A choice Bed of Spices . 143 fter commands ; fo 'tis as abfurd for men to think, that God' will accept of this or that at tneir hands, when they can't plead his luperfcription and authority for whit they do. God will one day fay to filch, PPko hath required this at your hands? fa, 0 Sirs l you mull lay the command of God as a foundation by whit you do, or elfe all your buildings, though never fo glorious, will certainly totter and fall ; in all yousdo, you muff be able to- fty, Thtks pith the Lord ; or elfe after you have done your,beft, you may be undone for ever. But, Secondly, God's promife and blerfina is only annexed` to God's command ; he that will have the Tweet of the proinife, and the bleffings of heaven, he mull look that his obedience be bottomed upon divine commands ; in holy anions 'tis not thy performance, nor thy grace, nor thy warmth, nor thy zeal, but the command and the promife that is annexed mit, that will bear thee out ; therefore we are called children of the promife, and heirs of the promife. The children of God in-all their obedience,fhould keep an eye upon the com mand of Goel,,and the promife of God, as ever they would run the race that is fet before them, Heb. 12. Y. Bat, Thirdly, Our obedience mull be grounded and bottomed upon a divine' command,- becaufe of that great corruption, pollution, blindnefs and darknefs which is upon our minds and underflandings, which would carry us to what not, if we were not to fteer our Chriitian courfe by divine commands The Apoitle condemns thofe things which had a phew of hu- mility and great mortification, becaufe they were not bot- tomed upona divine command; and Chrift condemned ma- ny praifes of the Scribes and Pharifees, becaufe they were not bottomed upon a divine command. As you may fee by comparing the, 6,,z5. and 33,. Chapters of Matthew toge- ther. But,- Fourthly, Our obedience -muil be bottomed- upon a di- vine command, becaufe elfe we can never be able, to bear u our hearts comfortably, couragiouily, confidently and rect.).- Ivey, Gal. 4.23 Hai. 6. 17. Col, 8lo,3t,sA.
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