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The great danger of covenant-refusing, and covenant-breaking. Presented in a sermon preached before the…
The great danger of covenant-refusing, and covenant-breaking. Presented in a sermon preached before the Right Honourable Thomas Adams Lord Mayor, and the Right Worshipful the sheriffs, and the aldermen his brethren, and the rest of the Common-council of the famous City of London, Jan. 14. 1645. Upon which day the solemn League and Covenant was renewed by them and their officers with prayer and fasting at Michael Basinshaw, London. / By Edmund Calamy, B.D. and pastor of Aldermanbury London.The great danger of covenant-refusing, and covenant-breaking. Presented in a sermon preached before the Right Honourable Thomas Adams Lord Mayor, and the Right Worshipfull the sheriffes, and the aldermen his brethren, and the rest of the Common-councell of the famous City of London, Jan. 14. 1645. Upon which day the solemne League and Covenant was renued by them and their officers with prayer and fasting at Michael Basinshaw, London. / By Edmund Calamy, B.D. and pastor of Aldermanbury London.
London: printed by M.F. for Christopher Meredith, 1646
The great danger of Covenant-refusing, and Covenant-breaking.
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.
1.1 Labour to be always mindful of your Covenant, according to that text, 1 Chron. 16. 15. God is always mindful of his Covenant. It was the great sin of the people of Israel, that they were unmindful of the Covenant, Neh. 9. 17. They first forgot the Covenant, and afterwards did quickly forsake it. He that forgets the Covenant, must needs be a Covenant-breaker. Let us therefore remember it, and carry it about us as quotidianum argumentum, 2and quotidianum munimentum. First, let us make the Covenant a daily argument against all sin & iniquity, and when we are tempted to any sin, let us say, I have sworn to forsake my old iniquities: and if I commit this sin, I am not only a Commandment-breaker, but an Oath-breaker; I am perjured. I have sworn to reform my family, and therefore I will not suffer a wicked person to tarry in my family. I have sworn against neutrality, and indifferency, and therefore I will be zealous in Gods cause, &c. Secondly, let us make this Covenant a daily muniment, and armour of defence, to beat back all the fiery darts of the Devil. When any one tempts thee by promise of preferment to do contrary to thy Covenant, or by threatening to ruin thee for the hearty pursuing of thy Covenant, here is a ready answer; I am sworn to do what I do, and if I do otherwise, I am a perjured wretch.
1.1 Labour to be always mindefull of your Covenant, according to that text, 1 Chron. 16. 15. God is always mindfull of his Covenant. It was the great sin of the people of Israel, that they were unmindfull of the Covenant, Neh. 9. 17. They first forgat the Covenant, and afterwards did quickly forsake it. He that forgets the Covenant, must needs be a Covenant-breaker. Let us therefore remember it, and carry it about us as quotidianum argumentum, 2