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adopted Seed and People,- Partakers of all that he hath promiſed to |
them, or can defire of liim; ſo as their Name 1s better tian the N:me of Sons or Daughters, an everlattiing one not to be cut oft, 1. $5.5, They, as his People, attend on, witneſs to, and contend ror him and his Glory, are always at his Beck, being purchaſed, made, and covenanted fo for his Uſe and Service, that they arc not their own, but wholly at his diipoſal, 7er. 23. 7. and 32. 20. Ezek it. 20. and 37. 23,27. Zech. 8. 8.) 2/Cor. 6. 16.
11 And * they thall not teach » every man his neighbour 77, and every man his brother, laying, 9 Know the Lord : For all ſhall know » me, from the leatt ro the greateſt.
5 The ſubjiett implycd in the Plural Verb, and by a partitive Par- tickle expreticd they and every one, 13 in Feremial's Text W'R a Man, even every truly covenanted one who hath the knowledge of the Lord. They f.4'l nat teach any more, in Fer. 317 34. A double Ne- ative ſupplicth it in this Verſe - ur, denying that weak and truit- lets kind oc Teachinz, which was under the 31/aica! Covenant-Ad- miniſtration, whereby Souls were not lavingly cd:hed 1n the Rnow- ledze of God ; there was imperfettion both in their Knowledge and Teachinz which ſhou!4 not be under the Goſpel. p Such a$ are nearer fo each other in Soriety or Commerce, a tellow-Citt- zen; Or are 4 near Relation, by Nature or Alliance, by Conſan- guinity or Affinity, one near at hand, ignorant of the Lord, and that nceds inſtruttion, one cap.ible and poffible to be tapyht. 7 This intimates the nianner of Teaching denyed, a formal cuito- mary way of teachin?, /ying, it was proverbjal with them, and fo vas the matter of it, Knw the Laid, as they uſed to fay, the Tem- ple of the Lord, Fer. 7. 4. The Baden of the Lord, er. 23. 34- Tie day of ti:2 Lord, Amos 5. 18. or otherwiſe not to teach them to krow the L rd wtional'y only, without any 1nfluence on their Heart, without believing, loving, fearing or obeying him, 1 John 2. 3, 4. orto teach them to know the Lord, as redeeming and del1- v-ring of them out of Egypt, or out of the Land of the North, that is, bringing them back irom their Captivity in Babylon, as they were taught, Excd. and Jer. 23.7, 8. But as dejiverin,, them from Sin, the Curſe, Wrath and Hell. Or, they ſhall not teach one ancther fo darkly, flenderk and imperfe&tly in the mean- inz of Types, Shidowvs and Ceremonice, tlat they might know the Lord in Truth, and Worſhip him according to his Mind ; or to take ſo much pains to inſtru&t then; concerning the Lord and his Wor- ſp, as they took with the Gentiles when they proſelyted them, r For under the Goſfpel-Admimiſtration all the Covenanted-Ones, the Intaat in the Church, and the Aged, Iſai. 65. 20. All Ages, 12 Chriſt, Children, Fathers and Young Men, as 1 oh. 2. 12, 13. 14. Young and Old ſhall have his Laws put into their Minds, and written on their Hearts,the true ſaving Knowledge of him in Chriſt in the fulneſs of it, as 7a. 11. 9. they ſhall fo perfettly know him, {5 as not to depart from him; he ſhallbe theirs, and they his by an everlaſting Covenant, ordered in all things and ſure ; by the plentiful effuſion of his Spirit in all the Gifts and Giaces of 1t throngh his Goſpel-Inſtitutions on thein ; they ſhall be ſo enlight- ned in the Goipel-Truths, that they know their Duties, and per- form them, as -1t they were immediately enlightned from above, ra- ther than by the common methods of teaching by his Word, that tney ſhall not need fo much cautionimg, threatning, correfting as they did under the Law ; but ſhall intirely cleave to him, without a diipoiztion to revolt.
12 For will be merciful to their unrighteouſnel- ies /7 and their fins and their iniquites will 1 remem- ber no more 2.
{ This. Fry Rates the c1uic of a!l the former As promited 1n the Goſpe!-Covenant, as Repencrating, I!luminating, Adopting, . and God's gractous removing all Sins that might hinder the communica- tion of theſe, and all otizer Good to his Covenanted-ones, God 1n and by the Adminiſtration of this Covenant, ratified by his Blood, propitiating him, will of his free Mercy pardon, blot out, and take awas, chap. 2. 17. and thereby free them from the Guilt, Power, a:d Puniſhment of their original and actual Unrighteout- ncfs, in;plying his Reconciliation to, and free acceptance of their Perſons in Jeſus Chriſt, on whoſe account it 1s, he dealeth ſo graci- cully with them in all things, 1 John 4. 9. Ja. 55. 7, 8, 3. t All the Breaches of God's Law by Commiſſions or Omifſions, whatever they may be for Number” or for Aggravation ; he willalways through Chriſt ſave his Covenanted-ones trom them ail, Matth. 1. 21. Rom. 3. 21,70 27. Allof theſe ſhall not only be for the preſent blotted out, but his Merey will be ſo great and certzin, through Chriſt, that he vill neither puniſh them for them, nor ch.urge them to tiiem, he will abundantly pardon, and for ever take them a vay, fo as it they be tfouzht for, they ſhall not be found, chap. 10. 3. 14. Jfz. 43- 25, Micah. 7. 18, 19. And when he forget: their Sins, he will have their Perſons in everlaſting remembrance, Pſal.112. 6.
12 In that he faith, A new covenant, he hath made the tirft old 7 ; Now that which decayeth ard wazetn Id, z5 ready to vanitn away tv.
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