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C
A
P.IV.
§
:6.
IeYGm
:3;38,39
&c,
Compared
with
lerern:3t.3z33.
98
that
God
hath
witnefl'ed
the contrary
truth
to
their
hearts.
Are we
in
the
Covenant
ofGrace
left
to
our
owne Hearts, Wayes, and Walkittgs
? Is
it
not
differenced from
that
which
is
abolifhed?
Is
it
not
the great
diftinguifhing
s
cor,r.
ao.
CharaEEer
of
it, that
all
the
Promifes
of
it
are liable, &
'hall
certainly
be
ac-
Heb.7.22.
complifhed in Jefus Chrift
?
&
8.7,8,9.
One
place I
fhall
adde more,wherein our intendment
is
pofitively
expref-
$: 6.
fed, beyond all poffibility
of
any
colourable evafion
,
efpecially
confidering
the
Explication,
Enlargement, and
Application, which in
other
places it
bath
received.
The
place
intended
is
Jeremy
32. v.
38,39,40.
They
(hall
be
my
Pea
-
ple,and
I
will
be
their
God;
and.,
will
give them
one
heart, and
one
way,that
they
may
feare
me
for
ever,
for
the
goodofthem, and their
Children
after
them , and
i
will
make an
everla.11îng
Covenant
with
them,
that
I
will
not
turne
away
from
them
to
doe
them good, but
I
will put
my
feare in their
hearts,
that
they
Jball
not
depart
from
me;
in conjun
&ion
with
thofe words
of
the fame importance.
Ch.
3
r,
v:
31,32,33.
Behold
the
claim come,
faith
the
Lord
, that
i
will
make
a
new
Covenant
with
the
houfe
of
Ifrael, and the
houfe
of
7udah,
not according
to
the
Co-
venant
that
I
made
with their Fathers;
but
this
'ball
be my
Covenant,
that
i
will
make with the
houfe
of
Ifrael
after
thofe
daies,faith
the Lord,
I
willput
my Law
in their inwardparts, and
write
it
in their hearts
and I
will
be
their
God, and
they
pall
be my People,
and
they
fhall
teach
no more
every
man
his Neighbour,
and
every
man his
Brother,faying,
Know
the Lord;
for
they
'hall
all
know mee,
from
the
leaftof
them
to
the greatefl
of
th.
em,
faith
the Lord,
for
.1
willforgive their
iniqui-
ties,
and
remember
theirfinnes
no
more.
1.
The
Thefts
under
demonftration
is
dire
&ly,
and
pofitively
affirmed,
in
moft
fignificant,
and emphaticall words , by
God
himfelfe
:
feeing
then
the
Teftimony
of
his
holy
Prophets
and
Apofiles,
concerning him are
fo
excepted
againfi, and
fo
lightly
let by, let
us
try
if
men will reverence himfelfe,
and
ceafe
contending with him,
when
he appeareth
in
judgement.
Saith he then
to
Believers,
thofe whom he
taketh into
covenant with him,
This
is
my
Cove-
nant
with you
(in
the
performance
whereof
his Allfufficiency,
Truth,
and
Faithfulneffe with all
other
his
glorious
Attributes are
eminently
engaged)
I
will
beyour God
(
what
that
expreffion
intends
is
known, and the Lord here
explaines, by inftancing in fome eminent Spirituali mercy thence flowing,
as
Sant`lifecation,
and Acceptancewith
him by
the
forgiveneffe
of
finnes)
and
thatfor
ever
in an
everla
fling
Covenant,
that
He
will not
turne
away
from them
to
doe
them
good.
This
plainely
God
frith
of
himfelfe,
and
this
is
all we
fay
of
him
in
the
bufineffe,
and
which
(having
fo
good
an
Author)
we muff fay,whe-
ther
men
will
heare, or whether they
will
forbeare: Whether
it be
right
in
the
fight
of
God
to hearken unto
men, more
then unto God, let
all
judge.
Truly
they have
a fad
tafke
in
my Apprehenfion,who
are forced
to
fweat
and
labour
to
alleviate and take
offthe
Teftimony
of
God.
2.
Secondly,
That
the
way
the Lord propofeth to
fecure
his
Love to
his,
is
upon
terries
of
Advantage
of
Glory and Honour
to
himfelfe,
to take
away
all fcruple which on
that
hand mightarife,
is
fully alto expreffed
:
Sinne
is'the
only differencing
thing
between God and man;
and hereunto it
bath
a
double
influence: Firft, Morali in its
guilt, deferving
that
God
fhould
cafe
off
a fanner,
and prevailingwith
him
upon
the account
of
juftice
fo
to
does
Secondly,
Ef-
ficient, by canting
men through
its
power
and
deceitfulneffe,
to depart
from
Heb.3,
1:
God,
until!,
as
back-
gliders
in heart ,they
are
filled
with their
owne
waies.
Take
Prov.r.
31.
away thefe
two, provide
for Security on this
hand , and there
is
no
poflible
14.14.
cafe
imaginable,
of
feparation between
God
and
man once
brought
toge-
ther
in Peace and
Unity. For both thefe
doth God
here
undertake;
for
the
firft
(faith
he)
I
willforgive
their Iniquities, and
remember
theirfinnes
no
more.
Cap.