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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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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 ⟨p. 192⟩of the second Adam is imputed unto us now to our Justification, as the sin of Adam before was to our Condemnation.
Use 1. The Doctrine it self is but an Use, but I desire that we may all of us apply it unto our selves. It will be a help to us for our Instruction, to Teach us how we came to saving fellowship with God in Jesus Christ, and wherein lieth our spiritual union with Christ, and how it is wrought and obtained; and this is necessary, for as it hath been observed by others, so we may now gather it from what we have heard, that there be 4 sorts of men that fall short of this union with Christ.