~68 . !The 'rrtt~l'df a foving ·Perfonql · for their part ; as content of all within the cornpafs -ef the covenant, without put.ting in their ·exceptions· ()r clefiring amendments andalterations to be made i~ their favour. They're coritent of the laws of the co– -v:enanr., as well as .of thepr.ivile'ges,of it ; of the dif– ciplitze of the cove·nanr, as well as of the t:ewards of it; of the , crmdition o.f'the covenant, as fulfilled by Chriji alone, as well as of the promift$ ofit to be ful– filled to them ; and of the promife offonllijication, as , well as of the prornife ofjuf/ification andglorificatio1t~ Hence the covenant, as revealed in the gofpel, is by the holy Ghofi: ca1led a hearing, Ifa.liii. 7.Marg. that . is, a thing to be heart!and receiv'd by faith;as a voice . is ·received a~d hea~d by ear, according to that, cbap·. · lv. 3· Hear, and your foulfoall live. 'Tis the nar tural difpofition ofmankind, to fpeak rather than to hear; for we're more ready to declare our own will, b'y fpeaking, than to receive the will of another, by hearing. Wherefore, the gofpel being the de~laratiQn of the will of God; for our falvation, only to be heard ~rld received by faith, and ~herefore called the he4ring offoith, Gal. . iii. 2. there is need ,of the pow:– cr ofgrace, to fuhdue the heart to the hearing thereof, and to fiop the mouth from ma¥"ing propofals of our . ~wn in that matter. . ·, .. . ·. · IV. The love ofGod in Chrill: is habitually predo· m inant in them, Prov. viih 17. I love them that love nie..·" Great .was the love to them, appearing _in the covenant. The panies-contraCl:ers about them, atted . therein from a principle of free, an·d yet greateft, love. From ,thence fprung the firft motion for a covenan.t' of life :;1nd falvation untO them: tbence ~t was, the Father was content to give his own Son for them; the Son was well pleafed to become man, and fuffer death for them : the holy Spirit, to take them for his habi– tation, to quicken, ·fanB:ify, and perfect them. The lov;e of God produced the propofal of the great and · precious promifes in their favour, upon terms con.· fiitcnt with his juftice : Chrifr, as fccond Adam, out
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