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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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Use 1. In the first place, This may teach us a broad difference between the Covenant of works and the Covenant of Grace.
Ʋse 1. In the first place, This may teach us a broad difference between the Covenant of works and the Covenant of Grace.
In the Covenant of works, the Lord offereth himself as a Father, his Son as a Redeemer, his Spirit as a Sanctifier, but this upon a condition of works, Thou shalt have no other Gods but me; and If they shall keep his Laws and obey his voice, then they shall be a peculiar treasure unto him above all people, Exod. 19.5,6. This also they undertake to do, Deut. 5.27. All that the Lord our God shall speak unto thee, we will hear it and do it; But O that there were such an heart in them, vers. 29. When they rebelled, he did not pardon them graciously; but the Angel whom he sendeth with them he biddeth them beware of him, and obey his voice and provoke him not, For he will not pardon your Transgressions for my Name is in him; In the Covenant of Grace he will, but not in this; here is indeed a Conditional ⟨p. 40⟩Redeemer and Saviour, and so it is expressed, Isa. 63.8,9,10. — with many of them God was not well pleased, almost with none of them, but overthrew them in the wilderness. Thus in the Covenant of works all is given upon condition of obedience.
In the Covenant of works, the Lord offereth himselfe as a Father, his Son as a Redeemer, his Spirit as a Sanctifier, but this upon a condition of works, Thou shalt have no other Gods but me; and If they shall keep his Lawes and obey his voyce, then they shall be a peculiar treasure unto him above all people, Exod. 19.5,6