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, that is well ordered in all things as well as sure. "Though my house be not so with God, (says David) yet he hath made with me an overlasting Covenant, well ordered in all things and sure." Though my house be out of order, and heart out of order, and my frame out of order and all be in confusion with me, yet I see according to thy Covenant all well.

IV. We proceed to shew what kind of a respect he hath, to the Covenant, that we may be the more engaged to plead upon it.

1. He hath a great and high respect to the Covenant. It is the Covenant of the great God, with his great and eternal Son, for the honour and glory of his great Name: and, therefore, he cannot but have a great and high respect unto it. His great Name is manifested in it; and therefore, when we pled his respect to the Covenant, we plead in affect, saying, "What wilt thou do for thy great Name?

2. He hath a dear and savely respect to the Covenant; for, it is the Covenant of his grace and love, wherein he shows his infinite love to Christ and through him to a company of wretched sinners. It is a Covenant of kindness, Isa. liv. 10. "My kindness shall not depart from thee, neither shall the Covenant of my peace be removed, saith the Lord, that hath mercy on thee." Intimating that his Covenant of peace is a Covenant of kindness, where in he manifests his dearest love; therefore he hath a dear respect to it.