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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
Title page typeset from the transcription.
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.
1 The first is Adoption, whereby he maketh us his Children, as Gal. 4.4,5,6. & John 1.12. So that now we are the Brethren of Christ, and the Sons of the Eternal God; Adoption is properly the work of the Father, but Christ being the natural Son of God, we must be knit unto him, before we can be accounted Sons.
1 The first is Adoption, whereby he maketh us his Children, as Gal. 4.4,5,6. & John 1.12. So that now we are the Brethren of Christ, and the Sons of the Eternall God; Adoption is properly the work of the Father, but Christ being the naturall Son of God, we must be knit unto him, before we can be accounted Sons.
2 The second is Justification, Rom. 8.33,34. This is the Fathers work, and it is principally attributed unto him to forgive our iniquities, and to make reconciliation in Christ Jesus. And look as it is in our natural Being, so soon as ever we have received natural life from Adam, we become the Sons of Adam, and his sin is imputed unto us: so it is in the new birth, as soon as ever the life of Christ is shed abroad into our hearts, so soon are we Heirs of Christ, and the righteousness ⟨p. 192⟩of the second Adam is imputed unto us now to our Justification, as the sin of Adam before was to our Condemnation.
2 The second is Justification, Rom. 8.33,34. This is the Fathers work, and it is principally attributed unto him to forgive our iniquities, and to make reconciliation in Christ Jesus. And look as it is in our naturall Being, so soon as ever we have received naturall life from Adam, we become the Sons of Adam, and his sin is imputed unto us: so it is in the new birth, as soon as ever the life of Christ is shed abroad into our hearts, so soon are we Heires of Christ, and the righteousness