J ~g Alarm to .tA~ Um•egm~ra.tr. .Stat.e TT.· you, ':fJhofoevu ofyou are jujiified by ~he fa,.,JJ, ye arefal/e~ from grace. Peace, p::l.rdon, and f'uch like .benefits, are ail – benefits 'of the covena;1t of grace. And ,ye mu~ noqhink r 9 ' !land off' from Chri£t and.t)1e marri~ge-c.oyenant with him, and yet plea<;i .tbefe be.ne~[s; mor~_than .one man's wife c~n plead the benefit of a contract of m:>rriage raft benvixt,ano– ther man and his own wife. Laflly, See the bill of exclufioo, . pa.t1 in d:e court. of heaven, againCr all under the covenant cfworks, Gal. iv. 30. Th·e fon of the bond:'"(}J07llanjball not : b~heir. Corppare ver. 24. Heirs of wqth mu!tnotbeheirs of glo,ry. Vv',hom the fidt covenant h.as power 10 exclupe . out of ~eav~n, the feco[ld covenant c4nnot ~ring in t9 it; . · Ohje(iion. Then it if impoffihle.for UJ .to be javed. An~ · ' f\ver. It is ·fo, while you are in that fiate. But if ye wo'uld be out of that dreadful condition, ba.ften out of that ftate·. If a mur,derer be u.nder f:!ntence of death, fo long as he live-s within the kingdom, the Jaws will ' reach his life; _but ~f he can make his ef~ape, and get over tbe fea, into the do– Jl1iqions of t!nQ~her prir.ce : our Jaws cannot reach him there. ·This is what w~ would have you to do: flee out o.f the kingdiJm ()f darknefl, into the kingdom if Ccd's _4ea,r Sow; out of the dominion of the law, into' the dc!llinion ' of grace: . then all the curfes of the law, · or co~enant of works, !hall never be ~ble ~o .reach you. . ; Motive 2. 0 ye children of wrath, your lhte is wretch- · ed, for ye have loft God ; and that is an unfpeakable 1ofs, , ye are,<7JJith·out God in the <7JJ_orld; Eph. ii. 12. Wha,!ever you may call yours, ye cannot c~ll God yours. If we Jook to the earth, per~ap<; you can tell us, that land, that boufe, ~r that herd of cattle, is yours. But let us l9ok up\~~a.rd ro · h'eaven, is-that God, that grace, that glory yours? · Tmly, . you have neither part nor Jot i,~ d;at marter• .\Vhen Nebu- . ehadnezzartalks of cities and kin_gdoms, 0 hO'?J big d,oes' he fpeak· ! Great Baby/on.that I ha,ve b~ilt, -my po<tver-my · , 11Jaje}ly ; but he tetls a po8r tale wh~n he comc;:s ·to fpeak of Gad, fa'ying, your Cod, Dan. ii • .47, ;an~ iv. 3Q· Alas! · ii·nner, whatever thou hail, Go.d is go_ne from thee. 0 th~ mifery of a g·odiefs foul! Hafi t~ou loft G,od ?· Therl, ( 1. ) TdJe fap ~nd fubfhwce of all thou halt ·in· tlYe · ~-orld, ~~ gc<1e. Thegodlt>fs man. Have,·wh~t·he .will~.:i;;onetba~ hatbnct; . M~at~ _xxv~· 29·~ ..1~cfy ;. the ,u;nregs_n:erate·.n1~n to· an~in tofo 1~ ·
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