38 The Spiritual life, and In-tieing And I will take away the any heart out ofYour f efh : I will take away theEefifi ance, the dolly heart out of your fleth. But though it be fo ; as long as my nature is unchanged, I (hal never do that which is right. Saies God, I will change your nature for you ; !will take away the (bony heart out ofyour efh, and / will giveyouan heart offiefh. i wil make Inch a change in you, That whereas before, Naturally, ye were as hard as a ttone, now I wil make you as loft as flab. But though the Lord clo thus change my Nature, yet not- with itanding, I (hall never be able to order my converfati- on aright, I flail never be obedient. Mark what follows, Iwigput my Spirit withinyou, and I will caufeyou to walltin my Statutes : I will make you obedient, faies God. Oh ! what ilreams of mercy are here ! But I pray, mind the Fountain whence thefe flow; They al flow from this foun- tain of Free ,remifiion : The firii is, IwillPinkle clean wa- ter uponyou, and cleanfe you from allyour idols : I will forgive you freely. I but, though this be fet full, it may be this is not the Caufe of the reft, how (hal it appear, that this Free- remitlion is the Caufe ofall our holinefs ? Then ( I pray) look into the 8. chap. of the Epittle to theHebrews, (where this Covenant ofgrace is repeated) at the io. verle, For this is the Covenant that I will mare with the boufe of Ifracl, faith the Lord, I will put ray laws into their minds, andwrite then: in their hearts : and they (hall not teach everyman his neighbor, and every, man his brother,faying, Know the Lord : for all (hall Know me, from the leaji to thegreateft. Why ? for 'will be merciful to their unrighteoufneg, and their fins, and their iniquities will I remem- ber nomore. So that Remiflion is the Caufe ofSan&ification: I will thus and thus fantiifie, faies the Lord ; For I will be merciful to their unrighteoufnefs; and theirfins and iniquities will I remember no more : this is the Caufeof all that. Now I fay, When a man is once eflated in this Covenantof grace, the Lord (ye fee) is engazed then for to make him holy. And as by works, and feeking julification by works,a man is eflated in the Covenant of works : So byfaith, and ficking byfaith alone, a man is eflated in the Covenant of
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