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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 Those that make that Objection, they use to put it thus, The Kings of Israel were such Types; but such an one was not Abraham, nor Job, nor Nehemiah, who by a Coercive Law enjoined the sanctifying of the Sabbath, Neh. 13. nor the King of Nineveh, nor was that wicked King of Israel, Ahab, a type of Christ, which should have put that blaspheming Benhadad to death [whence that sharp reproof of him for not doing ⟨p. 24⟩it, 1 Kings 20. To say nothing of Darius & Nebuchadnezzars Decrees this way, which are recorded in way of commendation thereof, Ezra 6. and Dan. 3.29.
2 Those that make that Objection, they use to put it thus, The Kings of Israel were such Types; but such an one was not Abraham, nor Job, nor Nehemiah, who by a Coercive Law injoined the sanctifying of the Sabbath, Neh. 13. nor the King of Ninevey, nor was that wicked King of Israel, Ahab, a type of Christ, which should have put that blaspheming Benhadad to death [whence that sharpe reproof of him for not doing ⟨p. 24⟩it, 1 Kings 20. To say nothing of Darius & Nebuchadnezzars Decrees this way, which are recorded in way of commendation thereof, Ezra 6. and Dan. 3.29.
3 Solomon himself (who if any were types of Christ therein, he was) setteth it down by direction of the Spirit as a moral duty of each King indefinitely, that (howsoever de facto, many do otherwise, yet de jure) he scattereth away all evil with his eye,