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them guilty and
condemned,
or pardoned, justified,
and
accepted
of
God, unto eternal
life.
This
is
a
very
plain
and
easy
doctrine
to
be
apprehended
by
such weak
crea-
tures as we are.
Observ. V,
Man
who
is
condemned
by
the
law,
may
be
saved by
the promise
i.
e.
by
the promise
of
grace
and
reconciliation
to God,
which was given
first
to
Adam, then to
Abraham, and made
further
known to
the
people
of
God
by
Moses,
and David, and the
prophets,
according
to
the different revelations
of God
to
man;
but
completed
by
the gospel
of
Christ,
and the ministry
of
his
apostles.
A promise to
Adam,
of
the destruction
of
the
"works
of
the devil,
by
the.
seed
of
the woman
;"
as
it
is
ex-
plained
;
1
John
iii.
8.
A
promise
that
God
would be
"
our God," and
give
us
"
an
inheritance," made to Abraham,
&c.
Gen. xvii.
.7,
b.
A promise.
confirmed
by
many
types
of
the
Jewish
law.
A
promise
of
all
the blessings
of
the
new
covenant,
ex-
pressed,
Ileb.
viii.
10;
1I.
cited' from the several
pro -
phets
Jeremiah and
Zechariah. This
is
the
covenant
that
I
will
make
with the
house of
Israel after
those
days,
saith
the
Lord;
I
will
put
my laws
into
their
mind,
and write
them
in
their hearts
:
And
I
will
be
to
them a
God,
and
they
shall
be
to
me
a
people.
For
I
will
be
znerci
f
ztl
to their
unrighteousness,
and
their
sins
and
their
iniquities will
I
remember
no
more.
It
is
the
same promise,
more
particularly
and
fully
set
before
us,
by
Jesus Christ
the
Son
of
God,
in his gospel,
and by
his blessed
apostles
in
their
writings, which,
in plain
and
express language, includes
in it,
not
only
pardon
of
sin
and reconciliation
to
God,
but
the
sanctification
of
our
natures,
and
our preservation to eternal
life,
in
a
state
of
happiness,
which
shall never end.
Observ.
VI. The
way
of
obtaining an
interest
in
these
promised
blessings,
is
through
faith.
It
is
to
all
that
trust
in
the grace
of
the
gospel, so
far
as
it
was
mani-
fested
in
the several
ages
of
the
wòrld,
i.
e.
to Adam,
Abraham,
and
llavid;
and
as
it
is
more
fully
manifested
in
and by
Jesus
Christ.
It
is
obtained by a
renouncing
all
claim
by
one's
own works
and
trusting
in
grace entirely.
If
Adam
was
saved,
it
is
in
a
way
of
grace
and for-
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