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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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Reason 2 The second Reason is taken from such places of Scripture, as put an express difference between the Holy Ghost and his gifts in us; and the exercise of these gifts by us. In 2 Tim. 1.6. Stir up (saith Paul to Timothy) the gift of God which is in thee; and vers. 14. that good Treasure (or thing) which was committed to thee, keep by the Holy Ghost which dwelleth in us: where there is a plain difference between the gift of God, and the stirring up of that gift, which is the exercise of it, and the Holy Ghost which helped him to keep it, and to use it.
Reason 2 The second Reason is taken from such places of Scripture, as put an expresse difference between the Holy Ghost and his gifts in us; and the exercise of these gifts by us. In 2 Tim. 1.6. Stirre up (saith Paul to Timothy) the gift of God which is in thee; and vers. 14. that good Treasure (or thing) which was committed to thee, keep by the Holy Ghost which dwelleth in us: where there is a plain difference between the gift of God, and the stirring up of that gift, which is the exercise of it, and the Holy Ghost which helped him to keep it, and to use it.
Object. But he speaketh of ministerial gifts, not of gifts accompanying salvation.
Object. But hee speaketh of ministeriall gifts, not of gifts accompanying salvation.
He speaketh of both: Answ. for in the verse next before (vers. 5.) he putteth Timothy in mind of the unfeigned faith which (saith he) is in thee, and which dwelt first in thy grandmother Lois, and in thy mother Eunice's, and now in thee also. Whence the Reason is plain, If unfeigned faith, and other such like gifts of God, dwelt in Timothy, and in his mother, and in his grand-mother, then there be gifts of grace accompanying salvation, that dwell in such as are effectually called. But the former is plain out of the Text, therefore so is the latter. In