Difcipies óf Chr4i Hauff cxpc ? perfecution. but when they had entred into Covenantwith fofhua,then they role up againa them. '[hough men may quiet enough living in the world before God works upon their fpirits,but if they will give up their names to jefus Chrifl to come into the Co- 'venanc with him, then they mull expo& to fuller perfecution, that all the world will be againil them. In the 1 ç of Genefis.1 z. 17. verfs See what the Lord tells Abraham concerning his pofterity ; When the Sun was going down, a deep fleep fell upon Abram : and to I an horror of great darknefs fell upon him. (It was pre,fenrly upon the Covenant that God had made with him and his feed) ye (hall find in the beginning of the Chapter, God appeared to him and told him he was hisfhicld,and his ex- seeding great reward, and in the 5.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 fhall 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, cotich't under force dark expreffiens ; yet Abram knew it to be a Covenant of grace, and therefore his faith was juflifying faith,it was accounted for righteoufnefs: Now as f on as he had made this pr©mife, in the i a. V God caufed him to fall into this deep fleep, and a horror of great darkneffe fell upon him, to what end was that, it was to (hew ,him, that though he had brought his feed into Covenant with him, yet they mull fuller great afiótions in Egypt, and v. 17 It carne to page that when the Sun agent down and it was dark, behold a fmoaking furnace, and a burning Lamp that paged between thole pieces : That was prefented to him to declare to hirn the fufferings of his feed in Egypt, which was á tipe of the fu.tferings of all b leevers to the end of the world :---That text likewife for the New Teflament may be inflead of al;As 14. a 2. Exhorting them to continue in the faiths and that we muff through much tribulation enter into. the/ ngdorn of God. Yost mull expe& tribulation in the entring into the kingdom ofGod: That's the godly mans text: - --The worldly mans Text is in z 1 ' fob 13.there''s a text that a worldly heart wil clofe with; They fpendrtherr deys in wealth,çj° ip a moment go e down to the grave: X x x That
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