Meditations and discourses concerning the glory of Christ applied unto unconverted sinners, and saints…Meditations and discourses concerning the glory of Christ applyed unto unconverted sinners, and saints…

3. A renewed Covenant Engagement to renounce all other Hopes and Expectation, and to betake themselves with their whole Trust and Confidence unto him; whereof they express, First, The Cause, which was his mere Grace and Mercy: For in thee the Fatherless findeth Mercy; And Secondly, The Effect of it, which is Praise and Thanksgiving: So will we render the Calves of our Lips. And some things we may hence farther observe as unto the Case under Consideration. As,

3. A renewed Covenant Engagement to renounce all other Hopes and Expectation, and to betake themselves with their whole Trust and Confidence unto him; whereof they express, First, The Cause, which was his meer Grace and Mercy: For in thee the Fatherless findeth Mercy; And Secondly, The Effect of it, which is Praise and Thanksgiving: So will we render the Calves of our Lips. And some things we may hence farther observe as unto the Case under Consideration. As,

1. ALTHOUGH God will repair our Spiritual Decays, and heal our Backslidings freely, yet he will do it so, or in such a way, as wherein he may communicate Grace unto us, to the praise of his own Glory. Therefore are these Duties prescribed unto us in order thereunto; for although they are not the procuring Cause of the Love and Grace from whence alone we are healed, yet are they required in the method of the Dispensation of Grace, to precede the Effect of them. Nor have we any where a more illustrious Instance and Testimony of the Consistency and Harmony which is between Sovereign Grace, and the diligent discharge of our Duty, than we have in this place: For as God promiseth, that he would heal their Backslidings out of his free Love, verse 4. and would do it by the Communication of Effectual Grace; ver. 5. so he enjoins them all these Duties in order thereunto.

1. ALTHOUGH God will repair our Spiritual Decays, and heal our Backslidings freely, yet he will do it so, or in such a way, as wherein he may communicate Grace unto us, to the praise of his own Glory. Therefore are these Duties prescribed unto us in order thereunto; for although they are not the procuring Cause of the Love and Grace from whence alone we are healed, yet are they required in the method of the Dispensation of Grace, to precede the Effect of them. Nor have we any where a more illustrious Instance and Testimony of the Consistency and Harmony which is between Soveraign Grace, and the diligent discharge of our Duty, than we have in this place: For as God promiseth, that he would heal their Backslidings out of his free Love, verse 4. and would do it by the Communication of Effectual Grace; ver. 5. so he injoyns them all these Duties in order thereunto.