gofpel Remiflion. day to hear thy. Word calling me out of the ways of fin, Oh that I might have together with that the inward call of thy Spirit, when (hall I hear that fecret voyce ! this is the rea- fon, though I have been convinced many times at the hearing of the Word, yet my lin hath prevail'd again{} me, becaufe that inward fecret powerful voyce hath not come to my foul ; that is the firfl Evidence, whom he hash them be bath called. A Second Evidence is this, Whomfoever godpardons be receives into Covenant with himfelf ; all pardoned anthers arc Cove- nanters with God : God pardons no foul but fuch an one as he brings into the Bond of the Covenant with himfelf ; that is the wayof the conveyance of the -grace of God for the pardonoffin, to bring the foul into the Bonds of the Cove- nant ; theScripture is evident in this, that forgivenefsof fin is made a (pedal fruit of the New Covenant, that is clear e- nough, Jer. 3 z . 3 3. Behold, the days come, faith the Lord,that 1 will make a New Covenant with-the Miele ofIrrgel, &c. what is thefpecial end of that Covenant? i will forgive their Iniqui- ties, and remember theirfinsno more ; But how does that come in ; it comes in by wayof Covenant, 1 will make a New Go- venant; I will firfl receive them into Covenant, and then they final! have the fruit of this New Covenant, that their fins íha1l be forgiven, and their inidu tits remembred no more The NewCovenant is a myfler e tomoll people. and yet it isa certain truth, the pardon of thy tin, and thy eternal good depends upon it ; thou art one that God has brought intoCovenant with himfelf, if thou beef} or ever (halt be pardoned, as God will manifefl to thy foul, that he bath through his Son tyed and bound himfelf to thee to be thy God, that whereas before thou wer'c departed from him, and an enemy to him, yet now he is pleafed call thee to enter into a fecond Covenant after thou had' fl broken the firD, and wer't call offby reafon of that breach, God is con- tented to enter into a fecond Covenant with thee, to be thy God in.and through hisSon ; thou art to come in and joyn in this Covenant ; for to a full Covenant there mull be affent on both fides, there mull be a mutual ingagement of either Z parties, i
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