Preston - Houston-Packer Collection BX5133.P7 N4 1634

phor; that· God wiU write his -Law in, our– hearts, that we may fee thefe Lawes, we may reade ·them, and underftand them, as .when a thihgis written,Botl-may fee it,.and manmay fee it :-a man· himfelfe may fee tt,, and ·others d r. • h" r. 1 r r. · h Thewridng alfo may:r.eadeit: · Go 1ees ·1t tm1e re,.ror e oftheLaw hath written it: man -fees~ it; for he is able to Tifible•. fee the Law inhis minoe, he is able to feethat ,habituall · difpofition that is infufed into him: · andothersareable to fecit: for,faith P.ud,you are our .Epifile, evident to all men 5 that is, , as you may fee letters graven in fione,fo chey1 fee the fruits .and effect's of this Law writ- - ten in your"-hearts•,. So · you· fee now what· this .C.ovenanto£Grace is; , and ~how it differs · from the Covenant of workes: -it iS themini~~· ltration,. not of the Letter~ but ofthe Spirit, : _becaufe it doth not onely prefent the outward ; letter of the · Commandement, _but there is .a. L·aw written within, that is done by verfueof · the Spirit. . So that the order is -this; firlt it reveales righteoufnelfe;fecondly,.itfofrens the heart ;it: is the mirtiftration of the Spitit5 -and thirdly, .it is a minift-~ation oflove, it is a mini.; ftration offreedome,-andnotof bondage and enmitie·: .-for when-the I;aw is- thus ·written,· . a -man is-not· baled toit: he-comes ,nottoit,as . a:Bond..flave to ·doe his -worke, but he c-omes· willingly, he findshehathfomeabilirieto ·doit, .he finds a delightinit, as P4tllfaith,- r:delight' in the lAw ofGiul-at"cor.JiNg ·to tht inwArd mArh Tbeordttof ·• writing the Lawinthc ' heart. - • . S:Oyonfeethe -~fference betweene .the Cove;. ' . I n .. ~ .•· ~ A~~~ - • .· I

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