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zt,
farther vindicated.
C.
V11.4:25,
quently abundance
of
Peace
and
Hopp
:reffe
for
ever:
It
is
moil:
apparent
that
177
not
any
thing
of
the mind
of
God
in
the
words,
is
reached
in
this gloffè.
For
r.
That
Condition
,
if
they
prove
not
extremely
unworthy,
is
ex
tremely unworthily inferted
;
the
Promife being
an ingagement
of
God to
keepe and preferve them
,
to
¡whom it
is
made
by his
Spirit,
from being
fo;
the
Spirit
is
given and
continued to them for
that
very
pur-
pole.
2.
It
is
fuppofed
to be
given
to
all
the Nation
of
the
Yewes,
when
it
is
ex-
prefsly
made
to
the Church,
and
Seed
in
Covenant.
3.
It
carryes"the
Mercy promifed no higher
then outward
difpenfati-
ons,
when
the words
exprefsly
mention, the spirit
already received.
Evident
it
is,
that the
whole
Grace,
Love,
Kindneffe,
and Mercy
of
this
eminent
Pro
-
mife,
and confequently the
whole
Covenant
of
Grace,
is
enervated
by this
corrupting
Gloffe
;Doe
men think indeed,
that
all
the
mercy
of
the.
Covenant
ofGrace
canals
in
fuch
tenders, and
offers,
as
here
are
intimated
?
that
it all
lyesin
outward
endearements
,
and
fuck dealings
with
men,
as
may
feeme
to
be
fuited
to
win
upon them: and
that,
as
to
the
reall exhibition
of
it,
it
is
wholly fufpended
upon-
the
unfiable,
uncertaine,
fraile
wills
of
men?
The
Scripture
feemes
to
hold
out
fomething
farther
of
more
efficacy.
The
de-
j
Cek
3i.
3z
ligne
ofthefe
exceptions,is indeed
to
exclude
all
the
effe&uall
Grace
of
God,
32.0.
promifed
in
Jefus
Chrifi,
upon the account ,
that the
things
which he
pro
-
mifeth
to
work
in us
thereby, are the
dúties
which
he requireth
of
us.
In
fumme;
theft
are the exceptions
which
are given
into
this
Teflimony
of
God,
concerning
the abiding
of
the
fpirit with them, on whom he
is
befiow
ed, and
for whom he
is
procured,
to
whom he
is
lent
by Jefus Chriff.,
And
this
is
the Interpretation
of
the
words:[As
for
:nee]
for my
part, or
as
much as
in melieth
this
is
my
Covenant]
I
will
deale bountifully and grafioufly
[with
them]
the
whole
Nation
of
the
Jewes,
[
my fpirit that-is in
thee] that
they
oughtto
take
care
that
they entertaine, and retaine the
Holy Spirit,
and
not
walk
fo
extremely
unworthily,that
he fhould
depart fry
them:the
refidue
of
the
words wherein
the
maine
Emphafdr
of
them
doth
lye,
is
left
untouched:
The
importthen
of
this Promife,is
the
fame with
that
of
the
Promifes
infif}ed
on before,with
efpeciall
reference
to
the
Holy
Spirit,procured for
us,
and gi-
ven
unto
us
by Chrifl.
The
fiability,and
efiablifhing
Grace
of
the Covenant,
is
here
called
the Covenant;
as
fundry other particular
mercies
of
it are alto.
Of
the Covenant
of
Grace
in Chriff,
the
blefï'ed
Spirit
to
dwell
in
us,
and reft
upon
us,
is
the
maine
and principali Promife: This for our confolation
is
re-
newed,
againe
and againe,
in
theOld
and
New
Tet
}oment.
As a
Spirit
offan-
i1ification, he is
given
to
men to
make them believe; and
as
a
fpirit of
Adopti-
on,upon
their
Believing.
In either
fence,
God,
even
the Father,
who takes
us
intoCovenant
in Jefus
Chriff,
affirmes
here,
that
he
(hall
never
depart
from
us:
which
is
our
firft
Teflimony
in
the
cafe in
hand.
With
whom
the
Spirit
a-
bides,
and whilell he
abides with them, they cannot utterly forfake God,
nor
be
forfaken
of
him; forthey who have the fpirit
of
God,
are,
the
Children
of
God,
fonnes,
and
Heyres
But
God hath
prom
ifed
that
his
Spirit
1h
all
abide
with
Believers
for ever :
as
bath been clearly
evinced from
the
Text
under
confideration,
with
a
removall
of
all exceptions put
in
thereto.
The
fecond witneffe we
have
of
the confiant abode
and réfidence
of
this
4. 26.
fpirit
befiowed on
them,which
Believe,for
ever,is
that
of
the
sonne,
who af-
fures
his Difciples
of
it.
Joh,i
4.i
6.
i
will
(
faith
he)
pray
the
Father, and
he
¡hall
give
you
another Comforter,
that
he
may
abide
with
you
for
ever. As
our
Sa-
viour
gives
a
Balk
ofInterpretation,
expreffely
of
his
Prayers for
Believers,
A
a
that