“If you will say then, ‘What are the true and proper
gospel grounds, reasons, uses, and motives of our obedience;
whence the necessity thereof may be demonstrated, and our souls be stirred
up to abound and be fruitful therein?’ I say, they are so many, and lie so
deep in the mystery of the gospel and dispensation of grace, spread
themselves so throughout the whole revelation of the will of God
unto us, that to handle them fully and distinctly, and to give them their
due weight, is a thing that I cannot engage in, lest I should be turned
aside from what I principally intend. I shall only give you some brief
heads of what might at large be insisted on:—