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The Use of this Point serves for Instruction: would ye fain have a mark of your honesty in Covenanting with God? Here it is, and we know no better mark or ⟨p. 273⟩evidence to give you then this, even to be serious and much concerned in keeping Covenant: God will never account that man to be a true Covenanter; that will cast his law behind his back. The Apostle James Chap. 1. Speaks of two sorts of men that are bearers of the word, and be compares the one sort, viz. Forgetful hearers, to a man, Who beholding his natural face in a glass, goes away, and straightway forgets what manner of man he was; but the other sort are such, Who are no• only hearers but doers of the word: that man (saith he) shall be Blessed in his deed: It is not the sayer, but the doer and the keeper of the words of the Covenant, that is blessed: as many as Seriously engage to God, are put on (as we said before) with as much seriousness, in endeavouring the performance of their engagement, as to come under it: I speak not of a Perfect performance or fulfilling of engagements without any the least defect, that is not to be win at here: but of Serious minding and endeavouring, in the Lords strength, the Performance of that which we are engaged to: For there is a great difference betwixt mens failing and slipping of infirmity, and their sinning with allowance: the former showeth a body of Death to be yet remaining, and may consist with faithfulness in Gods Covenant: but the latter speaks out a Slothful careless and negligent undervaluing of God and of his Covenant: let never such a man cloak himself with the pretext of being in Covenant with God, nor Palliate his palpably gross and voluntary breaches of Covenant, with the pretext of infirmity, who doth not seriously drive it as his great design, to be faithful in Gods Covenant.

The Use of this Point serves for Instruction: would ye fain have a mark of your honesty in Covenanting with God? Here it is, and we know no better mark or ⟨p. 273⟩evidence to give you then this, even to be serious and much concerned in keeping Covenant: God will never account that man to be a true Covenanter; that will cast his law behind his back. The Apostle James Chap. 1. Speaks of two sorts of men that are bearers of the word, and be compares the one sort, viz. Forgetfull hearers, to a man, Who beholding his naturall face in a glass, goes away, and straightway forgets what manner of man he was; but the other sort are such, Who are no only hearers but doers of the word: that man (saith he) shall be Blessed in his deed: It is not the sayer, but the doer and the keeper of the words of the Covenant, that is blessed: as many as Seriously engage to God, are put on (as we said before) with as much seriousness, in endeavouring the performance of their engagement, as to come under it: I speak not of a Perfect performance or fulfilling of engagements without any the least defect, that is not to be win at here: but of Serious minding and endeavouring, in the Lords strength, the Performance of that which we are engaged to: For there is a great difference betwixt mens failing and slipping of infirmity, and their sinning with allowance: the former sheweth a body of Death to be yet remaining, and may consist with faithfulness in Gods Covenant: but the latter speaks out a Slothful careless and neglgent undervaluing of God and of his Covenant: let never such a man cloke himself with the pretext of being in Covenant with God, nor Palliat his palpably gross and voluntary breaches of Covenant, with the pretext of infirmity, who doth not seriously drive it as his great designe, to be faihfull in Gods Covenant.