156 / 504
C
n P.IV.4:
80.
Mr
G's
Obfervations upon
Gen.r7,3.
too
med by
blond)
this
Covenant
muff
be
ratified;
confider
who
this
is,
and
what
he
bath
done for
the
eftablifhing
of
it.
There
it
one
God,
and
one
Mediator
be-
tween
Goland
Man,
the
Man
Chrit
Jeff's.
1
Tirn.2.5. He
is
the
furety
of
this
2eVansent.
Heb.7.22.
The
Mediator
a
this better
Covenant, eftablifhed
upon
bet-
ter
Promifes Heb:8.
6.
neither
is
this
if
ety
or
Mediator fubje&
to
change.
He
is
the
fameyefterday,
to day,
and for
ever.
Heb.
13.8
But
though he
be
fo in
himfelfe,
yet
is
the
work
fo,
that
is
committed
to
him? faith
the Apoftle,
all
the
Promifes
of
God are yea
and
amen
in
Jeff's
Chrifi,
to
the glory
of
God
by
us,
2
Cor:
t.
20.
God
bath
in him, and
by him
,
afcertained
all
the
Promifes
of
the
Covenant,
that
not one
of
them
fhould be
broken,
difanulled
,
fruflrate
,
or
come theta
of
an
Accompliíhment. God
hathfo
confirmed them
in
him, that
he
hath at
his
death
madé
a Legacy
of
them,
and bequeathed them
in a
Te-
ffamentary difpenfation
to
the
Covenanters.
Heb:
9.
15,16,17. and what
he
bath
farther
done for
the
Affuring
of
his Saints
abiding with
God,
(hall
after-
ward be
declared.
3.
Thirdly, the
Faithfulnefe
of
God
is
oftentimes peculiarly mentioned
in reference
to
this very
thing,
the
God
.
that
keepeth
Covenant
is his Name,
That
which he
hath
to
keeps,
is,
all
that
in
Covenant he undertaketh:
now in
this Covenant
he
undertaketh:
Firft,
That
he
will never
forfake
us:
Secondly,
That
we
fhall
never
forfake hint:
his Faithfulneffe
is
engaged
to both
thefe;
and
if
either
part
fhould
faile,
what
would
the Lord
doe
to
his
great
name ,
The
God
that
keepeth
Covenant?
4.8
Notwithffanding
the undertaking
of
God
on
both
fides
in
this
Covenant,
notwithftanding
his Faithfulneffé in
the
performance
of
what he
undertaketh,
notwithftanding the
Ratification
of
it
in
thebloud
of
Jefus,
and
all
that
he
bath done
for
the
confirmation
of
it, notwithftanding
its differing
from the
Covenant,that
was
difanulled on this Account,
that that
was
broken ,
which
this (hall
never be,
(that
being
broken, not
as
to the truth
of
the
Propofition
wherein
it
is
contained, Doe
this
&
Live,
but
as
to the
fttcces
of
it
in
bringing
any
to God)
notwithftanding
the
Seale
of
theOath that God let unto it;
they
(I
fay) who notwithflanding
all
thefe things,
will
hang the
u.nchangeableneflè
of
this
Covenant
of
God
upon
the
flipperineffe, and
uncertainty, and lubrici-
ty
of
the Will
of
Man,
let them walke
in the light
of
the
Parkes,
which
them-
felves
have kindled,
we walke
in
the light
of
the Lord our God.
4.9.
When
firft I
perufed Mr
Goodwin's
Exceptions
to
this Teflimony
(Cap.
so.
Set1.52,53,54 ,55,56. Pag.219,2.20,221,222,223,'224.)
finding
them oppofed
not
fomuch,nor
fo
dire&ly
to our
inference from this
place,as
to the
deGgne,
intendment,
and arguing
of
the
Apo
file Rem.9,
to,
1
ta'
chapters,
and the re-
inforcing
of
the
Obje
&ions
by him,anfwered,cafling
again
the
Stone
of
offence
in
the
way,by him
removed,I thought
to
have paflèd it
without
anyRep/y,be-
ing
not convinced,that
it.was poffible
for
the
Author
himfelfe
to
befatisfied ei.
ther
with
his
own
expofition
ofthis
place,
or
his
exceptions
unto
burs;
but
ar-
riving
at
length
to the
dole
of
this difcourfe,I found him
quafi re preclarége/tá,
to
triumph
in his
vi
&ory,exprefling much
confidence,that
the
World
ofSaints
who have
hitherto bottomed
much
of
their Faith
& confolation,on
the
Cove-
pant
of
God
in
thefe words expreffed,will veile
their
faith
Sc
underftanding
to
his
uncontrouleable
Di&ates, &
not once make mention
ofthe
name
of
God
in
this place
any more.
Truly for my part,
I
muff
take
the
boldneffe
to
fay,
that
before
the
coming forth
of
his
LearnedTreatife,
I
had read,& (according
to
my weake ability)weighed and confidered what ever either
Arminian,
or
Socinians
(from the
Founder
of
which
Se&,
their
and
his
Interpretation of
this place
is
borrowed)
had
entred
againít
the interpretation infíted
on,
that
I
could
by anymeanes attaine
the
fight of,
and
was
not
in
the
leaft
(
haken
by
any