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The covenant of Gods free grace most sweetly unfolded and comfortably applied to a…
The covenant of Gods free grace most sweetly unfolded and comfortably applied to a disquieted soul from that text of 2 Sam. 23. Ver. 5. : also a doctrinal conclusion that there is in all such who are effectually called, in-dwelling spiritual gifts [sic] and graces wrought and created in them by the Holy Ghost / by that reverend and faithful minister of Gods word, Mr. John Cotton, Teacher of the Church at Boston in New-England ; whereunto is added, A profession of faith, made by the reverend divine, Mr. John Davenport, in New-England, at his admission into one of the Churches there.The covenant of Gods free grace most sweetly unfolded and comfortably applied to a disquieted soul from that text of 2 Sam. 23. Ver. 5. : also a doctrinall conclusion that there is in all such who are effectually called, in-dwelling spirituall gifs [sic] and graces wrought and created in them by the Holy Ghost / by that reverend and faithful minister of Gods word, Mr. John Cotton, Teacher of the Church at Boston in New-England ; whereunto is added, A profession of faith, made by the reverend divine, Mr. John Davenport, in New-England, at his admission into one of the Churches there.
London: printed for John Hancock, 1645London: printed for Iohn Hancock, 1645
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Further, saith he, Although he make it not to grow, his meaning is, that although God make not his family to grow in this world, but cause it to see hard times, and undergo many crosses and troubles, yet this is his comfort, and all the stay of his heart, and his salvation, That God hath made with him an everlasting Covenant, ordered in all things and sure. So that the point to be observed from hence is this:
Further, saith hee, Although he make it not to grow, his meaning is, that although God make not his family to grow in this world, but cause it to see hard times, and undergo many crosses and troubles, yet this is his comfort, and all the stay of his heart, and his salvation, That God hath made with him an everlasting Covenant, ordered in all things and sure. So that the point to be observed from hence is this:
Doctr. 4 That howsoever God deals with our families, yet the Covenant of Grace must be to us the satisfying of our desires and delights, and the sum of our salvation. This Covenant God made to us, and let that suffice us in all; it was that wherewith God supported Paul when there was sent unto him a messenger from Satan to buffet him, My grace (saith the Lord) is sufficient for thee. This Covenant of thy is sufficient to pardon sin, and to heal sin; therefore, whether ⟨p. 25⟩Paul prospered or prospered not in his spiritual state, he must be contented, for Gods grace is sufficient for him: David saw his house would fall upon strange changes in regard of the great failings of his children, that they should be carried away captive, and in a manner, into obscurity of darkness, through Gods withdrawing the light of his countenance from shining upon them, occasioned by the great disorders that were before seen in it; this his condition he might have seen in Ethan the Ezrabite, who lived in his days, Psal. 89 39. Though before he saw all this evil, yet this was sufficient for him, though his house prospered not, that God had promised in his Covenant that he would not forsake him and his, although he made them not to grow; and the Reasons are: