A65285:723
A Body of Practical Divinity
A body of practical divinity consisting of above one hundred seventy six sermons on the lesser catechism composed by the reverend assembly of divines at Westminster : with a supplement of some sermons on several texts of Scripture / by Thomas Watson ...
London: printed for Thomas Parkurst, 1692
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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. If thou art in Covenant once, then for ever in Covenant. The Text calls it Berith Gnolam, an everlasting Covenant. Such as are in Covenant are elected; God's electing Love is unchangeable, Jer. 32.40. I will make an everlasting Covenant with them, that I will not turn away from them, but I will put my fear in there heart, that they shall not depart from me. God will so love the Saints, that he will not forsake them: and the Saints shall so fear God, that they shall not forsake him. 'Tis Berith Gnolam, a Covenant of Eternity; it must be so; for who is this Covenant made with? is it not with Believers? and have not they Coalition and Union with Christ; Christ is the Head, they are the Body, Eph. 1.23. This is a near Union, much like that Union between God the Father and Christ, John 17.21. As thou Father art in me, and I in thee, that they also may be one in us. Now the Union between Christ and the Saints being so inseparable, it can never be dissolved, or the Covenant made void; you may die with Comfort.
5. If thou art in Covenant once, then for ever in Covenant. The Text calls it Berith Gnolam, an everlasting Covenant. Such as are in Covenant are elected; God's electing Love is unchangeable, Ier. 32.40. I will make an everlasting Covenant with them, that I will not turn away from them, but I will put my fear in ther heart, that they shall not depart from me. God will so love the Saints, that he will not forsake them: and the Saints shall so fear God, that they shall not forsake him. 'Tis Berith Gnolam, a Covenant of Eternity; it must be so; for who is this Covenant made with? is it not with Believers? and have not they Coalition and Union with Christ; Christ is the Head, they are the Body, Eph. 1.23. This is a near Union, much like that Union between God the Father and Christ, Iohn 17.21. As thou Father art in me, and I in thee, that they also may be one in us. Now the Union between Christ and the Saints being so inseparable, it can never be dissolved, or the Covenant made void; you may die with Comfort.