Rule 9.

Rule 9.

The Promises of the Gospel are all concatenated. ¹If thou hast a true right to any one Promise to which heaven is annexed, thou hast a right to all the other. As the Commandments of God are chained together (he that breaks one, breaks all, and he that sincerely labours to keep one, will labour to keep all,² according to that Rule. Whatsoever is done for God, is done equally.) And as the Graces of God are linked together; (and therefore heaven is sometimes promised to our grace,³ because he that hath one saving grace, hath all) so also are the Promises joined together, he that hath a right to one, hath a right to all: For they are all but one, ⟨p. 203⟩and the same for substance. They are all the fruit of the same free love in God; They are all the branches of the same Covenant of grace. (And therefore if thou hast a right to the Covenant, thou hast a right to all the Promises) they all carry us to Christ, and meet in Christ, and are in him Yea, and in him Amen; And therefore if thou hast a right to Christ, thou hast a right to all.

The Promises of the Gospel are all concatenated. ¹If thou hast a true right to any one Promise to which heaven is annexed, thou hast a right to all the other. As the Commandements of God are chained together (hee that breaks one, breaks all, and hee that sincerely labours to keep one, will labour to keep all,² according to that Rule. Whatsoever is done for God, is done equally.) And as the Graces of God are linked together; (and therefore heaven is sometimes promised to our grace,³