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P
i ß. :6,
The
1Jame
of
God
whatit
imports.
134.
neffe,
rods
I
wroth
and
fmote him,
I
hid
me
and
was
wroth
and
he
went
on
for,
wardly in the way
of
his
heart.
Iniquity
is
upon them,
a
vile
iniquity,
the
iniquity
of
Covetoufnef[e.
God
is wroth
with them, and finites, and
hides him, and
they
.
goe onfrowardly:
and yet for
all
this he
for/4es
not
for
ever,
he
abides
to
be
their
God, and
that
becaufe
his fo doing
is
not
bottomed
on any
confiderati-
on
of
what
they are, have been,
or
will
be,
but
he doth
it-
for
his
Names
fake,
and with
regard
unto
that,
which
thereupon he
will
doe for them.
And
upon
this account
,
this, Promife
of
Gods abiding and continuing with
his
,
let
Grace be never
fo
weake, corruption neverfo ftrong
,
temptations
never
fo
violent, may be pleaded, and
theLord
rejoyces
to
be put
in
remembrance
of
it
by the weakeft,fraileft,
frnfulleft
Saint,
or
Believer in
theWorld.
4:
66
2.
The
Caufe
or
reafon
is
pof
tively
exprefièd,
why
Godwil
l
not
forfake
them,
it
is,
for
his Great
Name
fake.
His Great
name is
all that
he confults
with
all, about
his
continuance with
his
people: this he
calls himfelfe
ifa.43.25. I
blot
out thy
finnes
for
my own
fake:
that
is
for no
other
caufe
in
world
that
may-
by
found
in
thee, or
upon thee.
The Nanie
of
God is
all
that
whereby to
us
he is
knowne;
all his
Attributes,
his
whole will,
all his
Glory.
When God
is
faid
to
doe any thing for
his name,
it
is
either the
Caufe
and End
of
what he
doth,
or.
the
Principle from whence,with the motive wherefore he doth it,
that
is
by
him
intended.
In
the
firft fence,
to
doe
a
thing for
his
Name
fake
,
is
to doe
it
for the
manifeftation
of
his
Glory,that
he may be known
to
be a.God,
in
the
Excellency
of
thofe Perfections,wherebyhe
reveals himfelfe
to his,with(moft
frequently)a
fpeciall
regard to
his
Faithfulneffe and Grace:
it
is in
thofe pro,
perties
to
make
himfelfe
knowne,and to
be exalted
in
the hearts
of
S
o all
his difpenfations,in Jefus Chrift
are for
the praife
of
his.glorious Grace. Eph.
r -6.
That
he may he exalted, lifted up, made knowne, believed,
and
received
as
a
God pardoning iniquity
,
in
the
Sonne-of
his
Love. And
in
this
fence
may
the Lord
be faid to abide with
his
people
for
his Name
fake; for
the exalting
of
his
Glory
;that
hemay be known
to
be
a
God
faithfull
in
Covenant, and
un,
changeable
in his
Love, who
will
not
ea
fl
off
for
ever,
thofe whom he
hath
once received
into
favour.
It
will
not enter into the hearts
of
Believers
fome-
times,why
theLord
Ihould
fo
deale with them
as
he
loth
,
and not caft
them
off;
their
foules
may goe
to
reft
as
to
this thing: he himfelfe
is
glorious here
-
in;
he
is
exalted and doth
it
on
that
account
21
Y.
If
by
his
name
you
un-
derftand the
principle from whence he
worketh, and
his
motive thereunto,
as
it
comprehends the whole long
-
fuffering,
gratious,
tender,
unchangeable na-
ture
of
God, according
as
he
bath revealed
himfelfe in Iefns Ch rift, in whom
his
name
is,
Ex.23.
as.
and
which he
hath committed
to
him
to
be
manife
fled.
loh:
r7
6.
fo
evidently
two
things in God are engaged,
when he
promi-
feth
to
workfor
his
Names fake,or according to
his
great Name.
r.
His
Power
orfirficiency:
Upon the engagement
ofthe
Name
of
God on
his peoples behalfe,
Mofes
carefully,
pleads this
latter,
or
part
thereof.
Num:
14.17,
r
8,
r g.
God hath
given
his
Name unto
his
people: and
this
is
wrapt up
in
that
mercy,
that
he will lay
out
his
Power
to
pardon, heale,
and doe them
good
inhis
preferving
ofthem,and
abiding with them: Let
thy
Power be
great,
áccording
as
thon
haft
fpoken, the
Lord
is
long
fuffering:
and
as
when he workes
.
for
his
name,
the
way whereby
he will doe
it,
is
according
to
the
greatneffe
of
his
Powers
fo
the
fountaine and
rife,
from whence
he will
doe it, is,
Ioh.t7.3,26
2.
His
Goodneffe,
Kindneffe,
Love, Patience,
Mercy, Grace,
Faithful-
.Pfal.24.22.
neffe in Jefus
Chrift. And thus under
the title
of
his Name,
doth he
call poore
Ffái
6ÿ.3o.
afdided,
darke,
hopeleffe, helpeleffe
Creatures,
(upon
any
other
account
in
the
World)
perfons
ready
to
be
,fwallowed
up
in
difconfolation and forrow,
to
tell
upon him.
ifa:
5o.
so.
Who
isamong
po
thatfeareth
the.
Lord, and
obey-
eth