Chap. . and the Covenant of Grace. I comforts delight my foul, Pfal. 9+ 19. 1 will both lay me down in peace and ,peep for thou,Lord, only m4,eg me dwell in fafety, Pfal. 4.8. The Lord is my light and my falvation, Whom fhall I feare ? The Lord is the flrength of my life, of Whom f all 16e afraid ? Pfal. 27. I. Sixthly, for the greater terrour of the adverfaries of his peo- ple, when they fee themfelves engaged againít them, and God ífands in a Covenant unviolable engaged for them ; when they fee that him whom God will fave their work is to ruinate and deffroy. Hence it is while their Rock fells them not,one of them chafes a thoufand, and two put ten thoufand to flìgh t, Deut, 3 2. 30. Paulin bonds can make Felix tremble on his Throne, efi s 2q, ag. Hamans wife -men, and Zerefh. his wife fpake- words of terrour, upon experiment made, If Mordecai be of the feed of the Ie'es, before whom thou haft begun to fall, thou !halt not prevaile a- gainfl him, but fhalt fisrely fall before him, Efier !. r3. This was Gods way of dealing (I doubt not) with the Angels though (we being not interefled in it) there is no neceffity that it fhould be written for our learning : Sure we are, it was his way of dealing with man, as well before his fall,(as prefently (hall be (hewn) as out of more abundant grace and condefcenfion for hisfireffitu:ion. And not mentioning for, prefent any mores. then that which i3 effential in the Covenant of God with man, I ft: pole it may thus held out to us.: A mutual compaEl or. a -,, grceanent between God and man upon ¡sift and. equal, termer pre- ( fcribed by hirnfilf, in which God promifes true happinele to man, and man engages hisr,lf by promife for performance of What God re- quires. 1- his defeription here. laid down, comprizes the way of God in every one of his Covenants with man both before and after his fall, under Old and New Teftamentrevelations, all, that is effential in any Covenant, that he enters..; equals covenanting do eitherof them article and indent, but God condefcending to a Covenant, man muff not article, but muff affent, sand engage for performance of what is prefcribed, otherwife it will bear the a_ature of a Law, but not of a Covenant. I t. is true, all men are bound upon tender from God, to accept ; It was -the fin of Jew - ifhand hea-thenifh people, to ftand out whenfoever the.Gofpel was preached.; but they were no -Covenant-people till they gave. theiraifent,and then they were received.as. a Covenant people, and:- The Covenant between God and Man de fined.,
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