A supplement to The Morning-exercise at Cripple-Gate, or, Several more cases of conscience practically…

And though we have not a particular Instance of this in the New Testament, yet the Law of saith that requires men now to take hold of God's Covenant, and in all cases to make use of it, so in some special cases to renew it also. Not that it needs renewing as to the substance or sanction of it on God's part, but we are on our part to renew it with God, by laying new engagements and obligations upon our selves to carry it in all things according to the Law of this covenant in the restipulating part of it.

And though we have not a particular Instance of this in the New Testament, yet the Law of saith that requires men now to take hold of God's Covenant, and in all cases to make use of it, so in some special cases to renew it also. Not that it needs renewing as to the substance or sanction of it on God's part, but we are on our part to renew it with God, by laying new ingagements and obligations upon our selves to carry it in all things according to the Law of this covenant in the restipulating part of it.

5. The next duty of the day is Thanksgiving. Though this seems not the proper duty of the day, yet is not to be omitted, for the due consideration of God's mercy tends to the aggravation of sin, and so to make mens confessions and humiliations more affectionate and evangelical. As in that fast I mentioned before, Neh. 9. The Levites did stand up among the people, and begin the day with blessing God. Blessed be thy glorious name, which is exalted above all blessing and praise, ver. 5. and so they proceed to recite a catalogue of God's mercies, even from the first call of Abraham, to their settlement in the Land of Canaan, which reacheth to ver. 25. And all this was to bring in the Nevertheless mentioned v. 26. with the greater Emphasis to their humiliation, Nevertheless they were disobedient, and rebelled against thee, and cast thy Law behind their backs, and show thy Prophets, &c. and the same we may observe in Ezra, chap. 9. He takes notice of the reviving God had given them in their bondage, and the Nail in his holy place, and the Wall in Judah and Jerusalem, ver. 8, 9. the more to aggravate the peoples sin in doing according to the abominations of the Canaanites, and mingling themselves with the people of the Land, ver. 1, 2. The goodness of God is said to lead men to Repentance,