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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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8thly. And lastly, all the Desire, Hope, Consolation and Salvation of a Believer lies in this Covenant, because 'tis so well ordered and suited for our Support and Comfort, under all inward Trouble, Fears, Doubtings, Temptations and spiritual Desertions, whatsoever.
8thly. And lastly, all the Desire, Hope, Consolation and Salvation of a Believer lies in this Covenant, because 'tis so well ordered and suited for our Support and Comfort, under all inward Trouble, Fears, Doubtings, Temptations and spiritual Dissertions, whatsoever.
No Cordial like what this Covenant hath provided for us, to bear up and revive our drooping Spirits; and whoever you are, that under your Fears, Doubtings, Temptations or Despondings, that seek Relief any where else, will but deceive your own poor and deluded Souls: will your own Righteousness cheer your Spirits? Dare you plead it at God's Bar? Will you venture your Souls upon it? Will you plead your sincere Obedience? your fervent Prayers you have made, the many good Sermons you have heard, the many good Works and good Deeds you have done, will not Satan show you notwithstanding all your sincerity you have in your Hearts, great Hypocrisy? and for all your Faith and constant trusting in God, you have much Unbelief, and many Fears and Doubtings arising in your Spirits: tho' you have prayed often, and have not fainted; yet with what Deadness, with what Coolness, with what Wanderings of Heart and Vanity of Thoughts; and tho' you have done much good, will not your Consciences tell you, you might have done much more? you gave a Shilling may be to this poor, and that poor and distressed Object, when may be you ought to have given a Pound. O Sirs! your Relief lies in Christ, and in the Covenant of Grace, in Christ's perfect and complete Righteousness in his Death, or you have none, nor never will. You must take the Directions that Anselm gave to a poor sick and tempted Soul, as I find it quoted by Reverend Dr. Owen on Just. p. 13.14.
No Cordial like what this Covenant hath provided for us, to bear up and revive our drooping Spirits; and whoever you are, that under your Fears, Doubtings, Temptations or Despondings, that seek Relief any where else, will but deceive your own poor and deluded Souls: will your own Righteousness chear your Spirits? Dare you plead it at God's Bar? Will you venture your Souls upon it? Will you plead your sincere Obedience? your fervent Prayers you have made, the many good Sermons you have heard, the many good Works and good Deeds you have done, will not Satan shew you notwithstanding all your sincerity you have in your Hearts, great Hypocrisie? and for all your Faith and constant trusting in God, you have much Unbelief, and many Fears and Doubtings arising in your Spirits: tho' you have prayed often, and have not fainted; yet with what Deadness, with what Coolness, with what Wanderings of Heart and Vanity of Thoughts; and tho' you have done much good, will not your Consciences tell you, you might have done much more? you gave a Shilling may be to this poor, and that poor and distressed Object, when may be you ought to have given a Pound. O Sirs! your Relief lies in Christ, and in the Covenant of Grace, in Christ's perfect and compleat Righteousness in his Death, or you have none, nor never will. You must take the Directions that Anselm gave to a poor sick and tempted Soul, as I find it quoted by Reverend Dr. Owen on Just. p. 13.14.