A supplement to the several discourses upon various divine subjects

Now if all this be true, that in conversion the heart hath a fixed resolution for God and his ways, and that perpetually, against all sin, and particularly against the sin of our natural inclination, and all this backed with strong cries, how can it have a fixed resolution to Commit it, if the way were outwardly fair for it?

Now if all this be true, that in conversion the heart hath a fixed resolution for God and his ways, and that perpetually, against all sin, and particularly against the sin of our natural inclination, and all this backt with strong cries, how can it have a fixed resolution to Commit it, if the way were outwardly fair for it?

4. 'Tis absolutely against the terms of the Covenant. God requires in that a giving up our selves to him, to be his people with our whole heart and Soul, as he gives himself to us with his whole heart. He will not be a Sharer of the heart with sin, much less an underling to it. God will not endure a competitor in the affections. To serve God and mammon are inconsistent by the infallible Axiom of our Saviour, Luke 16.13. Now, as God cannot be true to his Covenant, if he had purposes against the articles of it on his part, so neither can we be true to our covenanting with him, if we have settled purposes of heart against the Conditions of it. Therefore the instability in the Covenant ariseth only from the falseness of the heart, Psal. 78.37. Their heart was not right with him, neither were they steadfast in his Covenant. The iniquity of our heels may compass us about, and make us stumble in our walk, yet our fears of being out with God may receive no establishment, Psal. 49.5. Wherefore should I fear, when the iniquity of my heels shall compass me about? Whether he means by iniquity the sins of his ordinary walk, or the punishment of them, is all one. But yet if purposes of iniquity settle their residence in the heart, though we never act it by reason of obstacles, 'tis a sign we never sincerely closed with God in Covenant, nor God with us. The very regards of iniquity in the heart put a bar to the regards of God towards us. It hinders all Covenant acts on Gods part, because it is a manifest breach of it,