A fecond perfonal Covenant.

LORD, the God and Father of our Lord Jefus Chrift, I confefs from my heart, that I am by nature a loft and undone finner, wholly corrupted, and laid under the curfe, in Adam, through the breach of the covenant of works; and have ruined myself more and more by my innumerable actual tranfgreffions, whereby my whole life appears in mine eyes this day a heap of vanity, fin, and foolishnefs. I am fully convinced, and do from my heart acknowledge, that I am utterly unable to help myself, in whole or in part, out of this gulf of fin and mifery, into which I am plunged; and that it is beyond the reach of the whole creation to help me out of it; fo that I must inevitably perifh for ever, if thine own ftrong hand do not make help to me. But forafmuch as there is a covenant of grace, for life and falvation to loft finners, established between THEE and thine own SoN, the Lord Jefus Chrift, as fecond Adam; wherein, upon condition of his fulfilling all righteoufnefs, which is now performed, in his having been born perfectly holy, lived altogether righteously, and made perfect fatisfaction to juftice by his death and fufferings, thou hast promifed that thou wilt be their God, and they fhall be thy people, to the making of them holy and happy for ever and that this covenant is, in Chrift the head thereof, offered and exhibited to me in thy gofpel, and thou calleft me into the fellowship thereof, in him: Therefore (adhering to my former acceptings and taking hold of it, declared whether by word or writ before thee, without wilful mistaking of it, or known guile), upon the warrant of, and in obedience to, thy command and call, I in myfelf a poor perifhing finner, and worthy to perish, do now again TAKE HOLD of that COVENANT, for life and falvation to ME; believing on the name of Christ crucified, the head thereof, offered and exhibited to me, as the great High Prieft, who, by the facrifice of himself, hath made atonement, paid the ranfom, and brought in everlafting righteoufnefs for poor finners. I CREDIT his word of grace to me, and accordingly TRUST on him, that he with his righteoufnefs will be mine, and that, in and through him, God will be my God, and I fhall be one of his people, to the making of me holy and happy for ever. O my God, I do by thy grace acquiefce in that covenant, as all my falvation, and all my defire. With my whole heart and foul, the Son in. carnate is my only PRIEST, my Surety, my Interceffor, and my Redeemer; and, in him, the FATHER my FATHER, the HOLY GHOST SANCTIFIER GOD in CHRIST my God. I refign myself, foul my and body, to him, to be faved by his blood alone; renouncing all confidence in mine own righteoufnefs, doings and fufferings. With my whole heart and foul, he is my HEAD and HUSBAND: and I am his only, wholly, and for ever; to live by him, to him, and for m. I take him for my alone PROPHET, Orack, and Guide; eup myself wh him, to be taught, guided, and directed,

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and body, unto him, to be refcued, by the ftrength of his mighty hand, from fin, death, the devil, and this prefent evil world, for to serve him for ever, and to be ruled by the will of his command, as to my duty, and the will of his providence as to my lot. I am with my whole heart content (Lord, thou knoweft) to part with, and do renounce, every known fin, luft, or idol, and particularly that fin which moft easily befets me; together with my own foolish will, and all other lords befides him; without reservation, and without exception against his cross. Protefting in thy fight, O Lord, that I am, thro' grace, willing to have discovered unto me, and upon difcovery to part with, every fin in me that I know not: and that the doubtings and averfenefs of heart, mixed with this my accepting of thy covenant, are what I allow not; and that, notwithstanding thereof, I ⚫look to be accepted of thee herein, in the Beloved thine only Son and my Saviour, purging away thefe, with all my other fins, by his precious blood. Let it be recorded in heaven, O Lord, and let the bed on which I leaned, the timber, and the ftones, and all other things about me here, in my closet, bear witness, That I, though moft unworthy, have this fecond day of December, One thousand seven hundred and twenty-nine years, here taken hold of, and come into, thy covenant of grace, offered and exhibited to me in thy gospel, for time and eternity; and that thou art my God in the tenor of that covenant, and I am one of thy people, from henceforth and for ever.