One Hundred and Ninety Sermons on Psalm 119

Positively: 1. It is a course which God will bless, he hath appointed Ordinances for this end and purpose that we might come to this resolution. The promise is first implicitly made in Baptism, therefore is it called, 1 Pet. 3. 21. The answer of a good conscience towards God. How so? why, the Covenant binds mutually on God part, and on ours; and so do the seals which belong to the Covenant. It doth not only seal pardon and sanctification on Gods part, but there is a promise and answer on our part: an answer to what? to the demands of the Covenant. In the Covenant of Grace God saith I will be your God, (Baptism seals that) and we promise to be his people. Now our answer to this demand of God, and to this Interrogatory he puts to us in the Covenant, it is sealed by us in Baptism; and it is renewed in the Lords-supper. Look as in the old Sacrifices, they were all a renewing of the Oath of Allegiance to God, or confirming their purposes and resolutions; you have the same notion to the sacrifice that is given to the Lords-supper, for it is called the blood of the Covenant, Exod. 24. 7, 8. In the Ordinance of the Lords-supper there we come to take an obligation upon us, half of the blood is sprinkled upon us. And this purpose and resolution to it is still continued and kept a foot in our daily exercise, invocation and prayer, wherein either we explicitly or implicitly renew our obedience; for every prayer is an implicit vow, wherewith we bind our selves to seek those things we ask, or else we do not engage God to bestow them. Thus it is a course that God will bless.

Positively: 1. It is a course which God will bless, he hath appointed Ordinances for this end and purpose that we might come to this resolution. The promise is first implicitly made in Baptism, therefore is it called, 1 Pet. 3. 21. The answer of a good conscience towards God. How so? why, the Covenant binds mutually on God part, and on ours; and so do the seals which belong to the Covenant. It doth not only seal pardon and sanctification on Gods part, but there is a promise and answer on our part: an answer to what? to the demands of the Covenant. In the Covenant of Grace God saith I will be your God, (Baptism seals that) and we promise to be his people. Now our answer to this demand of God, and to this Interrogatory he puts to us in the Covenant, it is sealed by us in Baptism; and it is renewed in the Lords-supper. Look as in the old Sacrifices, they were all a renewing of the Oath of Allegiance to God, or confirming their purposes and resolutions; you have the same notion to the sacrifice that is given to the Lords-supper, for it is called the blood of the Covenant,