366 CarnallManefiranged from the Covenant, o Mal,s.5. p ler.31.;3. tvl Ir. tCO. dof.i5. r Rey. z.i 7. Pfa1, 50. Eftrangemena from i.Life, (Ga1.i zo. Rom.6.4. Rom. N4.9. Ephets. neffe and every good thing by Chrift ; a covenant made with beleevers, and fuch as feareGod, my 0 Covenant, frith the Lord of Levi, was with him of life and peace, and I gave them to him for the feare wherewith bee feared me and was afraid before my ,name. Gods Covenant is not promifcuous to all forts ofperfons, chofen, reprobates, beleevers and infidels, but to fuch as are truely gracious, his Covenant is with them that are his friends, and not with his enemies, God fanc`ïifieth all them whom hee intends íhall have benefit by his Covenant. 743 ¡hall be tke Covenant that I will make with the houfe of Ifrael, after thafe daps, faith .the Lord, 1 will put my Law in their P in- wardparts,and write it in their hearts, and Iwill be their god, and they 'hall be my people. Such alone are within the Co- venant of God, as are fan&ified by the Spirit ofGod : The Promiffit indeed is generali, but the condition is fpe- ciall, He that q beleeveth and is baptized 'hall be faved, but he that beleeveth not 'hall be damned, though he be bapti- zed, Caleb made a generali Promife to all his Souldiers, wheloever fhould finite Kiriath Sephar and take it fhould marry his Daughter Acfah, yet Othniel tooke it, and bee alone had her to wife : God makes a Promife whofoe- ver beleeveth and repenteth (hall be faved by Chrif, yet not all, but onely he that beleeves and repents , he that fmitcs Kiriath . Sephar, that overcomes Satan, himfelfe and the world, hath Chrift to husband; to him that r overcomes is given to Bate of the hidden Manna; but to the wicked God faith , what haft thou to doe to tale my Covenant in thy mouth and hateft to be reformed. Wicked men therefore being fctrangers to the Covenant betweene God and his Church,arealfoaliens to theChurch. 5. By their eflrangement from the life, light, faith, liber. ty, wedlock,e of the Church with Chrif, andher gracious re- ceivingr from Chriß. They arc etlranged, i. From the life of the Church; as the dead are e(lranged from the life of the living, fo are corrupt and finfull men from the life of Gods Church and children, Gods children are quickncdby the Spirit, Chrift t liveth in them, as the root in the bran- ches,
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