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Promifes originally made to
Perim:
,not
to
k
ualifcatiotu.
CAP.V1.¿ì
i
.
dare boldly
fay ,
that
all
the
Saints
of
God
from
the foundations
of
the
141
World,
have moll
horribly abnfed
his
Promifes, and.
forced them
to
other
ends, then ever God
intended
them
for.
Doubtleflè
all thofe
fileffed
foales
who arefallen
a
fleepe
in
the
Faith
of
Jefus
Chrift, having
draw
refrethment
from
thefe
breath
of
Confolation, could they
be
fummoned
r'o
give in
their
experience
of
what they have found
in
this
kind, they
would with one mouth
pro
feffe
that
they foundfarre more
in
them, then
n eere conditional
declara-
tions
of
the
will
of
God:
Yea
that
they received
them
in
Faith,
as
the
engage-
ment of
his
heart
and good willtowards them
,
&
that
he
never
failed
in
the
accom
pia
ment and performance
dal!
the good mentioned in them: neither
will
that
emphaticall exprefìîon
in
the
clofe
of
the
fecond verfe,
(
which
be-
ing fomewhat
too rough forour Author
to
handle, he
left it quite out)
beare
any fuch fence.
That
the
Promifes
of
the
Covenant are made originally to
Perlons, and
not to
Qualifications,hath been
in
part
already
proved,
and
[hall
be farther evinced,
(God
aíiifling)
as
occafon
(hall
be
offered
in
the
enfuing
difcourfe:
The
Promifes are
to
Abraham
and
his
feede
and fome
of
them
(as
hathbeen declared)are the
fprings
of
all Qualifications
whatever,that
are ac-
ceptable
untoGod:
what
be
the
Qualifications
of
Promifes
of
opening blind
eyes, taking away
ftony
hearts,&c; bath not
as
yet been declared.
But
it
is
farther
argued.
3.
That this
and
the like Promifes are to
be
interpreted
according to
the rule
which
God
/.
ath given
for
the interpretation
rind
underfianding
of
his
threatnings
unto
Nations about temporall
things,
and
his
Promife:
that
are
of
the
fame
import;
which
we
have
ler. i
8.7,8. Plainly
affirming
that
all their
accomplifhment depen-
deth
on
fome conditions
in
the
Per
fins,
or Nations,againfl
whom
they
are denoun-
ced.
Anf
God
forbid! thall
thofe Promifes
which
are branches
of
the
everlafling
Covenant.ofGrace
,called
better
Promifes
then thofe
ofthe
old Covenant
up-
Hcor áó:
on
the
account of
their
infallible áccomplithment, ratified in
the blood
of
Chrift, madeyea and
amen in him
the
witneflè
ofthe
Faithfulneffe
of
God to
his
Church,and grand Supporter
of
our Faith,
exceeding
great
and pretíous;
a
peC.I,3
(ball they
be
thought
to
be
of
no
other
fence
and
interpretation, to
make no
other
Revelation
of
the
Father
unto
us,
but
in
that
kind,
which
is
common
to
threatnings
of
Judgements (exprefly conditional]) for
the
deterring men
from
their
impious
and
detrullive
courtes?I fay,
God forbid.To putit then
to
an
iffue.
God here promifeth
that
they
who
here
truft
in him thall never
be
remooved.What(1
prayjis the
Conditió,on
which
this Promife
doth
depend?
It
is
fay
they who oppofe
us
in this,
if
they continue
trufting iu
him:
that
is,
if
they
be
not removed; for
to
craft
in him,
is, not
to
be
removed,
if
then they be
not removed,they
thall
not be removed;
and
is
this
the
mincie
ofthe
Holy
Ghofl?
Notwithflanding
all
the
Rhetoriche in
the
world,, this
Promife
will
¡land for
the
confolation
of
them
that
believe,
as
theMountaines about
Je-
rufalem
that
{hall
never be removed.
In
fomeit
is Paid
to be
a
Promife
of
abiding in
Ftappine/fe,
not
in Faith:
but it
4.
is.
plainely appeares
to
be
a
Promife
of
abiding
in crafting
the Lord;
which
com-
prehends
both
our
faith
and Háppinefie
ob.
rt
is
not
promifed,
that
they who
once Craft
in
the
Lord,fhall abide
happy,
though
they ceafe
to
tru
ft
in
him.
Anf.
It
is
a
Promife
that
they
(hail
not
ceafe
to trufl
in
him.
ob.
it
knot that
they
fball
be nece
fftated
to
abide
walling
in
him.
Anf.
No,butit
is
that
they thall
befo
far
affrfied
and
effectually
wrought
Upon
,
as
certainely
to
do
it.
Ob.
it
is no more
thenthe
Apoftle
fayes
to
the Corinthians
2 Cor.
2.
3.
which
T
3
frame