ZbeCobenattt ofPrateOpertQr: 241 There is yet one great Bletling,which is in- cluded in the former, viz. That as God gives himfelf to be our God, fo he bath promüed we Jhall be his People ; this Grant and Privi- Betievèrs ledge,is in the Covenant; And Iwill be their are God' God, and they(hall be my People, comparedwith People by Heb. 8. i o. And I will be a God to them and virtue of the Cove- they ¡hall be a People unto me. Want o f Firft, Let me by wayofpremife Notehere peace.. . four or five Things. Jer31;33. I. That this is a moll gracious, high, and Fivethrng.r fublime Priviledge, (viz.) God to be our premifeda God is the firít ; and this is comprehended in it altoas the fecond,and next in order to be elteemed by us, i. e. we íhall be his People. 2. That this is granted only as an Aft of God's Free Grace and Sovereign Goodnefs, through Jefus Chrift : Brethren, it is not up- on Conditionof our doing this or that, that we procure this Blefling'tis not,as thePromik run to the People of Ifrael under the firJt Co- venant But 'tis an abfolute Promife if there is any fuch in all the Word of God ; I will be your God, andyou (hall be my People. Men nor Devils, Ungodly Relations, our own evil Hearts, nor our great Unworthinefs shall e- ver hinder us from being God'sPeople. 3. That God's giving himfelf to us, is the Spring, the Caufe and Reafon why we be come his People ; we have not God, aria, and theHoly Spirit,` becaufe we are Believers, or Penitent Perfons, but he firft gives himfelf his Spirit,'c. ` God firít gives himfelf in Cotton on working of-Faith (faith Reverend Cotton) be t S C ov, R fore
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