Chap. t 6. and the Covenant of Grace. I07 blal'phemy, fo that refult of all with him is this ,b God is then loved with the Whole heart b Diligx tune Deu rota wide; s dim grtù ex intima arcera crga Deum when any one out of inward and fincere affe_ á feetaorte occupatur poüjimiim in bis; q.0 e tliort to God iJ principally exercifed in thofe Dei faint, pra omnibus iii piacere ltu_ things Which are of god; fltQdyinr above all dens, ac follicatus ut non tantì-tm qua- dam Dei mandata crfcizt, ed cunc a, things to pleafe him, and carefully to observe idque non fegnitcr cx tri fit animo, lest n. t one but all his Comma ídment.r, and that gnaviter hilariter, dozens ex ammo not flothfully, and againfl heart, but diltntly, fi quid vel ab aliù vel « fe per carnir and cheerfully, grieving from the heart if any vir..æ itatem tat tit IIa man. thin by others or him %elj through infirmity of cap. 8i, th flail) be admitted contrary to the tt'ill of God. P 69 that fotne might think all controverfie in this point may ceafe, and that the difference between us, were no more then a firife of words, feeing we donor only confeffe that this ought to be done, but aifo urge a neceffity of doing of it, and they fay TheLaw a rule the Law is fulfilled when it is done; But here much wrong is ofourduty, done to the Law, as though it were a rule of our ftrength, not not of our of our duty, that it anfwered and might be applied to each mans ílre g h. impaired ffrengch and weakened abilities, or that the Gofpel- grace of godly furrow for fin againft the Law, were the keeping of the Law, making repentance a fatisfac}ory difcharge for dif- obedience, when thefe men cannot bring up mans nature to the flreight line of the Law, they bring down the Law to the crook- ed nature of man. It is injurious to man, puffing him up with conceit of anfwering the Law, letting him as high as he fhould J be laid low, ready to fay with the young man in the Gofpel, All thefe have I kept from my youth, when holding out the Law in its juft latitude, (as it was happily brought home to the Apofl-les confcience) fin would revive, and he would fee himfelf in a loft condition. A fecond opinion is, that the Covenant of grace requires per - fe &ion in the exadeft way, without help of thefe mens diftincti- ons in an equall degree with the Covenant of works, but with gCovedanc this difference; In the Covenant of works there is no indulgence notgea rper or difpenfation in cafe of failing, but the penalty takes hold, the f cl;on,and ac- curfe follows upon it; But the Covenant ofGrace, though it call cepttincerity. for perfection, fuch is the exacinefï'e of it, yet it accepts of fin- cerity, fuch is the qualification of it through grave; or the mer- cy in it. If I fhould take up any opinion in the world for the P 2 Authors t
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