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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 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⟩such a blessed change, and so much comfort as doth satisfy them: And indeed God doth comfort men in their Reformations, for God will have no man lose by him, Mat. 6.2,5. Hypocrites have their reward for their Aim and for their Prayers. Herod when he heard John, reformed many things, and heard him gladly, Mark 6.20. Here was a great change, and doubtless much comfort in that gladness, yet these men never had the work of God the Father, to burn up all that they had received by any strength of their own.
2 There is another sort that are convinced of the danger of their naturall 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⟩such a blessed change, and so much comfort as doth satisfie them: And indeed God doth comfort men in their Reformations, for God will have no man lose by him, Mat. 6.2,5. Hypocrices have their reward for their Aime and for their Prayers. Herod when he heard John, reformed many things, and heard him gladly, Mark 6.20. Here was a great change, and doubtlesse much comfort in that gladnesse, yet these men never had the work of God the Father, to burn up all that they had received by any strength of their owne.