254 The Birth - Priviledge and Covenant- holineJé Ch, 3 5 his feed , a plea to .obtaine mercy from God for all /frael. , the worfi of Ifrae I , in their loweft fiate and condition , Deut. 9. z6, 27. 0 Lord god, deflroy not thy people and thine inheritance, which thou haft redeemed t brough thygreatneffe Which thou haft brought forth out of E g y pt with a mighty hand. Remember thy fervants, A- braham, Ifaac and Jacob looknot unto the flubborne ffe of this peo-, ple, nor to their wickedneffe, nor to their finne. If this Divinity., had been then known, Mofer might have been fent away with this anfwer ; That he f]akt: for dogs, and not for children ; not for If- `rael, but for aliens and flrangers to the Common - wealth of Ifrael. But as this and the like requefts of the people of God were made in Faith, fo they prevailed with God ; Mofes there urges They are thy people and thine inheritance, verf. 29. as Both the Church, Ifa. 64.9. Be not wroth very lore, O Lord , neither remember ini- quity forever; behold, fie,we befèech thee, We arc all thy people; and Adores petition takes as the Hiflory (hews, Exod. 32 14.. And the Lord repented of the evil' which he thought to do unto h.' people yea, when God vouchfafes mercy to his people thus in Covenant, Levit, z6.4.2. it is upon this account of the Covenant; Then will I remember my Covenant with Jacob , and al ,o my Covenant with Ifaac, and a fo my Covenant with Abraham will l remember,and I Will remember the land. And appearing for the deliverance of lfrael out of their bard and prefíing bondage ; he faith to, Mofes, I am the God of thy Father, the God of Abraham , the god oflfaac, andtheGod of Jacob, Exod. 3.6, and that to flay up his faith in- confidence of deliverance. To this Argument Maffer Tombes after his manner bath framed a kinde of anfwer. The covenant (faith he) with Abraham and -his feed 1 finde, Gen. 17. 7. and the urging of this covenant I deny woe, Exod. 32. 13. Deut. 9. 2.7. Levit. 36. 4z. Exod. 3.6. And though I [ay not that it contained only the Promife ofCanaan , but grant it contained the Promife of Redemption by Chrifl, Luke I. 17. yet I like not Chamiers fling., to call the Promife of Canaan an appendant to the Covenant fith the Holy Ghofl me thinksfpeaks o- therwife, Pfal. 105. 8,9,10,11. Apolog. pag.131. I fhali fay no more,but leave it to the Reader, whether this be not a learneckanfver, only for bis cenfure of Charniers calling ;the promife of the land of Canaan an appendant to this Covenant. The thing is fo cleare in the narrative of it, Gen.17. that nothing can Ojea.
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