Ofthe Promifts. in general. , ' . 125 the promifes were made to him ; · a~d, having the adminiHration ·of the covenant in his own hand, he cannot fail offeeing to the accompl1ihing· ofthem, in the appointed time• . Howbeit they, being dead in _ trefPajfes andfins, cattnot·confult their own interefi: yet he, having the chief interefi in the promifes, will not neglect his own caufe·; b~ut wi11 fee them exactly accomplilhed. , : . (3.) The way to be perfonally and favingly inter~ cfl:ed in the promifes, for time and eterni ry, is to u– nite with Chrifi by faith : ' For all the promifes of ' God in him are Yea, and in him Amen,' 2 Cor. i. 20. \Voul~ ye fain know, how the great and precious pro· mifes may become yours ? Why, they are all his; they are all mad~ to hitn. Take hil;n, and they are yours: Even ~she who marries the heirefs, bath a right to her portion, and all the bills and bonds, where– in any ofit is cont~ined. · (4.) When through deadnefs and darknefs of fpi– rit, whether arifing from fame confcience-wafiing. guilt, or othGrwife, your faith of the promife is faWd, and you cannot again fafien your grip upon it, becaufe, you can fee no good in you : embrace Chr.ifi .again,.. and the promife in him, notwifhfianding ofyour feen. and felt finfulnefs and utter unworthinefs: and' by no means fiand off from the promife, until you be in bet– ter cafe ;. -but fay with the Pfamifi, .' Iniq.uities preva1l' againfi me: ,as for our tr~nfgreffions thou..fh~l!. purge them away,' Pfal. lxv. 3· For as the go'odrtefS in you was not the ground of the promife; fo the. evil in YOll · doth not overturn it, and make it of none effeCt. · The fou ~ dati6n of the promife fiands fure in Chri!l:, what– ever alterations the fi·ame and cafe ofa believer's fpi,. .r,it do undergo. ·It is eflablifhed as the moon, (Pf;ll. lxxxi:x. 37 .) which is fiill the fame in itfelf, notwith– fianding of the v~riety 9f its appearances to our fight, one while waxing, at' another rime WCiineing. Cs.) The true way to pleafl the promifes,, is to come to God in the name ofChrijl, and plead the fulfilling · of
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