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The Covenant of Grace
The covenant of grace discovering the great work of a sinners reconciliation to God / by John Cotton ... ; whereunto are added Certain queries tending to accommodation [sic] between the Presbyterian and Congregational churches ; also a discussion of the civill magistrates power in matters of religion ; by the same author.The covenant of grace discovering the great work of a sinners reconciliation to God / by John Cotton ... ; whereunto are added Certain queries tending to accommodadation [sic] between the Presbyterian and Congregationall churches ; also a discussion of the civill magistrates power in matters of religion ; by the same author.
London: printed by M.S. for Francis Eglesfield and John Allen, 1655
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1 For the Root of it, the soul having fellowship with Christ, the Holy Ghost cometh into the soul, & worketh Faith in Jesus Christ, and this is the root of all Christian sanctification, Ezek. 36.27. and for Faith, it is that which purifieth the heart, Acts 15.9. & without faith it is impossible to please God, Heb. 11.6. So that Faith must concur unto the rootedness of our sanctification in Christ: And the Apostle doth attribute both these Roots unto both sorts: Unto those Christians that shall afterwards fall away to sin the sin against the Holy Ghost, Heb. 6. They have tasted of the heavenly gift, and were made partakers of the Holy Ghost, that heavenly Gift was Faith, which the Apostle reckoneth chiefly among the Principles of Christian Religion, vers. 1. A taste they had both of Faith and the Holy Ghost, yet from both these they fall away.
1 For the Root of it, the soule having fellowship with Christ, the Holy Ghost cometh into the soule, & worketh Faith in Jesus Christ, and this is the root of all Christian sanctification, Ezek. 36.27. and for Faith, it is that which purifieth the heart, Acts 15.9. & without faith it is impessible to please God, Heb. 11.6. So that Faith must concur unto the rootednesse of our sanctification in Christ: And the Apostle doth attribute both these Roots unto both sorts: Unto those Christians that shall afterwards fall away to sin the sin against the Holy Ghost, Heb. 6. They have tasted of the heavenly gift, and were made partakers of the Holy Ghost, that heavenly Gift was Faith, which the Apostle reckoneth chiefly among the Principles of Christian Religion, vers. 1. A tast they had both of Faith and the Holy Ghost, yet from both these they fall away.