A

VIEW

OF THE

COVENANT OF GRACE

FROM THE

SACRED RECORDS.

WHEREIN

The PARTIES in that COVENANT,
the MAKING of it, its PARTS Con-
ditionary and Promiffory, and the
ADMINISTRATION thereof, are di-
ftinctly confidered.

Together with

The TRIAL of a faving Perfonal INBEING in it,
and the WAY of INSTATING Sinners therein
unto their eternal Salvation.

To which is fubjoined,

A MEMORIAL concerning Perfonal and Family
Fafting and Humiliation, prefented to SAINTS
and SINNERS.

By the late Reverend and Learned
Mr. THOMAS BOSTON,

Minister of the Gospel at Ettrick.

EDINBURGH.

Printed by DAVID PATERSON, at his Printing-
houfe, Lawn-market, and fold by him, and by
MDCCLXI.

the Bookfellers.

ADVERTISEMENT.

Work

THIS Treatife, and the Memorial adjoined, being pofthumous of my Father's, I thought it neceffary to teftify to the World, that they are publifhed as he left them, being printed from his own Manu Script, prepared for the Prefs, without any Addition or Alteration whatfo

ever.

THOMAS BOSTON.

A

THE

THE

CONTENT S.

HE INTRODUCTION and general scheme

THE

Page

HEAD I. The Parties in the Covenant of Grace.

GOD

OD the party-contractor on Heaven's fide I
Confidered in a threefold view

II. The Lord Jefus Chrift the party-contractor on
man's fide

The covenant of grace made with Chrift, as the Laft Adam, head and reprefentative of his fpiritual feed.

Evinced from five confiderations

Five reafons why it was fo made

Inferences

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26.

III. The party contracted and undertaken for 30

The elect were the party reprefented and con

tracted for in the covenant.

Four proofs of it

31

Three ways they are viewed in

n this cove

nant-reprefentation

3.5

37

Inferences

Object. I fear I am none of thofe whom Chrift re

prefented in the covenant; how then can I take hold of it by believing? Anfer 39 Queft. Are there no marks whereby a finner may know himfelf to be one of thefe who were reprefented by Chrift in the fecond covenant? Anfwer