·! 64 ~he Prom?fo · · · m the gofpel ·cpvenanr, arc all turned _into promifes, Thus wherea~ the commanq is, Know the Lord; the promife is, 'Thfy jhqll ql/ know me,ftith tht: Lord, Jer·• .~xxi. 34· The commancJ. is., C(ome unto me, Mat. xi. 18. and it ispromife~, They foal! come,'Pfalm xxii ~ 3_1. The command is, Love the Lord, Pfalrn xxxi. 23~ 't~s protl)ifed,' The JJord will ci~cumcife thine heart to love the Lord,' De ut. ~xx. 6. 'Tis the com– ~lland,' Fear God, r Pet. "ii. I 7~ and ·'tis promifed, ' I will put my fear in their heart~,' ]er. xxxii. 40. We ~re ~omm~nded to be' meelf, humble~ and lowly/ -:Mat. xi. 29. and 'tis promifed, Ifa. xi. 6. ' The wolf ihall dwell with the lamb,- --and a little child fhalllead ~he.m. ~ . And thus it ~s in fl-11 other . cafe~~ the wh~le ~Qmmandments of the Jaw in this ibtion, being inlaid with the ·gofpel-promifes, as appears from f:leb. vi_ii. :ro. ' I will pqt ~y la.ws into their mind, and' write ~~em in their hearts : aqd r, wil! be to th~m a God, ~nd they fhall be to me a people. · _ But the chief branches · are thefe two; to wit, the pro111;ije'ofrepentance, and theprornift pf ~Cfualgrace and /lrength for all holy obedie~zce. · Fi~.fl, . Qne ~hief branch of the promife qf ~antl:ification, is the promife •of repentance. .Not that legal repentance, ~hich goes before faving faith, being common to the eleCt: and reprobate : but th at evange.: lieal reperitancc, which is defcribed in our Ca techifms~ the feeds of whichf are faid in the Larger Catechifrn, t o be pu t into thd heart in f.qnetification ; and fo fol.; lows faving faith- tand jnfiification, in tl',.: order 9fna· 'tu re. Ezek. xxxv i;3r.' Then rfhall ye remember your own evil _ways, and ,your dqings that we re IfOt good~ and fhaH ·1othe y0t1 rfdves in your own fight, for your 1niguitics.' Pnd·fi\ XXiL 27. 'All t~e ends ~f the wor!~ fu~il remember and turn unto the Lord. ; Zech. xu. 1 0 . c They f1u li look upon me whom they have pie:– c..:ed, and they iliall mourn for him.' The whole fp1-: rir<.1al feed wu e, by means of the breach of the f1r4 1- .. • .. " , cove-
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