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

Answ. 1 But what if a good, and gracious man, may apply a Conditional Promise, although he hath not performed the Condition? Pray look into Nehemiah, chap. 1, and there you will find, That the Jews being in Captivity, Nehemiah goes unto God in prayer, and doth press the Promise which God had made unto the Jews by his Servant Moses; verse 8. Remember, I beseech thee, thy Word that thou commandedst thy Servant Moses, saying, If ye transgress, I will scatter ye abroad among the Nations: but if ye turn unto me, and ⟨p. 118⟩keep my Commandments, and do them; though there were of you cast unto the utmost part of the Earth, yet will I gather them from thence, and I will bring them unto the place that I have chosen to set my Name there. Now these are thy Servants, and thy People, whom thou hast redeemed by thy great Power. The Jews in Babylon were scattered according to the Word; but alas! they did not return unto the Lord, and leave their sins, according to the Condition of the Promise; yet notwithstanding, Nehemiah goes unto the Lord, and presseth this Promise, and the Lord heard him, and he had acceptance, as ye find in the following Chapter.

Answ. 1 But what if a good, and gracious man, may apply a Conditional Promise, although he hath not performed the Condition? Pray look into Nehemiah, chap. 1, and there you will find, That the Jews being in Captivity, Nehemiah goes unto God in prayer, and doth press the Promise which God had made unto the Jews by his Servant Moses; verse 8. Remember, I beseech thee, thy Word that thou commandedst thy Servant Moses, saying, If ye transgress, I wil scatter ye abroad among the Nations: but if ye turn unto me, and ⟨p. 118⟩keep my Commandements, and do them; though there were of you cast unto the utmost part of the Earth, yet will I gather them from thence, and I will bring them unto the place that I have chosen to set my Name there. Now these are thy Servants, and thy People, whom thou hast redeemed by thy great Power. The Jews in Babylon were scattered according to the Word; but alas! they did not return unto the Lord, and leave their sins, according to the Condition of the Promise; yet notwithstanding, Nehemiah goes unto the Lord, and presseth this Ptomise, and the Lord heard him, and he had acceptance, as ye find in the following Chapter.