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

11. They are not rightly mortified who are not deadened to creature-comforts, to father and mother, for they forsake,¹ and the mother may forget the fruit of her own womb, but the Lord cannot forget his own, Psal. 27.10. Isa. 49.15. My friends, Job 19.19. 2. All my friends, 3. All my inward (and dearest) friends, 4. Abhor me. Forsaking is hard, but abhorring is most sad. Yea even in the Cause of God Paul is put to this, 2 Tim. 4.16. At my first answer no man stood with me, but all men forsook me. 2. So must the Church be dead to foreign forces, Hos. 14.3. Ashur shall not save us, we will not ride upon horses, and the people must be dead and sit still from help from Egypt, Isai. 30.7. For the Egyptians shall help in vain, and to no purpose: therefore have I cried concerning this, Your strength is to sit still. Sitting still is a ceasing from relying upon the Chariots and strength of Egypt, as being dead to them: For thus saith the Lord, the holy One of Israel, in returning and rest shall ye be saved, in quietness and in ⟨p. 276⟩confidence shall be your strength: and ye would not. And 4. his people must cease from man whose breath is in his nostrils: for wherein is he to be accounted of? Isai. 2.22. and be dead to multitude: for, Psal. 33.16. No King is saved by an host, a mighty man is not delivered by much strength. 17. An horse is a vain thing for safety. The help of the creature substitute in the room of God, having the lustre of blue and purple, or clothed in scarlet, riding upon horses. Young men of desire,