84 TheSautes eeauallcalling toChriíi. di ferencebetweene the firft and fecond covenants God del covenant with Adam, that he fhould live upon the ground, that he fhould doe : Now becaufe the covenant of eternall life depended upon doing, it was not certaine to him andhis pofterity, but loft it ; but our eternall life depen- deth upon the promifeofGod, and therefore itis lure, becauleGod cannot faile, cannot change,his promife cannot bealtred : ifwe obferve the con= ditions, eternall life is lureuntoa broken hearted linnet- ; hence come all thofe phrafes inthiskind, wee are called children of the promife, what is that ? why, thery promife of God makes us children ; wee are begottenand made the Sonnes ofGod : heis called inEfay,The everlaßing Father, beebath begottenusby word, and the feedof the promife which is Towne in ourhearts, by the venueof the feed and the Spirit ofgrace, accom- panying that feed, wee have power to receive Chrift and the Spirit ofthrift, and fo tobecome the Sonnes or:God. Z his is, the reafon of that phrafe inScripture, We arenot children ©fthejlefh, but ofthe .premife &al roofthis in Gal.3.1aft verfe, wearemadeheire, by thepromife,it makes usheires; that is, looke whatever ground, orhope, or hold ofeternall life,and glory,& bleffednefl'e,you bold it by thevertue ofthe promife,all is by a promife, grace and goodrefre is communicated tous by a prom ife, this is our life, and all our hold, there- fore the Gofpell is made to be the teftamentof jefis thrift ; as by ones laft will and teftament, a man leaves his goods and lands to his pofteritie, fo
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