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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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BY gifts of Grace, I mean holy qualities, the same which Philosophers call virtuous habits, or good dispositions, whereby the faculties and affections of the soul, which by corrupt nature are set upon a mans self, and earthly things, and cannot savour the things of God (and so are said to be dead) are hereby sanctified, and lifted up to God, and set upon him and heavenly things, and so are said to be quickened and made alive to God. Whence we are said to be begotten again to a lively hope, 1 Pet. 1.3. and the faith of the righteous is opposed to the dead faith of vain men, Jam. 2.20. These gifts we say are wrought, or created by the Holy Ghost, because they are the fruits or effects of the Spirit of God in us, Gal. 5.22, 23. wrought by his Almighty creating power out of nothing, Col. 2.12. Ps. 5 1.10. ⟨p. 28⟩and thereby making us spiritual men, 1 Cor. 2.15. And fit Instruments for Gods spiritual service, 1 Pet. 2.5. and therefore every one of these gifts of grace, whereby any faculty or affection of the soul is sanctified, it is called the spirit of such a faculty or affection, as the sanctified disposition of the mind is called, The spirit of a sound mind, 2 Tim. 1.7. The spirit of Faith is the gift of Faith, 2 Cor. 4.13. The spirit of love, or of the fear of the Lord, are the gifts of holy love, and fear sanctifying such affections, 2 Tim. 1.7. Isai. 11.2. Further, we say these gifts of grace are in-dwelling, and abiding in every child of God, effectually called and united unto Christ; in as much as they are neither mortified and extinguished in us (as some would have it) by our union with Christ, (for mortification is of corrupt lusts, or of the body of sin in us,