Chap. 4z. f1r. Expo( :lion open the Book of JJ o a. Vert., a n. ry.good thing to and Both every good thing for us. As it is dreadful to fiend under the droppin;sof a curie ; tobe cutfed is every evil : fo happy are they who !land under the fweet influ- ences of a promife; tobe bleffed is every good. And if God blef- eth us, the matter is not much, who curfeth or wifheth ill ro us, The curie caufelefs Chaff not come' nor can any curfe come where God bath bleffed. But Tome may enquire, who are they that the Lord will Weft To be bleffed, is not every mans portion. A man may be rich, yet nor bleffed ; great, yet not bleffed ; heaithsul, yet nor blef- fed : A manmay have many blefsings, for the matter, yet nor be bleffed. This then is a material queflron, Yt'bo are they that may expea a blefsingfromGodupon their fouls, upon their bodies ,up. on their Oates, upon their families, upon their all ? Ïanfwer,ltir(§,In general;They that are in a Rate of grace,they that are in the Covenant,or as the Apofile calls them(Héb.6.17.) .Hairs of promife : Thefe are the bleffed of the Lord ; and thefe, both greatand fmall, the Lord will biers (Eph. r. 3.) Bleffed be God,who loath bleffed no with allfpiritual blefsings in heavenly things in Chr :fi. Being inChrift, we are inCovenant ; and being there, we cannot mils being bleffed with all fpiitual blefsings, and with whatever is aneedful blefsing, in outward things to He that bleffeth in the greater, will nor with -hold his blefsing in the lefs, according to our need. Secondly, As they are the general fubje &s of the bleffna, who are in the Covenant of grace, or inChrift, fo are they more faecially, who a& gracioufly, and walk as they have received Chrift ; for a perfon that is in a (fate of grace, may 'hinder the blellïng from flowing down uponhis foul, upon hisbody, upon.his eflate, uponany thing, upon every thing he bath and doth, by a&ing finfully, and walking unevenly. David put the queuion (Pfal, 24. 3.) Who fhall ofend into the hill of the Lord ? &c. and anfwered it (ver f4, S.) He that heath clean hands, and a pure heart, who bath not lift up bis foul tovanity, nor fworn deceitfully ; he (hall receive the bleJTng from the Lord,anti rigbteou fnefs (that is, a righteous reward, or a reward according to righteoufnefs) from the Clod of his (alvation. Solomonafferts the prefent performance of what is onlypromifed in this Platen; he faith nor, The jutt (hall receive the hleffing,but they have a&naily received it (Prov. j1Ì111 n
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