Religion our true interest, or, Practical notes upon the third chapter of Malachi the…Religion our true interest, or, Practical notes upon the third chapter of Malachy the…

6. If God saith to us ye are mine, we shall be his for ever, Psalm 48.14. This God is our God for ever and ever. You cannot say you have health and you shall have it for ever, you have a Child and you shall have it for ever; but if God be your God, you shall have him for ever. The Covenant of Grace is Sacrum diploma, a Royal Charter, and this is the Happiness of it, it is eternized^†. The interest between God and his people shall never be broken off; How false therefore is the Opinion of falling from Grace! Shall any that God makes his own by Federal union, Fall finally? Indeed if Salvation hath no better Pillar to rest upon than mans will (as the Arminians hold) no wonder if there be falling away▪ ⟨p. 170⟩but a Christians stability in Grace, is built upon a surer basis, namely, Gods inviolable Covenant, Isa. 55.3.^* Once in Christ and ever in Christ. A Star may sooner fall out of its orb than a true Believer be plucked away from God^†.

6. If God saith to us ye are mine, we shall be his for ever, Psalm 48.14. This God is our God for ever and ever. You cannot say you have health and you shall have it for ever, you have a Child and you shall have it for ever; but if God be your God, you shall have him for ever. The Covenant of Grace is Sacrum diploma, a Royal Charter, and this is the Happiness of it, it is eternized^†. The interest between God and his people shall never be broken off; How false therefore is the Opinion of falling from Grace! Shall any that God makes his own by Federal union, Fall finally? Indeed if Salvation hath no better Pillar to rest upon than mans will (as the Arminians hold) no wonder if there be falling away