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The everlasting covenant, a sweet cordial for a drooping soul, or, The excellent nature…
The everlasting covenant, a sweet cordial for a drooping soul, or, The excellent nature of the covenant of grace opened in a sermon preached January the 29th, at the funeral of Mr. Henry Forty, late pastor of a Church of Christ, at Abingdon, in the county of Berks, who departed this life Jan. 25th 1692/3 and was interred at Southwark ... : to which is added, An elegy on the death of the said minister / by Benjamin Keach ...The everlasting covenant, a sweet cordial for a drooping soul, or, The excellent nature of the covenant of grace opened in a sermon preached January the 29th, at the funeral of Mr. Henry Forty, late pastor of a Church of Christ, at Abingdon, in the county of Berks, who departed this life Jan. 25th 1692/3 and was interr'd at Southwark ... : to which is added, An elegy on the death of the said minister / by Benjamine Keach ...
London: printed for H. Barnard, 1693
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5thly. God's divine Power and Omnipotence also, is exalted by this Covenant; in his raising up a poor fallen and lost Creature, sunk as low as Hell (under the weight of fearful Guilt and Wrath, lying under the powers of infernal Spirits) to dwell with him in the highest Heavens for ever: but God's Power, doth not only appear in respect of that glorious Conquest Christ obtained over Sin, Satan, and Death, at his Resurrection, in the actual Execution and Accomplishment of his holy Compact, with the Father without us; but also in working in us, by his putting forth his Almighty Power in working Faith in our Souls, after the same manner ⟨p. 24⟩that he wrought in Christ, when he raised him from the Dead, Eph. 1.19, 20. he raised us with Christ from the Dead, when Christ was raised virtually, as he was our Head; and also doth actually quickens us, and raises us up by his Spirit, Eph. 2.1, 2. destroying those evil and vicious Habits, Sin and Satan had infused into us, and so bingeth us out of Darkness into Light, and from the power of Satan, unto God.
5thly. God's divine Power and Omnipotence also, is exalted by this Covenant; in his raising up a poor fall'n and lost Creature, sunk as low as Hell (under the weight of fearful Guilt and Wrath, lying under the powers of infernal Spirits) to dwell with him in the highest Heavens for ever: but God's Power, doth not only appear in respect of that glorious Conquest Christ obtain'd over Sin, Satan, and Death, at his Resurrection, in the actual Execution and Accomplishment of his holy Compact, with the Father without us; but also in working in us, by his putting forth his Almighty Power in working Faith in our Souls, after the same manner ⟨p. 24⟩that he wrought in Christ, when he raised him from the Dead, Eph. 1.19, 20. he raised us with Christ from the Dead, when Christ was rais'd vertually, as he was our Head; and also doth actually quickens us, and raises us up by his Spirit, Eph. 2.1, 2