Ch. I z. TheNeroTellament Heb t s. Make it your diligent tare that none of you fail offound believing, obeying and en- joying that Grace which is of£eed you by Chrift in the Golpei; and you have profeffed to ac- cept : left any ill and dangerous Do `_Mine, or fiefnly Luft or Prablice, fprag up among you, and raft you into trouble and danger, and the Churches be denied by them, while the Weak and Unftedfaft are carried away, tnd catch the infeduion, 16. Left there be any fornicator or prophane perfon, as Efau, who for one morfel of meat fold his birthright. t6. Left Seducers and flefhly lust draw any to.Fornication, or any be fo ptophane, and fen- fo light byChrift, and Grace, and Glory, as to lofe them all for the bafe thingsof theWorld; and to prefer Wealth and fenfual Delights be- fore them, like Efau, that let fo light by his Birthright, as to fell it for one Difn ofMeat. Nate, What a bafe price all ungodly men do fee on Chrift and their own Salvation! What bath theFornicator, the Drun(ard, theGlatten, the Worldlitag, the .Asnbitiout, Proud, and Op- prefers, for all, but thebafe portion ofa beaft? 17. For ye know how that after- ward, when he would have inherited the bleflìng, he was rejefted : for he found no place ofrepentance, though . he fought it carefully with tears. 57. For the Text tells you, that after; when he would fain havehad thatBlefling. ofPrimo- geniture whichhe fold, ,and fought' it of ¡pas with Tears, Ifaac rejedted him, and wouldnot. retradt what he had faid of lapob. Note, This intimateth a warning of the den- ger ofthe contempt ofGrace, left God with; draw the Offers, or leave men to the power of Temptation as deferred, But, r. It determineth riot any thing about the damnation of Eras. z. Nor that he truly repentedofhis fin against God (butonly of his lollof the privilege ofthe elder brothel.)and yet could not be forgiven (but that this fors could not be recall'd.) 3.Nor that any one that truly repented:, and is conver- ted, (halt not be forgiven : for the contrary is à great part ofthe Dodtrine ofthe Gofpel. 18. For ye. are not come into the . mount that might be touched,and that burned with fire; nor unto blackncfs, and darknefs, and tempeft, 115; And the found ofa trumpet,,and the voice of words, which voice they thatheard, intreated that the word fhould not be fpoken to them any more. I$, le. For ye are not in the infant and t'ildrtgeh ftace of ail, when they malt heat` rews. preferr'd. Ch. I2: from God out ofa Mountain on Earth, which was touchable (but mutt trot be touched) and which terrified themwith flamm ofFire; and Blacknefi, and Darknee, and Tempeít;: fignify- ing thediftance ofunreconciled Manfrom God; where they heard the found of a Trumpet, and a. terrible Voice of words, which fear made them delire that theymight hear no more. 20, 2 r. For they could not endure that which was commanded : and iffo much as a beaft touch the mountain, it (hall be (toned, or thruft thorow with adart. And fo terrible was the fight, that Mofes faid, I exceedingly fear and quake. 20, 2 T. This fignified how little they could bear the thingscommanded. And the dillaace and dreadfulnefswas fuch, that aBeaft mull if it touched the Mountain. And Motet himfelf (as wemay gather by Confequence and Tradi- tion) did fear and quake. 22. But ye are come unto mount Sion, and unto the City of the living God, the heavenly Jerufalem, and to an innumerable company of angels 23.TOthe general affembl e, and church of the fjrit-born, which are written in heaven, and to God the judge of all,' and to the fpirits of juft men made perfect: 24. And to Jefus the Me- diator of the new covenant, and to the blood offprinkling, that fpeaketh better things than that of Abel. 22, 23,24. But the flare orRelatien towhich ye are brought, as Chriftiana, is more fpirituat and fublime: You are come in Faith, Relation Hopi and Initial Participation; to that ftate of holy Worfhipwhich Mount Zion typified, anclo to that bleffed Church which is gathering on Earth, and cenfummate in Heaven, which 7e; rufalem typified, and may well be called The Heavenly yerufalem, the bi fled City ofimmor- tal onesdwelling with the living God: And to Myriads, or numberlefs multitudes of An gels, inhabiting tholevaft and gloriousRegions (where, you shall fee that thejnumber ofthe glo- rified Spirits were not few.) And to that ad- vanced flute of the Church, in its triumphant, joyful Commánion,which anfwereth a Generat Aflembly ofthe Princes ofthe Tribés of Ifrocl; who had the honour of Primogeniture, even chore who are the enrolled Citizens of Heaven, ( here they have Right, and there Poffef ion.x And more than all this,you arecome as adopted' Sons to God the7xdgéofall, and to 'the Spirits gfehe eopfµtptgatg or perfeted juft Men, with á7 * whest,
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