The covenant of life opened, or, A treatise of the covenant of grace

4. Use. If God, of his free will, so placed Adam to reward his obedience: We think hard to serve God for wages,¹ and to be placed in a condition of obedience. Eve, and we with her, sucking the same milk, thirst after such lawless Independency to be from (Gen. 3.5, 6.) under God; Whereas Adam and Angel-courtiers that have wings to obey, and the Noble and High Heir who learned obedience through the things he suffered were in this condition, and Christ a King in the shape of a Servant was obedient to death, to the death of the Cross, Phil. 2. Hence, to weary of submitting to God, speaks much unnatural pride, yea will not be under God. 2. There is little of Christ in such, for it was life to Christ and meat and drink, Psal. 40.8. Heb. 10.8. John 4.34. Act. 10.38. to obey, and it is the Angels life, Jsa. 6.2, 3. Psal. 103.20. Rev. 4.8. and they are near him, who both at once serve and Reign, Rev, 22.3, 5. much delight to obey, speak much of God in the heart. Tyre not of your Master; examine more,² untowardness to pray, to confer, to give, &c. if it be not a cause of deadness and be not a way of backsliding.

4. Use. If God, of his free will, so placed Adam to reward his obedience: We think hard to serve God for wages,¹ and to be placed in a condition of obedience. Evah, and we with her, sucking the same milk, thirst after such lawlesse Independency to be from (