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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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In the Fifth and last place, Use 5 let it exhort us to stand fast in all our Christian liberties: they cost dear; and we are redeemed from the Covenant and curse of the Law of God (from the Laws of men much more, that are not according to God) be not therefore servants to lusts and passions, to the world and to the Devil: let us tread the world under foot; seeing God hath redeemed us, let us walk as his redeemed ones, redeemed from all errors of mind and judgement; standing fast in all that liberty, wherewith Christ hath made us free, Gal. 5.1. and be not again entangled with the yoke of bondage: it was a bondage that we were in before, and a bondage greater then either we or our fathers were able to bear; let us therefore stand fast in our liberty.
In the Fifth and last place, Use 5 let it exhort us to stand fast in all our Christian liberties: they cost dear; and we are redeemed from the Covenant and curse of the Law of God (from the Laws of men much more, that are not according to God) be not therefore servants to lusts and passions, to the world and to the Devil: let us tread the world under foot; seeing God hath redeemed us, let us walk as his redeemed ones, redeemed from all errours of mind and judgement; standing fast in all that liberty, wherewith Christ hath made us free, Gal. 5.1. and be not again entangled with the yoke of bondage: it was a bondage that we were in before, and a bondage greater then either we or our fathers were able to bear; let us therefore stand fast in our liberty.
We now come to the tenth Question, Quest. 10 How God the Holy Ghost gives himself to Abraham, and his elect seed, in the Covenant of Grace? For if God give himself, he doth not only give his nature, but his persons: God the Father gives himself, and God the Son gives himself, and God the Holy Ghost gives himself unto the people of God: Joh. 14.16, 17. I will pray the Father, and he shall give you another Comforter, that he may abide with you for ever; even the Spirit of truth, whom the world cannot receive, because it seeth him not, neither knows