Words whereby we may be saved. By Thomas Vincent, sometime minister of Maudlins milk-street,…

Direct. 8. You must study and apply the Promises of the Covenant of grace, if you would be saved; without the Covenant of grace there had been no possible salvation for any of the fallen Children of Men; the Covenant of Works which God made with Man at the first, being broken by sin, it doth condemn all that are under it; it is by virtue of the Covenant of Grace that any are brought into a state of salvation; therefore study and apply the Promises of this Covenant: Now you must know that all the Promises of the Gospel, which are scattered up and down the Scripture do belong unto this Covenant; but I shall spread before you those few more general Promises which the Apostle doth make mention of, where he treats of the New Covenant, Heb. 8. 10, 11, 12. For this is the Covenant that I will make with the house of Israel after those days, saith the Lord, I will put my Laws into their mind, and write them in their hearts, and I will be to them a God, and they shall be to me a People; and they shall not teach every man his Neighbour, and every man his Brother, saying know the Lord, for they shall all know me from the least to the greatest; for ⟨p. 60⟩I will be merciful unto their unrighteousness, and their sins and iniquities will I remember no more. Here are Four great Promises which the Lord hath made to his People, which I shall explain (though not in the order of the Text) that you may the better understand and apply them.

Direct. 8. You must study and apply the Promises of the Covenant of grace, if you would be saved; without the Covenant of grace there had been no possible salvation for any of the fallen Children of Men; the Covenant of Works which God made with Man at the first, being broken by sin, it doth condemn all that are under it; it is by vertue of the Covenant of Grace that any are brought into a state of salvation; therefore study and apply the Promises of this Covenant: Now you must know that all the Promises of the Gospel, which are scattered up and down the Scripture do belong unto this Covenant; but I shall spread before you those few more general Promises which the Apostle doth make mention of, where he treats of the New Covenant, Heb. 8. 10, 11, 12. For this is the Covenant that I will make with the house of Israel after those dayes, saith the Lord, I will put my Lawes into their minde, and write them in their hearts, and I will be to them a God, and they shall be to me a People; and they shall not teach every man his Neighbour, and every man his Brother, saying know the Lord, for they shall all know me from the least to the greatest; for