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

2. There is a promise of heavenly influences made to Christ, Isa. 50.4.¹ He wakeneth morning by morning, he wakeneth mine ear to hear as the learned. 5. The Lord hath opened mine ear, and I was not rebellious. Some great Divines say, Christ had no sleepy nor closed ear: he must there speak of Isaiah. But so there was no sinful dryness in Christ; Was He not therefore anointed? Isa. 42.1. I will put my Spirit upon him. Then all influences are promised also, Isa. 11.2. The Spirit of the Lord shall rest upon him: — 3. And shall make him of quick understanding in the fear of the Lord, and he shall not judge after the sight of his eyes, &c. 2. Christ was assured he could not sin,² and so of influences to duties, Joh. 5.30. Joh. 8.26, 27, 38, 50, 55. Joh. 10.38. though he wanted influences at a time, as touching consolation and the felt fruition of God, being forsaken for a time, Psal. 22.1. Luk. 22.44. Math▪ 27.45. But Adam, ³as he was not to believe perseverance, nor yet sinfully to fear falling: so neither was he to believe influences to all acts of obedience, they not being promised to him. Yet was not Adam to believe his own reprobation; for it was neither true nor a revealed truth. Then the only nearest way against deadness and dryness, is to have recourse to the fountain and fullness of life that is in Christ. Literal quickening of our selves, miskenning Christ, out of whose fullness we receive, produceth but literal fardinesse. 3. The special and cardinal promise (I will be his God,