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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
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2. Secondly, This also follows, that as God betrusteth us with any gifts, or parts, or talents; with honour, wealth, health, strength, beauty, liberty, or what else soever: if the Lord have given us any blessing, it is wholly his, for we must be unto God, as we would have him be unto us; and therefore the Lord took it unkindly from his people, Hos. 2.8. That the corn, and wine, and oil, and silver, and gold, which he had given them, they prepared for Baal. Israel is an empty vine, when he bringeth forth fruit unto himself, Hos. 10.1. so likewise he taketh it ill, Ezek. 16.20, 21. that they took his sons, and his daughters, and sacrificed them unto Moloch: so sometimes men count it a gentile thing to train up their ⟨p. 233⟩children to idleness, and other vanities; whereas in truth it is as if they trained them up to Moloch: and this the Lord doth abhor, and will sadly require it in his own time. If therefore we must give up our selves and ours unto God; then here is a foundation for family-duties, and also to improve our selves, and all that we have, wholly to advance the glory of the grace of God in Jesus Christ: else we pluck asunder the Covenant of grace.
2. Secondly, This also follows, that as God betrusteth us with any gifts, or parts, or talents; with honour, wealth, health, strength, beauty, liberty, or what else soever: if the Lord have given us any blessing, it is wohlly his, for we must be unto God, as we would have him be unto us; and therefore the Lord took it unkindly from his people, Hos. 2.8. That the corne, and wine, and oyl, and silver, and gold, which he had given them, they prepared for Baal. Israel is an empty vine, when he bringeth forth fruit unto himself, Hos. 10.1. so likewise he taketh it ill, Ezek. 16.20, 21. that they took his sons, and his daughters, and sacrified them unto Moloch: so sometimes men count it a gentile thing to train up their