I. Scripture-light the most sure light ... delivered in three sermons on 2 Pet.…

Answ. 2 Secondly: If the Promise of Grace do belong to you, then you cannot say, I have no Word, no Promise to uphold me with: Now, that the Promise of Grace doth belong to you, is cleared thus: 1. Your very resting on the Promise, makes it to belong to you; and it becomes yours, by your resting on it: but you do or have rested on the Promise. 2. If the Command doth belong to you, then why not the Promise? Doth not the Word of Commandment belong to you, viz. Thou shalt not kill, Thou shalt not steal, Thou shalt not commit adultery? Doth this word of Command belong to you? Yea surely, for the Command saith, Thou, and Thou, and Thou shalt not, &c. and that word Thou, doth include Me; the word of Promise hath its Thou, and Thee, and Thy also. Psal. 37. Trust in the Lord, and do good, so shalt Thou dwell in the Land, and verily Thou shalt be fed, ver. 3. Delight Thy self in the Lord, and he shall give Thee the desire of Thy heart, ver. 5. And if you put your self within the compass of the Commandments, Thou, God will put you within the compass of the Promises, Thou. 3. If you may, and it be your Duty, to rest on the Promise, then it belongs to you: now, you may rest on the Promise of Grace, and Holiness, for Sanctification, and it is your Duty so to do; else it were no sin not to rest on the Promise: but unbelief, and not resting on the Promise, is a sin: only ye must know, that there is a great difference, between the Promise of Consolation, and the Promise of Sanctification; to apply the Promise of Comfort, without endeavour after Holiness, is presumption: but to apply the Promise of Sanctification, that I may be more holy, is no presumption, but my Duty; and if it be your Duty to apply, and rest on this Promise, then it belongs to you.

Answ. 2 Secondly: If the Promise of Grace do belong to you, then you cannot say, I have no Word, no Promise to uphold me with: Now, that the Promise of Grace doth belong to you, is cleared thus: 1. Your very resting on the Promise, makes it to belong to you; and it becomes yours, by your resting on it: but you do or have rested on the Promise. 2. If the Command doth belong to you, then why not the Promise? Doth not the Word of Commandement belong to you, viz. Thou shalt not kill, Thou shalt not steal, Thou shalt not commit adultery? Doth this word of Command belong to you? Yea surely, for the Command saith, Thou, and Thou, and Thou shalt not, &c. and that word Thou, doth include Me; the word of Promise hath its Thou, and Thee, and Thy also.