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The First General then is this, that Covenanting wit• God, when People are in earnest in it, will be a very up taking, exercising and weighty business. This is clea• here, if ye consider how these People go about th• work; they a•e in very good earnest; and there a•• several evidences of it; they are weeping and going: the• are seeking the Lord; asking the way to Zion with the• faces thitherward; and every one of them S•irring u• another to renew the Covenant, and to cast the knot […] firmly, that it may be A perpetual Covenant never […] be forgotten, and such as may never loose or be broke• again; whence the general is clear, viz. that whe• People mind in earnest the making up of a breach betwixt God and them (which is done by Covenanting with him) it will be an exercising and uptaking bu• ness to them. Ye may consider some Scriptures fo• confirmation of this, which will also hold out what it is and namely, Matth. 11.12. The Kingdom of Heav•• suffereth violence, and the violent take it by force, Th• Lord is speaking there of mens making Peace with G• through himself the Mediator, by which they are broug•• to Heaven; and he tells, that it is a most serious bu•• ness that will abide them brangling (to speak so) a• using of violence; Luke 13 25. strive to enter in at […] strait gate, for many will seek, and shall not be able: is a narrow gate, and there must be thronging and thr ing, to win in at it: men will be put to a sort of Ago as the word signifies: consider also Pauls word, 1 C 9.24. So run as ye may obtain, insinuating, that the is a sort of running, wherein men are not in earnest, […] indifferent whether they get the Prize or not; a therefore he would have them making earnest of it; as he Proposeth his own practise as an example and a C pie to them, I therefore run, not as uncertainly; so fight