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3. How doth God put the Law into our inward parts? I answer, God puts the Law into our inward parts by enlivening or qualifying of a Man with the Graces of Gods Spirit, suitable to his Commandment; first, there is the Law of God without us, as we see it or read it in Scriptures; but when it is put within us, then God hath wrought an inward disposition in our minds, that answers to that Law without us; for example, this is the Law without; Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy Heart, and with all thy Soul, and with all thy Strength; ¹To Answer which, there is a promise; I will circumcise thy Heart, and the Heart of thy Seed, to Love the Lord thy God with all thy ⟨p. 84⟩Heart, and with all my soul; now when this promise is fulfilled, when God hath put the affections and grace of Love within our hearts, when the habit of Love is within, answerable in all things to the command without, then is the Law put into our inward parts.² Again, this is the Law without, Thou shalt fear the Lord, and keep his Ordinances, and his Statutes, and his Commandments to do them: to answer which, there is a promise; I will make a Covenant with you, and I will not turn away from you to do you good, but I will put my fear into your hearts, and you shall not depart from Me; now when this promise is accomplished, when God hath put the affection and grace of fear within our hearts, when the habit of fear is within, answerable to that Command without, then is the Law put into our hearts. Surely this is Mercy that God saith in his Covenant, I will put my Law in their inward parts; many a time a poor Soul cries out, he is troubled with such and such a lust, and he cannot keep this and that Commandment, he cannot out-wrestle such and such strong inclinations to evil, O but then go to God, and press him with this, Lord, it is a part of thy Covenant, thou hast said, thou wilt circumcise my heart; thou hast said, thou wilt put thy Law in my inward parts; thou hast said, thou wilt dissolve these lusts, Lord, I beseech thee do it for thy Covenants sake.—But here's another Question:

1. 1Deut. 6.5.