The covenant of life opened, or, A treatise of the covenant of grace

Q. 1. IF multitudes and people externally Covenanted with God, though not internally, whom the Lord calls his people and chosen by him,¹ Deut. 7.6. Deut. 10.15. be the rightly constitute and Visible Church, as Mr. Thomas Hooker granteth, then Kingdoms must be his Visible Church. Answ. No doubt, Egypt, Assyria, all Nations, all the ends of the world, all the Kingdoms of this world, are Prophesied to be the Kingdoms and Covenanted people of God, and the Lord challengeth them as his▪ (Isa. 19.25. blessed be Egypt my people) Isa. 2.1, 2, 3. Psal. 22.27. Rev. 11.15. Psal. 96. Psal 97. Psal. 98. Isal. 42.10. Isai. 49.7, 8.20, 21. Cant. 8.8. — Act. 13.46, 47. Rom 15.8, 9, 10, 11, 12. must be the visible Covenanted Churches of God, to whom the seals of the Covenant are due; But that none in Egypt, Assyria, of all the called Gentiles, though visibly and professedly in Covenant, and affirmed by the mouth of the Lord to be his people, the Sister of the Jewish Church, and his Kingdoms, are members of the Visible Church, or hath right to membership and seals, except men judge them to be real converts, sound believers, and so internally called and chosen, is to prefer the judgement of men, to the Word of God. And since he saith that Kingdoms, fathers, children, are his in Covenant, and chosen to be his people, in regard the Lord calleth them by his Word, as he did Israel,