i 84 The Saints 7 eivel. creature:but the excellency ofa naked promife, according to that, z Pet. I .q,. Whereby aregi- ven to us exceedinggreat " preciouspromifes. Now all the promifesof God unto his people, are fuch as concern tine body, or the body and the foul ; thofe that concern the body are with this limitation, that is, fo far as concerns Gods glory and the good of our fouls : but for the body and foul, conr'der that place ; For the Lord is a An andSheild, the Lord Pi 84.II.'Will give grace and glory, and nogoodwill he -withholdfrom them that live uprightly. Rea fond I come to the Reafons why God bath thus h h h lade made many promifes unto his people;and they prorniCes are three. to his peo - The flirt Reafon is this , That his people Pie' might have a fit objec`lr for their fair ti to lay Reaf, r; hold upon for ifyou lookupon all the crea- tures in the world, you fhall not find in all of them jointly,or any of them apart,a fit object for faith to workupon,or be fatisfied in : it is with faith as with a poor woman that bath a child,and bath nothing in the world to give it, The takes the child at her back and goeth from door todoor, and what the getteth the giveth to the child ; fo faith takes the foul, and car- rieth it to promife after promife, and what ever the finds there the gives it to the foul. Reaf. 2, The fecond reafonwhy God hath made ma ny:promifes unto his people,is; That theymay have a ground ofcomfort : for as it is the ob- je& of theirfaith, fo it is the groundof their -comfort; for.,all other things of this world .Cannot profit, or comfortthe beleeving foul ;_ as
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