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   19 pleading with God for his favour, preſence, and bleſſing; let us go to him both in ſecret prayer, and in ſolemn approaches to his table, crying, Lord, have reſpect to the covenant. I know not a caſe you can be in but the covenant exhibits a cure, and you are allowed to plead it, Ezek. xxxvi 37. After many precious new covenant promiſes, it is ſaid, For this will I be enquired of by the houſe of Iſrael, to do it for them; and how are we to enquire, but by pleading the reſpect he hath to the covenant? have you a polluted heart, with the filth of ſin; why, here is an article of the covenant: I will Sprinkle clean water upon you, and ye ſhall be clean: From all your filthineſs, and from all your idols will I cleanſe you, ver. 25. O then, go to God for cleanſing, and plead ſaying, O Lord, Have reſpect to the covenant. Have you the old ſtony heart ſtill within you, and wonld you have it renewed and ſoftned? Here is an article of the covenant, A new heart will I give you, and a new Spirit will I put within you; I will take away the ſtony heart out of your fleſh, and I will give you an heart of fleſh. O then go to God, and plead it, faying, Have reſpect to the covenant. Are you deſtitute of the Spirit ſenſual, not having the Spirit? do you find ſuch a want of the Spirit, that you cannot walk in God's way? well, there is an article of the covenant here, ver. 27. I will put my Spirit within you, and cauſe you to walk in my ſtatutes. O plead for this great bleſſing, and ſay, Lord, Have reſpect to the covenant.

In a word, when you conſider what kind of a ſinner you are, conſider alſo what kind of a covenant