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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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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 ⟨p. 37⟩were the natural Seed of Abraham as such) God gives himself, and in himself, his Son, his Spirit, his Ordinance, his Ministers, Paul, Peter, all is •rap'd up in this Covenant: Grace here, and Glory hereafter, all is yours; • Christ in this Covenant is yours, you have God and Christ, and God for ••er, Christ for ever. You shall not lose him again, the Covenant is ordered in all things and sure, and so are all the Gifts and Blessings thereof, such that can't be lost, they are even the sure Mercies of David.
7thly. Because this Covenant is so comfortable in all States and Conditions a poor Child of God can be in, 'tis suited to relieve us under all outward afflictions, Trials and Calamities we meet with here in this World: O this •ur honoured Brother deceased, found by sweet Experience, this was all his Hope, and all his Desire, all his Comfort under all his former sore Sufferings; when for more than Twelve Years he lay in Prison for Jesus Christ's sake, and under all his late heart-breaking Sorrows and bodily Distempers, that but a few were acquainted with, had it not been for this Covenant, he had •ainted in his Afflictions: This bore up the Spirit of poor David, he found all his Relief and Support lay in this Covenant. When Saul pursued him, when his Friends forsook him, and talked of stoning him, here, and in this Covenant, and in his God, given to him in this well ordered Covenant he comforted and encouraged himself,