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Prorates
certainely Accomplifh't not
alwaes
evidently
C
A
P.
V.
4. ya
promifed
Believing,
on no
Condition
(
on
our parts)
at
all
,
becaufe
to
fin-
I
r
7
nets.
This
in
generali
being given
in,
concerning
the
nature
of
the Promifes,
I
ß.
9.
(hall proceed
to
fome fuch Contiderations,as are
of
particular
ufefulneffe
unto
that
improvement,
which
(the
Lord aflifling) I intend
to
make
of
them , for
the
confirmation
ofthe Truth
under debate. And they are thefe,
I.
All
the
Promifes
of
God
are
true
and
faithfull, and
fhall
moft cer-
tainely,
all
of
them
be
accomplifhed.
His
nature,
his
veracity,
his
Unchan-
geableneffe,
his
Omnifcience, and
Omnipotency, do
all
contribute ftrength
to
this affertion.
Neither
can
thefe
Properties
poffibly
continue intire, and
the
honour
ofthembe preferved unto
the
Lord,
ifthe
the
leaf failing
in
the
Accomplifhment
of
his
Promifes be afcribed
unto
him. Every
fuch
fai-
lingmuff
of
neceffity
relate
to
fome fuch
Principle, as
Rands
in dire&
Oppo-
fition
to
one or
more
of
the
perfe
&ions
before mentioned.
It
muff
be
a
fai-
ling in
Truth;
Unchangeableneffe, Prefcience,
or Power, that
muff
fruftrate
the Promifeofany
one.
We
indeed often
alter our Refolutions, and
the
Promife
that
is
gon
out
of
our
mouthes
,
and
that (perhaps)
righteoufly,
upon
tome
fuch
change
of
things,
as
we
could not
forefee,
nor ought to
have
fuppofed,
when
we
entred into our
engagements.
No
fuch
thing
can
beaf-
cribed
unto
him,who knowes all things, with
their
Circumftánces,
that
can
poffibly
come
to
pafíe,
and
bath
determined, what
(hall fo
do, and therefore
will
not
engage in any Promife
that
heknowes, fomething,
which he
fore
-
faw
would follow after, would
caufe
him
to
alter.
It
were a ludicrous
thing
in
any fonne
of
man,
to
make
a
folemne Promife
of
any
thing
to
another,
if
he
particularly
knew,that
in
an bower fome
fuch
thing
would happen,
as
Ibould enforce him
to
change, and
alter that
promife, which
he
had
fo
fo-
lemnely entred into. And
(hall
we afcribe
fuch
an
a
&ion
to him,before whom
all things
are open,
and naked
?
Shall he
be
thought
folemnely
to
engage
himfelfe
to
do, or
accomplifh any
thing,
which
yet
not
only he
will
not do,
but alto at
that
inftant
bath
thofe things
in his eye,
and
under
his,
Confide
-
ration,
for which he will not
fo
do,as he Promifeth, and determined
before
that
hewould
not
fo
do. Ifthis
be not unworthy
the
infinite Goodneffe,Wif-
dome, and Faithfullneffe
of
Gods I know
not
what can,or
may
be afcribed
unto him,that
is.
Yea
the
Truth,
and
veracity
of
God
in
his
Promifes
cannot
be
denyed
him, without denying him
his
Deity, or
afferted,
without
the cer-
taine Accomplifhment
of
what he
hath
Prot-nit-ed.
2.
There
are fundry things relating
to the
Accomplifhment
of
Promifes,
as
to
Timer, Seafonr,
Perfons, Wayes,
6c.
wherein
we
have beene in
the darke,
and
yet the
Promifes
concerning them be fully accomplifhed.
The
reje&ion
of
the
7ewesfupplyesus
with
an
inftance
pregnant
with
this
obje
&ion;
The
Apoftle tells us,
that
with many
this
Obje
&ion
did
arife on
that
Account:
ofthe
leaves
be reje&ed,then the
Promifes
of
God
to
them do
faile.
Bo/n.6.9.
He
layes
downe,
and
anfwers
this Obje
&ion,
difcovering
that
fallacy
there-
in
by
afdiftin&ion.
They
are not
(faith he)
afl
Ifraelthat
are
of
Ifrael.
v.7,8.
As
if
he
had
faid,
there
is
a
twofold
Ifrael, an Ifrael
after
the
flefh
onely,
and
an
Ifraelafter
the
flefh
and
Spirit
alto.
Unto
thefe
latter
were
the
Promifes made;
and therefore they who looke on
the former only,thinke it faileth,
whereas
indeed it
holdeth
its full
accomplifhment.
So
he
difputes againe cap.
t
5.7.
I
fay
then we may
be
in
the
dare,
as
to
many
Circumflances
of
the
ful-
filling
of
Promifes , when
yet
they have received a
molt
exa&
accomplifh-
ment.
3: All
the
Conditional!
Promifes
of
God
are
exactly
true,and
(hall be
molt
faithfully made
good by accomplifhment,
as
to that
.wherein
their
being
as
Q
3
Promifes