A34674:272
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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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.
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.
Ʋse 1. The Doctrine it selfe 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 spirituall 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.
1 You have some that bless themselves in their natural estate, it may be they are rich, and honourable among men: well, they bless themselves in that estate, and will never go any further.
1 You have some that blesse themselves in their naturall estate, it may be they are rich, and honourable among men: well, they blesse themselves in that estate, and will never goe any further.
2 There is another sort that are convinced of the danger of their natural estate, they dare not rest there, and hereupon they fall upon Reformations, and so to duties of Humiliation, and such like, wherein they find (as they conceive) ⟨p. 193⟩