The divine will considered in its eternal decrees, and holy execution of them. By…

1. The general and conditional Promises are as it were the hands of the Covenant, pointing out the true way and path leading to Salvation, but the special and absolute Promises are as it were the Veins of the Covenant, carrying in them the blood and spirit of life and power to enable us to walk in that way. Here God himself engages to work all saving Graces in us: Are our hearts hard? he'll roll away the stone from them; do our hearts resist holy impressions? he'll give us hearts of flesh capable thereof; are our hearts void of God's Law? he will write it there and turn them into the Epistles of Christ, and for the effectual doing hereof, he will put his Spirit into us, and as a real proof of ⟨p. 328⟩it, he will cause us to walk in his ways; and in this Walk Love shall be the Motive, for he will circumcise the heart to love him, and Fear the Bridle, for he will put his Fear in the heart never to depart from him; and, which is the Crown of all, he himself will be a God to us, and we shall be a people to him in an everlasting Covenant. Stand still O Saints! and adore; here, lo, here is the ministration of the Spirit indeed, 2 Cor. 3. 8. here are words which are spirit and life, Joh. 6. 63. here is the supernal Jerusalem the mother of spiritual freedom, Gal. 4. 26. here is the immortal seed which begets all the Sons of God, 1 Pet. 1. 23. here is that Vis [Greek or Hebrew], or formative Virtue which moulds us into the divine nature, 2 Pet. 1. 4. here is the day of God's power, which makes his people willing to serve him in the beauties of holiness, Psal. 110. 3. Happy, yea thrice happy they, who dwell in this Land of Promise and drink of these Wells of Salvation.

1. The general and conditional Promises are as it were the hands of the Covenant, pointing out the true way and path leading to Salvation, but the special and absolute Promises are as it were the Veins of the Covenant, carrying in them the blood and spirit of life and power to enable us to walk in that way. Here God himself engages to work all saving Graces in us: Are our hearts hard? he'l roll away the stone from them; do our hearts resist holy impressions? he'l give us hearts of flesh capable thereof; are our hearts void of God's Law? he will write it there and turn them into the Epistles of Christ, and for the effectual doing hereof, he will put his Spirit into us, and as a real proof of