hould go
and bring forth fruit, and that your fruit should remain: that
whatsoever ye shall ask of the Father in my name, he may give it
you."[593]

Perseverance in grace. God's Covenant with his people shall not be
broken. "I will never break my covenant with you."[594] "The Lord will
not cast off his people, neither will he forsake his inheritance."[595]
He will give grace to cleave to it continually. "I will make an
everlasting covenant with them, that I will not turn away from them to
do them good; but I will put my fear in their hearts, that they shall
not depart from me."[596] Believers were given to Christ, and therefore
they cannot be lost. "And I give unto them eternal life; and they shall
never perish, neither shall any man pluck them out of my hand. My
Father, which gave them me, is greater than all; and no man is able to
pluck them out of my Father's hand."[597] Trusting in him, therefore,
his people rejoice to say, "Nevertheless the foundation of God standeth
sure, having this seal, The Lord knoweth them that are his."[598]

And eternal life. This consummation unspeakable is indissolubly
connected with the purpose of God, and the believer's exercises of
adhering to the Covenant. On the promise of eternal life the heirs of it
lay hold in Covenanting; and to this they were chosen. They cleave to
the covenant as an Everlasting Covenant, well ordered in all things and
sure: that is all their salvation, and all their desire. And to that
final salvation they were chosen. "Whom he did predestinate, them he
also called: and whom he called, them he also justified: and whom he
justified, them he also glorified."[599] Who can describe that life? and
who can sufficiently tell of the grace of Him who hath secured it to
men? And who should not feel amazed at the backwardness of sinners to
prepare for it--so free and beneficently offered? Truly the glory of God
is great in his salvation! The redeemed through eternity will find the
glad work of declaring that glory undone. Would that sinners now, by
accepting of the great salvation, would begin here, and finally be
prepared to celebrate with all others of their race redeemed to God,
that glory!

In conclusion. As in every case the purposes of God harmonize with his
precepts, so the manifestation of those in reference to the keeping his
Covenant, unites with express injunctions of his law in urging to
discharge that duty. The law of God conspires with his revealed purpos