be saved, should be saved by the Covenant of grace, 1 Cor.
1. 21. Rom. 3. 21, 22. as Rom. 10. 5, 6, 7. compared with Rom. 3.
9, 10, & 20. Gal. 3. 8, 9, 10. as both the Scripture and the
issue of two dispensations, of Law and Gospel, do evidence.
2. Man in the covenant of works was under no tutor but
Adams free will; but now man as an interdicted heir,
for former wasteries, is disinherited, so that he hath not the
mastery of his own estate, is put under another Lord, even
Jesus Christ, as his tutor; and since it is so, the less our
own, the better; the more we are under the law, the less
we are under grace, as Rom. 7. the less freedom (or rather
physicall licence) to sin, the more true liberty, Psal. 119. 45.
I will walk at liberty, for I seek thy precepts. Christ by his
covenant layeth the aw of grace upon us; whether grace be
taken physically, for an inward principle of grace; or morally,
for a gracious fear to sin, its all one; the more under Christ
any is, the less is he free to sin; as the better and stronger
the keeper is, who is put upon a broken man and a priso∣ner,
who is a bankrupt, the less can he take on new debt,
Rom. 6. 20, 22. the less can he make a sinfull escape; ungra∣cious
are they, who say, Ah if I had my will, I would doe o∣therwise;
grace loves to be restrained from doing evil, 1.
Sam. 22. 23. Satan seeks leave, or rather cursed licence, if
it were but to destroy the Gadarens swine, and he reputes
it his torment not to dwell with his Legions, in the distra∣cted
man to torment him, Matth. 8. Such cannot complain,
Would God breath on me with his influences of grace, I
would be as holy as David; nay, there is in the man a tor∣menting
sorrow, that he cannot have more power, and
stronger influences of hell to doe more evill; and so he
hates these influences of grace of which he speaks.
It may be doubted (ere we speak of other differences)
whether perseverance was promised to Adam in a law-state,
or not; for if prayer was a worship enjoyned to Adam be∣fore
the fall, no less then publick worship of praising for
the workmanship of creation, Gen. 2. 2, 3. it may be said, if
Adam was to suit any thing in prayer to God, then especi∣ally
was he to pray that he might not sin, and might not
be led into temptation, but might stand in obedience, and
so might have influences to determine his will to stand and