Sinntrs e'!ftat~din the Coven(f11t, &c. Sinners enflRted in the C~venant, by Faith or Believ~ mg. ' / To clear your way into the covenant, his necef.. fary, to lhew, by what means it is,_that a fin· ner embraceth and is enfiated in it, effectually onto . fitlvntion. Anc;l this, in one word, is by faith, (jr ' ·/;e/ieving on Jefus Chrifi, 'Afls x vi 31. ' Believe on the Lord Jefus Chrifr, and thou !halt be faved.' The covenant ofgrace is held forth in the gofpei, unto you : God faith to every of you, ' I will make an ~verlafiing covenant with you, even the fure mercies 1 ofDavid :• and to clofe the bargain with you, ·and 1late you perfonally in it, to all th~ intents and pur- . pofes 'offalvation, all that is required of you.is, ·to hf'ar that is, to1 beli~ve; ' Hear and your foul {hall live,' Ifa. lv. 3· He that believeth, is witqin the covenant of grace, perfonally and favingly : . he that believeth not, · is fiill under the covenant of works, where the firfi Adam left him. · Faith is the hand, where– by one' taketh hold of the covenant,' figns it for him– felf, and clofeth the bargain for his own falvarion ~ 'Tis the mouth, whereby .finner.s'confent to the cove- ' , nant, that God becomes tqeir God, and they his peo... ple. Altho' while ye are witllout the covenant, the– 'l.i"'rking of p6rftl1 obedience under the pain of the £urfe, ·is required of you: · and, more than that, fuf– fering alfo, even to the fatisfalr-ion ofju.fiice ; and bo'th tbefe, in virtue of the broken firfi covenant: and, when ye are once brought within the covenant, obe- . · · dience to all the ten commandments, and.fuffering of the d.ifcipline of the covennnt in cafe of. your fail~ ures, are required ofyoo, in virtue of the new cove· . nant ye are cntred into: yet to enter you into the eo.. venant, and enfiate you in it, unto,falvation, nothing is required of you, but' that ye believe on Chrijl ~ Only be lieve~ Mark v . 3-6. is the f.:onfiant do4rine of the gofpe.
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