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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
Title page typeset from the transcription.
THE Everlasting Covenant. A Sweet CORDIAL for a drooping Soul: OR,… › APPLICATION.
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
5. This reproves all such, who when convinced of their sinful and lost condition by nature, then presently set upon a Work of Reformation, and […] on duties of Humiliation, and then begin to see (as they think) a great change is wrought in them, and on that rest, and Hope all is well. Like […] Herod who heard John and reformed many things, Mark 6.20. Alas Sirs! ••l this building will fall to the ground; is this to take hold of the Covenant? Is this to get Union with Christ? is this Regeneration? is this to believe on the Lord Jesus, Act. 16.31. that you may be saved, •our own Works be they what they will; like Chaff they shall be bur•ed up. True, if you reform not your Lives (which the Terrors of the •aw, and Laws of the Land may force some of you to do, or Shame, and reproach, and Fear of Hell Torments) you shall certainly be dammed: yet his you may do, and yet never be saved, 'tis so far from a bare Reformation of Life; that will stand you in stead, that a Saint's Salvation, Hope and Desire lies not in a changed Heart, nor in inherent Grace, nor ••ncere Obedience, but in Christ, in his Righteousness, it lies in this Covenant, not in their Baptismal Covenant, not in being Church-Members, not in Praying, and hearing Sermons, and breaking of Bread, but in Christ, and in the Covenant of Grace; this is all my Salvation, and all my Desire, &c.
5. This reproves all such, who when convinced of their sinful and lost condition by nature, then presently set upon a Work of Reformation, and 〈…〉 on duties of Humiliation, and then begin to see (as they think) a great change is wrought in them, and on that rest, and Hope all is well. Like 〈…〉 Herod who heard John and reformed many things, Mark 6.20. Alas Sirs! ••l this building will fall to the ground; is this to take hold of the Covenant? Is this to get Union with Christ? is this Regeneration? is this to believe on the Lord Jesus,