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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
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
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 not only of ministerial gifts, but of all gifts of ⟨p. 30⟩grace, by which we are knit to Christ, and one to another, as head, and members of one body; and in respect of which, The eye cannot say to the hand, I have no need of thee; nor the head to the feet, I have no need of you, vers. 21.
Hee speaketh not only of ministeriall gifts, but of all gifts of ⟨p. 30⟩grace, by which we are knit to Christ, and one to another, as head, and members of one body; and in respect of which, The eye cannot say to the hand, I have no need of thee; nor the head to the feet, I have no need of you, vers. 21.
Reason 3 The third Reason is taken from the estate of the person united to Christ, which being united, is not a natural, but a spiritual man. The Reason standeth thus: If there be no spiritual gifts of grace wrought and created in the soul, then Christ is united by the Spirit of God to the natural man; For without spiritual gifts, there is nothing but nature in us, to which Christ by his Spirit is united. But Christ is not united by the spirit to the natural man. Proof of this, 1 Cor. 2.14. The natural man doth not receive the things of God, nor of the Spirit of God; and therefore doth not receive Christ united to him.