doth remain in those that are regenerated': And although it be,through Chrift, pardoned and mortified, yet both it self, and all the Motions thereof are truly and properly Sin ".

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VI. Every Sin, both original and actual, being Tranfgreffion of the righteous Law of God, and contrary thereunto", doth in its own Nature, bring Guilt upon the Sinner, whereby he is bound over

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V. 1 1 John 1. 8. If we fay that the law: for I had not known luft, we have no fin, we deceive our except the law had faid, Thou shalt felves, and the truth is not in us. not covet. v. 8. But fin taking v. 1o. If we fay that we have not occafion by the commandment, finned, we make him a liar, and wrought in me all manner of conhis word is not in us. Rom. 7. 14. cupifcence. For without the law fin For we know that the law is fpiri- was dead. v. 25. I thank God, tual: but I am carnal, fold under through Jefus Chrift our Lord. So fin. v. 17. Now then, it is no more then with the mind I my felf ferve I that do it, but fin that dwelleth the law of God; but with the flesh, in me. v. 18. For I know, that in the law offin. Galatians 5. 17. For me (that is, in my flesh) dwelleth the flesh lufteth against the Spirit, no good thing: for to will is pre- and the Spirit against the flesh and fent with me, but how to perform these are contrary the one to the that which is good, I find not. v. 23. other; fo that ye cannot do the But I fee another law in my mem- things that ye would. bers, warring against the law of my mind, and bringing me into captivity to the law of fin, which is in my members. James 3. 2. For in many things we offend all. If any man offend not in word, the fame is a perfect man, and able alfo to bridle the whole body. Prov. 20. 9. Who can fay, I have made my heart clean, I am pure from my fin: Eccl. 7. 20. For there is not a juft man upon earth that doth good and finneth not.

m Romans 7.5. For when we were in the flesh, the motions of fins which were by the law, did work in our members to bring forth fruit unto death. v. 7. What fhall we fay then? Is the law fin? God forbid. Nay, I had not known fin, but by

VI. 1 John 3. 4. Whofoever committeth fin, tranfgreffeth alfo the law: for fin is the trangression of the law.

o Romans 2.15. Which thew the work of the law written in their hearts, their confcience alfo bearing witness, and their thoughts the mean while accufing, or elfe excu fing one another. Rom. 3. 9. What then? are we better than they? No, in no wife: for we have before proved both Jews and Gentiles, that they are all under fin; v. 19 Now we know, that what things foever the law faith, it faith to them who are under the law: that every mouth may be stopped, and all the world may become guilty before God.

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Of God's Covenant with Man.

HE Distance between God and the Creature

is so great, that although reasonable Creatures do owe Obedience unto him as their Creator, yet they could never have any Fruition of him as their Bleffedness and Reward, but by fome voluntary Condefcenfion on God's Part, which he hath been pleafed to exprefs by way of Covenant 2.

Eph. 2. 3. Among whom alfo we all had our converfation in times paft, in the lufts of our flesh, fulfilling the defires of the flesh, and of the mind; and were by nature the children of wrath, even as others.

II. The

Lam. 3. 39. Wherefore doth a living man complain, a man for the punishment of his fins?

"Matthew 25.41. Then fhall he fay also unto them on the left hand, depart from me, ye curfed, into everlasting fire, prepared for the devil and his angels. 2 Thef. 1. 9. Who fhall be punished with everlafting deftruction, from the prefence of the Lord, and from the glory of his power.

9 Gal. 3. 10. For as many as are of the works of the law are under the curfe: for it is written, curfed is every one that continueth not in all things which are written in the book of the law, to do them. I. a Ifai. 40. 13. Who hath diRom. 6. 23. For the wages of rected the fpirit of the Lord? or fin is death: but the gift of God is being his counfeller hath taught him? eternal life, through Jefus Chrift v. 14. With whom took he counfel, our Lord. ⚫ and who inftructed him, and taught Eph.4. 18. Having the under- him in the path of judgment, and ftanding darkned, being alienated taught him knowledge, and fhewed from the life of God, through the to him the way of understanding? ignorance that is in them, becaufe v. 15. Behold, the nations are as a of the blindness of their heart: drop of a bucket, and are counted Romans 8.20. For the creature as the fmall duft of the balance: was made fubject to vanity, not Behold, he taketh up the ifles as a willingly, but by reafon of him who very little thing. v. 16. And Lebahath fubjected the fame in hope: non is not fufficient to burn, nor

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II. The firft Covenant made with Man, was a Covenant of Works, wherein Life was promised to Adam, and in him to his Pofterity; upon Condition of perfect and perfonal Obedience d.

III. Man by his Fall having made himself incapa ble of Life by that Covenant, the Lord was pleased to make a feconde, commonly called the Covenant

of the beafts thereof fufficient for a wife ye, when ye shall have done burnt-offering. v. 17. All nations all thofe things which are combefore him are as nothing, and they manded you, fay, We are unproare counted to him lefs than no- fitable fervants: we have done that thing, and vanity. Job 9. 32. For which was our duty to do. Ats 17. he is not a man, as I am, that I fhould 24. God that made the world, and anfwer him, and we should come all things therein, seeing that he together in judgment. v. 33. Nei- is Lord of heaven and earth, dwelther is there any days-man betwixt leth not in temples made with us, that might lay his hand upon hands: v. 25. Neither is worthipus both. 1 Samuel 2. 25. If one man ped with mens hands, as though fin against another, the judge fhall he needed any thing, feeing he gi judge him: but if a man fin againft veth to all life, and breath, and the Lord, who fhall intreat for him? all things. Pfalm 13. 5. Who is like unto the Lord our God, who dwelleth on high v. 6. Who humbleth himself to behold the things that are in heaven, and in the earth. Pfalm 100. 2. Serve the Lord with gladness: come before his prefence with finging. v. 3. Know ye that the Lord he is God, it is he that hath made us, and not we our felves; we are

his people, and the sheep of his pafture. Job 22. 2. Can a man be profitable unto God, as he that is wife may be profitable unto himfelf? v. 3. Is it any pleasure to the Almighty that thou art righteous? Or is it gain to him, that thou makeft thy ways perfect? Job 35. 7. If thou be righteous, what giveft

II. Gal. 3. 12. And the law is not of faith: but, the man that doth them shall live in them.

Romans 10. 5. For Mofes de fcribeth the righteousness which is of the law, that the man which doth these things, fhall live by them. Romans 5. 12. to 20. [Ser chapter 6. §. 3. letter f.]

d Gen. 2. 17. But of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, thou shalt not eat of it: for in the day that thou eateft thereof, thou fhalt furely die. Gal. 3. 10. For as many as are of the works of the law, are under the curfe: for it is written, Curfed is every one that continueth not in all things which are written in the book of the law, to do them. III. Gal. 3. 21. Is the law then thine hand_v. 8. Thy wickednets against the promises of God? God may hurt a man as thou art, and forbid: for if there had been a law thy righteousness may profit the given which could have given life,

thou him? or what receiveth he of

fon of man. Luke 17. 10. So like

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of Grace: Wherein he freely offereth unto Sinners Life and Salvation by Jefus Chrift, requiring of them Faith in him, that they may be faved £, and promifing to give unto all those that are ordained unto Life, his holy Spirit, to make them willing, and able to believe 8.

IV. This Covenant of Grace is frequently fet forth in the Scripture by the Name of a Teftament, in reference to the Death of Jesus Christ the Testa

verily tighteoufnefs fhould have been by the law. Rom, 8. 3. For what the law could not do, in that it was weak through the flesh, God fending his own Son in the likeness of finful flesh, and for fin condemned fin in the flesh. Romans 3. 20. Therefore by the deeds of the law, there fhall no flesh be juftified in his fight for by the law is the knowledge of fin. v. 21. But now the righteoufnefs of God without the law, is manifested, being witneffed by the law and the prophets. Gen. 3. 15. And I will put enmity between thee and the woman, and between thy feed and her feed: it fhall bruife thy head, and thou fhalt bruise his heel. Ifaiah 42. 6. I the Lord have called thee in righteoufnefs, and will hold thine hand, and will keep thee, and give thee for covenant of the people, for a light

of the Gentiles.

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Mark 16. 15. And he faid unto them, Go ye into all the world, and preach the gofpel to every creature. v. 16. He that believeth and is baptized, fhall be faved; but he that believeth not, fhall be damned. John 3. 16. For God fo loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whofoever belie

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veth in him, should not perish, but have everlasting life. Rom. 10. 6. But the righteousness which is of faith, fpeaketh on this wife, Say not in thine heart, Who fhall afcend into heaven? (that is to bring Chrift down from above.) v. 9. That if thou shalt confefs with thy mouth the Lord Jefus, and fhalt believe in thine heart, that God hath raifed him from the dead, thou shalt be faved. Gal. 3. 11. But that no man is juftified by the law in the fight of God, it is evident: for, The juft fhall live by faith,

8 Ezekiel 36. 26. A new heart al

fo will I give you, and a new spirit will I put within you, and I will take away the ftony heart out of your flesh, and I will give you an heart of flesh, v. 27. And I will put my fpirit within you, and caufe you to walk in my ftatutes, and ye fhall keep my judgments, and do them. John 6. 44. No man can come to me, except the Father which hath fent me, draw him and I will raise him up at the laft day. v.45. It is written in the prophets, And they fhall be all taught of God. Every man therefore that hath heard, and hath learned of the Father, cometh unto me.

tor, and to the everlafting Inheritance, with all Things belonging to it, therein bequeathed h.

V. This Covenant was differently adminiftred in the time of the Law, and in the time of the Gofpel: Under the Law it was adminiftred by Promifes, Prophecies, Sacrifices, Circumcifion, the Pafchal Lamb, and other Types and Ordinances delivered to the People of the Jews, all fore-fignify ing Chrift to come, which were for that time, fufficient and efficacious, through the Operation

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not stedfaftly behold the face of Mofes, for the glory of his countenance, which glory was to be done away v. 8. How shall not the miniftration of the fpirit be rather glorious v. 9. For if the miniftration of condemnation be glory, much more doth the miniftration of righteouf nefs exceed in glory.

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IV. Heb. 9. 15. And for this cause he is the mediator of the new teftament, that by means of death for the redemption of the tranfgreffions that were under the firft teftament, they which are called might receive the promise of eternal inheritance. v. 16. For where a teftament is, there muft alfo of neceffity be the death of the tefta[Heb. 8, 9, 10. Chapters.] Ro tor. v. 17. For a teftament is of 4. 11. And he received the fignof force after men are dead: other- circumcifion, a feal of the righte wife it is of no ftrength at all whilft oufnefs of the faith, which he h the teftator liveth. Heb. 7. 22. By yet being uncircumcifed; that he fo much was Jefus made a furety might be the father of all then of a better teftament. Luke 22. 20. that believe, though they be no Likewife alfo the cup after fupper, circumcifed; that righteoufne faying, This cup is the new tefta- might be imputed unto them allo ment in my blood, which is fhed Col. 2. 11. In whom alfo ye ar I Cor. II. 25. After the circumcifed with the circumcifion fame manner alfo he took the cup, made without hands, in putting of when he had fupped, faying, This the body of the fins of the fiel cup is the new teftament in my by the circumcifion of Chrift: v. 1 blood: this do ye, as oft as ye drink Buried with him in baptifm, where alfo ye are rifen with him, through V. 2 Cor. 3. 6. Who alfo hath the faith of the operation of God made us able minifters of the new who hath raifed him from the dead teftament; not of the letter, but I Cor. s. 7. Purge out therefor of the fpirit: for the letter killeth; the old leaven, that ye may be but the fpirit giveth life. 7. 7. But new lump, as ye are unleavened For even Chrift our paflover is la crificed for us.

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