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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 1-50
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. From the sweet Communion which their Fathers had with God before either Temple ⟨p. 2⟩or Tabernacle was built: and if so, then he would not have them look at it as unsafe for them, or as an utter ruin to Religion, if that both the Temple and the Ordinances of the Temple were destroyed in themselves, and fulfilled in Him. Three passages of Abraham's communion with God, Steven doth relate and maintain that he had them before any of Moses his Customs were known.
1. From the sweet Communion which their Fathers had with God before either Temple ⟨p. 2⟩or Tabernacle was built: and if so, then he would not have them look at it as unsafe for them, or as an utter ruine to Religion, if that both the Temple and the Ordinances of the Temple were destroyed in themselves, and fulfilled in Him. Three passages of Abrahams communion with God, Steven doth relate and maintain that he had them before any of Moses his Customes were known.
1. God did effectually call him; which call he did also obey, (2, 3, 4. ver.) though as yet he knew no Circumcision.
2. God giveth him a trial of his Faith, wherein he found Abraham faithful, 5, 6, 7. verses. God promised to give him the land of Canaan for a Possession, but he gave him not a foots breadth. He promised to give it unto his Seed, when as yet he had no child: and when God gave him Seed, yet they should sojourn in a strange Land, and be in Bondage four hundred years.