Casuistical morning-exercises the fourth volume /

As it was necessary that Christ should take upon him our Flesh; so it is as necessary that we should receive from him his Spirit; he must become Flesh of our flesh, and Bone of our bone, that he might pay our debt in the same nature which contracted it; so we must partake of his Spirit, that we may be capacitated to receive the Fruit of his Redemption, and be one with him.

Nay all Promises, the very Covenant of Grace its self is thus to be understood, viz. That the Beneficiaries, or they that receive benefit by them, should be holy, otherwise they might not, without presumption, hope for any good from them: And tho we do not meet with this always expressed; yet it is always to be understood,¹ God expressly declaring, that tho Coniah a wicked Person, was as a Signet upon his right hand, yet he would pluck him thence.

Nay all Promises, the very Covenant of Grace its self is thus to be understood, viz. That the Beneficiaries, or they that receive benefit by them, should be holy, otherwise they might not, without presumption, hope for any good from them: And tho we do not meet with this always express'd; yet it is alwayes to be understood,¹ God expresly declaring, that tho Coniah a wicked Person, was as a Signet upon his right hand, yet he would pluck him thence.

1. 1Jer. 22.24.

And when God engageth to continue his Favour unto any, he engageth to continue them in a fit disposition to receive his Favour. Thus to the Posterity of David,