faft in the Liberty wherewith CHRIST hath made you free, and be not again entangled (nor terrified in your Confciences) with the Yoke of Bandage; neither the Commands, Accufations, or Condemnations of the Law of the Old Covenant, Gal. 5. 1, 2.

Object. If it be fo, then one need not care what they do, they may. Sin and Sin again, feeing Chrift hath made Satisfaction.

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Anfw. If I was to point out one that was under the Power of the Devil, and going Pofthaft to Hell (for my Life) I would look no further for fuch a Man, than to him that would make fuch a ufe as this of the Grace of God. because Chrift is a Saviour, thou wilt be a Sinner! because his Grace abounds, therefore thou wilt abound in it. Owicked wretch! Rake Hell all over, and furely I think thy Fellow wilk scarce be found! And let me tell thee this before I leave thee, as God's Covenant with Chrift for his Children (which are of Faith) ftands fure, immu-. table, unrevocable, and unchangeable; fo alfo hath God taken fuch,a Courfe with thee, that. unless thou canst make God forfwear himself, it is impoffible that thou fhouldeft go to Heaven, dying in that Condition. They tempted me, proved ms, and turned the Grace of God into lafcivioufnefs (Compare Heb. 3. 9, 10, 11 ver. with. 1 Cor. 10 Chap. from the 5th verfe to the oth) fo I fware, mark that, fo I fware (and that in my Wrath too) that they should never enter into my reft. No, faith God, if Chrift will not ferve their Turns, but they must have their Sins too, take them Devil; if Heaven will not fatisfy them, take them Hell, devour them Hell, fcald them, fry them, burn them, Hell. God hath more

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ces than one to put Sinners into; if they do not like of Heaven, he will fit then with Hell; if they do not like Chrift, they fhall be forced to have the Devil. Therefore we muft and will tell of the Truth of the Nature of the Covenant of the Grace of God to his poor Saints, for their Encouragement, and for, their Comfort who would be glad to leap at Chrift upon any Terms; yet therewith we can tell how through Grace, to tell the Hogs and Sons of this World, what a Hogfty there is prepared for them, even fuch a one that God hath prepared to put the Devil and his Angels into, is fitly prepared for them, Mat. 25. 41.

Object. But if Chrift hath given God a full and compleat Satisfaction, then, though I do go on in Sin, I need not fear, feeing God hath already been fatisfied; it will be Injustice in God to punish for thofe Sins, for which he is already fatisfied for by Christ.

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Anfw. Rebel, rebel, there are fome in Christ and fome out of him; they that are in him have their Sins forgiven, and they themselves made new Creatures, and have the Spirit of the Son, which is a holy, loving, felf-denying Spirit. And they that are thus in Jefus Chrift are fo far off from delighting in Sin, that Sin is the greatest thing that troubled them; and O how willingly would they be rid of the very Thoughts of it, Pfal.119. 113. It is the Grief of their Souls (when. they are in a right frame of Spirit) that they can live no more to the Honour and Glory of God, than they do; and in all their Prayers to God, the Breathings of their Souls is as much for fanctifying Grace as pardoning Grace, that they might live a holy Life; they would as willingly live holy here, as they would be happy in the World to

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come, Phil. 3. 4, 5,6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21. they would as willingly be cleanfed from the Filth of Sin, as to have the Guilt of it taken away; they would as willing glorify God here, as they would be glorified by him hereafter.

2. But there are some that are out of Chrift, being under the Law; and as for all thofe, let them be Civil or Prophane, they are fuch as God accounts wicked; and I fay, as for thofe, if all the Angels in Heaven can drag them before the Judgment-feat of Chrift, they fhall be brought before it to anfwer for all their ungodly Deeds, Judge 15. and being condemned for them, if all the Fire in Hell will burn them, they fhall be burned there (if they die in that Condition) And therefore if you love your Souls, do not give way to fuch a wicked Spirit. Let no Man deceive you with (fuch) vain Words (as to think, because Chrift hath made Satisfaction to God for Sin,. therefore you may live in your Sins. O no, God forbid that any fhould think fo) for because of thefe Things.cometh the Wrath of God upon the Chidren of Disobedience, Ephef. 5. 6.

Thus have I Reader) given thee a brief Dif-. courfe, touching the Covenant of Works, and the Covenant of Grace, alfo the Nature of the one together with the Nature of the other. I have alfo in this Difcourfe, endeavoured to fhew you the Condition of them that are under the Law, how fad it is, both from the Nature of the Covenant they are under, and alfo by the Carriage of God unto them by that Covenant. And now because I would bring all into as little a compafs as I can, I fhall begin with the Ufe" and Application of the whole in as briefa Way as I. can, defiring the Lord to blefs it to thee.

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And first of all, let us here begin to examine a little touching the Covenant you ftand before God in, whether it be the Covenant of Works or the Covenant of Grace; and for the right doing of this, I fhall lay down this Propofition; namely, that all Men naturally come into the World under the First of these, which is called the Old Covenant, or the Covenant of Works, which is the Law, and were all by Nature the Children of Wrath, even as others; which they could not be, had they not been under the Law; for there are none that are under the other Covenant that are fill the Children of Wrath, but the Children of Faith, the Children of the Promife, the accepted Children, the Children not of the Bond-man, but of the Free, Gal. 4. the four laft Verfes.

Now here lieth the Question, Which of thefe Two Covenants art thou under, Soul?

Anfw. I hope I am under the Covenant of Grace.

Queft. But what Ground haft thou to think that thou art under that bleffed Covenant, and not rather under the Covenant of Works, that frict, that Soul-damning Covenant ?

Anfw. What Ground? Why, I hope I am.

Queft.. But what Ground haft thou for this thy Hope for a Hope without a Ground, is like a Castle built in the Air, that will never be able to do thee any Good, but will prove like unto that spoken of in the Eighth of Job, Whofe Hope hall be cut off, and whofe Trust shall be (like) a Spider's Web. He hall lean upon his Houfe, but it fhall not ftand, he shall hold it fast (as thou wouldeft thy Hope it's like) but it shall not endure, Job 8. 13, 14, 15. Anfw.

Anfw. My Hope is grounded upon the Promifes, what elfe fhould it be grounded upon?

Anfw. Indeed, to build my Hope upon Christ Jefus, upon God in Chrift, through the Promife, and to have this Hope rightly, by the fhedding abroad of the Love of God in the Heart, it is a right-grounded Hope, Rom. 5. 1, 2, 3, 4, 5.

Quest. But what Promises in the Scripture do you find your Hope built upon? And how do you know whether you do build your Hope upon the Promises in the Gofpel, the Promifes of the New Covenant; and not rather on the Promises of the Old Covenant, for there are Promifes in that as -well as in the other?

Anfw. I hope that if I do well I shall be accepted; becaufe God hath faid I fhall, Gen. 4.7.

Rep. Soul, if thy Hope be grounded there, thy Hope is not grounded upon the Gospel Promifes, or the New Covenant, but verily upon the Old for thefe Words were spoken to Cain, à Son ; of the Old Covenant; and they themselves are the Tenor and Scope of that; for that runs thus, Do this, and thou shalt live. The Man that doth thefe Things fall live by them. If thou do well, thou fhalt be accepted, Levit. 18. 5. Ezek. 20. 11. Rom. 10. 5. Gal. 3. 12. Gen. 4. 7.

Rep. Why, truly, if a Man's doing well, and living well, and his ftriving to ferve God as well as he can, will not help him to Chrift, I do not know what will; I am fure finning against God will not.

Quest. Did you never read that Scripture, which faith, Ifrael which followed after the Law.of Righte oufness, hath not attained to the Law of Righteoufness? Rom. 9. 30, 31, 32.

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