7 V4e pump®t íbeOílytne 2ittribtnez, Chap often betray us: Now to fupport our droopingSpirits, vj our Redeemer fits in Heaven to plead for us, and per- petually renews the Pardon that was once purchafed, to every contrite fpirit, for thole unavoidablefrailties which cleave to us here. Thepromifeof Grace is not a John 2. r. made void by the fudden furprizes of.Pallions. ifany manfin, we have an Advocate with the Father, jefrrs Chrifl the Righteous. The rigour of theLaw is molli- fied byhis Mediation with the Father : A title of Love and Tendernefs. God deals not with the Severity of Matac.3. a Judge, but He fares we as a man pares his ownfon thatferves him. And as He pardons us upon our Repentance, fo He accepts our hearty, though mean fervices. Now the Legal, that is, unfinning and compleat Obedience can- not be performed ; the Evangelical, that is, the fincere, though imperfect}, is gracioufly received. God doth not require the duties of a Man by the meafures of an Angel. Unfeigned Endeavours to pleafe Him, unre- ferved RefpeCts to all his Commands, tingle and holy aims at his Glory are rewarded. Briefly, Although the Law is continued as a Rule of living, yet not as the Covenant of Life. And what an admirableexaltation of Mercy is there in this new Treaty of God with Sinners? 'Tis true, the firfl Covenant was holy, fuß, and good, but it made no abatements of favour, and Rom. 3. 3. 'tis now weak through the IV: that is, The carnal corrupt Nature is fo thong and impetuous, that the re- f$raints of theLaw areineffel'ual to hop its defìres,and therefore cannot bring Man to that Life that is pro- rnifed, by the performance of the Condition required. But the Gofpel provides an Indulgence for relenting and returning Sinners. This is the language of God in lfieb. 8. 12, that Covenant, I will be mercifrslto their unrighteonf nef and theirfins, and their iniquities will remember no more 2. The
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