction but it is a mercy to them if in poverty their poverty is a mercy if in sickness if in temptation under reproach under losses yea death it self yet it is a mercy 8 Is it not a great and glorious priviledge to have God and the whole Creation at peace with a man This likewise is theirs God is at peace with that soul Col. 1.20 and all the creatures which are at war with others are at peace with him Such are in Covenant with God and being so God makes a Covenant for them with all the creatures as Job 5.23 Hos 2.18 9 And lastly Is it not a great and glorious priviledge to have all things working together for our good Health if wee can have it strength parts riches honours if wee can have them Satans temptations Gods hidings c. all things conspiring as it were our good This is the priviledge of called souls who are freed from condemnation Rom. 8.28 Object O but will some poor soul say Were I freed from condemnation surely the Devil would not bee so busie with mee by his temptations I should not bee so under his power as I am Answ 1. It is one thing to bee under the power of Satan by way of Divine permission God permitting Satan to have a power over thee another by way of voluntary subjection Christ was under the power of Satan by way of Divine permission when his body by Satan was transported from place to place So also Peter when hee was left to be winnowed by Satan and Paul when buffeted yet none under Satans power by way of voluntary subjection 2 Thy temptations rather argue that thou art freed from condemnation than otherwise Satan doth not use to trouble his friends but those that are his enemies or in a way to bee so Object But I finde corruption strong within mee which surely would not bee were I freed from condemnation Answ 1. It is one thing to have the guilt of

him of the spiritualnesse of his own conversation as a pattern for him to imitate vers 10. stirring him up thereto vers 14. But continue thou in the things which thou hast learned and hast been assured of knowing of whom thou hast learned them So also to Titus having in Chap. 1. marked out and warned Titus of a dangerous sort of men vers 10. and 16. In the two next Chapters hee puts Titus on to minde and follow spiritual and practical matters But speake thou the words which become sound doctrine Chap. 2. vers 1. c. In Rom. 14.17 When there were contentions in the Church about observing dayes and eating meats hee labours to withdraw them from questions of this nature to the minding and attending of things more spiritual as not to offend their weak brethren vers 13. and to minde righteousnesse peace and joy in the Holy Ghost vers 17. So when there was strife in the Churches of Galatia about Circumcision and legal Ceremonies some being brought to beleeve and practice these things the Apostle recalls them to spirituals Chap. 5.6 and Chap. 6.15 telling them that in Christ or in the dayes of the Gospel these were not the things to bee minded but the new creature and faith which worketh by love In Coloss 2. When many were drawn to strange and sottish errors and practices that others who were yet pure might not bee defiled and led a way as hee saith vers 4. hee calls them to minde spiritual things vers 2 3 6 7 8 9 10. telling them that the onely cause of others miscarriage was the neglect of these vers 19. Yet farther in Heb. 13.9 The Apostle having admonished beleevers to beware of errors and strange doctrines hee gives them this rule for a preservative to labour that their hearts might bee established with grace To end in Jude 20.21 The Holy Ghost having deciphered in the former verses the false Apostles and given them their doom hee exhorts to this very duty as the best remedy against such evils But yee beloved building up your selves on your most holy faith praying in the Holy Ghost keep your selves in the love of God looking for the mercy of our Lord Jesus Christ unto eternal life All which Scripture allegations wherein I have been more large than is usual by reason of the usefulness of this truth and sutableness thereof to these times argue the truth of the Doctrine viz. That the onely and special way for a Saint to bee delivered from the Errors and Evils of the Times hee lives in is to have his heart as much as may bee taken up with and his spirit exercised about high and spiritual things In the further carrying on of this I shall handle two things 1 What I mean by spiritual things 2 Why the exercising the heart in these is such a special way to preserve a Saint from the errors and evils of the times hee lives in Concerning the first By spiritual things I understand such things as either tend to the glory of God the edifying my brother the winning of souls the begetting and increasing of my own peace the mortifying of sin in mee the quickning of grace c. Such things as these I call Spiritual and all principles and practices whatsoever which produce these or such like effects I may terme spiritual truths and spiritual works And on the other side whatsoever opinion or practice it is which doth not produce such like effects but the contrary I may justly exclude from the name of Spiritual Thus you have a general notion of what I mean by spiritual things but now for our helpe in the exercising of our hearts about spiritual things it is very needful that wee have yet a more distinct and particular knowledge of those spiritual things our hearts should bee exercised about which things though they are many more than I am able to speak of or if I were have time to do it yet for the helpe of those who for want of matter are at a losse what to exercise their hearts about and so usually take that which comes next to hand which oftentimes turns to their undoing I shall therefore having a large field before mee glean together some few handfuls of spiritual things which may serve for matter for us to exercise our hearts about As to begin with that in finite eternal incomprehensible love of God to poor sinners how freely God loved them when as yet there was nothing lovely in them yea how this love was towards them from all eternity and continues to eternity again And also how fruitful this love and grace of God towards them hath been appearing as in electing and choosing them in his Son Christ from all eternity to bee vessels of glory and heires of salvation who naturally were of that very lump whereof many become vessels of dishonour and heirs of damnation so also in the fulness of time in sending his onely begotten and beloved Son who was fore-ordained to bee a Prince and a Saviour out of his own bosome into the world there by him to accomplish his own eternal decree concerning the salvation of his Elect. This is a thing our hearts should bee much taken up with and our thoughts exercised about Again How that this Jesus Christ the onely begotten of the Father being sent into the world did willingly part with for a time all the glory that hee was right heire unto and possessor of above and took upon him that so hee might accomplish the work of our redemption our nature being made man and born of the seed of David according to the flesh so exceedingly honouring humane nature far above the nature of Angels which hee took not by uniting it to the Divine Again which our hearts should bee much exercised about how that together with this our nature hee tooke upon him the infirmities and miseries thereof being poor hungry made a reproach persecuted and tempted c. that hee might bee in all things like unto his brethren and bee made a merciful and faithful High Priest and such a one as might bee touched with a feeling of our infirmities and might sympathize with us in and under them all and how that after hee had finished all things which were to bee done by him for our good hee last of all offered up himself a sacrifice for us bearing our sins in his own body on the Tree together with all the wrath of his Father due to us for all our sins whereby pouring out his soul unto death and making it an offering for sin hee gave full satisfaction to his Fathers Justice for the transgression of his people whom by his death hee delivered from wrath to come blotting out the hand-writing that was against them and contrary to them taking it out of the way and by this one offering perfecting for ever all them that were sanctified or set apart by the Father Again farther How that having dyed for our sins he is risen again

Elijah's Mantle OR THE REMAINES Of that late worthy and faithful Servant of Jesus Christ Mr. JOHN TILLINGHAST Viz. I. The Conformity of a Saint to the Will of God On Act. 21.14 II. The will of God and Christ concerning Sinners On Gal. 1.4 III. No Condemnation to them that are in Christ Jesus On Rom. 8.1 IV. Christs Love to his owne On Joh. 13.1 V. True Gospel Humiliation On Zach. 12.10 VI. The most effectual means to kill and subdue sin On 1 Joh. 2.2 VII The Advocateship of Jesus Christ a great ground of Saints comfort and support under sins and infirmities On 1 Joh. 2.2 VIII The only way for Saints to be delivered from the errors and evils of the times On I Tim. 6.11 IX Of the Old Covenant from Gal. 4.30 being so farre as the Author had proceeded in a Treatise of the two Covenants before his death Published by his owne Notes Rev. 14.13 And I heard a voyce from Heaven saying unto me write blessed are the dead which dye in the Lord from henceforth yea saith the Spirit that they may rest from their labours and their workes doe follow them London printed for Livewell Chapman and are to be sold at the Crown in Popes-head Alley 1658. To the Reader THis dear Servant of Christ the Author of these Sermons who whilst in the Body lived much in and of the love of our Lord Jesus and is now swallowed up of that love which passeth knowledge who yet doth and I am perswaded will live in the love of many precious * In London Lewes Nudigate Frasingfield Yarmouth Walpoole Walsham Tru●ch c. Saints among whom hee conversed here on earth made it his great designe the love of Christ constraining him both by preaching and walking to promote faith towards Christ and love to all Saints Hee lived much by faith and was often in coming to the Father by the Son as a poor Sinner as he usually expressed it And here I cannot but take the opportunity to say that which I apprehend the Word of Christ and also our experience doe witness 1 That the Act of Faith whereby wee are looking to Jesus coming to him and rowling upon him as the only way to the Father it is indeed the great Act it is that which doth honour God and that which Christ doth honour as a great faith After that poor woman of Canaan Mat. 15. had endured many repulses and yet making after Christ and hanging upon him he saith O woman great is thy faith this was clearly a faith of dependance 2 We are extreamly averse to this duty There is a great desire of evidence c. but when we should look to and stay on the Promise or rather on God in it O what a difficult work is it Indeed by thus beleeving Romans 16.26 Heb. 11.2 we yeeld unto God the obedience hee requires without which wee cannot please him and it is that for which the Gospel is sent among us and hereby wee doe indeed act Self-denial Is it not a great part of Self-denial for the Soul which doth naturally set up his owne righteousnesse and would not be beholding to God for his to renounce his right that is so dear to him Phil. 3.8 9. Hereby also the Soul denies his Carnal reason as Abraham Rom. 4. hee sacrificed his Carnal reason before he could enjoy or Sacrifice his Isaac It is no wonder that our hearts are so hardly brought up to such actings there is not only an inabillity to them but enmity against them as Christ hath told us Yee will not come to me Joh. 5.40 3 We have no assurance and evidence but in and by these acts of reliance it is possible wee may have a true faith and great faith of reliance without evidence but our assurance comes in this way as we have not the reflection of the Sun upon the wall except the beames of the Sun flow forth 4 Our Lord Jesus being the Author and Finisher and also actor of our faith Heb. 12.2 Joh. 15.5 Phil. 2.13 without whom wee can doe nothing hee that worketh to will as well as to doe in his people and that freely we cannot act this faith but as we are acted by him let us therefore expect all our fruites from him And because faith worketh by love and the more the love of God is shed abroad in our hearts the more faith c. also the more faith the more love to God let us look much into the Gospel which gives us so great discovery of that love 1 Behold there with admiration God from Eternity freely purposing the Salvation of the Elect in Jesus Christ hee hath saved us c. not according to our works but according to his purpose and grace which was given in Christ Jesus before the world began 2 Tim. 1.9 2 After we had all fallen from God in that fearful Apostacy of our first Parents under the Wrath and Curse of God Rom. 5.18 Ephes 3.2 behold God sending forth his dear Son made of a Woman c. for the redemption of poor sinners from this woful state and thereby not only delivering his people from the depth of misery but restoring them to the height of happinesse for by the death of our Lord Jesus is a way made to bring us unto God 1 Pet. 3.18 by it we come to him Heb. 7.25 all those that come to God come by him wee come even to the Father Joh. 14.6 No man cometh to the Father but by me here is the true center of our immortal souls Thus our dear Lord doth bring us to soul-rest Mat. 11.28 29. O what manner of love is this 3 Behold here the will of the Father and the Son both concurring in this matter Gal. 1.4 which the heart of this Author was much taken up with 4 Here is a discovery of Christ as an overcommer actually Rev. 3.21 It is observeable that the very first promise of Jesus Christ Gen. 3.15 declares him a Conqueror and all the Saints for many Ages lived upon and were comforted in Christ as hee who was to overcome and though this perhaps in the weakness of their faith the tempter might trouble them withall but what if their expected Messiah should not come or what if he should not overcome their enemies what would become of them then Now there is no roome for this temptation he hath abolished death 2 Tim. 1.10 I have overcome the world Joh. 6.33 and therefore saith the Lord Be you of good cheer it is for you and be yee comforted by it there is vertue and strength in it for you whereby you shall bee more than conquerours And hereby may the Saints come up to that difficult Piece of Self-denial to submit to the will of God who will have some remainders of corruption yet in his people as in these Sermons is mentioned where the Author doth caution us not so to submit to as not to strive against corruptions to mourn over them and watch

the incensing of them and making them rash and furious against the present powers And as for the two others I have coppied out part of a Letter received from each NOw dear Sir I begge your prayers that I may bee kept in the houre of my trial from the evil of every temptation incident to such a condition and may bee enabled to doe or to suffer whatsoever the will of the Lord is I am a poor Creature and when I look upon my self I am ready to say Surely the Lord will not make use of such an unworthy Creature as I am in any such Honourable work in the World as to bee counted worthy to suffer or doe any thing for his name But when I consider in whom persons and performances are accepted and made worthy I am silent and can only say I am in the hand of the Lord let him doe with mee as seemeth good unto him Indeed I have an unruly Natural temper that is ready to be running out to wrathful wayes pretending the accomplishment of the righteousnesse of God thereby but I desire to look on it as my burden and shame and to bewaile it both in my self and others in whom I judge I see too much of it especially some suffering Saints both in their speaking and writing which is a sore blemish making them much unlike our Lord and Master who when hee was reviled reviled not againe and when evil entreated threatned not neither doth it answer that blessed counsel Psal 37. throughout O could we be found more in Christs Lamb-like posture in which he overcomes Revel 17. we should also bee more glorious and speedy over-comers Faith and Prayer when joyned with humility meekness and patience seldome misse an eminent successe whatever it bee they contend against this is a portion my Soul wants begge it for mee and exhort to it in others SIR I shall not detain you longer but let you know that hitherto the Lord hath been with me and I find that Christs Sufferings have so large a present allowance that even besides the future wages of Glory which shall bee revealed in us wee are gainers of more than can bee spoken Love Light Freedome Power and what not that is good for us and truly Gods choyse hath been so clear both as to matter and manner of Sufferings that were it to begin again I think wee should be rather apprehensive of being over-set with the honour and comfort than to bee sunk with fear or trouble but whether the Baptisme is fully accomplished is yet to mee a question me thinks this is too casie for a Crown the drops of bloud are yet to come at least it must not bee my will but the Lords and if the remainder of wrath shall be restrained it must bee from them that lye free among the dead over whom the worldly life hath no power no more than the second Death so that if our Father sees wee may bee without danger to our selves or hazzard to his own concernments adventured a while longer in this world of trouble and temptation hee may suspend taking us to himself and yet surely the fiery Chariot must be made ready the Lord grant that our faith fail not if wee boggle at the passage wee may come short of the Kingdom living testimonies of dying Saints for their Lord and Master did make a quick dispatch of worldly Principalities Kings of Armies must flee apace when God gives the word and the company grows great that publish it The Contents of the ensuing Treatises 1 The Conformity of a Saint to the will of God On Act. 21.14 THe Text opened and explained Page 1 Doct. That it is a great and special duty lying upon Saints even in the most hard and difficult cases to have their wills bowed and submitted to the will of God p. 2 The definition of Divine submission to the will of God p. 3 opened p. 2. to 8 The Division of this submission to the will of God p. 9. opened p. 9. to 11 The Obligation lying upon the creature to submit to this will of God 12. This opened in many particulars to p. 14 The Excellency of this blessed worke set forth in several particulars p. 14. to 16 The Evil of not submitting to the will of God the greatness of it set forth in several particulars p. 16. to 18 General Rules to bring us to and further us in this submission p. 18. to 20. Cases of Conscience about submission of our wills to Gods p. 20. to 66 2 The will of God and Christ concerning Sinners On Gal. 1.4 The Text opened page 67 68 Doct. That the Salvation and Sanctification of poor sinners is the will of God the Father and the Lord Jesus Christ p. 68 What Will of God is here spoken of p. 69 That it is the will of God and Christ sinners should bee saved proved p. 70 Christs will manifested in two particulars ibid God the Fathers will shewed in several particulars p. 71 to 75 Reasons why it must needs bee that God the Father is willing p. 75. to 81 Reasons why it must needs bee that Jesus Christ is willing from p. 82 to 90 Object If it bee thus Then will it follow that all sinners must necessarily bee saved This answered p. 90 91 Object That God will have all men to bee saved answered p. 92 Object But what incouragement doth this afford to the faith of poor sinners to say God and Christ are willing c. Answered ibid. Object But if it bee not the will of God and Christ that all sinners should bee saved then I may presume in laying hold on the Premise because I may bee one of those whom it is the will of God not to save Answered ibid. Object But would it not bee better for the faith and comfort of poor souls to say that God would have or that God doth will it that all should bee saved Answered ibid. Use 1. Then let poor sinners hence be incouraged notwithstanding all the suggestions of Satan and cavils of their own hearts to come to Christ for salvation p. 94 95 Use 2. Comfort to the Saints your salvation is sure you have God and Christ the will of either ingaged for you p. 96 Use 3. Duty to the Saints Then bee you willing to doe or suffer any thing for God p. 97 3 No Condemnation to them that are in Christ Jesus Proved in Seven Sermons on Rom. 8.1 Serm. I. The Text opened p. 98 Doct. Souls interessed in Jesus Christ are persons priviledged and exempted from Condemnation p. 99 What is meant by Condemnation opened p. 100 to 103 Why souls in Christ must needs bee freed from it p. 103 to 105 What that is which frees those which are in Christ from Condemnation p. 105 106 How great and glorious a Priviledge this is shewed p. 107 to 100 Objections answered p. 110 111 Use 1. See then what a vast difference there is betwixt the condition of one that hath interest

can receive the end of the Covenant but according to the connexion of means and end the fruit also of the Covenant and effect of the grace thereof 3 The New Covenant in its constitution hath not Mankind for its object but the elect remnant who are in it not because they beleeve but who beleeve because they are in it Heb. 8.10 This is the Covenant I will make with the House of Israel after those dayes c. not that the Covenant is made after those daies but fulfilled yet because in the promulgation Christ is tendred Repentance and Faith required in him with assurance that whosoever beleeves in him shall not perish therefore are all to adhere to that revelation not perplexing themselves about secret intention which cannot be known unto submission but after it 4 The New Covenant is a Covenant of Grace not in a large sense only for so the Old Covenant was of Grace the Lord did no more owe unto man a Covenant than Creation but in a special sense and distinguishing from the old Covenant viz. in freeness in fulness in firmness 1 The New Covenant is a free and absolute Covenant Jer. 31.33 Heb. 8.10 where the termes are not I will if yee will but I will and yee shall the Lord being the only taking party and active in making the Covenant man being passive and taken into it long before he taketh hold upon it or upon Christ in it it is called therefore the New Testament it being the nature of a Testament to dispose of good things without the concurrence of any precedent act as necessary thereunto to bee performed by them to whose advantage those good things are disposed of moreover it is the New Testament in the Bloud of Christ the Head of the Covenant and Surety thereof had Adam fulfilled the Condition of his Covenant it had not remained conditionally to his Seed but they had enjoyed Paradice though not without works yet without works as the condition of such enjoyment In like manner Jesus Christ having performed the condition of the Covenant of Reconciliation his Seed hath peace though not without faith not without works yet without them as the condition thereof It is a famous question whether Faith bee the condition of the New Covenant as Works were the condition of the Old and argued with much seeming strength on both sides although with many it is 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 were it not for the Word there would be no strife intending by a condition but medium fruitionis meanes of enjoyment of the end of the Covenant or qualificatio faederalis the qualification of a Covenanter necessary unto an actual claime and title to the blessings thereof in which sense the thing is granted but not the expression The New Covenant is pure and absolute in respect of condition many good from first to last being founded not in the will of man but of God consider it in the Decree that is absolute and inconditional and according to the good pleasure of God Ephes 1.5 a purpose of God which doth stand not of works but of him which calleth Rom. 9.11 Who hath mercy on whom he will have mercy vers 15. If the Decree were conditional it were no deceiver till after the Condition did God decree to write Names in his Book upon condition they beleeve repent and persevere none are written till then not till the exhalation of their last breath which is the utmost of perseverance the condition thereunto which is contrary to the Scriptures Eph. 1.4 2 Tim. 1.9 Tit. 1.2 Rev. 13.8 Consider it in the execution that is absolute also and inconditional as the Decree is If the Decree of life bee antecedent to the Decree of faith in order of nature then faith is no condition unto life in the execution though no man doth live without faith or thus If the Decree of glorifying of grace in the salvation of the creature be antecedent to the sanctification thereof then sanctification is no condition in the execution though no man not sanctified be glorified for the Lord peremptorily decrees to sanctifie save God doth not one thing for another though one thing after another therefore vocation is free Rom. 8.30 Matth. 11.25 26. Jam. 1.18 Justification free Rom. 3 24-4 5-5 18 Sanctification free Jer. 31.33 Ezek. 36.27 Glorification free Rom. 9.21.23 The Kingdome of Christ is a dew from the Lord which waiteth not for men nor tarrieth for the sons of men Mic. 5.7 What place then hath faith in the doctrine of the Covenant Wee may say of faith as Tertullus of the Governour Act. 24.2 By thee wee enjoy much quietness yet in all things Jesus Christ must have the preheminence Col. 1.18 It is a temptation and a suare when soules study faith more than Christ beleeve in faith more than in Christ and reason more for or against themselves from some worke in them than from the word and promise of the Father consider therefore 1 Faith is needful not unto the procurement of New Covenant blessings but the enjoyment thereof not any grace is purchased but much grace is possessed thereby Joh. 3.36 When a man is called unto a dinner coming is needful not unto procurement but enjoyment 2 Faith giveth no man a right to Christ or in Christ but receives a right The ransome of Christ and acceptation thereof is not mine because I beleeve but because it was intended for mee is given unto mee as the bread I eat is not mine because I eat it but upon some other former account it is in vain to give hope a reason for life unlesse hope have a reason 3 The Covenant is constituted in the whole without faith but not so executed The Elect non-convert are the children of the Covenant according to the Constitution but not according to the Execution being afar off in the region and shadow of death and yet loved before the world was free from the curse which was wholly and onely as to them upon the head of the Lord Jesus Gal. 3.13 Wherefore faith being the fruit of the Covenant and but subordinate and secondary means unto the actual fruition of the blessings of it it cannot properly bee called the Condition of the Covenant or have any higher respect then that order and way in which the fulnesse of Christ who is the life is communicated and received unto life eternal a consequent of the Covenant though antecedent to salvation as also prayer is Rom. 10.13 which yet is not the condition of the Covenant What danger is there in making faith the condition of the New Covenant as works were of the old Answ Much danger many wayes 1 The condition of the Old Covenant was the matter of justification by which and for which a man was justified but faith is no such matter therefore no such condition 1 Cor. 1.30 Rom. 5.19 The obedience which is the soules righteousnesse is the obedience of one but the obedience in beleeving is the obedience of