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London : Printed and are to be sold by John Hancock ..., 1669
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Chapter 1 › Maxim 17: The seventeenth Maxim or Consideration.
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Now what a high dishonour is this to the free, rich, infinite, sovereign, and glorious Grace of God, which so sparkles and shines in the Covenant of Grace, and which tells us that our eternal estates shall never be judged by a Covenant of Works, and that the want of an absolute perfection shall never damn a believing Soul, and that the obedience that God requires at our hands, is not a Legal, but Evangelical? O that all those dear Christians who are so apt to be dejected and overwhelmed upon the account of the prevalency of such and such corruptions, and because they fail in keeping Covenant with God, and in walking in a Covenant-relation with God, I say, O that all these would frequently and seriously consider of these three things!
First, That so long as a Christian doth not renounce his Covenant with God, so long as he doth not wilfully and wickedly break the bond of the Covenant, the substance of the Covenant is not yet broken, though some Articles of the Covenant may be violated, Psal. 89.30. to 35. 2 Sam. 23.5. (while Christ lies at the bottom of the Covenant, it cannot be utterly broken) As among men there be some trespasses against some particular clauses in Covenants, which though they be violated, yet the whole Covenant is not forfeited; tis so here, every jar, every miscarriage doth not break the Marriage-Covenant; no more doth every sin, every miscarriage break the Covenant between God and the Soul. B•t,
First, That so long as a Christian doth not renounce his Covenant with God, so long as he doth not wilfully and wickedly break the bond of the Covenant, the substance of the Covenant is not yet broken, though some Articles of the Covenant may be violated, Psal. 89.30. to 35.