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Some Obfervatioris
confirming
the Argument
in hand, C
A
r.1
V.4:5,
and
Faithfulnefe
undertaken,
that
weihall abide
to
be
hisPeople.
So
is
his
97
Love
in his
Covenant expreflèd by
its
Efficacy
to
this end
and
Purpofe.
Deut.
50.6.
And the
Lord
thy God
will a
fo
Circumcife
thy
Heart
and
the Heart
of
thy Seed, to
Love
the Lord thy
God
with
all
thine Heart
and
with all
thy
Soule,
that
thou maifl
live.
Secondly,it denyes
the
continuance
of
the
Love
of
God
to
us,
to
the End,
to
be any
part of
the
Bleffings;
wherewith
we
are
bided
in
Jefus
Chrif
:
For
if
it
be, it could no more
be
fufpetrded on any
Condition in
ùs,then
the
Glorification
of
Relievers
that
abide
fo
to
the
end.
This then
is
enwrapped
in
this
Promife
of
the Covenant
unto the
Éle&,
with
whom
it
is
Eflablifhed;
God
will
be
a
God
to
them for ever, and
that
to
Bleflè
them with all
the
Bleffrngs,
which
he communicates
in
and by
the
Lord
Jefus
Chrift
the
promifedfeed.
'
The
continuance
of
his
Favour
to
the
End,
is
to
us
(unqueflionably)
a
Spiritual]. Bleflìng;
'if
any
one be otherwife
.minded,!
(hall
not
preffe
to
(hare
with
him
in
his
Apprehenfion: And
if
fo,
it
isin
Chrift, and
(hall
certainely
be
enjoyed
by
them,to
whom God
is
a
God
in
Covenant.He
that
can
fuppefe,
that
he
(hall
prevaile with the
Saints
of
God to
believe it
will
make for
their
Confolation
to
apprehend,
that there
is
no
ingagement
in his
Covenant
affuring them
of
the
continuance
of
the
Fa-.
your
of
God
unto them, to the End
of
their Pilgrimage, bath no
reafon
to
doubt
or
queflion
the
Iffue
of
any
thing, he
(hall
undertake
to
perfwade
men unto. Doubtleffe he will
find
it
very
difficult
with
them,
who
in
time
of
spirituall straights
& preffures,
have
doled
with this ingagement
of
God
in
the
Covenant
,&
have had experience
of
its bearing
them through
all perplex=
ityes,
and entanglements,when
the Waves
of
temptation
were
ready
to
goe
over their
Soules.
Certainely David
was
in
another
perfwafion,when
upon
a
view
of
all
the
difficulties
he had paffed
through,
and
his
houle
was
tomeet
withall,he
concludes
2
Sam. 23.
g.
This is
all
my
de
ire andall
my
Salvation,
that
God
hath
made
with
me
an
everla
flingCovenant,or
eyed
in all
things
&
fure.T
he
Covenant from whence he had
his
fore
Mercyes,
not Changeable, not Altera-
ble,
not
liable
to
failings,
as
the temporal] Profperity
of
his
Houfe
was,
was
that
he rejoyced in.
I
(hall clofe this
with two Obfervations.
fia
Firft, it
may
doubtleffe,
and on
ferious
Confideration
will
feeine
ftrange
to
any
one, acquainted
in
the
leaf}
meafure
with
God and hisFaithfullneflè,
that
in a
Covenant
eftablifhed in
the
Blood
of
Chrif} he
fhould freely promife
to
his,
that
he
would
be
a
Godunto
them,
that
is,
that
he would abide
with
them
in
the Power, Goodneffe, Righteoufneffe,and Faithfullneffe
of
a
God,
that
he would
be
an
Allfufficient
God to
them for ever, when he might with
an
Almighty facility
prevent
it,
and
fo
anfwer and
fullfill his
Ìngagement
to
to the
utmofl, he
fhould yet
fuffer
them
to
become
fuch
Villains
and
Devills
in
WickedneJfe,
that it
fhould
be
utterly
impoffiblefor
him in
the
Blood
of
his
Sonne,
and
the
riches
ofhis Grace,
to
Continue
a
God unto them: this
Tfay
feemeth
ftrange
tome,
and
not
to
be
received
without
carting
the
greateff
reproach imaginable, on the
Goodneffe, Faithfullneffe, and Righteoufneffè
of
God.
Secondly,
if
this Promife be
not
abfolute, Ìmmutable, Unchangeable,
In-
dependent on any thing
in us,
it
is
Impofiible
that
any one fhould pleade
it
with the
Lord
but
only upon
the
account
of
the
fence
that
he
bath
of
his
own
accompli
fhmentof
the
Coudition,onwhich
the
Promife
doth
depends I
cart
almoft
fuppofe
that the
whole
Generation
of
Believers
will rife up
againft this
tr,.s..
Affertion
to remove
it
out
oftheir
way
of
walking
with
God. This
I
know?
If'.
0.1°.
that
molt ofthem,who
any
time have
walked
in darkenefé and
have
had
no
Light, will reprove
it to
the
Faces.
of
them
that
mainetaine
ir,
and profeffe
O
that