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The
Promifes made
4ts
17.14.&Mata9.28.co11fdered,
C
A
P.
V.§:
it
God
whom he worfhiped
and
Preached)
in-any
thing,whofe
truth
tnight;in
i23
the
leaft
be lyable
t9
exception, being
in
the
way
of
declaring
a
newDoElrine
to
the world,
which
would have beene everlaftingly prejudiced by any
mil_
e
et.
1.
4t
4:
prifron
of
the Faithfulneffe
of
that
God,
in
whole name
&
Authority he prea-
r
Tim:4.
.
toe
ched
it The fumme
of
that
Do&rine alto being
the
exaltation
of
that God,
in oppofition
to
all the
pretended
Deities
of
the world:
He
(I
fay)-
boafts
himfelfe
upon
the
Promifes
that
he
had received,
that there
fhould be
no
verss;
3
ofany
mans
life
among
them,v.22. y.
5.
he
gives
the
reafon
of
his
con-
fident Aflertion
,
when all hope
was
taken away;
y.2o. z
believe God
(faith
he)
that
it
fhallbe
even
as
it
was
told
me;
His
Faith
in
God
was
in
reference
to
the
event,
that
it fhould
come
to
paffe,
as
it
was
told
him. Faith
in
God,
Divine Faithcan have nothing for
its
Obje&,
that
may faile it. He
loth
not
fay,
that
he believes
that
God
will be
Faithful/
to
his
Promife
in
Genet
all,
but
alfo tells
them
wherein
his
Faithfulneffe
doth,confift,even
in
the
perfor-
mance and accomplifhment
of
that
which he had
promifed. This
he
informes
the
Centurion,'
and the
reff in
the
fhip
with
him:
and
if
in
the
iflùe it
had
o-
therwife
fallen
out, there had not
beetle any colour
of
Juftifying
the
Faith
of
that
God he ferved,
or
his
owne
truth
in
being witneffe
to
him.
Had
any
perifhed,thofe
that
remained would have argued
him
of
lying.
Yea
+but
faith
he not
himfelf,except
thefe
abide
in
thefhipye cannot
be
fivedi
He did
fo
indeed,
and
thereby declared the
necefiity
of
ufing:
futable
meanes,;
when Provi
-
dente
affordes
them
to
us,
for
the
Accomplifhment
of
appointed
determined
ends. God, who Promifeth
any
thing, and affordeth
meanes
for the attaining
ofit,
will
dire&
them
to
whom
thofe
Promifes are made,
to the
ufe
of
thofe
meanes,
as
he doth the
Centurion
by Paul;
It
being incumbent. in
this
cafe
on
his
Holy Majefty, upon
the
account
of
his engaged
Faithfulnege
to
fave
them,-he
will
yet have them fubfervient
to
his
Promife
in
their endeavours
for
their
owne fafety. Meanes may
be
affìgned
foran
End,
as
to their ordina-
ry fubferviency
thereunto, without
any fufpending
of
the Event on
thew,as
a
condition
of
an uncertaine
iffue
and Accomplifhment. And therefore
that
this
folemne
Promifemade unto
Paul,whofe
Event and Accomplifhment,up
on the account
of
his
believing
God,he
abfolutely believed,& whole
perfor-
mance he foretold with
out the
leaft
intimation
of
any Condition whatever,
(only
he
bids them
not throw
away
the
meanes
of
their
Prefervation)
fhould
depend,
as
to
its
fulfilling, on
fuch
a Condition,
as
in
refpe&
of
the event
might not have beene,
(God
who made the Promife
not
making
any
infalli-
ble
provifion for
the
Condition) and
fo
have beene
a
&ually
fruftrate,
is
an
Affertion,
not
only
not grounded
on thefe words
of
Paul,Cetting
out the
fuit
able
meanes
of
the providence
of
God
for
the
accomplifhment
of
an
appoin-
ted
end,
but
allo derogatory
in
the
higheft
to
the Glory
of
the
Truth
and
Faithfulneffe
ofGod
himfelfe. But
3.
That
Promif
e,
(faith
he)
ofour
Saviour
to
kr
Dif
itiples.
Mat. 19.28. That
they
who
followed him
in
the Regeneration,
fbouldit
upon
twelve
thrones7udg-
ing the twelve tribes
of
Ifrael, judos
being
yet
one
of
them, was not
fulfilled, and
in
cafe
the
ref%
had
declined,
t
ey
alfo
with himmight have
come
fort
of
the
Pro
-
rnife made unto them,
Anf.
Chrift knew
what
was
in
man,:
and had no need
ófany to
tell him,
he knew
from
the
beginning who it
was
that
fhould
betray him,and
plainely
pronounced him
to
be
a
Divell;He
knew he
was
fo,that
he
Believed
not;
that
toh
.ó
;
o
he would
continue
fo
,
he
wouldbetray
him,
that
his
end would be defperate;
;
r
4
s
be pronounced
a
curfe upon him,
as
being
curfed
by
David:
Pf.
tog.
fo
many
Generationsbefore
his
coming
into
the world;
and
is
it probable now
that
he promifed
this
man
a
Throne
for
his
following him in
the
Regeneration.?
R
2
which