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Answ. You may certainly know whether your obedience be the obedience of Faith or no, by these following particulars.

First, That obedience that springs from Faith, is a full obedience, §1a universal obedience. David did look upon his universal obedience as a special testimony of his uprightness, Psal. 119.6. Then shall I not be ashamed, when I have respect unto all thy Commandments. Mark! the Psalmist doth not say, When I obey all thy Commandments, then shall I not be ashamed; but, When I have a respect to all thy Commandments, then shall I not be ashamed. Now a respect to all Gods Commandments, notes an inward awe and reverential eye towards every duty that God requires.¹ The words according to the Hebrew, may be read thus, Then shall I not blush when my eye is to all thy Commandments. Now you know the Traveller hath his eye towards the place whither he is going, and though he be short of it, yet he is still a putting on, and pressing forwards all he can to reach it. So when the eye of a Saint is to all the Commands of God, and he is still a pressing forwards towards full obedience, such a Soul shall never be put to the blush; such a Soul shall never be ashamed in the great day of our Lord Jesus. So Acts 13.22. I have found David the son of Jesse, a man after mine own heart, which shall fulfil all my will. [Greek or Hebrew]. all my wills, to note the sincerity and universality of his obedience. So Acts 24.16. And herein do I exercise my self, to have always a Conscience void of offence toward God, and toward men. So Heb. 13.18. We trust we have a good Conscience, in all things willing to live honestly. That obedience that springs from Faith, doth neither dispute Divine Commands, nor divide Divine Commands one from another. Zechariah and Elizabeth were both righteous before God, walking in all the Commandments and Ordinances of the Lord blameless,