a,6 Terms of Pence with God, Pfal.i 3 0 cannot be fuch as is feared. And by there means he ruined them. Thus alío he proceeds to deprive Souls of their Intereff in the Covenant of Grace, whereunto they are invited. The Terms of it are unequall , how can any man believe them ? There is no proportion between the Obedience and the Pro- snife. To have pardon, forgivenefs, life, and blef ed Eternity on believing, who can rail in it ? And here lyes a conspiracy between Sathan and unbelief , againfi the Wifdom, Goodnefs, Love, Grace and Spveraignty of God. The poyfcn of this deceit lyes in this , that neither the Righteoufncrs, nor the Mercy of God is of that infiniteneß, as indeed they are. The Apofile to remove this fond imagination, calls us to the plea - fure of God, i Cor. I. 27. It pleafed God by the foolifhnef of Preaching, that is by the Gofpel preached, which they efteem- cd foolifhuers, to fave Believers. He fuffered men indeed to make tryall of other wayes ; and when their infuftciency for the Ends men propofcd to themfelves was fufficiently manifefted, it pleafed him to reveal his way. And what are we, that we fhould contend about it with him ? This Rejec` ion of the way of perfònal Righteoufnefl, and chooing the way of Grace and Forgivenefs, God aßêrts, 7erem. 31. 31, 3 2, 33, 34. Behold, the dayes come, faith the Lord, that I will make a new .0 venant with the b,oufe of Ifrael and the hour of Judah. Not according to the Covenant which I made with their Father! : (in which Adminprati.on ofthe Covenant as far as it had refped unto Typical mercies, much depended on their perfonal obe- dience) But this (hall be the Covenant that .I willmale with the houfe of Israel after there dayes , faith the Lord, I will put my Laws, &c. and I will forgive their iniquities, and re- member their fins no more. Let then this way Rand, and the way of mans Wifdom and felf Righteoufnefs perifh for ever. 2. This is the way that above all other: tend: direlily and immediately to the Glory of God. God hath managed and or- . dared all things in this way offorgivenefl, fo as no flefh fhould glory ire hisprefince,butthat he that gloriethfhouldglory in the Lord, z Cor. z. 29. 31. Where then is Boafting? at is excluded; by what Law ? by the Law of Works ; nay, but by the Law of Faith,
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