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Rh promiſe of purity as well as the promiſe of pardon; the promiſe of ſalvation from ſin as well, and as much, as the promiſe of ſalvation from hell; the promiſe of holineſs as well as of happineſs. As they have a reſpect to all God's commandments, ſo they have a reſpect to all his promiſes; and particularly as David had his golden Pſalms, ſo they have their golden Promiſes, that they are made to hing upon. Yea, they have an everlaſting reſpect to the covenant and to the promiſes thereof; even when their frame fails them, when their ſweet enjoyments fail them, yet their reſpect to the covenant remains, and their reſpect to the Maker of the covenant, to the Mediator of the covenant, to the blood and oath of the covenant, to the Spirit of the covenant, and to the bleſſings and benefits of it. They have an everlaſting reſpect to the grace of the covenant of grace; they are adorers and admirers of free grace. They have an everlaſting reſpect to, and remembrance of the words of the covenant, particularly theſe words that have been let in with any life or power upon their ſoul, or that they have been cauſed to hope upon; whatever they forget, they can never forget ſuch a word that brought life to their ſouls; 'I will never forget thy words, ſays David; for by them thou haſt quickened me.' They have ſuch an everlaſting reſpect to the covenant, that, when they have nothing in the world to truſt to; they will rely on the covenant, and confide in ſuch a promiſe, and plead upon it, ſaying, Lord, 'Have reſpect to the covenant.'

2. Hence we may ſee the miſery of thoſe that are unbelievers, and remain 'ſtrangers to the covenant of promiſe,' and have no reſpect to the covenant. It is miſery enough, that God hath no reſpect