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any other creature, fhall be able to feparate us from the love of God which is in Chrift Jefus our Lord. John 17. 11. And now I am no more in the world, but thefe are in the world, and I come to thee. Holy Father, keep through thine own name, thofe whom thou haft given me, that they may be one, as we are: v. 24. Father, I will, that they alfo whom thou haft given me, be with me where I am; that they may behold my glory which thou haft given me: for thou lovedft me before the foundation of the world. Luke 22. 32. But I have prayed for thee, that thy faith fail not; and when thou art converted, ftrengthen thy brethren. Heb. 7. 25. Wherefore he is able also to fave them to the uttermoft, that come unto God by him, feeing he ever liveth to make interceffion for them.

Covegood work to do his will, working things prefent, northings to come, in you that which is well-pleafing v. 39. Nor height, nor depth, nor in his fight, through Jefus Chrift; to whom be glory for ever and ever. Amen. Heb. 9. 12. Neither by the blood of goats, and calves, but by his own blood he entred in once into the holy place, having obtained eternal redemption for us. v. 13. For if the blood of bulls, and of goats, and the ashes of an heifer fprinkling the unclean, fan&tifieth to the purifying of the flesh; v. 14. How much more fhall the blood of Chrift, who through the eternal Spirit, offered himself without spot to God,purge your confcience from dead works,to ferve the living God: v. 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 promife of eternal inheritance. Rom. 8. 33. Who fhall lay any thing to the charge of Gods elect? It is God that juftifieth: . 34. Who is he that condemneth? It is Chrift that died, yea rather that is rifen again, who is even at the right hand of God, who alfo maketh interceffion

for us.
v. 35. Who fhall feparate
us from the love of Chrift? hall
tribulation, or diftrefs, or perfecu-
tion, or famine, or nakedness, or
peril, or fword? v. 36. (As it is
written, For thy fake we are killed
all the day long; we are counted as
fheep for the flaughter.) v. 37. Nay
in all these things we are more than
conquerors, through him that loved
us. v. 38. For I am perfwaded, that
neither death, nor life, nor angels,
nor principalities, nor powers, nor

d John 14. 16. And I will pray the Father, and he shall give you another Comforter, that he may abide with you for ever; v. 17. Even the Spirit oftruth, whom the world cannot receive, because it feeth him not, neither knoweth him: but ye know him, for he dwelleth with you, and shall be in you. 1 John 2.27. But the anointing which ye have received of him, abideth in you: and ye need not that any man teach you: But, as the fame anointing teach eth you of all things, and is truth, and is no lie: and even as it hath taught you, ye shall abide in him. 1 John 3. 9. Whofoever is born of God, doth not commit fin; for his feed remaineth in him: and hecannot fin, because he is born of God.

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Covenant of Grace: From all which ariseth also the Certainty and Infallibility thereof.

III. Nevertheless they may, through the Temptations of Satan and of the World, the Prevalency of Corruption remaining in them, and the Neglect of the Means of their Prefervation, fall into grievous Sins ; and for a Time continue therein h: whereby they incur God's Difpleasure, and grieve his Holy Spirit; come to be deprived of fome Measure of their Graces and Comforts', have their Hearts

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Jer. 32. 40. And I will make of my falvation: and my tongue an everlafting covenant with them, fhall fing aloud of thy righteoufThat I will not turn away from them nefs. to do them good; but I will put my fear in their hearts, that they fhall not depart from me.

John 10. 28. And I give unto them eternal life, and they fhall never perish, neither fhall any pluck them out of my hand. 2 Theff. 3. 3. But the Lord is faithful, who fhall ftablish you, and keep you from evil. 1 John 2. 19. They went out from us, but they were not of us: for ifthey had been of us,they would no doubt have continued with us: but they went out, that they might be made manifeft, that they were not

all of us.

III. & Matth. 26. 70. But he denied before them all, faying, I know not what thou fayeft. v. 72. And again he denied with an oath, I do not know the man. v. 74. Then

began he to curfe and to fwear, Saying, I know not the man. Andimmediately the cock crew.

Pfalm 51. The Title, To the chief musician, A pfalm of David, when Nathan the prophet came unto him, after he had gone in to Bath

fheba.

v. 14. Deliver me from

blood-guiltinefs, O God, thou God

i Ifa. 64. s. Thou meeteft him that rejoiceth, and worketh righteoufnefs, thofe that remember thee in thy ways: behold, thou art wroth, for we have finned: in thofe is continuance,and we shall be faved. v.7. And there is none that calleth upon thy name, that stirreth up himself to take hold of thee: for thou haft hid thy face from us, and haft consumed us, because of our iniquities. v. 9. Be not wroth very fore, O Lord, neither remember iniquity for ever: behold, fee we beseech thee, we are all thy people. 2 Sam. 11. 27. And when the mourning was past, David fent, and fet her to his house, and fhe became his wife, and bare him a son: but the thing that David had done, difpleafed the Lord.

Eph. 4. 30. And grieve not the holy Spirit of God, whereby ye are fealed unto the day of redemption.

1 Pfalm 51. 8. Make me to hear joy and gladness: that the bones which thou haft broken may rejoice. v. 1o. Create in me a clean heart, O God; and renew a right spirit within me. v. 12. Reftore unto me G 3

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CHAP. XVIII.

Of Affurance of Grace and Salvation.

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LTHOUGH Hypocrites and other unregenerate Men may vainly deceive themfelves, with falfe Hopes and carnal Prefumptions, of being in the Favour of God and Estate of Salvation ';

the joy of thy falvation; and uphold me with thy free Spirit. Rev. 2. 4. Nevertheless, I have fomewhat against thee, because thou haft left thy first love. Cant. 5.2. I fleep, but my heart waketh; it is the voice of my beloved that knocketh, faying, Open to me, my fifter, my love, my dove, my undefiled: for my head is filled with dew, and my locks with the drops of the night. v.3.I have put off my coat, how fhall I put it on? I have washed my feet,how fhall I defile them? 7. 4. My beloved put in his hand by the hole of the door, and my bowels were moved for him. v. 6. I opened to my beloved, but my beloved had withdrawn himself, and was gone: my foul failed when he fpake: I fought him, but I could not find him; I called him, but he gave me no answer.

Ifa. 63.17. O Lord, why haft thou made us to err from thy ways? and hardned our heart from thy fear? Return for thy fervants fake, the tribes of thine inheritance. Mark 6. 52. For they confidered not the miracle of the loaves, for their heart was hardned. Mark 16. 14. After ward he appeared unto the eleven,

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as they fat at meat, and upbraided them with their unbelief and hardnefs of heart, because they believed not them which had seen him after he was rifen.

Pfalm 32. 3. When I kept filence, my bones waxed old, through my roaring all the day long. .4. For day and night thy hand was bezvy upon me: my moisture is turned into the drought of summer. Pfsi. 51. 8, Make me to hear joy and gladness; that the boxes which thou haft broken may rejoice.

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2 Sam, 12, 14. Howbeit, because by this deed thou haft given great occafion to the enemies of the Lord to blafpheme, the child alfo that is born unto thee,fhall furely die.

P Psalm 89.31. If they breakny ftatutes, and keep not my commandments; v. 32. Then will I vifit their tranfgreffion with the rod, and their iniquity with ftripes, 1 Cor. 11. 32. But when we are judged we are chaftned of the Lord, that we should not be condemned with the world,

1. Fob 8. 13. So are the paths of all that forget God, and the hy pocrites hope fhall perish: v. 14. Whofe hope fhall be cut off, and

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which Hope of theirs fhall perish b: Yet fuch as truly believe in the Lord Jefus, and love him in Since rity, endeavouring to walk in all good Confcience before him, may in this Life be certainly affured that they are in the State of Grace, and may rejoice in the Hope of the Glory of God, which Hope fhall never make them afhamed 4.

II. This Certainty is not a bare conjectural and probable Perfwafion, grounded upon a fallible Hope; but an infallible Affurance of Faith, foun

whofe truft shall be a fpiders web.
Mic. 3.11. The heads thereof judge
for reward, and the priests thereof
teach for hire, and the prophets
thereof divine for money: yet will
they lean upon the Lord, and fay,
Is not the Lord among us? none e-
vil can come upon us. Deut. 29.19.
And it come to pass when he hear-
eth the words of this curfe, that he
bless himself in his heart, faying,
I fhall have peace, though I walk in
the imagination of my heart, to add
drunkenness to thirst. John 8. 41.
Te do the deeds of your father.
Then faid they to him, We be not
born of fornication, we have one
father, even God.

Matth. 7. 22. Many fhall fay to me in that day, Lord, Lord, have we not prophefied in thy name? and in thy name have caft out devils? and in thy name done many wonderful works? v. 23. And then will I profefs unto them, I never knew you; depart from me ye that work iniquity.

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1 John 2. 3. And hereby we do know that we know him, if we keep his commandments.. 1 John 3. 14. We know that we have paffed from death unto life, because we love the brethren: he that loveth not

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his brother, abideth in death. v. 13.
My little children, let us not love
in word, neither in tongue, but in
deed and in truth.
V. 19. And
hereby we know that we are of the
truth, and fhall affure our hearts
before him. v. 21. Beloved, if our
heart condemn us not, then have
we confidence towards God. v. 24.
And he that keepeth his command-
ments, dwelleth in him, and he in
him: and hereby we know that he
abideth in us, by the Spirit that he
hath given us. 1 John 5. 13. Thefe
things have I written unto you
that believe on the name of the
Son of God; that ye may know
that ye have eternal life, and that
ye may believe on the name of the
Son of God.

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Rom. 5. 2. By whom alfo we have access by faith into this grace wherein we ftand, and rejoice in hope of the glory of God. v.5. And hope maketh not afhamed, becaufe the love of God is fhed abroad in our hearts, by the holy Ghost which is given unto us.

II. Heb. 6. 11. And we defire that every one of you do fhew the fame diligence, to the full affurance of hope unto the end. v. 19. Which

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ded upon the Divine Truth of the Promises of Salvation, the inward Evidence of thofe Graces unto which these Promises are made, the Teftimony of the Spirit of Adoption witneffing with our Spirits that we are the Children of God: Which Spirit is the Earneft of our Inheritance, whereby we are fealed to the Day of Redemption i.

III. This Infallible Affurance doth not fo belong to the Effence of Faith, but that a true Believer may wait long, and conflict with many Difficulties

hope we have as an anchor of the foul, both fure and ftedfast, and which entreth into that within the vail.

f Heb. 6. 17. Wherein God willing more abundantly to fhew unto the heirs of promife the immutability of his counfel, confirmed it by an oath: v. 18. That by two immutable things, in which it was impoffible for God to lie, we might have a ftrong confolation, who have fled for refuge to lay hold upon the hope fet before us.

& 2 Per. 1. 4. Whereby are given unto us exceeding great and precious promises; that by these you might be partakers of the divine nature, having escaped the corruption that is in the world through luft. v.s. And befides this, giving diligence, add to your faith, virtue; and to virtue, knowledge. v. 10. Wherefore the rather,brethren, give diligence to make your calling and election fure for if ye do these things, ye fhall never fall: v. 11. For fo an entrance shall be miniftred unto you abundantly, into the everlafting kingdom of our Lord and Saviour Jefus Chrift. 1 John 2.3. And hereby we do know that we know

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him, if we keep his commandments. 1 John 3. 14. We know that we have paffed from death unto life, because we love the brethren: he that loveth not his brother, abideth in death. 2 Cor. 1. 12. For our rejoicing is this, The teftimony of our confcience, that in fimplicity, and godly fincerity, not with fleshly wifdom, but by the grace of God we have had our converfation in the world, and more abundantly to you-wards.

Rom. 8.15. For ye have not received the spirit of bondage again to fear; but ye have received the Spirit of adoption, whereby we cry, Abba, Father. v. 16. The Spirit it felf beareth witness with our fpirit, that we are the children of God.

i Eph. . 13. Wherefore I defire that ye faint not at my ribulations for you, which is your glory. v. 14. For this cafe Ibow my knees unto the Father of our Lord Jefus Chrift. Eph. 4. 30. And grieve not the holy Spirit of God, whereby ye are fealed unto the day of redemption. 2 Cor. 1.21. Now he which stablisheth us with you, in Chrift,and hath anointedus, is God: v. 22. Who hath alfo fealed us, and given the earnest of the Spirit in our hearts.

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