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Sam,
t
22.
The
double
ufe
of
that
Promife.
C
A
P.
V4:
I,4.
the
account
whereof it
is
afferted
that he
may forfake there.
r
3
i
i
Sam,
12.22.
The truth
we
have
under
confìd.eration
is
confirmed by
the,
Prophet
in
the name
&
Authority
of
God
himfelfe, and
the
words wherein
it
4
''
is
done, have
the force
of
a
Promife, being
declarative
of
the
good
will
of
God unto
his
people in Chrift:
For the
Lord will not forfake
his
People
for
his
great
Name
fa
e,becaufe
it
pleafed theLord to makethem
his
People.
The
exprefiìon
is
the
fame with
that
which
the Lord
gives
his
People
of
Gen :17.
r.
his
good will
in
the Covenant
of
Grace,of
which
I have fpoken'before.
Many,
lerem.3x.
may be
their
Calamityes, and
Afhiftions, many
their Tryalls and
Temptati__
38i39
ons,
many.
their Defertions, and Darknefles, but
God
will notforfake them,
he
will
not
utterly
caft
them
off
for ever.
That
his
People.
are
his
People
ist
Covenant,
his
fecret ones,
his.
Spirituali
Church, the remnant
according.
to
the
Ele&ion
Grace, bath beene before
declared. in
the handling oflike,pla-
ces
of
Scripture
.
It
is
to
vindicate
this
and the
like Promifes from
all furmi
Ces
of
failing and coming
fhort
of
Accompiifhment,
that the'Apofhe
faith,
God
bath not
raft
away
his
People
which
he
did
fore
-know.
Roza.
r i.
2.
that
bath made
good
this Promife
to them:
even
to
them
among
the Jewes,
whom he did
fo
fore-know;as alto
to
Predeflinate there
4to
be
Con
formed
to the.
Image
of
his
Sonne,
Rom.
9.29.
So
out
of
allifrael Saving
all
Ifrnel, even
the
whole
rfrael'ofGod.
Thata
difcriminating Purpofe
of,
God
is
intended
in
that
expreffion, hash been
already declared, and
fhall
(the
Lord
afaing)
be
farther
manifefted.
The
Promife,
as
here mentioned,
bath
a
double
ufe.
I. It
is
held
out
as
an Inducement
to
Obedience,ito
that
whole
People, in
reference whereunto
he
telleth them,
that
if
they
did
wickedly,
they
fhould
be
deflroyed,
both they
and their
king,
v.25.
In
the
dreadful] .threatnings
that
God
denounceth againft wicked and
impenitent
ones,
be
bath
an
end
to
ac
-:
complifh in
reference
to
his Saints,
unto
his
owne: even
'to
make them
know
his
terrour,
and
to
be acquainted with the Abomination
of
finune.
And in his Promifes
intended
direly
to
them, he
bath
defignes
to
ac-
complish upon
the
moft wicked,
"and
ungodly:
even
to
dilèover
his
Approba-
tion
of
that
which
is
Good,
that
they may be left
inexcufable.
2.
It/was aTeflimonyofhis
good
will
unto
his
fecret ones;
his
Remnant,,
his Residue,
his
brand
out
of
the
fire,
unto
his
People called according
to
his;
Eternallpurpofe,in
the
midst
of
his
people by external/
profeffion
,.
and
of
his
prefence with
them,
under
the
accomplishment
of
the
threatning mentioned
upon
the
generality
of
that Nation.
He did
not forfake
them,when
the
people
in
general], and their
King
were deftroyed.
What
ever outward difpenfation
he bringeth upon
the
whole,
the
Love and Grace.
of
the
Promife
(hall
cer-
ainly be referved for
them,
as, Ifa.
4.v:2,3,4. the
remnant,
the
efcaping
of
If-
rael, thofe
that
were written
unto
life, (hall
obtaine,
when
the
tea
are
de(roy-
ed,
or hardened.
So
¡'fe
89.
30,31,32,33,34,35,36,37
If
his
children forfake
my
Law, and
walke
not
in
my
judgements,
if
they
breake
my
flatutes, and
keep
.
not
my
commandements, then
will
I
vifîttheir transrefflons
with
a
rod,
andtheir,
iniquity with flripes;nevertheles
my
Loving
-kindn
fse
will
I
not utterly take
from
him,
nor
fu
f er
my
faithfulnefse
to
fade:
my
Covenant
will
I
not
breake, nor
alter
the
thing
that
is
gone
out
of
my lipps:
once
have
i
fworne
by
my ,Holinefse
that
I
will
not
lye
unto David;His
feed
(hall
endure
for
ever,
and
his
Throne
as
the Sonne
before
mee,
it
fhall
be eflablifhed
for
,
ever, as the Moone,
and
ai the
feithfull
wit
-
nefs in
Heaven. Selah.
A fuppofall
is
made
of
fuch
roaies
and
walkings In
the
rpirituall feed and of-
fpring
of
the Lord
Chrift,(
which
in
the
Pfalme
is
typed out by
David) that
the Lord
will
be
as
it
were-compelled
to
deale
sharply
with them
,
for
their
S 2
iniquities