The CONTENTS of the Sum of Saving Knowledge. HEAD I. Our woful condition by nature. II. The remedy provided in Chrift Jefus. III. The means provided in the covenant of grace. The Ufe of Saving Knowledge. For convincing of fin by the law. 2. Of righteousness by the law. 3. Of judgment by the law. For convincing of fin, righteousness and judgment by the Of righteousness to be had only by faith in Christ. Warrants and motives to believe. 1. God's hearty invitation. 2. His earnest request to be reconciled. 3. His command, charging all to believe. 4. Much affurance of life given to believers, &c. Evidences of true Faith. 1. Conviction of the believer's obligation to keep the moral law. 2. That the believer practise the rules of godliness and righteousness. 3. That obedience to the law run in the right channel of faith in Chrift. 4. The keeping of ftrait communion with Chrift, the fountain of all grace and good works. For ftrengthning the believer in faith and obedience, by these evidences. THE THE SUM of SAVING KNOWLEDGE &c. The fum of faving knowledge may be taken up in these four heads 1. The woful condition wherein all men are by nature, through breaking of the covenant of works. 2. The remedy provided for the elect in Jefus Chrift by the covenant of grace. 3. The means appointed to make them Partakers of this covenant. 4. The bleffings which are effectually conveyed unto the elect by thefe means. Which four heads are fet down each of them in fome few propofitions. HEAD I. Our woful condition by nature, through breaking the covenant of works, Hof. xiii. 9. O Ifrael, thou hast destroyed thyfelf. THE 'HE Almighty and eternal God, the Father, the Son,and the holy Ghoft, three diftinct perfons in the one and the fame undivided Godhead,equally infinite in all perfections did, before time, moft wifely decree, for his own glory, what foever cometh to pafs in time; and doth moft holily and infallibly execute all his decrees, without being partaker of the fin of any creature. II. This God in fix days made all things of nothing very good in their own kind: In fpecial, he made all the angels, The CONTENTS of the Sum of Saving Knowledge. HEAD I. Our woful condition by nature. II. The remedy provided in Chrift Jesus. III. The means provided in the covenant of grace. The Ufe of Saving Knowledge. 1. For convincing of fin by the law. 2. Of righteousness by the law. 3. Of judgment by the law: For convincing of fin, righteousness and judgment by the Of righteousness to be had only by faith in Chrift. Warrants and motives to believe. 1. God's hearty invitation. 2. His earnest request to be reconciled. 3. His command, charging all to believe. 4. Much affurance of life given to believers, &c. 1. Conviction of the believer's obligation to keep the moral law. 2. That the believer practise the rules of godliness and righteousness. 3. That obedience to the law run in the right channel of faith in Chrift. 4. The keeping of ftrait communion with Chrift, the fountain of all grace and good works. For ftrengthning the believer in faith and obedience, by these evidences. THE THE SUM of SAVING KNOWLEDGE &c. The fum of faving knowledge may be taken up in these four heads 1. The woful condition wherein áll men are by nature, through breaking of the covenant of works. 2. The remedy provided for the elect in Jefus Chrift by the covenant of grace. 3. The means appointed to make them Partakers of this covenant. 4. The bleffings which are effectually conveyed unto the elect by thefe means. Which four heads are fet down each of them in fome few propofitions. HEAD I. Our woful condition by nature, through breaking the covenant of works, Hof. xiii. 2. Ifrael, thou hast destroyed thyfelf. TH HE Almighty and eternal God, the Father, the Son,and the holy Ghoft, three diftinct perfons in the one and the fame undivided Godhead,equally infinite in all perfections did, before time, moft wifely decree, for his own glory, what foever cometh to pass in time; and doth moft holily and infallibly execute all his decrees, without being partaker of the fin of any creature. II. This God in fix days made all things of nothing very good in their own kind: In fpecial, he made all the angels, Angels holy; and he made our first parents Adam and Eve, the root of mankind, both upright and able to keep the Law written in their heart. Which law they were naturally bound to obey under pain of death; But God was not bound to reward their fervice, till he entred into a covenant or Contract with them, and their pofterity in them, to give them eternal life upon Condition of perfect perfonal Obedience; withal threatning death in case they should fail. This is the Covenant of Works. III. Both Angels and Men were fubject to the change of their own Free will, as Experience proved (God having referved to himfelf the incommunicable property of being Naturally unchangeable :) For many angels of their own Accord fell by Sin from their firft Eftate, and became devils. Our firft parents being inticed by Satan, one of these devils Speaking in a Serpent, did break the Covenant of works, in eating the forbidden fruit; whereby they, and their posterity being in their Loins, as branches in the Root, and comprehended in the fame covenant with them, became not only liable to eternal death but also loft all ability to please God yea, did become by Nature Enemies to God, and to all Spiritual good, and inclined only to Evil continually. This is our original fin, the bitter root of all our actual Tranfgreffions, in Thought, Word, and Deed. HEAD II. The Remedy provided in Jefus Chrift for the Elect by the Covenant of Grace, Hof. xiii. 9. O Ifrael, thou haft destroyed thy felf, but in me is thine help. A LBEIT man, having brought himfelf into this woful Condition, be neither able to help himself, nor willing to be helped by God out of it, but rather inclined to ly still unfenfible of it, till he perifh yet God, for the glory of his rich Grace, hath revealed in his word a way to fave finners, to wit, by faith in Jefus Chrift, the eternal Son of God, by vertue of, and according to, the tenor of the Covenant of redemption, made and agreed upon between God the Father and |