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2. What became of the angels that fell, by their finning against God?

A God left them without remedy, in that state of fin and mifery into which they plunged themfelves; and hath delivered them into chains of darkness, to be referved unto judgement, 2 Pet. ii. 4.

2. 2. When man joined with the devil in a confpiracy against God, did God treat him the fame way?

A. No: he had a purpose of grace and love towards fome of Adam's race; and therefore immediately after the fall, declares his fixed intention of affuming the human nature, in the perfon of the Son, that therein he might redeem loft man, and bruise the head of the old ferpent, that had ruined him, Gen. iii. 15.

23. When did God's purpose of grace and love, towards any of Adam's family, commence or begin? A. It never had a beginning; for he loved them from everlasting, Jer. xxxi 3. Eph. i. 4.

Q. 4. Can any reafon be given why God has [elected] fallen man, rather than fallen angels, and why he elected [fome] of Adam's race, and not others of them?

A. It is dangerous to dive into the reafons of holy and adorable fovereignty; it becomes us to acquiefce in this, that God did it [out of his mere good pleafure], Eph. i. 5.

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25. To what happinefs did God ordain his elect from among men ?

A. He ordained them to [everlafting life,] A&s xiii. 48. -As many as were ordained to eternal life, believed.

2. 6. Did God make choice of any to eternal life, becaule of their forefeen faith and holiness?

A. No: becaufe faith and holinefs are the fruits and effects of election, and therefore can never be the cause thereof, Eph. i. 4. 5, 6.

27. Is Chrift the cause of election ?

A. No; the free love of God fent Chrift to redeem the elect, and therefore he could not be the caufe of electing love, John iii 16.

28. Did not Chrift procure God's love to an elect world?

A. No; the Father himself loved them, John xvi. 27. 2. 9. If Chrift is not the caufe of election, why are the elect faid to be chofen in him?

4. Because in one and the fame decree of election, the love of God lighted both upon the head, and upon the members, confidered as in him, Eph. i. 4.

2. 10. By whom is it that God brings any of Adam's race unto eternal life?

A. (By a Redeemer), Rom. xi. 8.

21. How are finners of mankind to be viewed in relation to a Redeemer ?

A. As lawful captives, Ifa. xlix. 24.

2. 12. What is it to redeem the lawful captives?

A. It is to pay down a fufficient ranfom to offended juf tice for their deliverance, and to rescue them by mere force and power out of the hands of Satan, Ifa. xlix, 25.

213. What ransom is laid down to offended juftice for their deliverance?

A. Nothing less than the precious blood of Christ, or his obedience unto the death, 1 Pet. i. 1.9.

214. What right and title has the Redeemer, to take the captives by force out of the hands of Satan?

A. The demands of law and juftice being fatisfied, he has a lawful right, both by donation and purchase, to refcue his captives out of the hands of Satan by his divine power, John xvii. 2.

215. Why did the Redeemer, in dealing with juftice, lay down a price; but in dealing with Satan, act by way of power?

A Because God being the creditor had a right to demand a price, but Satan being only the jailor, has no lawright to detain the prifoner, after the creditor is fatisfied; and yet, refufing to quit hold of his captives, the Redeemer's power must be put forth for their deliverance, Luke

xi. 22.

216. Was there a covenant tranfaction entered into for their deliverance by price and power?

A. Yes; Pfl. lxxxix, 3, I have made a covenant with my Chafen?

217. How is that covenant called ?

A [A covenant of grace.]

218 Why called a covenant of grace?

A. Because it is a covenant of eternal life and falvation to fingers to be given them in a way of free grace and mercy, Jer. xxxi. 33, 34.

2. 19. Are not heaven and earth both concerned in this covenant? .

A Yes: because it is a covenant of peace betwixt them, Ifa liv. 9, 10.

2; 2. Who is the party contractor on Heaven's fide? A. It is God himself, the propofer of the covenant, and the offended party, Pfal. lxxxix 3.

2. 21. Whether is it God effentially confidered, or as in the perfon of the Father, that is the party-contractor on Heaven's fide?

A. God effentially confidered is the party contractor on Heaven's fide, in the perfon of the Father.

2. 22. Who is the party contractor on man's fide?

A. It is Chrift, the Chofen of God, as he is called, Luke xxiii. 35.

2.2. Wherein confifts the making of this covenant? A. In the mutual agreement betwixt God and his chofen One.

2 24. When was this covenant made ?

A. From all eternity, or before the world began, Tit. i. 2.

2.25 'With whom was the covenant of grace made?' A. With Chrift as the second, (or laft) Adam, and in him with all the elect as his feed, Gal. iii. 16. 2. 26. Why is Chrift called the laft Adam, 1 Cor. xv.

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A. Because as the firft Adam was the fœderal head of all his natural offspring, in the covenant of works, fo Chrift is the laft Adam, because he was the fœderal head of his fpiritual feed in the covenant of grace; the laft covenant that ever will be made about man's eternal happiness.

2. 27. How was the covenant of grace made with Chrift as the fecond or laft Adam?

A. The Father purposed that a remnant of loft mankind fhould be the members of Chrift's body, and gave them to him for that end; and Chrift ftanding as fecond Adam, accepted the gift, John xvii. 6. as alfe, the Father proposed to him, as the last Adam, the covenant of grace in the full tenor, condition, and promises thereof, to which he consented: and thus the covenant of rich grace was

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concluded between them, Zech. vi. 13. The counsel of peace fhall be between them both.

2. 28. How are we to conceive of the covenant of grace, in refpect of order and being?

A. Although the covenant of grace was the fecond covenant, in respect of order and manifeftation to the world, yet it was first in refpect of being, because it was actually made with Chrift from eternity, Tit. i. 2.

2. 29. How do you prove, from scripture, that there was fuch a covenant made with Chrift?

A. From Ifa. xlii. 6. I will give thee for a covenant to the people; and Heb. viii. 6. where Chrift is called the Mediator of a better covenant and from Heb. xiii. 20. where we read of the blood of the everlasting covenant.

2. 30. What was the ancient ufage in making of covenants ?

A. It was to cut a beast in twain, and to pass between the parts of it, Jer. xxxiv. 18.

231. What doth this usage import, as applied to God's making a covenant with his Chofen?

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A it imports, that it was a covenant by facrifice, Pfal.

232. What was the facrifice in this covenant?

A. It was Chrift himself the party contractor on man's fide, Heb. ix 26

233. What was the word that cut this facrifice afunder?

A. It was divine justice, Zech. xiii. 7.

2. 34. How is Chrift the party contractor on man's fide, to be confidered in this covenant?

A He is to be confidered as the head and reprefentative of this spiritual feed, Ifa. lix. 21,

2 35. How doth it appear that Chrift is the head and reprefentative of his fpiritual feed in this covenant?

A. From his making of the promifes originally to him; and from his being the furety of the covenant?

236 When were the promises made unto him? A. Before the world began; which, in fcripture ftyle is the fame as from eternity, Tit. i. 2. In hope of eternal life, which God that cannot lie, promifed before the world began. And there was none before the world began, to whom the promise of eternal life could be made perfonally, but to Christ as the head and reprefentative of his feed.

237. How do you prove, from feripture, that Chrift was furety for his spiritual feed in this covenant ?

A. From Heb. vii. 12. By fo much was Jefus made a furely of a better teftament.

238. In what fenfe was he furety for them?

A, He was their furety in a way of fatisfaction for all their debt of obedience and punishment, by taking it whol ly on himtelf, as for perfons utterly infolvent.

239. How is Chrift, being the furety of the covenant, an evidence of its being made with him as the reprefenta tive of his feed?

A. Because by his being furety for them, he became one with them in the eye of the law: bence is Chrift faid, not only to be made fin for us, but we are faid to be made the righteoufnefs of God in him, 2 Cor. v. 21.

24c. Why was the covenant of grace made with Christ as the head and representative of his spiritual feed?

A. That the love of God, and the covenant of grace, might be of the fame eternal date; for, as the love of God is an everlasting love, Jer. xxxi. 3. fo the covenant of grace is an everlasting covenant, Heb, xiii, 20.

241. Who is the party reprefented and contracted for in the covenant of grace?

A. The elect of mankind..

2. 42. What understand you by the elect of mankind? A. A certain number of mankind chofen, from eternity, to everlasting life.

243. How doth it appear, that the elect were the party reprefented and contracted for?

A. Because the party with whom the covenant was made, is called God's CHOSEN, Pfaim lxxxix 3. I have made a covenant with my Chofen; that is, with Christ, as contracting for all the chofen, or elect of God,

244. Why are the elect called Chrift's feed, Pfalm lxxxix. 4.?

A. Because he begets them with the word of truth; Jamesi. 18.; and they are born again to him in their re generation, John iii. 3.

245 Why is Christ said to take on him the feed of Abraham. Heb i. 16. and not rather the feed of Adam ?

A. To fhew that it was the elect only that he reprefented; in as much as the feed of Abraham are but a part of Adam's feed, which includes all mankind.

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