The Godly Man's Picture

3. Such as live and die ungodly, have no right to the Covenant of Grace, Eph. 2. 12. At that time ye were without Christ, [Greek or Hebrew], strangers from the Covenants of Promise. And to be without Covenant, is to be like one in the old World, without an Ark. The Covenant is the Gospel-Charter, which is enriched with many glorious privileges, but who may plead the benefit of this Covenant? Surely only such whose hearts are in-laid with grace. Read the Charter, Ezek. 36. 26. A new heart will I give you, and I will put my spirit within you: Then it follows, ver. 28. I will be your God. A person dying in his ungodliness, hath no more to do with the New Covenant, than a Ploughman hath to do with the privileges of a Corporation.

3. Such as live and die ungodly, have no right to the Covenant of Grace, Eph. 2. 12. At that time ye were without Christ, 〈non-Latin alphabet〉, strangers from the Covenants of Promise. And to be without Covenant, is to be like one in the old World, without an Ark. The Covenant is the Gospel-Charter, which is enriched with many glorious priviledges, but who may plead the benefit of this Covenant? Surely only such whose hearts are in-laid with grace. Read the Charter, Ezek. 36. 26. A new heart will I give you, and I will put my spirit within you: Then it follows, ver. 28. I will be your God. A person dying in his ungodliness, hath no more to do with the New Covenant, than a Ploughman hath to do with the priviledges of a Corporation.

Gods Writing is always before his Seal, 2 Cor. 3. 3. Ye are declared to be the Epistle of Christ, written not with ink, but with the spirit of the living God, not in Tables of stone, but in fleshy Tables of the heart. Here is a golden Epistle, the writing is the work of Faith, the Table it is written in, is the heart, the finger that writes it is the spirit: Now, after the Spirits writing, follows the Spirits sealing,