1729. MR THOMAS BOSTON. 867 nant, I ftated God's offer and exhibitation of the covenant to me, in his own exprefs words; fuch as, If. Iv. 3. l ` I will make an everlafting covenant with you, even the fure mercies of David." Heb. viii. 10. " This is the covenant I will put my laws into their mind," &c. Hot. ii. 19. " I will betroth thee unto me for ever." John iii. 16. " God fo loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son," &c. Rev. xxii. 17. " Whofoever will, let him take the water of life freely." Thefe, I pleaded, were his own words, he could not deny : and thereupon I adhered, and folemnly took hold of the fame, as before. And then I fitw fo clearly the matter concluded be= tween God and my foul, that I could plead, and fee, that, upon the reparation of my foul from my body, my foul fhould be carried up by angels unto Abraham's bofom, by virtue of the covenant ; and my dead body be carried down to the grave in it, and lie there in it, and by virtue of it railed up.at the lait day, re- united to my foul. And tongue and heart jointly contented, that this my vile body, bearing the image of the firth Adam, fhould be left lifelefs, carried to the grave, and become more loathfome there, till it be reduced to duff again : but fo that, in virtue of the covenant, it be out of the fame daft new framed and fafhioned, after the image of the fecond Adam, like unto his glorious body. Riling up from prayer, filled with joy in believing, I fang with an exulting heart, Pfal. xvi. 5. to Fkhe end, " God is of mine inheritance, ' &c. Thereafter I fet myfelf to gather fome evidences for heaven. And thefe were as follows. 1. I fee that I believe the gofpei, with application to myfelf; and find, that my expedtations from it do ultimately refolve themfelves on the faithfulnefs of God in the word of the promife of the gofpei. The which is a good evidence, according to If. 1. ; John iii. 33. 36. ; Heb. x. 23. ; 2 Tim. i. 12. 2. I find, my foul acquierceth in, being well pleafed with, the covenant of grace, as God's plan of falvation in Chrift : and that I have come into it with heart and good-will; taking my offered place in it in Chrift the fecond Adam, putting downmy little naine within the compafs of his great and glorious name. Whereby I, as a member of the my.ítical body of the fecond Adam, am as really intitled to the prornife of the covenant of grace, eternal life, made to him for all his,' as I was rendered liable to the' penalty of the broken covenant of works, eternal death', in the firft Adam : 2 Samuel xxiii. 5..; If, avi. 4, 5. ; 1 Cor. i. 24. ; Matth. xi. 6. ; Rom v. 19. '3. I find my heart fo far at odds with fin, that if there were noother hell, but juft leaving one in his fin for ever, " He that is filthy, let him be filthy Rill," my 'heart would, upon that fentence againft me, break in a thoufand pieces. Arid is not this the work of the Çan&ifyingSpirit of Chrift in. me? Rom. vii. 23, 24, 25. and viii. 6. ; Gal. v. 17. No. 8. Z z
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