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A35172 KelaŹ» le-dor a compend of the covenant of grace as the most solid support under the most terrible conflicts of death, though arm'd with desertion, decay of grace, and sense of guilt / by Walter Cross. Cross, Walter, M.A. 1693 (1693) Wing C7258; ESTC R27629 28,536 34

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Conveyance and gives a Right to them And hence 3. It ●●●●s the Soul with assur'd Hope of them Rom. 8.23 We are sav'd by Hope For the third thing the proof of this the proof of the latter contains the former as the greater Blessing doth the lesser Man can never have his desire satisfi'd untill he be fav'd And indeed the Disease of Hunger and uneasie craving will also be remov'd when we are sav'd For such a desire is a great piece of Misery But a plenteous Redemption will bring a plentiful Salvation the fulness of Grace and Truth that is in Christ will remove the Emptiness of the Creature and all is contained in the Covenant 1. All that is in the Earth is promised Gold Silver fine Linnen Feasts of fat things Honey 2 Cor. 3. All things are yours God thinks not this Old World good enough therefore he will make it New for them 2 Pet. 3. Rom. 8. 2. Heaven also and all that is in it and this is more than we desire we would never have dream'd of it if the Promises had not contain'd it and given some preventive discovery For Eye hath not seen nor Ear heard nor hath it entred into the Heart of Man to consider what c. Isa 64.4 3. All in God I am thy God contains more than any man can infer from it Who would have dream'd of concluding a Resurrection out of it Mat. 22.32 Christ being ours contains all our Salvation and God being ours contains all our Desire they are both ours by vertue of this Covenant that contains a Covenant of Peace and War they are offensive and defensive with us all our Enemies theirs Omnipotency is on our side In a Covenant of Traffick and Commerce all they have in their All-sufficiency by sending of our Prayers the Ships of Desire may be obtain'd freely In a Marriage Covenant There will I give thee my Loves that is beyond all It is on this account Gen. 33.9.11 that Jacob retorts on Esau's Enough I have All because God was his God thô Esau more Riches The English wrong the word translating it Enough I shall conclude this with these Motives 1. We may do it 2. We must do it as a Duty and a Mean 3. Whenever we doe God accepts Heb. 8. Deut. 26.17 It would never enter into our Hearts without his Spirit Our saying I am thine is but the Echo of his Voice 4. God delights in it Jer. 30.24 5. We can do it 1. From Ability already received It is a true Article of the Synod of Dort That every Man may do more good than he does though we have no spiritual Power by Nature and I doubt much whether any Moral Power either For there is a great difference between what Man actually is by Heavens common Gifts and what Man is by Nature All the External Ordinances of Religion lye under our Power abstaining from External Vices Lying Swearing Murther Adultery else the Magistrate could not justly punish Criminals We may as Job make a Covenant with our Eyes and so with all our Senses and Organs that lye under the power of our Will when restraint is removed from Conscience often they lye under our Power to employ them about things that tend to our Souls good We can covenant to do what is within our Power to God as well as we do to Men and would we have God to work Miracies where there is no need to exercise a Supernatural Power where Natural Powers can do Which were to disorder the Harmonious Method of his beautiful Providence to work Extraordinary in us what Ordinary assistance can do He has promised Special Grace on our engaging in this Phil. 2.12 13. Work out your own Salvation c. and I will work in you c. He commands that we should try him in this very point Mal. 3.10 Prove me now herewith saith the Lord of Hosts All Believers have set their Probatum to it that God was always faithful to his Promise 2. Because we engage not in our Own strength Isa 45.24 Surely shall one say In the Lord have I Righteousness and Strength Christ is Man as well as God and in his Office as Mediator he stands on our side as well as Gods Behold I and the Children which God hath given me He is called the whole Covenant Himself Isa 42.6 * Gillespy on the Covenant p. 467. In Practicals we commonly fall short in giving Christ his own room in the Covenant 1. He is the Root and Original of it We ought not to deal with God as if it had its first rise when it first entred into our Heart 2. He is the principal Party we should not drudge him after us as an Assistant and we the principal Creditors of the Promises and the principal Debtors of Duty Isa 59.21 If we give Christ his own place we will find Covenanting with God an easie and comfortable thing The Lord grant we may find it so Amen FINIS