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P.V.4-
6,9.
The
Promifes made unto
Sinners,
through Chria.
114
Promife
in
the
Scripture,
both
name and thing,
in
very
many
places ftretched
p
out:
Every
thing
whatever,that
is
manifeftative
of
Grace
and
good
will to
Sinners,is
of
the
Promife, though
it
be not
calf
into
a
Promiffory forme ofex-
preflion.
Yea
whereas
ftrittly
a
Promife
refpeð
that,which
is,
either
only
future, and not ofprefent
exiftence,
or the
continuance
of
that
which
is
yet
even exprefiions
of
things formerly
done,and
of
a
prefent
performance,(fome
Individuals
to
the end
of
the World
being
to
be made
a
new partakers ofthe
Grace, good will, and Mercy in
them,)
doe belong
to
the
Promife
alto,
in
that
Acceptation
of
it,
which
the
Holy Ghoft
in
many
places leads
unto,
and
Mica.7.77,
which we now infift upon.
58,19.
3.
I
fay they
are
made unto
'inners
and
that
as
fnners, under
no
other
Osalification
whatever:
it
being by
the
Mercy
ofthe
Promife alone,
that
any
men
are
relieved
out
of
that
condition
of
being
(inners,
and morally nothing
Ephef.
2.
12.
elfe.
Were
not the
Promifes
originally
made
to
tanners,
there
would never a-
xom.3.
,y,
ny one be found
in
any
other
ftate or
Condition. I know
there
are Promifes
GaI.3.22.
made
to
Believers, even fuch
as
are unchangeable, and
(hall
beare them
into
the
bofome ofGodc
but
I
fay
thefe are
all
confequentiall,
and upon
fuppofiti-
on
of
thefrrft and great
Promife,
whereby Chrift hirnfelfe, and Faith,
for
his
toh..r6.
fake
is
beftowed on them.
This
runs
through
them all,
as
the very tenor
of'
xom
8.
them, and
method
of
God
in
them do manifeft,
as
we
(hall fee
afterwards.So
a
cor:
r.
3o.
theApgftle
Gal.
3.22:
The
scripture bath
concluded
all
under
finne,that
the
Pro
-
pher.2
5.
s
mile
by
Faith
of
yefus Chri
fl
might
be
given
to
them
that
Believe.
All
are
Phut
up under
finne,
untili the Promife
of
Salvation
by
Jefus
Chrift , and
Faith in
him, cometh
in
for
their
deliverance.
The
Promife
is
given
to
them
as
Phut
up under
finne, which
they
receive by mixing
it with Faith. And
Rom: 3.
23.
24.
All have
finned and
come
fhort
of
the
Glory
of
God,
being
juflijzed freely
by
his
Grace, through
the Redemption
that
is
in
Chrifi.
Their
condition
is a
con-
dition
of
finne,
and
falling
fhort
of
the
glory
ofGod,when
the
Promife for Juffi-
fication
is
given
unto them,
and
finds
them. Thence
the Lord
tells
us
/fat:
54-
8,9. that
this
Promife
of
mercy
is
like
that,
which
he made about the
waters
Gen:$.21,22
of
Noah,
where
is
mentioned no condition
at
all
of
it
, but only the
finnes
óf
men.
And
in
that
frate unquefíionably
was
Adam, when
the
firft
Promife
was given
unto
him.
To
fay
then, that
Gofpell Promifes are
made
to
men in
fuch
conditions,
and are
to
be made good only upon the account
of
mens
a-
biding
in
the
condition,
wherein they are when the Promife
is
made
to
them;
Ephet2. 4,5,
is
to
fay,
that
for men
to
leave
the fiate
of
finne,
is
the
way 'to fruflrate all the
8.
Promifes
of
God.
All
deliverance from
a
ftate
of
Caine
is
by
Grace
:
all Grace
is
ofPromife: under that
condition
then
of
finne
doth the
Promife
find
men,
and from thence relieve them.
4.I
fay,thefe
Difcoverier
of
Gods
good
Will
are made
through Chrifl,as
the
only
s
só5.
7'20.
medium
of
their
Accomplifhment, and only
procuring
caufe
of
the good
things
that
flowing
from
the good
will
of
God are enwrapped and
tendred
in
them.
And they
are faid
to
be
in
Chrift:
as
r. The
great .Melinger
o
f
the Covenant,
as
in him
who comes from the Father;
becaufe
God bath
confirmed
and
rati-
fied
them
all in
him:
not
in themfelves,
but
unto
us.
He
hath
in him,
and by
him given Faith and
Affurance
of
them
all
unto
us,
declaring
and confirming
his
good Will and
Love
to
us
by him: He reveals
the
Father
(as
a
Father)
from
his
own
Bofome:
lob:
1.18.
declaring
his
name,ot Grace unto
his. loh: 17
3.
2
Cor.
1.20.
In
whom
all the
Promifes
of
Godare
yea
,
and in him
amen,
to
the,
17.3.
Glory
o
f
God
by
im.
In
him, and by
his
Mediation they have
all
their
Confir-
mation,
Effablifhment,
and.unchangeableneßä
u
1t
to
us.
And
2.
Becaufe he
bath undertaken
to
be
Surety
of
that
Covenant,whereof
they are
the
Promi-
fes.
Heb:7. 24.
He
is the surety
of
the Covenant,
that
is, one who
bath
underta-
ken