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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 200-250
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. For the first of these, That he did so take Abraham and his seed, &c. we find it plain in Deut. 7.6, 7, 8. The Lord thy God hath chosen thee, to be a special people unto himself, &c. and ver. 8. Because the Lord loved you, and because he would keep the oath, which he had sworn unto your fathers. The like we read in 2 Sam. 7.23, 24. Thou hast confirmed to thy self thy people Israel, to be a people unto thee for ever; and thou Lord, art become their God: and this mercy doth he magnify toward them, when they had no thoughts of him; but as he sometimes called his Apostles, when they were mending their nets: so he called his people Israel, when they were making bricks in Egypt, then he said to Pharaoh, Let my people go; and again, If thou slay my son, my first born, I will stay thy son, thy first born; and as he sometime took Abraham himself out of Chaldea: so he took his seed out of Egypt, that they might serve him in the Wilderness.
1. For the first of these, That he did so take Abraham and his seed, &c. we finde it plain in Deut. 7.6, 7, 8. The Lord thy God hath chosen thee, to be a special people unto himself, &c. and ver. 8. Because the Lord loved you, and because he would keep the oath, which he had sworn unto your fathers. The like we read in 2 Sam. 7.23, 24. Thou hast confirmed to thy self thy people Israel, to be a people unto thee for ever; and thou Lord, art become their God: and this mercy doth he magnifie toward them, when they had no thoughts of him; but as he sometimes called his Apostles, when they were mending their nets: so he called his people Israel, when they were making bricks in Aegypt, then he said to Pharaoh, Let my people go; and again, If thou slay my son, my first born, I will stay thy son, thy first born; and as he sometime took Abraham himself out of Caldea: so he took his seed out of Egypt, that they might serve him in the Wilderness.