116 neciouo jraltij. bath the eye feen , 0 God; bet des the*, what he bath prepared for him that waiteth for him,faith the Prophet,Ifa.64.4. But where do they wait for thefe great things, where but in Gods own way ? Thus it follows, thofe that remember thee in thy ways, v.5. Look in what way or method God gives out a mercy,in the fame way or Me- thod doth faith wait to receive it.Would a man have a pardon, faith waits for it in Gods way ; free-grace as immenfe a fea as it is in God,doth not flow out every way upon (inners , but through the bleeding wounds of Chrift. We are juftified freely by hic grace,through the redemption that if in7efus Chrijt,faith the Apofile, Kom.3. 24. Mark, free -grace iffues out through redem- ption,and in that way faith waits for it : Thus St.Peter, We believe that through the grace of the Lord Jefus Chrijt fhal be Paved, Aet. r 5.11. he calls the grace of God the grace of the Lord 7efus Chri/t.,as being merited by him. The be- liever waits for pardoning mercy,but it muli he the mercy of David, coming through the Mefah '- the true David.Whether God might not per po- tentiam foam abfolutam,reinit fin without a fatif- faRion,is a quefiion may be fpared ; Gods will is declared,the Scripture is defìnitive,there is no ether name given among men, but the name of 7elits,no other remiffion but through hi-s blood : the glory of the Lord, that is, his free - grace, comes into the Temple of the Church by the way of the Laft, Ezek43.2. that is, through Je- fus Chrift,who is ávaloa, the Eaft, Luk r. 78. towards which the true believer bows down him-
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