A80637:208
A treatise of the covenant of grace, as it is dispensed to the elect…
A treatise of the covenant of grace, as it is dispensed to the elect seed, effectually unto salvation. Being the substance of divers sermons preached upon Act. 7. 8. / by that eminently holy and judicious man of God, Mr. John Cotton, teacher of the church at Boston in N.E.
London: printed by Ja. Cottrel for John Allen, 1659
THE COVENANT OF GRACE, As it is Dispensed to the Elect Seed, effect… › Part 100-150
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2. This may also teach all Christians not to trust upon the gifts of their Holiness: though they do spring from the Holy Ghost himself, though they be such as are unchangeable, though they spring from Jesus Christ, and knit your souls in Union with him; yet trust not in the gifts themselves: the Lord layeth it down as the Apostasy of Israel, Ezek. 16.14, 15. Thy renown went forth among the Heathen, for thy beauty; for it was perfect through my comeliness which I had put upon thee, saith the Lord God. But thou didst trust in thine own beauty, and playedst the Harlot, &c. Trust not therefore in any of these; but let all our confidence be in Jesus Christ, not in any of the gifts of his Spirit, whatsoever. For a little further opening of it.
2. This may also teach all Christians not to trust upon the gifts of their Holiness: though they do spring from the Holy Gbost himself, though they be such as are unchangeable, though they spring from Jesus Christ, and knit your souls in Union with him; yet trust not in the gifts themselves: the Lord layeth it down as the Apostacy of Israel, Ezek. 16.14, 15. Thy renown went forth among the Heathen, for thy beauty; for it was perfect through my comeliness which I had put upon thee, saith the Lord God. But thou didst trust in thine own beauty, and playedst the Harlot, &c. Trust not therefore in any of these; but let all our confidence be in Jesus Christ, not in any of the gifts of his Spirit, whatsoever. For a little further opening of it.
1. Trust not in any gifts that you have received for the performance of any duty, for it is not the strongest Christian that is able to put forth a good thought, 2 Cor. 3.5. But our sufficiency is of God. He that abideth in me, and I in him, the same bringeth forth much fruit: for without me ye can do nothing,