. ln'hdnt in·the Covenant of Grace. ' 269 6Ut: of']ove to them, accepted ot thefe terms. And. when the eternal tranfaction was,. in the gofpeJ, by the demonfira:tion of the Spirit, opened find brought home . to their fouls ; this love ilione forth to them, fo as tliey bel~eved it . ...And that believed love of Gqd in Chrifi, kindled in their fo!.lls a fuperlative love to him again, I John iv. I9. We love him, becau(e hejirjllov• · ed us. And therefore, altho' that their love is not al.. waysalik~vigorous, but bath its waxin'gs and wean.. ings according_to the increafe and decreafe of their faith; yet, :fince 'their faith never. altogether fails, Luke xxii. 3·2. it never faifs altogether.neither, from the moment that it is kin_dled in their hearts.· And it is an active principle in them, confiraining rhein to obe• dience, 2 Cor. v. I4· 'giving the chief room in.their heart and affection, to God in Chrifi, that their foul faith, ' Whom have I ih heaven but thee? And th·ere is none.upon earth tha't I .defire befides thee/ Pfal. lxxiit 25. It makes it to be their greatefl: ~are to , pleafe him, and to be accepted ofhim, 2 Cor. v. 9· and their. gteatefi fear to fiir him up or offend ·him, Cant•. iii. 5· It makes duty agreeable to them, as a matter of choice; 1 ·John v. 3· ' This is the love of God, that 'we keep his commandmen~s : and his command– ments are not grievous ':' And it renders the remains offin,' the body of this ,death,' ·a heavy burden they long, to be delivered from, Rom. vii. 24. · V.. Jefus Chtifi the Head of the covenant, is their. Head with their own confent·. ~ith heart and good• will, they have taken him for Head, for all the pur· pofes of the cov<::nant. And they fiand to it, not to alter, if the choice were tQ make a thoufand timesl ·Tliefe untq whom' the .Father from ·eternity chof4 Cbrifr for· a head, -do, in .the day of their converfion} by faith ·approve the choice, making it over again perfonally for themfel•:es; whence they are faid to appoint them/elv~s one Head, Hof. i. ·I I. And as offt ten as they reiterate thei,r aclsrof faith, which they mufi live by, they d.o ~;tpon th~ m~ttf;r reiterate th~ir · - choice ,
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