fall of Adam, still upon the work of applying actually the purchased benefits unto the elect; and that he doth by way of entertaining a Covenant of free grace and reconciliation with them, through Faith in himself, by which Covenant he makes over to every believer a right and interest in himself, and to all his blessings.127 Theologians of the period, therefore, as well as Westminster divines such as Rutherford, or others like Thomas Goodwin, Obadiah Sedgwick, Edward Leigh, and Anthony Burgess, believed