I 41 'The Principle of the Afognation of'Divine Honour quif11ment ofthePromifewas no lefs Apofiacy from God in the Revelation of himfelf in a way of Grace, than the firfi fin was, as to the Revelation of himfdf in the works ofnature. · Only the one Revelation was by inbred Principles, the other by external declaration, · nor could it otherwife be. Or (3} that there was fome other wqy of the Participation of_the Be-. nefits of this Promife, befides Faith in it, or in-h~mwho was promifed therein; f~eing the Apofile hath decla~ed that no . Promife will profit them, !Jy whom it is not mixedwith Faith, He!J. + 2~ Unlefs thefe things are plainly proved, which they· will never be, whatever men declaim about univer· fal Objetl:ive Grace in the Documents of nature, it is but a vain In;.agtnation. 5. The Declaration of this Promife before the giving of the Law with the nature and ends ofit, as alfo the ufe ot Sa– crifices whereby it was confirmed, was committed unto the ordinary Minifhy ofour }irfl Parents and their GodlyPofierity, and the extraordinary Miniflryof the Prophets which God rai– fed up among them. For God fpake ofour Redemptiol). by ChriH:, by the mouth ofhi.s Holy 'P'rophets from the Beginning of the T47orld, Luke r. 70. No greater Duty could be incum– bent on them by the L~ght of Nature and the ex11refs Reve~ lation ofthe Will ofGod, than that they fhould in their feve- · ral capacities, communicate the knowledg of this Promife unto all in whom they were concerned. To fuppofe that our firfi Parents who received this Promife, and thofe unto whom they firfi declared it, looking on it as the only Foun– dation of their acceptance with God, and Deliverance from the Curfe, were negligent in the Declaration mid Preachi!tg ofit,i&-to-re~der them bruiti{h,and guilty ofa fecond Apofia– cy from God. , And unto this Principle which is founded in the Light of Natt{.re, there is countenance given by R~vela· tion alio. For·Enoch did prophefy of the things which wereto ' .. accom-
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