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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. This Covenant is all our Desire, Hope, Delight, Consolation and Salvation, because 'tis a tried Covenant: it never failed one Man that ever laid hold of it, or applied the Blood thereof by Faith to his own Soul; he that believeth on Christ, builds on this precious Stone, this sure Foundation, shall never be ashamed, nor confounded: he that builds on this Covenant, or doth venture his Soul thereon, must be saved, and ever were saved. Let them be never so great sinners it will not fail them; this Covenant hath provided for the chiefest of Sinners, and for the weak Saints: here is a Pardon for all manner of Sinners and Blasphemers, against both the Father and the Son: O what black, what guilty, what filthy, and what bloody sinners have been saved by the Grace of, and Blood of this Covenant. Such were some of you, what an abominable Such were they, see 1 Cor. 6.9, 10, 11.
5thly. This Covenant is all our Desire, Hope, Delight, Consolation and Salvation, because 'tis a try'd Covenant: it never failed one Man that ever laid hold of it, or applyed the Blood thereof by Faith to his own Soul; he that believeth on Christ, builds on this precious Stone, this sure Foundation, shall never be ashamed, nor confounded: he that builds on this Covenant, or doth venture his Soul thereon, must be saved, and ever were saved. Let them be never so great sinners it will not fail them; this Covenant hath provided for the chiefest of Sinners, and for the weak Saints: here is a Pardon for all manner of Sinners and Blasphemers, against both the Father and the Son: O what black, what guilty, what filthy, and what bloody sinners have been saved by the Grace of, and Blood of this Covenant. Such were some of you, what an abominable Such were they, see 1 Cor. 6.9, 10, 11.
6thly. This Covenant is all a Believer's Desire, Consolation and Salvation; because of those glorious and mighty Gifts that are given to them in this Covenant: nothing can the Holy God give which is greater, for he hath given us himself, and all he is, and all he has; as far forth as it is communicatable, he gives himself to them by way of special Interest, (not as he was the God of the whole house of Israel, in that legal Covenant made with them as they