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Difciples
of
Chrifi.
mufl'
expea
perfecutiox.
5
S
but when
they had
entred
into Covenantwith foJiva,then they
rote
up againfi
them.
'Though
men
may
be quiet
enough
living
in
the
world
before'od
works upon
their
fpirits,
but
if they
will
give
up
their
names
to Jeius Chrifi
to come into
the
Co-
venant
with
him, then
they
muff expe&
to
fuffer
perfecution,
that all
the world
will
be againa
them.
Inthe
15
of
Genets I z.
verfes
:
See
what the Lord tells Abraham'
concerning
his
pofterity
;
When
the Sun
waß
going
down,
a
deep
fleep
fell-
upon
Abram:
and
to
i
an
horror
of
great
darbnefs
fell
upon
him.
(It
was
prefently
upon
the Covenant that
God
had
made with
him
and his
feed)
ye
Ihall
find
in
the
beginning
of the
Chapter,
God appeared to him and told
him
he
was
his fhield,and his
ex-
.ceedinggreat
reward,
and
in
the ç.
v- He
makes him
a
promife
of
his
feed likewife,
look
towards'
Heaven and
tell the
Starrs,
if
thou
be
able
to
number
them,
fo fball thy feed
be,
and he
be-
leeved in
the
Lord,
and
he
counted it to him
for
righteouf-
nefs
:
It
was
therefore
a Covenant
of
grace
that
God
made with Abram,
çotich't under fame dark
exprelt
ins
; yet.
:bram
knew
it
to
be
a
Covenant
of grace, and therefore
.
his
faith was juflifying
faith,it
was
accounted for righteoufnefs:
.Now
as
foon
as
he had made this
promife,
in
the
I
z. yr
God
caufed
him to
fall
into
this
deep fleep,
and
a
horror
of great
darknefle
fell upon
him, to what end
was
that,
it
was
to
thew
him,
that
though
he had
brought
his
feed into Covenant
with
him, yet they
muff fuffer
great
aiiótions
in Egypt,
and
v.
17.
Ir
came
to
paife
that
when
the
Sun
went down
and
it
was
dark,
behold
a
fmoaking
furnace,
and
a
burning Lamp
that paliad
between thole pieces
:
That was'prefented to
him to
declare
to tiun
the
f
ifferings
of
his
feed
in
Egypt,
which
was a
ripe
of
the
fut
erings
of
all belee,vers
to
the
end of the
world:--
-That
text likewife for
the
New
Teflament
may
be
inflead
of
al;Aas
14.
az.
Exhorting
them
to
continue
in the
faiths and
that
we
mull
through much
tribulation enter
into,
theljngdem
o
f
God'Yon
mull expe& tribulation
in
the
entring into the
kingdom ofGòd:
That's the godly
mauls
text:
--The
worldly
mans
Text
is
in
2 a
'fob t
3.there's
a
text that
a
worldly
heart
wil
dolewith,
They
fpenditheir days
in
wealth,
ií;
a
moment
go
down
to
the
grave:
X
x
x
That