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The Third Observation is, that It is and will be the great study of Persons really entered in Covenant with God, to have it an abiding bargain, a perpetual Covenant never to be forgotten: This is their design as well as their duty, that their Practice and walk may be suitable to the Covenant. And it being the main thing implied in the words, and that which we intend to insist on: I shall in the prosecution of it, speak a little to these three. 1. To what it is to aim to have Gods Covenant perpetual, and never to be forgotten. 2. To the reasons and the ground that there is to press this. And 3. To some motives and encouragements for exciting to it.

The Third Observation is, that It is and will be the great study of Persons really entered in Covenant with God, to have it an abiding bargain, a perpetuall Covenant never to be forgotten: This is their designe as well as their duty, that their Practice and walk may be suitable to the Covenant. And it being the main thing implied in the words, and that which we intend to insist on: I shall in the prosecution of it, speak a litle to these three. 1. To what it is to aim to have Gods Covenant perpetual, and never to be forgotten. 2. To the reasons and the ground that there is to press this. And 3. To some motives and encouragements for exciting to it.

For the First, viz. What it is to study to have Gods Covenant Perpetual and never to be forgotten? We take it up in these particulars. First, That those entered in Covenant would drive the great design of the Covenant; which it Summed in these Two words, To have God to be ours, and our selves to be Gods; It's even that which we have in Answer to the first question of our excellent Catechism, What is Mans chief end? To enjoy God, and to glorify him; to enjoy him as our own God, and to glorify him, by acknowledging our selves to be his, and by devoting our selves to his Service, as being a People formed for himself, to show forth ⟨p. 283⟩his praise; This should be vigorously driven, as the great design of the Covenanter with G•d; and it would be a notable help to keep Covenant: even to live and walk, So as we may have Gods Company: for what Use serves Gods Covenant unto us, and our entering therein, if we continue as great strangers to him as before? If this be not driven as our design, we forget wherefore we Covenanted. Secondly, There would be a minding of our own obligation in the Covenant, as the condition or mean by which the end, viz. The enjoying of God, is come at; which is in a word, to be his, to walk before him, as he willeth Abraham to do. Walk before me and be thou Perfect, God himself is that which the Covenanter should Principally aim at; & walking before him is the mean appointed for coming at that end; in short, what ever the Covenant saith in reference to our duty; as to abandon Lusts, To be Holy in all manner of Conversation: to be watchful: to glorify God in our Bodies and Spirits which are his, &c. Is that which we are tied to in the Covenant, and which we would seriously drive at as our great design. Thirdly, There be a minding and remembering of Gods engagement to us in the Covenant, which is a part of it, as well as our engagement to him; and never to be forgotten by us: Return (saith the Lord,