,111011111111M11.111=11101.111111=111,- _..............._ I- A choice Bed of Spices. i r 35 I they endeavour to keep, all, Pfnl. 119, 59, I turned my feet on- ______ to by tefilmonies. There is no man that obeyes God truly, who cloth not endeavour to obey God fully, and thus you fee i in what refpects that obedience that flows from Faith, is a full obedience, a univerfal obedience. A child of God I" obeyes all the commands of God in refpect of his fincere de. I fires, purpofes, refolutions, and endeavours and this 'God accepts in Chrifl for perfect and compleat obedience. This I is the glory of the Covenant of Grace, that God accepts and 1 efleems of fincere obedience as perfect obedience. Such I who fincerely endeavour to keep the whole Law of God, they 1 d) keep the whole Law of God in an evangelical fenfe,though not in a legal fenfe. In the work of Converfion, God infu- ' Ezdt. mrst, 20t feth all Grace together, and writes not one particular Law in the hearts of his children, but the whole Law, which is a I univerfal Principle, inclining the Soul impartially to all., The gracious Soul fincerely falls in with every command of G d (fo far as he knows it), without prejudice or partiality, he dares not pick and chafe what commands to obey, and what to reject, as Hypocrites do ; he hath an eye to fee, an ear to heat, and a heart to obey the firft Table as well as the fecond, and the fecond as well as the fir ft ; He doth not ad -' 1 here to the firfi, and neglect the fecond, as Hypocrites do neither doth he adhere to the fecond, and contemn the firft, as prophane men do. All Sdols, Jehues, Pedal's, Denia4'1, Scribes, Pharifes, and temporaries, they are ffill partial in their obedience, for while they yield obedience to tome Matth. 23. 23. commands, they live in the habitual breach of other Com- 1 mands. Teht, boaflingly calls out, Come fee my tenl for the alcingss :x9, !Lord of Hefts. alt if fehofitphat had gone a little further, he might have feet his Calves too, contrary, to Gods Com- mands, Herod heard john Baptifi gladly, and did many 1 things; but if fohn will be clofe and plain with him, he lm (hall thon firft lofe his liberty, and then his head for his la- -4** 6. bour. A fincere Chriftian loves all the known Commands of God, and prifes all the Commands of God, and fees a Di: vine Image, Majefly, and authority 'flampt upon all the Qommancig of God : And therefore the main bent and dif- ofition 4-...
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