main in those that are regenerated/: and although it be thro Christ pardoned and mortified, yet both itself, and all the motions thereof, are truly and properly fin m. VI. Every fin, both original and actual, being a tranfgref fion of the righteous law of God, and contrary thereunton, doth, in its own nature, bring guilt upon the finnerd, where1 by he is bound over to the wrath of Godp, and curse of the thefts, false witness, blafphemies. V. 1 1 John i. 8. If we say that we have no fin, we deceive ourselves, and the truth is not in us. v. 10. If we say that we have not finned, we make him a liar, and his word is not in us. Rom. vii. 14. For we know that the law is spiritual: but I am carnal, fold under fin. v. 17. Now then, it is no more I that do it, but fin that dwelleth in me. v. 18. For I know that in me (that is, in my flesh) dwelleth no good thing: for to will is prefent with me, but how to perform that which is good, I find not. v. 23. But I fee another law in my members, warring against the law of my mind, and bringing me into captivity to the law of fin, which is in my members. James iii. 2. For in many things we offend all. If any man offend not in word, the fame is a perfect man, and able also to bridle the whole body. Prov. xx. 9. Who can fay, I have made my heart clean, I am pure from my fin? Eccl. vii. 20. For there is not a just man upon the earth that doth good and finneth not. Rom. vii. 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 shall we say then? Is the law fin? God forbid. Nay, I had not known fin, but by the law: for I had not known lust, except the law had faid, Thou shalt not covet. lawq, v. 8. But fin taking occasion by the commandment, wrought in me all manner of concupifcence. For without the law fin was dead. v. 25. I thank God, through Jefus Chrift our Lord. So then with the mind I myself serve the law of God; but with the flesh the law of fin. Gal. v. 17. For the flesh lusteth againft the Spirit, and the Spirit againft the flesh: and these are contrary the one to the other, so that ye cannot do the things that ye would. VI. 1 John iii. 4. Whosoever committeth fin, tranfgresseth also the law, for fin is the tranfgreffion of the law. • Rom. ii. 15. Which shew the work of the law written in their hearts, their conscience alfo bearing witness, and their thoughts the mean while accusing, or elfe excuf ing one another. Rom. iii. 9. What then? are we better than they? No, in no wise: 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. p Eph. ii. 3. Among whom alfo we all had our converfation in times past, in the lufts of our flesh, fullling the defires of the flesh and of the mind; and were by nature the children of wrath, even as others. Da : 9 Gal. lawq, and so made subject to deathr, with all miseries spirituals, temporalt, and eternal v. T CHAP. VII. 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 blessedness and reward, but by some voluntary condescension on God's part, which he hath been pleased to express by way of covenant a. q Gal. iii. ro. For as many as are of the works of the law, are under the curse: for it is written, Cursed is every one that continueth not in all things which are written in the book of the law to do them. Rom. vi. 23. For the wages of fin is death: but the gift of God is eternal life, through Jesus Chrift our Lord. Eph. iv. 18. Having the understanding darkned, being alienated from the life of God, through the ignorance that is in them, because of the blindness of their heart. 1 Rom. viii. 20. For the creature was made fubject to vanity, not willingly, but by reason of him who hath fubjected the fame in hope. Lam. iii. 39. Wherefore doth a living man complain, a man for the punishment of his fins? v Matth. xxv. 41. Then shall he fay also unto them on the left hand, Depart from me, ye curfsed, into everlafting fire, prepared for the devil and his angels. 2 Theff. i. 9. Who fhall be punished with everlafting deftruction from the prefence of the Lord, and from the glory of his power. I. a Ifa. xl. 13. Who hath directed the spirit of the Lord? or being II. The his counfeller hath taught him? v. 14. With whom took he counsel, and who instructed him, and taught him in the path of judgment, and taught him knowledge, and shewed to him the way of understanding? v. 15. Behold, the nations are as a drop of a bucket, and are counted as the fmall duft of the balance: Behold, he taketh up the ifles as a very little thing. v. 16. And Lebanon is not fufficient to burn, nor the beasts thereof fufficient for a burnt offering. v. 17. All nations before him are as nothing, and they are counted to him less than nothing, and vanity. Job. ix. 32. For he is not a man, as I am, that I should answer him, and we should come together in judgment. v 33. Neither is there any days-man betwixt us, that might lay his hand upon us both. I Sam ii. 25. If one man fin against another, the judge shall judge him: but if a man fin against the Lord, who shall intreat for him? Pfal. cxiii. 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. Pfal. c. 2. Serve the Lord with gladness: come before his prefence with finging. v. 3. Know T II. The first covenant made with man was a covenant of worksb, wherein life was promised to Adam, and in him to his posterityc, upon condition of perfect and personal obe dience d. III. Man by his fall having made himself uncapable of life by that covenant, the Lord was pleased to make a seconde, commonly called the Covenant of Grace: wherein he freely offereth unto sinners life and salvation by Jesus Christ, requiring of them faith in him, that they may be savedf; and promising to give unto all those that are ordained unto life, his holy spirit, to make them willing and able to believeg. 3. Know ye that the Lord he is God, it is he that hath made us, and not we our selves: we are his people, and the sheep of his pasture. Job xxii. 2. Can a man be profitable unto God, as he that is wife may be profitable unto himself? v. 3. Is it any pleasure to the Almighty that thou art righteous? or is it gain to him, that thou makest thy ways perfect? Job xxxvii. 7. If thou be righteous, what givest thou him? or what receiveth he of thine hand? v. 8. Thy wickedness may hurt a man as thou art, and thy righteousness may profit the fon of man. Luke xvii. 10. So likewise ye, when ye shall have done all those things which are commanded you, say, We are unprofitable servants: we have done that which was our duty to do. Acts xvii. 24. God that made the world, and all things therein, seeing that he is Lord of heaven and earth, dwelleth not in temples made with hands: v.25.neither is worshipped with mens hands, as tho' he needed any thing, feeing he giveth to all life, and breath, and all things. II. b Gal. iii. 12. And the law is not of faith; but, The man that doth them shall live in them. Rom. x. 5. For Mofes defcribeth the righteousness which is of the law, that the man which doth these things shall live by them. Rom. v. 12. to 20. (See chapter vi. Sect. 3. letter f.) Gen. ii. 17. But of the tree of com the knowledge of good and evil, thou shalt not eat of it: for in the day that thou eatest thereof, thou fhalt furely die. Gal. iii. 10. For as many as are of the works of the law, are under the curse: for it is written, Cursed is every one that continueth not in all things which are written in the book of the law, to do them. III. e Gal, iii. 21. Is the law then against the promises of God? God forbid; for if there had been a law given, which could have given life, verily righteousness should have been by the law. Rom. viii. 3. For what the law could not do, in that it was weak through the flesh, God sending his own Son in the likeness of finful flesh, and for fin condemned fin in the flesh. Rom. iii. 20. Therefore by the deeds of the law there shall no flesh be juftified in his fight: for by the law is the knowledge of fin. v. 21. But now the righteousness of God without the law is manifested, being witnessed by the law and the prophets. Gen. iii. 15. And I will put enmity between thee and the woman, and between thy feed and her feed: it shall bruise thy head, and thou shalt bruise his heel. Ifa. iv. 6. I the Lord have called thee in righteoufnefs, and will hold thine hand, and will keep thee, and give thee for a covenant of the people, for a light of the Gentiles. f Mark IV. This covenant of grace is frequently set forth in the fcripture by the name of a testament, in reference to the death of Jesus Christ the teftator, and to the everlasting inheFitance with all things belonging to it, therein bequeathed h. V. This covenant was differently administred in the time f Mark xvi. 15. And he said unto them, Go ye into all the world, and preach the gospel to every creature. v. 16. He that believeth and is baptized, shall be faved; but he that believeth not, shall be damned. John jii. 16. For God fo loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whofoever believeth in him; should not perish, but have everlasting life. Rom. x. 6. But the righteousness which is of faith, speaketh on this wife, Say not in thine heart, who thall afcend into heaven? (that is, to bring Christ down from above.) v. 9. That if thou shalt confefs with thy mouth the Lord Jesus, and shalt believe in thine heart, that God hath raised him from the dead, thou shalt be faved. Gal. iii. 11. But that no man is juftified by the law in the fight of God, it is evident: for, The just shall live by faith, g Ezek. xxxvi. 26. A new heart alfo will I give you, and a new spirit will I put within you, and I will take away the stony heart out of your flesh, and I will give you an heart of flesh, v. 27. And I will put my spirit within you, and cause you to walk in my statutes, and ye shall keep my judgments, and do them, John vi. 44. No man can come to of me, except the Father which hath fent me, draw him: and I will raife him up at the last day. v. 45. It is written in the prophets, And they shall be all taught of God. Every man therefore that hath heard, and hath learned of the Father, cometh unto me.. 1 IV. b Heb. ix. 15. And for this cause he is the Mediator of the new testament, that by means of death for the redemption of the tranfgreffions that were under the first testament, they which are called might receive the promise of eternal inheritance, v. 16. For where a testament is, there must also of neceffity be the death of the teftator. v. 13. For a testament is of force after men are dead: otherwise it is of no strength at all whilst the testator liveth. Heb. vii. 22. By so much was Jesus made a furety of a better teftament. Luke xxii. 20. Likewise also the cup after supper, saying, This cup is the new testament in my blood, which is shed for you. I Cor, xi. 25. After the fame manner also he took the cup, when he had fupped, saying, This cup is the new testament in my blood; this do ye, as oft as ye drink it, in remembrance of me. V. i 2 Cor. of the law, and in the time of the gospeli: under the law it was administred by promises, prophecies, facrifices, circumcision, the Paschal Lamb, and other types and ordinances delivered to the people of the Jews, all fore-fignifying Chrift to comek, which were for that time sufficient and efficacious, through the operation of the Spirit, to instruct and build up the elect in faith in the promised Messiahl, by whom they had full remission of sins, and eternal salvation; and is called the Old Testament m. V. i 2 Cor. iii. 6. Who also hath made us able ministers of the new testament; not of the letter, but of the fpirit: for the letter killeth; but the spirit giveth life. v. 7. But if the ministration of death written and engraven in stones was glorious, so that the children of Ifrael could not stedfastly behold the face of Mofes, for the glory of his countenance, which glory was to be done away; v. 8. how shall not the ministration of the Spirit be rather glorious? v. 9. For if the ministration of condemnation be glory, much more doth the ministration of righteousness exceed in glory. (Heb. viii, ix, x. chapters.) Rom. iv. 11. And he received the sign of circumcifion, a feal of the righteousness of the faith, which he had yet being uncircumcised; that he might be the father of all them that believe, though they be not circumcised; that righteousness might be imputed unto them also. Col. ii. 11. In whom also ye are circumcised with the circumcifion made without hands, in putting off the body of the fins of the flesh, by the circumction of Christ: v. 12. Buried with him in baptifm, wherein al so ye are risen with him, through the faith of the operation of God, who hath raised him from the dead. VI. Un 1 Cor. v. 7. Purge out therefore the old leaven, that ye may be a new lump, as ye are unleavened. For even Chrift our passover is facrificed for us. 11 Cor. x. 1. Moreover, brethren, I would not that ye should be ignorant, how that all our fathers were under the cloud, and all paffed through the sea; v. 2. and were all baptized unto Mofes in the cloud, and in the sea; v. 3. and did all eat the same spiritual meat; v. 4. and did all drink the same spiritual drink: (for they drank of that fpiritual rock that followed them: and that rock was Chrift.) Heb. xi. 13. These all died in faith, not having received the promises, but having seen them afar off, and were perfuaded of them, and embraced them, and confefsed that they were strangers and pilgrims on the earth. Johnviii. 56. Your father Abraham rejoiced to see my day: and he faw it, and was glad. m Gal. iii. 7. Know ye therefore, that they which are of faith, the fame are the children of Abraham. v. 8. And the fcripture foreseeing, that God would justify the heathen through faith, preached before the gospel unto Abraham, saying, In thee shall all nations be blessed. v. 9. So then, they which be of faith |