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Gofpell- Obedience,
its
End and Motives.
CAP. X.
4.
6.
which moves according
to
his
dire&ion;
it
muff in every
motion
eye his
Com-
231
wandon
the
one hand, and
his Promife,
whether
of
Affz
fiance
for it
or
Accep-
tance in
it
,
on
the other;Saith
David,
I
have
refpeEf Onto
all thy
Commande-
mentr. Pfal.
I
i
9.
and
faith
the
Apoffle, having received
deice
Pro/infer, let or
cleanf
è
our
f
elves,
from all
flthinef
e
both
of
flefh
&
Spirit,
perfecting
Hol<nefe
in
the
feare
of
God.
2
Cor7,.i.
3.
The
principali End
`ofit,
which
is
the
Glory
of
God
,
as a
Remar-
der
:
for
he
that
comes
Onto
God,
muff
believe
that
he
is, and
that
he
is the Remar-
der
o
f
them
that
feeke him. Heb:
i
1.6.
The
end
of
Obedience
was
the Glo-
ry
of
God,
as a
Rewarder
according
to
Merit,
in ftri&
juftice
;
the
end
of
Go-
fpellobedience
is
the Glory
of
God,
as a
Rewarder
according
to bounty,
free
Grace,
and
mercy: under
which confideration
,
neither
needs
the
Obedience
rewardable
to
be commenfurate
to
the Reward, nor
is
the
Reward
procured
by
that
Obedience;
If
it were,
then it were
of
worker,
and
not
of
Grace,
as
the
A-
poffle tells us, Rom.4.4. So.that
the end
of
our
Obedience, is
to
exalt God
as
a
Rewarder;
yet
that
being
as
a
Rewarder
of
Grace and bounty,
the
ufe
ofour
Obedience
is
not to procurethat
Reward,
(for
that
were
to
worker and
to
have
a
reward reckoned to
us
of
Debt,and
not
of
Grace,)
but
only
to make
the Lord
gracious, and
to
exalt
him in
our prefent fubjettion, and
in his
fu-
ture
guilt
ofGrace,
in
nature
of
a
free
bounteous reward. This
I
fay
is
that
GofpellObedience,which'by
the
Do&rine
infifted
on,
is
promoted
in
the
foules
ofBelievers.
2.
Secondly, this being
fo
(as
was
Paid)
the
Gofpell
Obedience,whereofwe
4;
6.
fpeake, it
is
evident,
what
Principle
it
proceedeth from
;
Whereas
thereare
two
contrary Principles
in
every regenerate rnan,as
(hall
more fully
afterwards
be
declared, called
in
thç
Scripturefieb and Spirit,
the
old
and
New
man,
in-
dwelling
finne and Grace,
which
have
both
of
them their
Seats
and Places in
all, and
the
fame Faculties
of
the
foule,
it
is
moll evident,
that
this
Obedience
Howes
folely
and meerelyfrom the
latter
Principle,
the Spirit,
new
or
inner
man,
the
new
Creature,which
is
wrought
in
Believers;
The
ffrengthning and
heightningof
this
Principle
,
the
Holy Ghofflayes
at
the bottome
of
the re-
newall, and
increafe
of
GofpellObedience. Eph:
3.16.17. r8.1
9.
Ipray, (faith
the
Apoffle)
that
God would
grant
you, according
to
the Riches
of
his Glory,to
be
lïrengthned
with might
by
his
Spirit in
the inner man,
that
Chrifl
may
dwell
in
your hearts
by
Faith,that
yee
being
rooted
&
grounded
in
love may
be
able to com-
prehendwith
all
Saints
what
is
the
breadth,&
length,
and
depth,&
height,and
to
know!.
the
Love
of
Chrif
whichpaffeth
knowledge,
that
ye
may
be
filled
with
all
the
fumes
of
God;Theirfirengthning
with might
by
the
Spirit in
the
inner
man is
the
foundation
of
their
a&ing
of, and increafing
in
Faith,
Love, Knowledge,
and
Afurance
unto
all
thefulneffe ofGod;
It
is
the
New
nzan;which
after
God is
Cre-
ated in
Righteoufneffe
and
Holine
fe, that
carries men
out unto
all
acceptable
Obedience,
as
c.ß23,24.
ofthe
fame Epiftle. Look whatfoever
influences
the
other
Principle
ofthe
flefli,
hath
into our
obedience,
fo
faire it
is
defiled ;
for
that
which
is
from
the
flefl:
iJ
f1efi,8s.a11
the-fruits
of
it are abominable; Hence
Ich.
3ßa
are
all-the pollutions
that
cleave
to our
Holy things.
Yea
if at
at
any
time,
poore and meerefelfifh confiderations
do put
men
upon dutyes
of
Obedience,
and abftaining from finne,
as
feare
o
fvengeance,
and
deffru&ion;
and
the
like,
(which
is
made
alnioff
the
only
motive
to
Obedience,
by
the
Doêrrine
of
saints
Apoflafe)
their
Obedience
in
doing or
abfaining,
is
but
as
their feare
of
the
Lord,who were
taught
it
by
Lions, &
abominable
unto
him;
This then
,
Rings
I.
being
the
nature
of
Gofpell Obedience,
and this
the
Principle,
from whence
it
34.
flowes,
it
is
evident,
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