Of Eleflion. ~ YoubavenowfeenthisManinhis heights; and it is a very high, and a ~ gallant frame <>f heart that be was in ; all mere I ngcnuit) toward God that he cxpreffeth.---And who in fuch a cafe would nor have wifbt to have died ? For thou couldll not have died in a better time. . And let any Soul be but thus fpirited, and hung as a Globe of glafs in the Sun, as I faid, during this; and how will that Soul tl~rink, and fawr, and link but to think I fhatl flit agai11, it would rather dye ten thoufand deaths. ' But lo, as it is {aid,-. Kmgs.z3. I6.Jofitlh t_urned himf"elfmtd fpyrd the frptil· chers, ffJc. thenfmdhr, what mt: zs thu I fee?) I mentton rbi; bur by way of Allufion) Oh my llrethen, I-turmn& but two pages off, no more, from this of 2 Jam.7.wbtchihave tnfiiled on( as youmay alfo do thelike)andwh 11 t tittrs are lht{t I "(er? Over the 3page 'David's Adultery, that's over the firft Colume of it;thenVriah llain,that's over the fecond.Is this the man we found even now in the 7thChapl.in fogreat glory.and fo fublimated with the grace of God,and that11ere we fee in mire and hlth?'D,widhad faid that when he was in his Elevation, what can 'Davidfa~ more? Butf•y I now, what could 'David do worfe? as the ProphetJrremy faidChap. 3·)· Thou hajlfpokm and donrevtl thmgs a thou coutdefl. And now I will again take up the Apoilles words to another purpofe, Bn– thrm,what {ball wt fay to thtfe things?l will t~ll you what yourWorkmongers and Legah!ls that are oppaiite to Free-grace Wtll fay, Here's your Doctrine of Free-grace, you fee what tt comes to,and ends in:This would they fay. Nay I'll .tell you farther what God would have faid, if he had confidered 'Davidas in a Covenant of works: My Govenant he bath broken, and I regard him not;yea, l will {wear againft him, hefuall neverenter into my rrf/; I will never have .to do with him: And Give me this man, would Ju!lice have faid, to make a Trophee,an Example ofto glorify this myJu!lice upon,which would have beea more glorified on this man, than on a thoufand other finners who never knew what Free-grace meant. But Let us hear whu fays Free-grace to thefe things. Confider every one of you,though you have not had Bathjheba's to lye with,nor murtheredVrtah's, yet you have had thofe, or other fuch luils and pafiions, Envies and !\rains of !elf-love, unto a mon!lrofity; and bearing your felves high upon yourEftates, Names, &c. in this world, and rtigning therein, as the Apo!lle fpeaks: Well ! but what cloth the God of all Grace fay to thefe things? I deii~ed you but even now to view 'David in thefe two Chapters, Chap. 7• and r I. Now I defire you firil to confider what God had faid for his part toV avid in that very fame 7th Chapter; And then fecondly, whata punctual performance of it you read of, notwith!tanding all this, from the I I thChapt. to the end of the frory, Firft Whereas you often have heard outofP[a/.llg.H. how F:ree-grace had {aid,Once haveI jwor11e by my ho!yntfs,thatiwilt not !ye unto David,mJCove– nant wilt l11ot b"ea~, nor alttr the thing that ugone out of my lips, nor fait 'David: ( But 'David fail'd him.) Now !land and wonder: Where is it tha.t this Covenant is to be firll found; where but in this very 7thchapttr we have been upon1 There it is, and there firft it was that God did give it forth [that once] for all;fov .II.The Lordtels thtt,that he wilt malu thtt an Houfe,and when thy da~s 6t fttiP,Ittd, I wiltJet up thy Sett/afttr thu,wichjhatl procetd out of thy 6owtlts, mtdI wilt ejlabtt/b hi& Kingdom ;he{batl6uild an Houjefor my Namt, mtdI wilt tf/a6tijh theThront of hu Kingdom forever. I wilt be his Fathtr ff5 hejhalt 6t m~ SoH; if ht commit iniquity,Iwilt chaflen him wtth therod of mm, and with tht flripes of the Chitdrm of men, lmt my mtrcyjhat twt dtpart way from .him, &c,He re's the very Covenant the P[illmifl !peaks of,and this was the firft Revelation ofit before 2>avidhad exprelfed himfelffo, as I have been opening. And here let me but remind you but ofthat one pa!fageof'David's thereup· on Chap. 7· 20. Thot< LordGod k11owejl thy[er'Z!a11t: He !mew him indeed, and knew not only how he had. ferved him afore this Covenan~, but alfo how he would ferve him,even fo as m the Jl C/Japter ) ,you find he dtd. Indeed 'Davtd fpakc
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