574 The Promife of theSpirit, of walking Sacr.XI. 0 *tit 0ittAlattitlattit SERMON XLVIII. The Freenefe of gods grace in ConverI1on di, /hlayed and maintained again/l Arminians and others. Dodl. EZ E K. 36. 26, 27. t.,A new Heart alfe will Igive you, and a new Spirit will I put within you, &c. Shall nowmake ari end ofthis Text, whole matter like our Saviours loaves loath multiplied and increafed in the breaking and di ributing of it. The laft thing obfervabih is the manner ol the conveyunce and bellowing of ir, which is by an abfolute free promife, I Willdo thus untoyou , here is nothing fpoken of what they ( hould do, but what Godwill do; here is no Meechof their prepa- ratory difpofitioes, but Godsgracious operation. Nowalthough it be true,that immediately and diretily this promife is made to the exiled pws ; therefore wich the promife of Jufification and Converlion, isjoyned that ofaltitution intotheir own Land again, with all their former temporal mercies yet the Apoftle Patel makes it plain, that this is anevangelical prom*, or the Covenant of Grace for allages in the Church, lieb.re.16. So that this promife is not to be underffood of thofe only in the Captivity, as the Remonllrants would evade, whom God fhould convert, but ofall that in fucceflive ages , (hall be brought home unto God. So that as Ifaac is laid tobe achilde ofthe promife, ¡oceanic he wasnot born by natural power, but by the meet. promile and power of God, fo all the godly are in this fenfe as well as in another, like Irac,the children of the promile, being notbornby the power of flefh and blood, but by vertue ofthis promife. It is this Text that giveth fpiritual life toall that receive it. It o becaufe of this promile that the word of God hash any fuccesful effcft at any time. That the Promáje of Converfeon and Regeneration is an ab(Ilute pee Pro- mite. Thus you fee theText runneth without any Ifs; god willtake away the heart of (lone, nothing (hall frultrate his intention. The Lord bath Paid it and it will come to paffe. ¡ter ad gratianrispergratiam,pergae iprimvenitur adipfäm. Grace makes way for it felf.As by the light et the Sun,we come to fee the Sun,Ged doth not on- ly offer grace to the hearc,but fan/tifiech the heart to receive it. He doch not only give the What the crude CO receive ic.He giveth the breadof life,and the fiomack alto to ear it. To open thisDo/trine, Confider Fa(t, 7bat a promife se a farromore comfortable thing thenanger predibíion.God doch many times meetly fore-cell what hewill do, but at other times he doth alto promife what hewill do : a prophetic ofwhat will be, and a promife differ very. much. ThisText is nota meet pt sidtion, ora interprophetic, but ibis a grans
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