in Improving the strength of Jesus Christ to prevent your turning again to folly do not undertake nor engage in your own strength but believingly lay all the weight and stresse on your Suretie Put his name in the band which ye give to God for the debt of duty Abide in me and I in you So ye shal bring forth much fruit for without me ye can do nothing saith our Lord to his Disciples John 15. But how many fail and come short here While they go about duties and either quite misken or make but very litle use of Christ many know very litle or nothing at all what it is to make use of Christ in order to the making of their peace with God but O! how very few know what it is to make use of his strength to enable them for duty to go through the wilderness leaning on their beloved Seventhly Defer not to make your Resolutions and engagements practicable There are many alace who think Shame it should be said that a Sermon had so much weight with them as to make them alter and change their course at once It may be they will consent to be religious but they must be allowed to come to it by degrees to creep toward it piece-meal but beware of that lest it prove in the Issue to be a shift of thy deceitfull heart Ponder these words well Eccles 5. Defer not to pay what thou hast vowed for the Lord hath no Pleasure in fools And in the Holy Ghosts account he is a fool that deferreth and putteth off one moment O! delayes are in a speciall manner dangerous here and Sathan will not faill to knit one delay to another Eightly Reject all Temptations to sin and turning again to folly with abhorrency say with Ephraim What have I any more to do with Idols Never think on them but with indignation and Holy disdain for ye are undone if ye but once listen to them Ninthly Be often examining if ye be like and answerable to your Communicating and to your Promises and engagements many know not how it is with them because they Examine not Tenthly Walk humbly in the sense of your weakness trust not to your own heart for he that doth so is reputed to be a fool by the Holy Ghost Eleventhly Be helping one another forward in your way to Heaven Take heed saith the Apostle Heb. 3.12.13 That there be not in any of you an evil heart of unbelief in departing from the living God but exhort one another dayly while it is called to day lest any of you be hardened through the deceitfulness of Sin To be edifieing to others would through Gods blessing be edifieing to your selves and help you to be in good case to be praying with them would stir up your selves to more Seriousness in the exercise of that duty to be reproving sin in them would waken up more hatred of it in your selves and to be much Conversant in the duties of Mutual edification with them that are warm in their love to Christ to his interests and friends and diligent in the study of Holiness would readily through Grace stir you up to seek after more love and more Holiness as he insinuats in that exhortation to the Christian Hebrews Chap. 10.24 Let us consider one another to provoke unto love and good works Twelfthly And in a word endeavour to walk suitably to your light your own consciences will readily tell you that it 's best to walk so as ye may abstain from that which ye know to be sin and to be doing and delighting in that which ye know to be duty Theâ—e are very few if any duties of Religion but they are one time or another and many of them frequently laid before you and not a few shall I hope have cause of blessing God eternally that ever this Gospel-light was made to shine so clearly on them but for such of you As detain the truth of God in unrighteousness as the Apostle says some do Rom. 1 or make a prisoner of it by setting a guard of corrupt affections about it Whom God gave up to vile affections and to all sorts of most abominable filthiness because though they knew that such things ought not to have been done yet they not only did but took pleasure in them that did them I leave it with all the seriousness I can win to on you and take Instruments of witness in your consciences that ye have bad great offers and have made fair mints and come under at least seeming engagements if ye have not done so declare so much but since ye all professe that ye have engaged and some have really engaged not to turn again to folly walk suitably to your engagements as ye would not have your consciences condemning you and God who is greater then your Consciences to condemn you Many I fear have sleeping consciences and that will not now speak to them but the Conscience of every one will speak at length and not keep silence We shall now say no more but Pray that this word may be Blessed of God to you These five following Sermons were all Preached about the time of the Communion the first four within a very few dayes before it as it gradually approached the Fifth after it On Jeremiah 50. vers 4 5. In those dayes and in that time saith the Lord the Children of Israel shall come they and the Children of Judah together going and weeping they shall go and see the Lord their God Vers 5. They shal ask the way to Zion with their faces thither-ward Saying come and let us Joyn our selves to the Lord in a perpetuall Covenant that shall not bâ— forgotten SERMON I. THe repairing and making up of a breach betwixt God and a People is a matter of greatest moment and Concern and when men are serious in it O how uptaking is it to them Which is holden out to the life in these words that lay forth before us very clearly the frame and carriage of a people which formerly have dealt loosly and deceitfully in the matter of their Covenant with God when they come through his Grace to be serious and in good earnest in the upmaking of it again As for the people spoken of here they are Israel and Judah the Loâ—ds own Covenanted People who had dealt falsly and foully in the Covenant and had thereby Procured sad strokes to themselves and had divided and separated themselves from God and one of them from another Which division and separation continued lamentably long They are both here represented as coming home together Seriously endeavouring to amend and make up the breach betwixt God and them and among themselves As for the time that this relates to In those dayes and in that time saith the Lord It looks literally and according to the Cohesion to Babylons Destruction and 〈◊〉 Lords bringing down that Babylonish Monarchy by the Persian King Cyrus In which time the People of God had some
dayes nor go idly in the fields on the Lords-day yet they may mispend and triffle away their time at home as if falling back into Omissions were not a turning again to follie as well as falling back to Commissions The confessions of many poor Creatures who become Publickly and Prodigiously Scandalous on their death beds or on a Scaffold that omissions of duty have Predisposed them to and brought on those grosse Commissions may and should awake and alarm us ye would therefore with Holy Job Make a Covenant with your eyes and other senses and make Conscience to keep it Thirdly Beware of falling back to a secure cold-rise manner of going about duties of worship alone or in Company in publick or in privat let none of you think with your selves that now this Solemnitie is over ye need not wrestle in Prayer nor watch so strictly over your heart but let it gad and rove and not hedge it in on an ordinary Lords day as on a Communion Lords-day since there is no liberty allowed for an idle word or thought any day more then there is on that day Think it not enough that ye say your Prayers morning and evening and that none can charge you with any offence God the all seeing God observes you whether you be universall sincere and serious in the duties of Religion Fourthly Beware of neglecting Spiritual and Gospel duties such as Self-examination or Self-searching Self-denyall Mortification and use making of Christ The neglect of these aâ—d the like may be some way called Gospel-follie It is no doubt great Gospel-follie when Christ being freely and fully offered therein is not improved for wisdom righteousness Sanctification and redemption when the power of Godliness is not aimed at in dutie but People rest and sit down in the form thereof which yet in some respect is more combersome then the power for Christ improved makes all things go easily with us Therefore any of you who have loâ—ked on it as follie to neglect these spiritual duties see that ye return not again to that follie Fifthly Beware of unbelief have ye not resolved to cast out with that evil and resolved to be no more jealous of God though ye should meet with difficulties Believers in Christ lick not up that vomit again turn not again to that follie to which there is a secret Naturall bentness of heart If I say unbelief and jealousie be a follie take it not up turn not to it again Sixthly Beware of heart-ills possibly ye will not give way to more gross evils and yet suffer your Souls to be carried away after Idols or after vain proud Ambitious Covetous Revengeful filthy and Lascivious thoughts but if in very deed Christ get the heart he must reign in it and command the Eye Tongue Ears Hands Feet and all Seventhly Beware of falling back to the Inordinat love of the World and of letting the heart be too much addicted and glued to even lawfull pleasures creature-Comforts to your Callings Wives Children Houses Lands and incomes of gain and Profit from which there hath been possibly some suitable abstractedness these dayes past ye should not only abstain from oppressing Stealing and deceiving but ye would also guard against falling back to excessive pursuing after and as it were glutting your selves with the things of this world however lawfull in themselves Alace Perimus Licitis Inordinat love to and Immoderat pursuing after things lawful in themselves destroy more souls then things sinfull and unlawfull in themselves do the excuses of those invited to the Marriage of the Kings Son are founded not on things simply Sinful but on lawful things the Farme Oxen and Married wise Now the house is sweeped and ye are in Hazard if ye guard not to return to a greater and greedier feeding on those vanities I dare say there are Multitudes of men and Women who never so much hungred for the Communion as they have longed to have these Solemn dayes over and by that they might win back to their Callings worldly businesses and pleasures O what a weariness have they been to them As Sacred Solemnities were to those spoken of Amos 8.5 Who cried When shall the new Moon be gone that we may sell Corn and the Sabbath day that we may set out Wheat To many these dayes of Fasting and Spiritual Feasting and Communicating have been as a bridle bit in their Mouths to restrain them from running on the Mountains of their vanity and who knows but ere another Communion come the Lord may fâ—ed you as a Lamb in a large place The Second Use is For Exhortation would ye then know the duty that ye are called unto this is it Let not Gods People and Saints turn again to follie Let not the Idler return to his Idleness the tippler to his tippling the scoffer to his Scoffing the ignorant who have been at a litle pains to learn some questions before the examination and communion to his negligence in seeking after knowledge c. Let not this be If ye have vomited out these and other sins Lick them not up again To presse this Use a litle we would First Give you some considerations from the Text. Secondly Some directions to help you forward in the Practice of it For the first viz. Some considerations from the Text to press iâ— First Is it not a follie to sin once If so sure it is much more to relapse into sin Whether is it more true wisdom to abstain from those Sins or to fall back into them Is it not more wisdom for you who have been given to Tippling or drunkenness to neglect of Prayer and the like now to let alone sins and to give your selves to Prayer then to be walking in the street on the Plain-stones Is it not more wisdom to be given to edifieing discourse then to be laughing and sporting over the time Is it not better to come to the Church then to spend the time Idly In discoursing and waiting for a Tentation And if your conscience assent to the truth of this then we take witness in your Conscience that it doth so and this Instrument of witness will stand on record against you if ye shall turn to those sins and to this Folly again 2. Have ye been examining your selves And do ye find that much of your life hath been spent in folly by Some Twenty by some Thirty by some Fourthy by some Fifthy by some Sixty years And every days account cast up amounts only to folly vanity and Madness And is it not enough and may it not suffice you that ye have spent so long time in folly though ye spend no more so 3. Hath not God been speaking peace to some and given them the Intimation of it So that their Souls have been made to say God is here And have they not gotten the bargain closed and the hand writing that was against them torn We hope there are some such among us Nay are there any but the
Lord hath been offering peace to them treating with them saying Behold me Behold me intreating and requesting them to be reconciled And hath there not been some tickling of the affections of many If so will ye be such fools as to fall back and to wear out the sense of that peace and warmness that any of you have win to And ye with whom God hath been meeting and treating about the pardon of sin what a folly will it be in place of getting a discharge to increase and multiply your debt 4 Are there not some engagements on you Or what ever be reall is there not a profession of coming under engagements Are not the vowes of God on some of you Is there not some sin that hath stared you in the face which ye have resolved to abstain from And hath there not been some stirring and stickling of desires to perform what ye have resolved and engaged to And will ye break all these bands Will ye repent and rue that ever ye ingaged to God If so as ye notably play the fools So the Lord will be about with you and even spew you out of his Mouth that ye may puddle your fill in the mire of sin 5. Is there not a great bentness and propension in all naturally to turn again to follie Is there not an evil heart of unbelief ready to depart from the living God I have so much Charity for you as that you will grant this and when the Lord hath said Watch and tells that He is at hand that betrayes you will ye go securely and not take warning O! What desperat folly would this be 6. Consider what will come of it if ye shall fall back if ye slacken your bent and growing cold turn again to folly ye will wear out any bit of good frame that ye have attained ye will blur and sully the reall or supposed clearness of your interest marr your Peace and become in a manner more beastly and swinish in your sinfull way then before At the very thoughts whereof your hearts should scare Nauseat and even grow sick And what will be the upshot thereof Either ye will repent or never repent If ye say ye will repent are ye sure that God will give you Repentance If ye shall hazard on some sin Are not many given up to hardness of heart who never come to Repentance Know ye what Repentance is have ye not been already essaying and doing somewhat at Repentance and have ye not found it difficult and hard to come by And if ye shall sin yet more will not Repentance be yet a greater more difficult and hard work and suppose ye should get Repentance ye shall know the truth of that saying Jer. 2. That it was an evil and a bitter thing to depart from the Living God and that his fear was not before your eyes O! what shame and confusion of face will it bring with it to remember that we had so Many warnings from the word without and so manie Convictions and challenges from our conscience within and that yet we went over them and with a high hand went on in our folly will those things be litle think ye what pleasure or profit can ye have in those things whereof ye will be ashamed Yea suppose ye come to repentance and a hundred to one if ever ye come to it ye shall weep and mourn bitterly that ever ye hazarded so on sin over your light and convictions and over the belly of your Conscience If ye get not repentance as I am afraid many never shall what will come of it Convictions and challenges will wear out the heart will grow harder you will go on Laughing at reproofs mocking at exhortations to Repentance and Reformation and regardlesly treading on what might reclaim you you will be angrie at them who brought you under any engagements ye will become very Atheists in your hearts and as so many profaine Heathens in your carriage and when you have lived thus for a time and the Lord knows how long will ye not come to die will not your moneth come on you will not your bed take you or ye take your bed and then the Conscience will eiâ—her awake or be silent if it awake will not this be your language which is the language of many a poor wretched creature Wo is me I have mispent my time and have been gluâ—ting my self with the World and sinfull pleasures Oh vaine world O bewitching and beguiling world Alace that ever I was so much taken up with it And if the Conscience be quiet what will come of it Will that fin ly on and not be sought account of know ye not consider ye not that word Gal. 6 Be not deceived God will not be Mocked As men sow so they shall reap Think ye that God will be inferior to the Creature will not your Governor or Land-Lord seek account of you according to your engagement And shall not the Lord call you to a reckoning Yea certainly and the Conscience will then awake and roar on you then the curse Wo and damnation will seize upon and take hold of your Soul in death and devils shall carrie it thither where Hypocrites are untill the Judgement of the great day and then ye will say turning again to sin was the greatest folly and madness And thus whether God have a purpose of repentance to you or not ye shall one day rue it at all the veines of your heart to speak so and shall find the follie of it and that to your everlasting prejudice and loss if ye repent not And therefore let me press this Use upon you and earâ—estly exhort you to let these Considerations sink down â—nto your ears and hearts Beloved We are jealous over you and would God it were with a suitable Godly jealâ—usie We are afraid that many ere we be aware be â—own in their former puddle that ignorance and Proâ—anity be as rife as ever there have been so many fits â—nd good appearances and of so short continuance hereâ—ofore and now ye have been making some mint but what will come of it if ye fall back If these ordinances shall do you no good we know not what will do it 〈◊〉 think ye were never nearer to some great Crise to a â—ick of being lost or gained we have you as it were 〈◊〉 the very place of the breaking forth of Children So â—hat now you must be either safely and fairly delivered â—r prove abortives Ah! are our fasts and Communions â—o no purpose Are all your Purposes and resolutions â—our engagements and seeming willingness to engage 〈◊〉 vain and to no effect If ye shall fall back after this â—nd turn again to folly I do not much expect that any â—â—dinances or future engagements shall do you much â—ood we must either look for better and more fruit â—r there will be more barrenness and stubbornness â—ither ye shall be more Holy or more of that old sin of Malignity
is scarce any sort of sin but the Lord out faceth it in his Covenant as we may see Jer. 3. where the Lord saith Thou hast played the harlot with many lovers thou hast spoken aâ—d one evil as thou could'st yet wilt thou not from this time cry unto me my Father If we look to the grosness of sin were it like Scarlet or Crimson Isaiah 1.18 It shall be made white like Snow and wooll if ye be willing and obedient saith the Lord to close a Covenant with me ye shall eat the good of the Land In the propounding of the Covenant he will take away that exception of the grosness of sin which might stand in the sinners way were it even rotten Hypocrisy detestable indifferency and luk-warmness in the matters of God putting the Person in hazard to be spewed out of Christs Mouth yet he saith even to such if they will indeed take his counsell and be content to have their deadly evils removed and their wants supplied I counsel thee to come and buy of me Eye-salve Gold and Garments and Behold I stand at the Door and knock if any man will open the door I will come in to him and Sup with him and he with me Only take this word of Advertisment here and then I shall clear and confirm the Doctrine further when then we speak of sinners access to God by this Covenant we mean that there is access only on Condition they take with their faults and come weeping heart-broken and someway suitably affected with their sin these only are the persons that may comfortably expect this accesse he seeks after such though he will find none such till he make them such For further clearing and confirming of it then we would consider these Four things 1. Gods end in the Covenant which will make out this that there must be access to a run-away sinner by this Covenant to union with God when he comes home to him in the way of Repentance and Believing because his end in the Covenant is to save Sinners often spoken of to Justifie the ungodly Rom. 4.5 To dwell with Rebels Psal 68.18 To get a Name and a Praise to himself of being gracious as it cannot admit of nor let in a sinner but on this Condition So it cannot but accept of a sinner having this condition 2. We would consider Gods contrivance of the covenant in making it suitable to such an end so as it may make the Riches of his Grace to shine and may be effectuall for the gaining of Souls and therefore 2 Sam. 23.5 It is said in this respect to be ordered in all things and sure and Jere. 31.33 compared with Heb. 8. The substance of it is set down compended in a few words I will Pardon their iniquity and remember their sin no more c. 3. We would consider the administration of the Covenant It 's not in an immediat way as that first Covenant made with Adam was wherein there was no mediator neither was there need of any but it is in a mediat way by a suretie and Mediator who hath taken on and engaged for the debt of the Covenanting sinner and hath under taken for his thorow-bearing now why is this administration and dispensation But because the Principall debtor is a bankerout and not able to Satisfie for himself therefore he hath access to come and get Pardon and to be friends with God thorow the Mediator 4. We would consider all the Properties of the Covenant especially the freeness of it and we will find that they speak out this It 's a Covenant of Sure Mercies Isaiah 55.3 And all the Promises and Articles of it respect sinners and hold forth this that there is a way laid down how a sinner at feud with God may get this Union made up by Covenanting wiâ—h him The fourth Observation is that Covenanting with God is a very short cut for the quieting peace and happiness of a treacherous back sliding sinner Therefore when these People here spoken of are in their Holy heat and warmness stirred up under the conviction and sense of their guilt as the short cut to come to peace and a happy condition they say Come and let us Joyn our selves to the Lord in a Perpetuall Covenant It 's the accepting of Gods offer and being content to be his on the account of Christs righteousness that they Propose to themselves as the ground of their calme quietness and happiness This Observation implies these Three things First That Covenanting with God doth fully make the Covenanter happie though formerly he hath been a miserable sinner and O! This is a good bargain that makes a sinner compleatly happy It makes him to say Whom have I in heaven but thee and there is none upon the earth that I desire beside thee Psal 73. I shall name a few Scriptures to shew the full happiness of a sinner that enters in this Covenant The first whereof is 2 Sam. 23.5 Although my house be not so with God yet he hath made with me an everlasting Covenant well ordered in all things and sure and this is all my Salvation and all my desire It 's mensura Voti even all that heart can wish and these words being considered as David the sweet singer of Israel his last words when he is a dieing they clearly imply a commendation of this Covenant as full for the happiness of a sinner Another passage is Revel 21.7 He that overcometh shall inherit all things How is that even thus I will be his God and he shall be my Son that is in substance I will declare my self to be in Covenant with him This is the compend of the compleat happiness of Glorified Saints in heaven and the begun happiness of Believers of Sojourning Saints here on earth in a less measure and lower degree for in Heaven God will be all and in all and is not this a good bargain good to sinners which commends it the more A Third Place is Rom. 8. Where it 's told us that nothing can be laid to their Charge But it 's answered in this Covenant They have a Cautioner to pay their debt and to strengthen them for their dutie I will saith he be their God and they shal be my People I will put my fear in their hearts that they shall not depart from me I will pardon their iniquities all bygones and heal their back-slidings they shall not get leave to go from me would ye be pliable and yeelding to Gods Covenant I will put my law in their inward parts and write it in their hearts and a new heart will I give unto them and will cause them to walk in my Statuts and to do them Secondly The Doctrine implies as it is a full Covenant or makes the Covenanter fully happy So it makes him sickerly surely happy 2 Sam. 25.5 It 's a Covenant well ordered in all things and sure who ever by Faith betake themselves to Christs righteousness and
Harvest Secondly The very keeping of Covenant with God is in it self an advantage It hath a great reward in the bosom of it for it puts the Person to love God to delight in him to place its happiness in him to study Holiness and Mortification of Sin and is there not great advantage in these can ye think or say that there is any prejudice in these and such things as these namely to be blameless in your Conversation to be sincere and not a Hypocrite to be serious and not Luk-warm I am perswaded that if ye will but put it seriously to your own Consciences ye will be forced to say that Sincerity in Religion is better then Hypocrisie and stedfastness in Gods Covenant then Treachery and what more do we call for And Therefore let me on this ground and as ye would not come in Tops with your own Consciences beseech you to study Faithfulness in the Covenant Gods Covenant hath a great advantage of the hearers of it and of professed engagers in it even a friend in their bosoms viz. Conscience that will side with it and say that it was a good bargain that the terms were very reasonable that no prejudice could come by it but unspeakably much advantage will tell the man that it would have been his honor and for his profit to have keeped it and to have been faithful in it why then will the Lord say didst thou deal falsly in it and renounce it The wretched mans Conscience will answer that there was no shadow of reason for it it was plain Folly and madness for to keep and do Gods Covenant and Commandment is Peoples wisdom before all Nations Deut. 4. It is a sad matter that when men may have that which is infinitly preferable to what they are so eager in seeking after even true Riches Pleasure and honour Peace that pasteth all naturall understanding Joy unspeakable and full of Glory and every good thing by Covenanting with God and by faithful dealing therein that they should not drive this as their great designe and make it their great work and uptaking business O That there were such a heart in them saith the Lord Deut. 5. That they might fear me and keep my Commandments always that it might be well with them and with their Children for ever Men are ready to say we must provide for our Families and under that Specious pretext they shift this main work but Ah! fools that they are there is no way comparable to this to provide for families and Children even to have themselves and their Children entred into Gods Covenant and made to deal faithfully in it this engageth him to provide for and become tutor unto the Mans Children and is there not great encouragement here to have every good thing bestowed and all carking care and anxietie concerning our selves and Children removed Thirdly We would consider that God is a singular good Party to deal with very tender of them that aim to deal honestly with him he is indeed severe and terrible when he becomes the avenger of a broken Covenant but he is most tender towards honest engagers who sincerely endeavour to keep touches with him he is no rigid interpreter of their actions but is ready to put the best sense on them that they are capable of Like as a Father saith the Psalmist Psal 103. Pitieth his Children so doth the Lord Pitie them that fear him He is a father that will take litle off the hand of his Children when he knows them to have a will to the work when he will not deal so with others all his wayes are mercy and truth to them that keep his Covenant and his Testimonies It 's not meant of such as keep it Perfectly for so they needed not Mercy but of them that honestly designe and endeavour to keep it and may not that encourage to be faithfull in Gods Covenant that he is so easie to please Fourthly Consider that he hath graciously stuffed his Covenant with Promises meet for the thorow-bearing of them that would fain keep Covenant if it be an evil heart that will not love God which troubles them the Promise is I will Circumcise their heart and the hearts of their seed to love the Lord their God Whereas no others who are without the Covenant or deal unfaithfully in it can expect the performance of any such Promise If it be a back sliding heart the Promise is Jer. 3.22 I will heal your back-slydings If it be the fear of departing from God that troubles them the Promise is Jer. 32.40 I will put my fear in their heart that they shall not depart from me If it be the dominion of sin that they fear the Promise is Rom. 6.14 Sin shall not have Dominion over you for ye are not under the Law but und r Grace that is under the Covenant of Grace And if it be fear of the Prevailing of Sathans Tentations that troubles them the Promise is The God of Peace shall bruise Sathan under your feet shortly May we not then take heart to be faithful in this Covenant Yea he hath also condescended to come under this engagement too even to make us forth coming in the Covenant I will call saith the Psalmist Psal 57. Upon the Lord who performeth all thing for me It might have been said to David how wilt thou get all done that thou hast undertaken He answers I will call upon him who performeth all things for me And so I will get them all done and Performed so as I may hope to be accepted on the Mediators account and for his sake Fifthly Consider the Mediator of the Covenant who is surety and Cautioner not only for believers debt But also for their duty Therefore he is called Heb. 7. The surety of this better Covenant and when Christ and we are engaged in one bond there is ground for us to expect that something will be got done tho the principal debtor be not much worth yet the Cautioner is Worthy and infinitly responsible Sixthly Consider that there are already many who have passed thorow the troublesome Sea of this world and have been Marvellously helped and it 's but a litle and all you honest engagers to the Lord will be thorow the same Sea and fairly set on Land your warfare ere long will be at an end the prize will be got without any more fighting what is your fighting sighing and walking heavily clothed as it were in mourning for a litle time It 's but for a few years and it may be to some of you not so long and within a litle space The day of refreshing from the presence of the Lord will come a relieving of you from your post a loosing of you from your bonds a final discharge from your warfare will come and a new song will be put in your mouths and Palmes in your hands O but faithfull dealing with God in the Covenant will have a heartsome outgate when ye shall