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All
Believers
may
have
fame
A(hurance..
CAP.Vl. §:I
O.
Peacewith
them,
may
not make the
fame conclufion
of
Mercy with
them;
I 37
viz,. That the
Mercy,
c&
Goodnes
of
God
will
follow
them
all
the
dayes
of
lives
that
they
Pall
be
delivered
from
every
evill
worke,
and
preferved
to God's
Heaven-
ly
kingdome.
To
fly
here
to
immediateRevelation
as
though
God had
particu-
larly,and
immediately
affured fome perfous
of
their
Perfeverance,which
begat
in
them
a confidence,
wherein others may
not
(hare with
them,
betides
that
it
is
deftru&ive
of
all
the vigour
and
ftrength
of
fundry,
if
not
all
theArgu-
ments, produced
againft
the
Saints
Perfeverance, it
is
not
in
this place
of
any
weight,or at
all
relative
to
the
bufineffe in
hand. For
evident
it
is,
that
one
of
them
even David,
is
thus confident upon
the
common account
of
Gods
Re-
lation unto
all
his
Saints,
as
he
is
their
shepheard:
one
that
takes care
of
them,
and
will
fee,not only whilft
hey
abide with
him,that
they
fhall
have Failure
and refrefhment,
but
alto
will find
them
out
in
their
wandrings and will
not
fuffer any
of
them
to
be utterly
loft.
And he
is
a
shepheard
equally in care
and
love
to
every one
of
his
Saints,as he
was
to
David. He gives
them
all
the
fare
Mercies
of
David,even
the
Mercy
conteined
&
wrapped up
in
thePromifethat
tta
55 3
was given
to
them, and what by
virtue
thereof, he did enjoy, with what
he
received
fromGod
in
that
Covenant -
Relation
wherein he flood.
And
for
Paid,
it
is
moft evident
that
he grounded
his
Confidence and
Confolation,
meetly upon
the
generali Promife
of
the
Prefence
of
God with his,that
he
will
neverleave them
nor forfake them,
but be their God,
and guide even
unto
death.
Neither
is
there the
leaft
intimation
of
any
other bottome
of
his
Confolation herein.
Now thefe
being things wherein every Believer,even
the
weakeft in
the world, bath
an equall (hare and interefi with
Paul,
David,
or
any
of
the
Saints in
their
generations,what fhould lye
in
their way,but
that
they
alto may
grow up
to
this affurance, being called
thereunto.
I
fay
they
may
grow
up
unto it:
I
doe
not
fay
that
every believer can with equall affu-
rance
of
mind thus make their boafts
in
the Lord, and the continuance
óf
his
kindneffe
to
them.
The
Lord knoweswe are oftentimes weake,
and darke,
&at no
fmall
Joffe
even
as
to the
main
of
our intereft
in
the
Promifes
of
God:
But
there being an equall
certainty
in
the
things them
felves,
of
which
we
fpeake,
it
being
as
certaine
that the
Goodneffe
and
Mercy
of
God
hall
follow
them
all their dayes,as it
did David, and
as
certaine
that
God
will
deliver
them fromevery
evill
worke, and preferve them
to
his
Heavenly
kingdome
as
he
did
Panl,
they
alfo
may grow up
unto,
and
ought
to
preflè
after
ihe
like
Affurance
and Confolation
With them,
whom Goodneffe and Mercy
(hall
follow all their dayes,
and
who
hall
be
of
God preferved
from
every
evill worke,they
can never fall
tot
ally
and
finally
out
of
the Favour
of
God:
That
this
is
the ftate
and Condition
of
Believers
is
manifefted from
the In-
.ftances
given
of
David, and
Paid,
teftifying
their full:
perfwalion
and
affu
rance concerning
that
Condition, on Grounds common
to
them with
a11)Be-
lievers.
2.
The
conclufion
and
inference
thar
the Pfalmiff
makes, from the
Affi
-
§,
to:
rance
which
he had
ofthe
Continuance
of
the
Goodneffe, and
Kindeneffeof
Godunto him,followeth
in
the
words
infifted
on,
All the dales
of
hirlife
he
would
dwell
in
his
Houfe.He
would for ever give up
himfeffe
unto
his
Worfhip
and
fervice, feeing this
is
the
cafe
of
my
Soule
that
God
will
never
forfake me, let me anfwer this Loye
of
God
in my
conftant
obedience.'
Now
this conclufion followes
from the
former
principle upon
a
twofold ac-
count.
i-
As
it
is
a motive
unto
it.
The
Continuance
of
the
.
Goodneffe,
and
Kindneffe
of
God
unto
a Soule
is
a
conftreining
motive untO
that
Soule
to..
continue withhim in Love, Service and Obedience:
It
workes powerfully
T
upon