IV. P Cant. V. 2, I sleep, but my

heart waketh : it is the voice of my beloved that knocketh, saying, Open to me, my sister, my love, my dove, my undefiled : for my head is filled with dew, and my locks with the drops of the night. Ver. 3. I have put off my .coat ; how shall I put
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^ never utterly destitute of that seed of God, and life of faiths that love of Christ and tlie brethren, that sincerity of heart and conscience of duty, out of which, by the operation of the Spirit, this assurance may in due time be revived'', and
it on ? I l:ave washed my feet ; how shuU I defile them ? Ver. C. I opened to niy heloved ; but my beloved had withdriiwn himself, and was gone ; my soul failed wiien he spake : I sought him, but I could liot find him ; I called him, but he gave me no answer. Psal. IL 8. Make me to hear joy and gladness : that the bones which thou hast bro- ken may rejoice. Ver. \2. Restore to me the joy of thy salvation : 1 wphoid me with thy free Spirit. -. H. Deliver me from blood- !tiness, O God, tliou Gcd of my ivation : and my tongue shall iiii id cf thy righteousness. Eph. 30. And grieve not the Holy ^ rit of God, whereby ye are d unto the day of redemption. i^^V. :il. Let all bitterness, and I^^Hth, and anger, and clamour, pn evil speaking, be put away from you, with all malice. Psal. I.cxvii. 1. I cried unto Gcd with voice, even unto God with voice ; and he gave ear unto Ver. 2. In the day of my ible I sought the Lord; my ran in the niglit, and ceased : my soul refused to be con> iw. led. Ver. 3. I remembered God, and was troubled : I complained, i'.i:'l m.y spirit was overwhelmed. li. Ver. 4. Thou boldest mine , waking : I ana to troubled tiiut I cannot speak. Ver. 5. I have considered the days of old, the years of ancient times. Ver. 6. I call to remembrance my song in the night : f conmiune with mine own heart, and my spirit made
diligent search. Ver. 7. Will the Lord cast olf for ever ? and will he be favourable no more ? Ver. 8. Is his mercy clean gone for ever ? doth his promise fail for evermore? Ver. 9. Hath God forgotten to bo gracious .' hath he in anger shut up his tender mercies ? Selah. * Ver. 10, And I said. This is my infirmity : but I will remember the years of the right hand of the most High. Matth. xxvi. C9. Now Peter sat witli- out in the palace ; and a damsel came unto him, saying, 'iliou also wast with Jesus of Galilee. Ver. 70. But he denied before them all, say- ing, I know not what thou sayest. Ver. 7L And when he was gone out imo the porch, another maid saw him, and said unto them that- were there. This fellow was also with Jesus of Nuzareth. Ver. 72. And again he denied with an oath, I do not know the man. Psal, xxxi. 22. For I said in my haste, I am cut off fro.n befjre thine eyes : nevertheless thou heardest the voice of my supplications, when I cried unto thee. [Psal. Ixxxviii. throughout.'] Isa. 1. 10. Who is among you that feareth the Lord, that obeyeth the voice of his ser- vant, that walketh in darkness, and hath no light .' let hipi trust in the name uf the Lord, and stay upon his God.
^ 1 John iii. 9. Whosoever is bom of God doth not commit sin : for his seed remaineth in him : and he cannot sin, because he is born of God. Luke xxii. 32. But I have prayed for thee, that thy faith fail not;
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CHAP. XIX. Of the Law of God,
/^ OD gave to Adam a law, as a covenant of works, b^ ^^ which he bound him, and all his posterity, to personal, entire, exact, and perpetual obedience ; promised life upon the fulfilling, and threatened death upon the breach of it ;. and endued him with pOAver and ability to keep it *.