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 a Covenant this is; it is enough to say, that it is a Covenant of grace, of all sorts of grace, for all sorts of sinners that are out of hell. Are you under dreadful guilt? Here is a Covenant of pardoning grace; "I will blot out thy sin as a cloud, and thy transgression as a thick cloud: return to me, for I have redeemed thcethee [sic]," Isa. xliv. 22. O then plead he may Have respect to the Covenant. Are you under fearful pollutions? O here is a Covenant of purifying grace, saying "There is a fountain opened to the house of David, and the inhabitants of Jerusalem, for sin and for uncleanliness." O then plead he may Have respect to the Covenant. Are you in darkness and ignorance, having no knowledge of God? O here is a Covenant of enlightening grace, saying, 'They shall be all taught of God. O then plead it, saying, Lord, Have respect to the Covenant. Are you under deadness, and like dead and dry bones? O here is a Covenant of quickening grace, saying, "I am come to give life, and to give it more abundantly.—The hour cometh when the dead shall bear the voice of the Son of God, and they that hear shall live." O then plead, that he may Have respect to the Covenant. Are you in confusion, and know not what way to take? O here is a Covenant of directing grace, saying, "I will bring the blind by a way they know not; I will lead them in paths they have not known: I will make darkness light before them, and crooked things straight." Are you under sad plegues and foul diseases, over-run with sores, from the crown of the head to the sole of the foot? O here is Covenant of healing grace, saying, "The Son of righteousness shall arise with healing in his