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And sure, the Covenant of grace is a sure Covenant,¹ Deut. 7.9. The Lord thy God he is God, the faithful God (or the God of Amen) which keepeth Covenant with them that love him. Psal. 89.33. My Covenant will I not break (Hebrew, I will not profane) nor alter the thing that is gone out of my lips. All God's precepts, all God's predictions, all God's menaces, and all God's promises, are the issue of a most just, faithful and righteous will. God can neither dye nor lye, Tit. 1.2. In hope of eternal life, which God that cannot lye promised before the world began. There are three things that God can't do; 1. He can't dye. Nor, 2. He can't lye. Nor, 3. He can't deny himself, Josh. 23.14. And behold, this day I am going the way of all the earth; and ye know in all your hearts, and ⟨p. 372⟩in all your souls, that not one thing hath failed of all the good things which the Lord your God spake concerning you, all are come to pass unto you, and not one thing hath failed thereof. O Sirs! the Covenant of grace is bottomed upon God's everlasting love,² upon Gods unchangeable love, upon God's free love; whom God loves once he loves for ever.³ I have loved thee with an everlasting love. God can as well cease to be, as he can cease to love those whom he has taken into Covenant with himself. And as the Covenant of grace is bottomed upon God's everlasting love, so 'tis bottomed upon Gods immutable counsel,⁴ God willing more abundantly to show unto the heirs of promise, the immutability of his counsel confirmed it by an oath. And as the Covenant of grace is bottomed upon the immutable counsel of God, so it is bottomed upon the free purpose of God,