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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 150-200
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so that I would advise every poor soul, in whom is wrought any mourning after Christ, through sense of your need of him, make the Lord Jesus your strong hold. And this is the true work, and way of the Son of God to bring you to the Father; and the more you find the Lord Jesus, the more you shall discern the gifts that are given unto you, and the comfort and power of them: not that I deny that Jesus Christ doth open unto the soul, what he hath done for him, Joh. 6.69. We believe and are sure that thou art Christ, the Son of the living God; so Joh. 16.30. but he doth not show them for this end, that you should satisfy your selves in them, but still come unto him: what though you have many gracious promises that promise many future consolations? it is, that you should seek unto the Lord, in whom they are laid up; and unto the Father of Jesus Christ, that promised them, in whose hand it is to make them all good unto us: thus in all this doth the Lord train up his servants unto an heavenly and Christian frame; and if the ⟨p. 170⟩soul should rest in any work he doth, or gift he hath received; it is a strong jealousy the work is not sound: for if it be of the grace of God, and in truth, it will still lead the soul to look up unto Christ; and the soul cannot quench his thirst in it, but comes to the Father, and earnestly beggeth, that out of his Fatherly love he would give him Jesus Christ: this is the spirit and way of a true-hearted Christian.
so that I would advise every poor soul, in whom is wrought any mourning after Christ, through sence of your need of him, make the Lord Jesus your strong hold. And this is the true work, and way of the Son of God to bring you to the Father; and the more you find the Lord Jesus, the more you shall discern the gifts that are given unto you, and the comfort and power of them: not that I deny that Jesus Christ doth open unto the soul, what he hath done for him, Joh. 6.69. We believe and are sure that thou art Christ, the Son of the living God; so Joh. 16.30. but he doth not shew them for this end, that you should satisfie your selves in them, but still come unto him: what though you have many gracious promises that promise many future consolations? it is, that you should seek unto the Lord, in whom they are laid up; and unto the Father of Jesus Christ, that promised them, in whose hand it is to make them all good unto us: thus in all this doth the Lord train up his servants unto an heavenly and Christian frame; and if the