VI. With a Great Zeal,we fhould lay hold on the”

Covenant of God, that we may Secure Us and Ours,
trom the Great Wrath, with which the Devil Rages, |
Let-us come into the Covenant of Grace, and then we |
fhall not be hook‘d into a Covenant py.ch the Devil r
nor be altogether unfurnifhed with armour, againft
the Wretches that are in that Covenant. Theway to #
come under the Saving Influences of the New Cove- |
nant, 5,0 clole with the Lord Jeftis Chrift, who i!

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2 Allfufficient Mediator of it: Let us therefore do
ier, by Refigning up ourfelves unto the Saving,
Weaching, and Ruling, Hands of this Bleffed Aed:-
r. Then we hall be, what we read in Jude, rx.
Weferved in Chrift Fefus: That is, as the Deftroying
Mgel, could not meddle with fuch as had been dif-
hguifhed, by the Blood of the Pajfeover on their
Houfes, Thus the Blood of the Lord Jefus Ghrilt,
Hrinkled on ourSouls,will Preferve us from theDevil.
Whe Birds of prey (and indeed the Devils moft lite-
Milly in the fhape of greatBirds ! ) are flying about :
Mould we find a Covert from thefe Vultures: Ler
4) then Hear Our Lord Jefus from Heaven Clocging
Nhto us, O that you would be gathered under my Wings.
Vell ; When this is done, ‘Then let us own the Co-
}nant, which we are now come into, by joining
irfelves to a Particular Church, walking in the Or-
'r of the Gofpel; at the doing whereof, ac-
prding to that Covenant of God, We give up Our-
Vives unto the Lord, and in Him unto One Anc-
‘jer. While others have had their Names Entred in
le Devils Book ; let our Names be found in the
burch Book, and let us be, Written among the Li-
Ling in Ferufalem. By no means let, Church-Work
hk and fail in the midft of us ; butlet the Tragical
, \ceidents which now happen,exceedingly Quicken
hat Work. So many of the Rifing Generation, utter-
|) forget:ing the Errand of our Fathers to build
Vhurches in this Wildernefs, and fo many of Our
| jottages being allow'd to Live, where they do not,
"jad perhaps cannot, wait upon God with the Chur-
nes of His People! tis as likely as any one thing te

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procure the fwarmings of Witch-crafts: among
But it becomes us, with a like Ardour,to bring on
poor Children with us, as we fhall de, when. we com |}
ourfelves, into the Covenant of God, It woul {
break an heart of Stone, to have feen, what 1 havi!
lately feen ; Even poor Children of feveral Ages]
even from feven to twenty more or. lefs, Conf (fia |
their Familiaricy withDevils ; but at the fame time}
in Doleful bitter Lamentations, that made a Bites
Pourtraiture of Hey ic felf, Expoftulating, with |
execrable Parents, for Devoring them to the De i,
in their Infancy, and fo Entaiing of Devillifmu pm |
them! Now, as the Pfalmilt could fay, At. Zeal
hath Con[umed me, becaufe way Enemies have forgotte,
thy Words: Even fo, let the nefarious wickednefs di}
thofe that have Explicidy dedicated their Childreg|
to the Devil, even with Devillifh Symbols, of lich}
a Dedication, Provoke our Zeal to have our Chih|
dren, Sincerely Signally, and openly Confecrated um |
to God ; with an Education afterwards alluring and:
confirming that Confecration. 4

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