Chap.z.Sett.8. Looking unto 1efos. Book lll. _ are upright in heart,Ffal.23. r I. 0 what.p 1 reffing Command~ are Pf._ 13 _ 11 thefe! --"---------------- SECT. VIIf. Ofcalling on JefUJ iH thllt refpect. 8.wE mull: call on {efns , or on God the Father rn and ; .. thrqugh1 'fe{HJ in reference to tais gracieus covenant, now this calling on God containes prayer,and praife. I. We muft pray; we mull: ufearguments of faith challenging ; qod, tsms thou me 4nd I fhall be t·urn1d? why ! for thou arr the Jcr: 3 t,t8.' Lord my God. This Covenant is the ground on w.hich all prayers muft be bottomed ; the covenant we know contames all ~he pro-- . mifes, and what is prayer but promifes turned into petitions ? , thus prayed the Prophet 'feremy, d~ not 11bhorre us for thy Names Jer. I.of,:tt,u;. Jak!, do not difkr.ace the Thrme of thy glory , . remember, break._ . ,not thy Cove11ant with us • -Wiry? art nor- thou he the Lord · tJttr God ? and thus p-rayed the Prophet Jfaiah , be nor wroth very .. fore, neither remember_iniquity_for ever, behold we befeech thee ; Ifa.64.9 J and why fo ? we are all thy people; q. d. Every one doth for its own. the Prince for his people, the father for his-children . · " and rhe fhepherd for his {beep ; . and will not God do for his ow~ in covenant with him ? be thy foul in the faddell defertion ; yet come.and fpread the covenant before Cod : a ioul in the greateft · d~pth, fwimming on this c-ovenant of grace, it keepes .it from !inking: whence Chrifr in his blackefl , faddeft .houre pr.ayed thus, my God, my qod, why haft thou forfltk§n me? · Be thyfoul in trouble for finne, and prevailing corruption ; yet go .to God : · and plead l1is promife and covenant ; fay as 'fchofhaphat, Lord}' am fo bornedown by the power of my fin-ne , that I /z.now not what to , do, oncly rr:in~ eyes are tmto thee , 0 do thou fubdue mine iniqHities, Be thy foul troubled for want ofllrength to do this or thac duty . yet go to God and Chrifl . in the covenant ·of grace, and fay : : Lord thou kpoweft I have no Urength ofmy [elf, 1 am a bArrm.'wil- - dr:rnefJe,hut thou ha(f entred int9 a Cov:n.-mt tfl;;-ace wtth me, thttt · thm wilt put my Law into my in»iarJ parts, thou wilr tllufe 'me tt~.Ezek 3 6.2-; 1 k.!!P thy ju~g'?ents and do them, , Ez:k.3§.27, As fome time~th cu,, faid(\,
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