Of tk to Egypt ; but if..ye ,make the Mercy pf God in;' Ghr.xft Jefus; *red to them; 2ii`"the Go;. fpel the Ground, this Mercy mull: be offe- red' in a Prorn.ife ; if in 'a Prom*, it muff either be conditional, orabfalute :- Not in a. conditional I'romife ; becaufe no conditional,. Promife can warrand Corifidencé,' 'till the Condition be performed . If in an abfolute: I'romife ; then this abfolute Prornife muft be believed, and that in the farne Way that it is holden out to us : Befides, let me. fee, What Ground give ye for believing , from the .Gofl?el, that théLight of»Nature doth not give ? Na-' tare teils us, Goa, is. able, and'fùfficient, and mercif.l, and, it zaaya,be, I íhä11 find Mercy. Ye will fay, I ai coin4tridèd .xo. Uélicve in the Gofpel. I anfwer,, So are ye by the Mo- ral Law called tó truft iri God's.lVlercies in all;your Diftreffes. Ye will fa.y,. The 'Gofpel (rives this further Encouáragement tó belteve9 That if I believe in Chrifi, I fhall certainly be faved, which the Light of Náture cloth not give. I anfwer, 'Tis true, -i®Tature cannot affure us, tho' we . fhould believe :in God's Mercy, that he in that Gafé wogald help us.: For the Lord, alftrang from his gracious Prümife, might do in this as feeins good to himfelf; but Rill the Difficulty_re remains: For tho' it be true, That the Pro- mife of 'Salvation, annexed to Believing, be a *ire Ground of Perfwafion to fuch as have "believcid,
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