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all grace, of ail ſort of cures for all ſort of caſes; and if
you can get yourſelf wrapt within the bond of this cove-
nant by believing and pleading it; then you draw God up-
on your intereſt, ſo that your concern is his concern your
intereſt is his intereſt, your cauſe is his cauſe' as the
Pſalmiſt ſhews here. ver. 22. Ariſe, O God, plead thine
own cauſe.' Stand ever upon his honour, and he will do
his own work in his own time. If ever you got grace to
draw a bill upon God as a covenanting, promiſing God in
Chriſt, and have any bills lying tabled before the throne,
and are ſometimes unable to plead and purſue the bill, with,
Lord, Have reſpect into the covenant, you have the
Strangest encouragement to wait on him and expect his
unswering the bill in due time; for he will rather work mar-
vellouſly, and create new worlds, rather turn all things to
nothing than quit his concern in, or give up with his re-
ſpect unto the covenant.
Are you concerned for the advancement of the kingdom
of Chriſt in the earth as you ought to be? Here is a co-
venant of grace to the Jews, and grace to the Gentile: ;
grace to the Heathen nations, ſaying, "I will give thee the
Heathen for thine inheritance, and the uttermost parts of
the earth are thy poſſeſſion. Are you concerned about gene-
rations to come, about the rising generation, when there
is little hope of the preſent? O! here is a covenant of grace
to ſucceeding generations till the end of the world, I will
make thy name to be remembered in all generations; there-
fore ſhall the people praiſe thee for ever and ever.'
Are you-concerned about your latter end, and how it
halt fare with you when in the ſwellings of Jordan; how
you will fight the battle? O here is a covenant of death
conquering grace, ſaying, 'Death ſhall be ſwallowed up in
victory: of death, I will be thy plague ; O grave, I will
be thy deſtruction. Are you concerned about a goſpel.
miniſtry, and thoughtful whether it ſhall be continued ?
There is many a word in this covenant about it; but cſpe-
cially that, Chriſt is exalted to maintain and ſupport a
gospel diſpenſation to the end of the world, Mat. xxviii.
20. Whatever ſpot of the earth he chuſe or refuſe, he hav-
ing aſcended on high bath received gifts for men, yea,
for the rebellious alſo, that the Lord God might dwell a-
mong them,' Pſalm lxxviii. 18.
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