lnheing in the Covenimf ofGrace. 267 and happy; while in the mean time it allows them, at leafi in fome infumces, to be unholy: as a cove– nant, wherein, through Chrifi's means, they may ob- .tain acceptance with God by their good works, not.. withfianding- of their ·ill works. But in all this, they are in love with a creature of their own fancy, riot · •with God's covenant of grace. Let the covenant be . · fet before them, in the light of the holy Scripture; .anJ viewed by them, in that,light: they will be fure to dislike it and pick holes in it. Let the defign of the covenant be fairly difr<;>Vered, as being ·to exalt on God's freegrace the ruins ofallexcellen.cy left with man; to make Chrifi all, and man nothing in his owrl falva– tion: the proud heart cannot away with that, cannot jubmit to the righteou.foeji ofGod,Rom.x. 3·Theefficacy of it, in w0rking out fin, feparating be~tweei1 the foul and its dearefi· lufls, once fairly appearing; natural men flee from it, as if one cried unto them, there's death in the p()t. Let them ferioufly enter into the thought, how it is fuited to the honour/ of God, and ·the Divine perfeCtions ; and, how 't~s fuited to their real fafety before him : and they cannot fee, how it 'is fo. To the lewijh wifdom, it is a fiumbHng·block,. a device inconfifient with the Divine perfeCtions: the Grecian learning pronounceth it foolifunefs, a method ·of falvation unfilfe to be trulled ~o : only the eye of faith difcovers it to be the power ofGod, and the wif. dom of God·; fafe for guilty creatures, and h~nourable for aholy God, 1 Cor. i. 23, ~4· In. Upon the .difcovcry of the covenant -to them, as made from eternity between God and the feconlj! A dam, and offered to him in the gofpel ; . they'll fa– tisfy themfelves, in their covenanting, with heaven'~ · draught of it, fo far as they underfian.d it: and they will not go about to add unto it, nor to diminifu from it; but will fiand ro the term~ ofGod andChrift's ~ making, ACts i.x. 6. . Lord, what wilt thou have . m~ , to /df ?· They will put a blank in t-he Lord's hand , fqr '
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