3. This
Covenant is revealed in the Gospel; first of all to
Adam in the promise of Salvation by the
(e) seed of the woman, and afterwards by farther steps, untill the full
(f) discovery thereof was compleated in the new Testament; and it is founded in that
(*) Eternal
Covenant transaction, that was between the
Father and the
Son, about the Redemption of the
Elect; and it is alone by the Grace of this
Covenant, that all of the posterity of fallen
Adam, that ever were
(g) saved, did obtain life and a blessed immortality;
Man being now utterly uncapable of acceptance with
God upon those terms, on which
Adam stood in his state of innocency.