Chap. 2ä. :An Expofition upon the Bookof OB. Vert. 22, the only Maierofthe Confcience,healone can fay, Receive the lazy at my mouth.Ifyou a>ke, what is it to receive the law.I anfwer,it is more then to give it thebearing. Toreceive, is, firfi, tobelieve the law; fecondlv,to receive,is tohonour and reverence the law, thirdly, to receive the law, is to yeeld upour (elves to the obedi- enceof it, to be call into the mould ofir,to fub;edour felves wholly to the minde ofGod in it ; Thenwe receive the lawwhen we take the Imprefïions of it, and have as it were the Image and ftampofit upon our fpirits, and in our lives: fourthly,thenwe re- ceive it when as it follows in the Text, we lay up hid word in our hearts : barely to receiveit is not enough, you muff lay it up, treafure it up. And lay up his word in thyheart. This is oppofed, Firlt, To forgetfulneff'eofthe word, receive the law and let Prdcedentie it not flip out of thy memory. poiit ex plat t* Secondly, It is oppof'd to negligence in the practice ofthe I ¡égemAra., law , lay k up that it may be forth coming to direet thee inpe sit ponas every duty,In'.;onverfionthe law is written in the heart; every proprie, difpo- odly man bath a Copy ofthe law in his heart ; That's the de nas ante curs fcription ofa godly man, (P(al. 37.3t.) 7he law of god is ïn Joldicuudtne heart, none of hisRcpt (hallElide; which is not an univerfall exclu- °bjervadr. lionofall fayling & flipping, as ifevery godly man were as much pact filming, as he is part perifhing : but when 'us Paid, none ofhts Peps, the meaning is, few ofhis fteps (hall flide, or he (hell never !tide to inany ofhis tteps as not to recover his feet and get up again. He (hall walke very holily, foholily as if all his walkings were but one continued act of holineffe.But, to the text,None of his (ceps (hali Hide quite and for ever out of the way,becaufe the lawof God is inhis heart. What David fpeaks in that propheti. call Plalme ofChrilt ( T fal. 40.8. Thy /avail withinmy heart) is true in its degree ofevery Chrittian,all the !awes of God are in his heart. That Charaí`ker is again given of them (Pfal. 84.5. ) In whole heart are thy wayes;there is a (hiring of the mindofGod and the heart of man together in regeneration. But now the duty fpoken of in the Text is another thing ; for a man that bath the lawwritten in his heart, may yet poffìbly forget to lair up the word and law ofGod in his heart, he may(under temptation and G g the 225
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