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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.
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.
Reason 3 The third Reason is taken from the estate of the person united to Christ, which being united, is not a naturall, but a spirituall man. The Reason standeth thus: If there be no spirituall gifts of grace wrought and created in the soul, then Christ is united by the Spirit of God to the naturall 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 naturall man. Proof of this, 1 Cor. 2.14. The naturall man doth not receive the things of God, nor of the Spirit of God; and therefore doth not receive Christ united to him.
Object. A man is not a natural man, but a spiritual man, when the Spirit of God dwelleth in him.
Object. A man is not a naturall man, but a spirituall man, when the Spirit of God dwelleth in him.
True, Answ. because the Spirit of God where he dwelleth, worketh gifts of spiritual grace; but if he should not, the soul would be still natural, as the Temple of Solomon was still a material Temple, (not a spiritual Temple, as we are,