262 Terms ofPeace with God, fal.13o, thought, nor would for all this World. But be it known unto you, in as much as } oa have not ffc7ualy received him, you have refufèd birn, and whether your day and feafon be paff or no, the Lord only knows. 5. 2h; Way is 1afe. No foul ever mifcarried .n it. There is none in Heaven but will fay it is a f è rv;y; There is none in k-Iell can fray otherwife It is fate to all that venture on it fo as to enter into it. In the old way we were to preferve cur f Ives and the way. This prcfervts it felf and us ; This will be made evident by the enfuing confìderations. I. This is the Wiy which in the Wild m, Care, and Love of God in Chrijt, was provided in the room of another, removedand taken out of the wayfor this caul and reafon, becaufe it was not fafe, nor could bring us unto God, Heb. 8. 7, 8. For if the Fir/l Covenant had been faultyfs, then fhould no place have been fought for the Second ; but finding fault with them, he faith. And r. He tells us, that the firjt Covenant was not faultleß, for if it had, there would have been no need of a Second. The Commandement indeed, which was the matter of that Cove- nant, the fame Apofilc informs us to be holy, juft, andgood, Rom. 7. t 2. But it was faulty as to all ends of a Covenant, confidering our (late and condition as tanners; it could not bring us unto God. So he acquaints us Rom. 8. 3. It was made weak through theflefh; that is, by the entrance of fin, and fo became unueful as to the faving of fc,uls. Be it fo then ; through our tin and default this good and holy Law, this Co- venant was made unprofitable unto us ; But what was that unto God ? was he bound to defert his own In itution and Appointment, b.caufe through our own default it ceafed to be profitable unto us ? Not at all ; He might righteoufly have tyed us all unto the terms of that Covenant, to ftarrd or fall by them unto Eternity. But he would not do fo. But Secondly, In his Love and Grace, he finds fault with it, v. 8. not in its felt, and abfolutey, but only fi farre as that he would provide another way, which flìould (apply all its de- fees and wants in reference to the end aimed at. What way that is, the Apotile declares in the following Verfes to the end of that Chapter. The fumule is, y. ia, l wiü'bemercfull to
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