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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 1-50
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.
Quest. Is it the same with that Sanctification which is in Gods children?
God forbid. Answ. All the men in the world are divided into two Ranks; Godly, or Ungodly; Righteous, or Wicked; of wicked men, two sorts; some are notoriously wicked, others are Hypocrites: of Hypocrites two sorts (and you shall find them in the Church of God) some are washed Swine, others are Goats.
God forbid. Answ. All the men in the world are divided into two Ranks; Godly, or Ungodly; Righteous, or Wicked; of wicked men, two sorts; some are notoriously wicked, others are Hypocrites: of Hypocrites two sorts (and you shall finde them in the Church of God) some are washed Swine, others are Goats.
1. The Swine are those of whom our Saviour Christ saith, that they return unto their wallowing in the mire: like unto these are such men, as at the hearing of some Sermon have been stomach-sick of their sins, and have rejected their wicked courses, but yet the swines heart remaineth in them; and as a swine, when he cometh where the puddle is, will readily lie down in it; so will these men wallow in the puddle of uncleanness, when their conscience is not pricked for the present: but these are a grosser kind of Hypocrites.
1. The Swine are those of whom our Saviour Christ saith, that they return unto their wallowing in the myre: like unto these are such men, as at the hearing of some Sermon have been stomack-sick of their sins, and have rejected their wicked courses, but yet the swines heart remaineth in them; and as a swine, when he cometh where the puddle is, will readily lie down in it; so will these men wallow in the puddle of uncleanness, when their conscience is not pricked for the present: but these are a grosser kinde of Hypocrites.