A80637:65
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
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this may Hypocrites reach unto in their judgments, so as that they may be convinced that they have neither root within them, nor branch growing upon them; and yet in the mean while they may not come unto a Spirit of Adoption: but hereby also the Lord useth to prepare his people. Some bless themselves in worldly courses, and never came unto a spirit of bondage. Some do find comfort in their performances, and never saw the vanity of their own Righteousness: But there are those whom the Lord doth carry further, unto a spirit of burning, even unto a sensible feeling of Gods wrath burning against whatsoever is as stubble, (and such is a mans own gifts, and parts, and worth) so that now the poor soul findeth that he hath no Root, not any sure mercy of the Covenant of Grace, that he can rest upon: no green branch of righteousness remaining, but all is blasted and broken in pieces, according to what the Prophet Isay saith, chap. 40.6, 7. All flesh is grass, and all the goodliness thereof is as ⟨p. 19⟩the flower of the field: the grass withereth, and the flower fadeth; because the Spirit of the Lord bloweth upon it: and so the Lord cometh to leave a man neither Root nor Branch: For by a spirit of Bondage the Lord blasteth all flesh: but when it cometh unto the goodliness of flesh, that is consumed by a spirit of Burning.
this may Hypocrites reach unto in their judgments, so as that they may be convinced that they have neither root within them, nor branch growing upon them; and yet in the mean while they may not come unto a Spirit of Adoption: but hereby also the Lord useth to prepare his people. Some bless themselves in worldly courses, and never came unto a spirit of bondage. Some do finde comfort in their performances, and never saw the vanity of their own Righteousness: But there are those whom the Lord doth carry further, unto a spirit of burning, even unto a sensible feeling of Gods wrath burning against whatsoever is as stubble, (and such is a mans own gifts, and parts, and worth) so that now the poor soul findeth that he hath no Root, not any sure mercy of the Covenant of Grace, that he can rest upon: no green branch of righteousness remaining, but all is blasted and broken in pieces, according to what the Prophet Isay saith, chap. 40.6, 7. All flesh is grass, and all the goodliness thereof is as ⟨p. 19⟩the flower of the field: the grass withereth, and the flower fadeth; because the Spirit of the Lord bloweth upon it: and so the Lord cometh to leave a man neither Root nor Branch: For by a spirit of Bondage the Lord blasteth all flesh: but when it cometh unto the goodliness of flesh, that is consumed by a spirit of Burning.