N EVV CovENANT. ~ - 367 adoePattllabours t~ make it 'good,what firong objeetions were again£1: it inall times. I have . . fl1ew~dthe reafon: Now when you reade Rom. 3.and4.and Gal.3. and 4· you may know the better the meaning ofthofe places. WelJ, you fee the Covenant, you heare that there is fuch a covenant ;fecondly, you fee the Condition of this Covenant. The third thing is the confirmation of the Co':Jerumt; when a Man heares that Godwill vouchfafe fo much favour unto mankinde, a Man is ready to fay as Gedeon did,al.u,myfami– ly ispoorein 0l1anajfes, I am the leafiin all my Fathers Houfe. And whoam I, that 1hould be rayfedup hitherto-? Thatfuchapromifeas this fhould be made .to me, that I 1hould goe , and fave Ifrael? &c.I fay, after the fame man.. ncr a Man might be ready to object. Alas" what are wethefonnes of men, that the great ·Godof Heaven and Ealith fhould enter into· fucha Coven.1ntwithus, that he fhould make . us fuch promifes as thefe, that he fhould make ns heyres ofthe World, that he ihould bleffe· 1 us in that manner, to make us fonnes, to make us Kings and Priefh: S;tith the Lord, I con– fdfe it is acoventtnt that neede~ confirmation: j Thecon6t· mationofthe Covenant. therefore theLord hath confirmedit, all thefe The covenant .wayes; The Lord hath confirmed it, firfl: by coa6rmc:d, his promife;faith he, you have myfure Word: 1 for it; If that be not enough! I will ~onfir~e ByGodspro• it by an Oath,and becau(e he had no-gr~ater ~o .mire. £wearby, he faith bymy felfc have I-fivorne, 2 that By hisOath; i -_:
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