68 What are no Signs PART II. of fpeaking too plainly and pofitively to them :. He did not defire to bold them in the leaftSufpenfe. And he concluded that laft .Difcourfe of his, with a Prayer in their Pretence, wherein he fpeaks pofitively to his Father of thofe eleven .Disciples, as having all of them favingly known him, and believed in him,: and received and .kept his Word, and that they were not of the World ; and that for their Sakes he fana fled himfelf ; and that -his Will was that they fhould be with him, in his Glory : And tells his Father, that he fpake there Things in his Prayer, to the End, that his Joy might be fulfilled in them, Verre i 3. l;y there Things it is evident, that 'tis agreeable to Chrift's Defigns,, and the continuedOrdering and ,Difpofition Chrift makes,of Things in his Church, that there fhould be fufficient and abundantProvifion made, that his Saints might have full Aflìtrance of their future Glory. The Apoffle Paul; thro' all hisEpifiles, fpeaks in an aflùred Strain; ever (peaking pofitively of his fpecial Relation to Chrift, his.Lord and INflaffer and Redeemer, and his Interefi in, and Expeaation.of the fu- ture Reward. It would be endlefs to take notice of all Places that might be enumerated ; I fhall mention but three or four, Gal. 2.20. aril/ liveth iri me, and the Life which I now live in the'Flefh- I live by the .Faith of the Son of God ; who loved me, and gave himfelffor me. Phil. i . 2 r. For me to live is Ghrft, and to.die is Gain. 2 Tim. 1.12. I know whom I have believed ; and I amperfwaded that he is able to keep that which I have committed to him, "again,/i that Day. 2. Tim. I. 8, havefought a good Fight ; I have fnifbeelmy Courfe .; I have kept the Faith : Henceforth there is laid upfor me aCrown rfRighteoufnef ,which the Lord, the righteous judge, will give 71Q at that Day. And the Nature of the Covenant of Grace, and God's declared Ends in the Appointment and Conflitution of. Things-in that Cove- cant, do plainly thew it, to be God's Defign to make -ample Provifion for the Saints having an alfured -Hope of eternal Life, while living here upon Earth. For fo are all Things ordered and contrived in thatCo- venant, that every Thing might be made fare on God's Part. The Covenant is ordered in all 7-bingo, andfure : The Promifes are mofi full, and very often repeated; and various Ways exhibited ; and there: are many Witneffes, and many Seals ; and God has confirmed his Pro - inifes with an Oath. And God's declaredDefgn in all this is, that the. Heirs of the Promifes might have an, undoubting Hope, and full joy,, in anAffurance of their future Glory. Heb. 6.17, 18. Wherein God willing, more abundantly toPhew to the Heirs of Promife, the immu- tability of his Csuzfel, confirmed it by an Oath ; that by two immutable Things, inwhich it was inzpofble_for,God to Lie, we might have a /lrong Conjolation, who havefledfor Refuge, to lay hold on -the Hopelet before us. Zit all this would be in vain, to any fuck Purpofe, as the Saints flrong Confolation, and Hope of their obtaining future Glory, if their Intereft in thole fare; Promifes in ordinary Cafes, was but attainable. For
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