A80637:95
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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1. The Goat is of a capricious Nature, and affecteth eminency; his Gate also is stately, Prov. 30.31. Agur reckoneth the He-Goat among the four things that are comely in going.
1. The Goat is of a capricious Nature, and affecteth eminency; his Gate also is stately, Prov. 30.31. Agur reckoneth the Hee-Goat among the four things that are comly in going.
2. And they are full of Ambition; they cannot abide swamps, and holes, but will be climbing upon the tops of mountains; there is not that plain, lowly, sheep-like frame, that attendeth unto the voice of the shepherd to be led up and down into fresh pastures: they attend upon their own ends, and will outshoot God in his own bow; and therefore when they have done many things for Christ, he will say unto them, Depart from me ye workers of iniquity: more eminency they did affect, then they were guided unto: thus it was with Jehu, who in his zeal for God, thought to promote himself; and herein he will not be persuaded of his sin, and therefore walking along in crooked ways, the Lord led him forth with evil doers; he cometh at length to cleave unto the sins of Jeroboam the son of Nebat, who made Israel to sin: notwithstanding you may receive a Goat into Church-fellowship for all his capricious Nature, and he will be a clean creature, and of much good use: the five foolish, (Mat. 25.2.) were all of them virgins, all of them abhorring Idolatry, and all go forth to meet the Bridegroom; and yet they are foolish, and never shall you make them wise, to be all for Christ, in him, and from him, only hearing and obeying his voice.
2. And they are full of Ambition; they cannot abide swamps, and holes, but will be climbing upon the tops of mountains; there is not that plain, lowly, sheep-like frame, that attendeth unto the voice of the shepherd to be led up and down into fresh pastures: they attend upon their own ends, and will outshoot God in his own bow; and therefore when they have done many things for Christ, he will say unto them, Depart from me ye workers of iniquity: more eminency they did affect, then they were guided unto: thus it was with Jehu, who in his zeal for God, thought to promote himself; and herein he will not be perswaded of his sin, and therefore walking along in crooked waies, the Lord led him forth with evil doers; he cometh at length to cleave unto the sins of Jeroboam the son of Nebat, who made Israel to sin: notwithstanding you may receive a Goat into Church-fellowship for all his capricious Nature, and he will be a clean creature, and of much good use: the five foolish, (