choice Bed of Spices,.- Fail, That obedience that Springs from Faith, is a full obe- dience, univerfal obedience.. -David did look upon his univerfal obedience as a Special teflimony of his -uprightnefs, Pfal. 119. 6s. Then /hall I not brafhamettlwhen I have l'efrea. gn- . to ag thy Commandments. Mark ! the Tfalmift loth not fay, When I obey all thy Commandments, then _fhall I not be- afhamed ; but, when I have a ref to all thy Commandments, then /hall I not le alltamed. Now a rerpea to all Gods . Corn- mandrnents, notes an inward awe and reverential eye 'to- wards every duty that God requires. The words according Ito the Hebrew, may be -read thus,- Then fhall I not blufb 'when eye is to all dy Commandments. Now you know the Tra- veller hath his eye towards the place whither he is going,and though he be thort of it, yet he is fill a putting on,and prefer fig forwards all he can to reach. it. So-when the eye of a Saint is to all the Commands of God, and he is hill a preffing foiwards towards full obedience, filch a Soul than never be put.to the bluila; fuck a Soul.iball never be afhamed in the great day of our Lord.Jefus. So Aas I 3. 22'. l have- found David the fon of jeffe, a man after mine own heart, which fulfill all my will.iciqac Tdc catAk,toefac (Os. all my wills,-to note the fincerity and univerfality of his obedience. So Aas 244 r.6. And herein do 1 exercife myfel f, to have alwayes a Confcience void of (fence toward God, and toward men. So H:.1), t 3. i.8. iYe trO we have a good Confeience,.-dn all thinovotilling to live bo- ne f That obedience. that fprings froin Faith, cloth neither, The rule is good and true, propter'deurn fit, eynAli:er he who cloth tee ie and obey God for God fake, will equAly obey all that God c6m- rnancis hitn,. No one Conamand,i"s unitilt or unreal- n-dile:to hirn, whole heart is- upright in obedi- ence, Sce. 'Sal7CCeS defcriE,ng a vel titons man, (Eria.120 ,}traich of him, that he is !dm fonpeY, a in armor at1 par 1'4,4 achar ti from t eba, the wo:1-1, difpute Divine Commands, nor divide Divine Commands .',,;(ticds;iii,c,,ailictfi'v one from another, Zacharias and Elitateih were both righ-. choice, npon teous before God, walking in all the Commandments and Ordinances of the Lord blarnelefs, Luke 1,4 , 6.. Th it ()be- , dience that fprings. from Faith, is a full ,obedience, a univer- fal obedience ; It is univerfal in refpe of the filbje, The whole man, and 'tis univerfal in recpea of the objeo+, the whole Law. Mark ! he who obeyes, fincerely, obeyes verfally, though nor in regard of pradice (which is impolli- ble), yet I. In regard of his will and defires, his will- and defire is to obey all, Rom. 7.18. For to will is prefent with me, I.19, 5.. p that my ways were dii,eEled to keep. thy Statutes. - 2. In
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