..choice Bed of Spices. 371 and cordials to comfort you againf all your faintings, and a tfa.4os8. 147. 1. Kal. fpiritual armoury to arm you againf} all your enetnies,vit.the world, the flefh, and the devil. Doll thou, 0 diftrefred fin- ner, want a loving God, a companionate God, a reconciled God, a fin pardoning God ? here thou may& find him in the Covenant of grace. Doll thou want a Chrift to counfel thee by his wifdom, and to cloath thee with his righteoufnefs, and to adorn thee with his grace ? here thou mayef find him in a Covenant of grace. Doll thou want the Spirit to en- lighten thee, to teach thee, to convince thee, to awaken thee, to lead thee, to cleanfe thee, to cheer thee, and to feal thee up to the day of redemption ? here thou =yeti find him in a Eph,t. 13: Covenant of grace. Doll thou want grace, or peace,or ref, or quiet, or content, or comfort, orfatisfaaion ? here thou mayef find it in a Covenant of grace. God has laid into the Covenant of grace, as into a common fore, all thole things that finners or Saints can either beg or need. Look, as that is a well ordered Commonwealth where there are no wholfom Laws wanting to govern a people, and where there are no tvholfom remedies wanting to relieve a people ; fo that mull needs be a well ordered Covenant, where there is nothing wanting to govern poor fouls, or to relieve poor fouls, or to, fave poor fouls ; and fuch a Covenant is the Covenant ofl grace. And flare, the Covenant of grace is a fare Covenant, , Dent. 7.9 The Lord thy God he Ps GA, the faithful God (or rs, 31 ;6,3317.33 the God of Amen ) which keepeth Covenant with then: that P _ fal. 7 love him. Pfal. 89.33. Coven ent will 1 not lreak (Hebrevv, ti-a. 54. lo. Rev. 3. '4' I will not prophane) nor alter the thing that is {lone on: of my lips. All God's precepts, all God's prediaions, all God's menaces, and all God's promifes, are the iffue of a molt jolt, faithful and righteous will. Gud can neither dye nor lye, Tit. fi. 2.> In hope of eternal life, which. God that cannot lye pro- ' inifed'be fore the world temn, There are three things that God can't do ; i . He can't cye. Nor, 2. He can't lye. Nor, 3.He can't deny himfelf, yofh. 23. 14.. And behold, this do,I stn going the way 4of :albthe earth ;-and ye know in All..yrur,hyrts, and Ebb % in
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