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the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel, that is, with the whole church of God, Heb. viii. 10, a new covenant - and I will put my law into their inward parts, and write it in their hearts, and I will be their God, and they shall be my people, Jer. xxxi. 31, 33. He does not say, he will be their God if they will be his people, but saith absolutely, they shall be my people. Which that they might be, both there and elsewhere, he has said absolutely, without condition, they shall be all taught of God, Isa. liv. 13; John vi. 45. He promises likewise, saying, I will sprinkle clean water upon you, and you shall be clean; from all your filthiness, and from all your idols, I will cleanse you. A new heart also will I give you, and a new spirit will I put into you, and I will take away the stony heart out of your flesh, and I will give you an heart of flesh. And I will put my Spirit within you, and cause you to walk in my statutes, and ye shall keep my judgments and do them, &c. Ezek. xxxvi. 25 - 27. And not for your sakes do I this, saith he, be it known to you, be ashamed and confounded for your own ways, O house of Israel, Ezek. xxxvi. 32. And again he saith, I will make an everlasting covenant with them, that I will not turn from them to do them good; but I will put my fear in their hearts, that they shall not depart from me, Jer. xxxii. 40. Note this also, in very many places, God promises his blessing to them that fear him and keep his commandments; there he promises with condition; here he absolutely promises those on whom he intends to bestow these blessings, that he will put his fear in their heart, that they may be capable of them: and, which is more to the end that men might repent, believe, and live godly, which is the condition to which the promise of forgiveness and salvation is made, God declares that he has raised Christ, and exalted him to be a Prince and Saviour, to give this faith and repentance, that their sins may be forgiven, and their souls saved by him, Acts v. 30, 31. I pray consider well whether all these promises of this sort be not made absolutely on God's part, and without any condition on man's part.