them are here, cannot be all mentioned; I only name. a few of them.

Item, So much of a charge for bread and water, for daily neceffaries: the article for difcharging thereof, is, Ifa. xxxiii. 16. "Bread fhall be given them, and their water shall be sure."—Item, So much necessary for wine and milk to maintain the children: well, the article for anfwering that, is, Joel iii. 18. "The mountains fhall drop down new wine, and the hills fhall flow with milk.” And it is "Wine and milk, without money and without price;a feast of fat things, and wines on the lees.”— Item, For clearing of all bygone accounts, and discharging all debts that were owing to the law: the article is, Jer. xxiii. 6. "His name fhall be called, The Lord our righteoufnefs; therefore will I be merciful to their unrighteonfnefs, their fins and iniquities will I remember no more. He was made fin for us, who knew no fin, that we might be made the righteousness of God in him.” Item, For clearing all the debts that may be afterwards contracted, through the power of corruption, and daily infirmities: the article is, Jer. 1. 20. "The iniquities of Ifrael fhall be fought for, and there fhall be none; and the fins of Judah, and they fhall not be found.”— Why? what will become of them?" He will caft all their fins into the depths of the fea," Micah vii. 19. What fea? even that of Chrift's blood; "The Lamb of God, that takes away the fins of the world:" When he takes them away, they fhall not be found any more.Item, For cloathing to the children of promife: the article is, Ifa. Ixi. 3. "I will give them beauty for afhes, the oil of joy for mourning, and the garment of praife for the fpirit of heavinefs." Hence, ver. 1o. "Iwill rejoice in the Lord, for he hath cloathed me with the garments of falvation, and covered me with the robe of righteoufnefs."-Item, For wathing the childrens garments, or rather of their feet, when they are ready to puddle and defile themfelves: the article is, Ifaiah liv. 4. where the Lord is faid to wafh away the filth of the daughter of Zion, by the spirit of judgment, and by the fpirit of burning. "If I wash thee not, thou haft no part in me," faid Chrift to Peter. Indeed the

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children need daily wafhing. Though the garment of imputed righteoufnefs they have, needs no wafhing; it is the perfect, fpotlefs righteoufnefs of God: yet the garment of their imparted righteousness, their graces and duties, need conftant wafhing.-Item, For teaching and fchooling of the children in the knowledge of the myfleries of the gofpel: the article is, Ifaiah liv. 11,-13. "O thou afflicted, &c. All thy children fhall be taught of God."-- Item, For correcting the children for their faults, yet fo as they fhall never incur any liableness to the forfeiture of the promife: the article is, Pfal.lxxxix. 30. "If his children break my law, and walk not in my judg ments; if they break my ftatutes, and keep not my commandments; then will I vifit their tranfgreffion with the rod, and their iniquity with ftripes: neverthelefs my lov ing-kindness will I not take from him, nor fufler my faithfulness to fail."-Item, For cordials to the corrected child, left he fhould faint under affliction: the article is, Ifaiah lvii. 16. "I will not contend for ever, neither will I be always wroth, left the fpirit fhould fail before me, and the foul which I have made. For the iniquity of his covetoufnefs I was wroth, and fmote him; I hid me, and was wroth, and he went on frowardly in the way of his heart therefore I have feen his ways, and will heal him." O wonder! as if a God of infinite grace fhould fay, Simple correction will not do with my children, and therefore I muft even go and carefs and dandle them again; "I will reftore comforts to him and to his mourners."—Item, For reviving of the child, when under deadness of frame and indifpofition: the article is, "I am the refurrection and the life; and because I live ye fhall live alfo."-Item, For ftrengthening of the child, when under weaknefs, ready to be overcome with corruption, or to fuccumb in duty; the article is,

My grace fhail be fufficient for thee; my ftrength fhall be made perfect in thy weaknefs."-Item, So much for light and candle; I mean, the candle of the Lord, to enlighten them, when they are in the dark, and ready to miflake their way: the article is, "They fhall hear a voice behind them, faying, This is the way, walk ye in it. I will lead the blind in a way they know not."

Item, So much neceffary for bearing the charges, both of their work and warfare, in the wildernefs: the article is, "He will fend none a warfare on their own charges:He will perform all our works in us and for us :-I will ftrengthen, I will uphold with the right-hand of my righteoufnefs."-Item, For medicine to cure the fallingfickness of the child, and for raising him up when he falls and hurts himself: the article is, "I will heal thy backflidings, I will love thee freely."-Item, For antidotes and preventives, to hinder the child's falling totally and utterly away the article is, Pfalm xxxvii. 24. He fhall not be utterly caft down, for the Lord upholds him with his hand.-I will put my fear in their hearts, and they fhall not depart from me."-Item, For fanatives to heal fome desperate difeafes, and dreadful hardness of heart: the article is, "I am JEHOVAH-ROPHI, the Lord that healeth thee. The leaves of the tree of life are for the healing of the nations," even of their deadly wound. Item, For corrofives, to eat out fin and corruption, and all these noxious humours that diftemper the child: the article is, "I will fubdue your iniquity:" And, "Sin fhall not have dominion over you, for you are not under the law, but under grace."-Item, For purgatives to make the child of grace to grow in grace, and the planting of the Lord to flourish the article is, "Every branch in me that beareth fruit, he purgeth it, that it may bring forth more fruit:" And, "I will be as the dew to Ifrael: he fhall grow as the lily, and caft forth his roots as Lebanon; his branches fhall fpread, his beauty fhall be as the olive tree, and his fmell as Lebanon."-Item, For restoratives, to make the child recover and revert after decays of grace: the article is, "They that dwell under his fhadow fhall return; they fhall revive as the corn, and grow as the vine; the fcent thereof fhall be as the wine of Lebanon: I am like a green fir-tree, from me is thy fruit found."-What fhall I fay? Tell me the Item, and I will tell you the article or the promise that will answer it.Item, For antidotes against the temptations of the devil: the article is, " The God of peace fhall bruife Satan under your feet fhortly :-The Seed of the

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woman fhall bruife the head of the ferpent."-Item, For fecuring of renewed vifits after defertion: the article is, "For a fmall moment have I forfaken thee; but with great mercy will I gather thee: In a little wrath I hid my face from thee for a moment, but with everlafting kindnefs will I have mercy on thee."-Item, For fecuring the continuation of divine favour amidst all the changes, either of frames or providences: the article is, "I am the God of Bethel, where thou anointedft the pillar, and vow. edit the vow unto me.-The mountains thall depart, and the hills be removed, [even mountains of myrrh and hills of frankincenfe, of which you are ready fometimes to say, 'My mountain ftands strong, and I shall never be moved,' even these mountains of fenfible enjoyments, and hills of fweet frames may depart;] but my kindnefs fhall not depart from thee."-Item, For victory over the world, not only over the god of this world, the devil; but over the things of this world, "The lufts of the flefh, the lufts of the eye, and the pride of life;" alfo the loffes and croffes, the allurements or entanglements of the world: the article is, "Tho' in the world ye fhall have tribulation; yet, be of good chear, I have overcome the world," that my victory may be yours.Item, For a bleffing upon all providences, and for fanctifying of all croffes and calamities they meet with: the article is, “All things fhall work together for good to them that love God, and are the called according to his purpofe."-Item, For the want of love to God, or the weakness of it; for the want or weakness of faith, repentance, zeal, and other graces the article is, " In him dwells all the fulnefs of the Godhead:"And, "Ye are complete in him:" And, "It pleased the Father that in him fhould all fulnefs dwell, that out of his fulness ye might receive grace for grace." He is the author and finifher of faith; the author and finisher of love; the ALPHA and OMEGA of all grace.—Are there any more items in the charge, for which there is no article in the bond of provifion to dif charge it? Nay, nay; fit down and devife items; the child of promife may find articles in the bond to answer them. Item, For conduct through all fnares and difficulties in your way the article is, "I will guide thee with

mine eye; I will guide thee by my counfel."-Item, For victory over death, and a happy entrance to eternal life: the article is, "Death fhall be fwallowed up in victory:" And, "The ranfomed of the Lord fhall return, and come unto Zion with fongs; they fhall obtain joy and gladness, and forrow and fighing fhall flee away; and fo fhall we be ever with the Lord." What think you, believing child, of the promife? What think you of your bond of provifion? Come read over the charge and difcharge, compare them together, and fee if there be any thing wanting in the covenant of promife, and fee if it hath not all your falvation in it. If I have paffed by or forgot any thing, I fhall make it up in one word: Item, For defraying the charge of the want of all things; the article for anfwering it is, Rom. viii. 32. "He that fpared not his own Son, but delivered him up to the death for us all, how fhall he not with him freely give us all things? All things are yours; and ye are Chrift's." Yea, ten thousand times more than all things is in the bond of the promife; God himfelf is in it, "I will be thy God." Chrift himself is in it, "God fo loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, &c." The Spirit himself is in the bond, to be the Spirit of faith, love, light, life, and liberty, grace, and glory; " I will pour water upon him that is thirsty, and floods upon the dry ground; even my Spirit upon thy feed, and my bleffing on thine offspring. And if God, Father, Son, and Holy Ghost, be in the bond of provifion; pray, what is wanting, when he who is all in all, is in the bond? What want you, believer, that is not here? If you converfe only with the law, you will find all wanting; item, all fpent; but when you come to the promife, you will find a ftock that can never be exhaufted.

Now, believer, you fee where your portion lies; rejoice in your heirship: being a child of promife, you have Chrift in it, and you are called to live upon your winning; being a child of the promife, you should live upon the promise in every cafe; fuck the breasts of the promife, as the child does the mother's breaft, for that is to live by faith. As you would be holy, as you would be happy, as you would be grateful and fruitful, as you would