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Orthodox Creed · Chapter 16

Of the New Covenant of Grace

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1. The first Covenant being broken by Man’s Disobedience, and by his Sin, he was excluded from the Favour of God, and Eternal Life; in which deplorable condition of his, God being pleased out of his Free-Grace, and Love to faln Man,a (in order to his recovery out of this sinful and deplorable Estate) hath freely offered him a Second, or New Covenant of Grace,b (which New Covenant of Grace is Jesus Christ) in remission of Sins, through Faith in his Blood,c which God hath promised to give to all them that do obey and submit to the conditions of this Covenant,d which Covenant of Grace, and Eternal Salvation annexed to it, is freely and fully offered unto all Men, upon the terms of the Gospel, viz. Repentance, and Faith: And the Benefits of this Covenant, by God’s Free-Grace, through the Redemption that is in Jesus Christ, whom God hath set forth to be a Propitiation through Faith in his Blood,e to declare his Righteousness for the Remission of sins that are past through the forbearance of God, that he might be Just, and the Justifier of him that believeth in Jesus. Therefore we conclude, that a Man is Justified by Faith, without the deeds of the Law:f for by Faith we receive that Righteousness that the Law, or the First Covenant, required of the first Adam; which Righteousness Christ hath fulfilled (in our Nature which he took of the Virgin Mary) by his Active Obedience,g and is by God’s free Donation, made over to us by Imputation,h for he hath made him to us Wisdom, Righteousness, and Sanctification:i For as by one Man’s Disobedience, many were made Sinners, so by the Obedience of one (that is Christ) shall many be made Righteous. For Christ hath not only fulfilled the Sanction of the Law, (viz.) to love God with all his Heart, and his Neighbour as himself, but hath also voluntarily suffered the Curse of the Law, being made a Curse for us;j that we might receive the Blessing of Abraham, and the Promise of the Spirit through Faith, in his Blood.k And now, albeit the Essential Righteousness of Christ, as he is God equal with his Father, be not imputed unto us, nor yet his Personal Righteousness as he was, or is Man (only), yet we believe his Mediatoral Righteousness, as God-Man,l is imputed, reckoned, or made over to us,m upon the terms of this New-Covenant of Grace;n and so being justified by his Grace, we are thereby made Heirs according to the hope of Eternal Life:o For (as St. Paul saith) if Righteousness come by the Law, then Christ is dead in vain.p

Proofs

Each links to the Scripture index: what else cites the passage.

  1. aDeuteronomy 27:26; Colossians 1:13; 2 Corinthians 4:4; John 3:16
  2. bJeremiah 31:31–32; Romans 3:23–24; Galatians 3:21–22; Romans 3:31; Hebrews 8:7; Genesis 3:15
  3. cLuke 24:47; Ephesians 1:7; Psalm 20:3; Acts 10:43
  4. dActs 3:19; 26:18; 2:37–38; Mark 1:15; Galatians 3:11, 17
  5. eJeremiah 32:40; Isaiah 42:6; Romans 3:24–26; Acts 10:43; Isaiah 53:11; Romans 5:9; 3:20
  6. fGalatians 3:8; 2:16
  7. gRomans 5:10, 19; 10:4; Psalm 40:7–8; Matthew 3
  8. h2 Corinthians 5:21
  9. i1 Corinthians 1:30
  10. jGalatians 3:13; 1 Peter 2:24; Isaiah 53:6–8; Philippians 2:7–8
  11. kGalatians 3:13–14
  12. lHebrews 7:26; Matthew 3:15; Romans 5:18
  13. mGalatians 4:6–7; Romans 4:3–4, 23
  14. nRomans 3:25, 28
  15. oTitus 3:7; 1:2
  16. pGalatians 2:21

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