CHAPTER VI.
PAUTICULAK PROMISES ILLUSTRATED.
The former argument confirmed by an induction of pirticular instances— Jo.shua i. 5 opened— The concernment of all believers in that promise proved by tjie apostle, licb xili. 5— The general interest of all believers in all the promises of God cleared — Objections answered— How Old Testament promises may be improved— The pro- mise insisted on relates principally to spirituals— The strength of it to the end in- tended— 1 Sam. xii. 22, to whom the promise there is given — The twofold use of this promise— Threats to wicked men of use to the saints; promises to the saints of use to wicked men— Isa. iv 2-4, Ps. Ixxxix. 30-37 opened — A condition of backsliding supposed in believers, yet they not rejected — (iod's abiding with his sain*.s upon the account of his, I. Faithfulness; 2. Ijoving-kindness; 3. Covenant; 4. Promise; 5. Oaili— The intendment of the words insisted on from 1 Sam. xii 22— Isa. xxvii. 2, 3, Zeph. iii. 17, illu.>^trated— The intendment of these words, "I will not forsake thee" — 'J'he reason of the promi,«e, and means promised therein— No cause in tlicm to whom the promise is made— Ezek. xxxvi. 32, Isa. xliii. 22-25, opened; also IsJi. Ivii. 17— The cause in God himself only— The "name" of God, what it im]X)rts; his all-sutficiency eiignged therein, and his goodness— The rise and tbuntaiu of all God's goodness to his people in his own good pleasure— The sum of our argument from this place of Scripture— Ps. xxiii. 4, 6, opened; the psalmist s use of assurance of perse- verance—Inferences from the last use— 2 Tim. iv. 18 opened — All believers in the same condition as to perseverance with David and Paul— The second inference from the place insisted on— Assurance a motive to obedience, and is the end tiiat God in- tends to promote tliereby— Ps. cxxv. 1, 2, explained; Ps. xxxvii. 28; Deut. xxxiii. 3 — Inferences i'rom that phice of the p.salinist — Perpetual preservation in the condi- tion of saints promised to believers— Mr (t.'s objections and exceptions to our expo- sition and argument from this place removed — Promises made originally to persons, not qualifications— Not the same reason of promises to the church and of threaten- ings to sinners— Other ol)jections removed— Isii. liv. 7-10, the mind of the Lord in the promise mentioned in that place opened — The expusition .i;ivcn on that place and arguments from thence vindicated— Direction I'or tlir riirht inipruvcnicnt of i)ro- mises— Ho.'i. ii. 19, 20, opeuod— Of tiie general design of that chapter— The lir.st part, of the total rejection of the church and political state of the Jews — The second, of promises to the remnant according to the election of grace — Of this four particulars: 1. Of conversion, vei^os 14, 15; 2. Of obedience and forsaking all fal.se worship, verses Ifi, 17; 3. Of peace and quietness, verse IS; 4. Discovering the fountain of aU the mercies, verses 19, 20 — Some objections removed — To whom this promise is made — 'i'he jiromi.sc farther opened; the persons to whom it is made — X'erse 14 of that chapter opened— The wilderness condition whereunto men are allured by the gospel, what it imports: 1. Separation; 2. Entanglement — (lod's dealing with a soul in its wilderness condition — Promises given to persons in that condition — The sum of the foregoing promises— The jwrsons to whom they are made farther described — The nature of the main promise itself considered— Of the main Odvenant between God and his saints— 'i'he i)ropcrties of (iod engaged for the acconiplislmient of this pro- mise—Mr (i 's exposition of this place considered and coiUuted — John x. 27-29 opened, vindicated, ........ 243
CHAPTER VII.
THE MEDIATION OF CUR18T.
The consideration of the oath of God deferred— The method first proposed somewhat waived^'l'he intliience of the mediation of Clirist into (ii)d"s free and uncluuiL'eable acceptance of believers proposed— Ileasoi is of that proposal— Of the oblation of Christ — Its inlluence into tiie ^aints' perseverance— All cau.ses of separation between (iod and believers taken away thereby— Moral and efficient causes thereby removed— The guilt of .sin, how taken away by the death of Christ— Of the nature of redemp- tion—Conscience of sin, how abolished by the sacrifice of Christ— Ileb. x. 3,4, 14;
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