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The quarrel of the covenant, with the pacification of the quarrel. Delivered in three…The quarrell of the covenant, with the pacification of the quarrell. Delivered in three…
The quarrel of the covenant, with the pacification of the quarrel. Delivered in three sermons on Levit. 26. 25. and Jere. 50. 5. / By Thomas Case, preacher of the Word in Milk-street, London; and one of the Assembly of Divines.The quarrell of the covenant, with the pacification of the quarrell. Delivered in three sermons on Levit. 26. 25. and Jere. 50. 5. / By Thomas Case, preacher of the Word in Milk-street, London; and one of the Assembly of Divines.
London: printed for Luke Fawne, 1643
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Answ. 1. It cannot be done too oft; if it be done according to the Law and Order of so solemn an Ordinance.
2. The people in the Text might have made the same Objection, ⟨p. 40⟩it lay as strong against the work, to which they encourage one another: For surely, this was not the first time they engaged themselves to God by way of Covenant; but having broken their former Covenants, they thought it their privilege, and not their burden to renew it again, and to make it more full st••le, and impregnable then ever; A perpetual Covenant that shall not be forgart•a; which hints a
2. The people in the Text might have made the same Objection, ⟨p. 40⟩it lay as strong against the work, to which they encourage one another: For surely, this was not the first time they engaged themselves to God by way of Covenant; but having broken their former Covenants, they thought it their priviledge, and not their burd•n to renew it again, and to make it more full st••le, and impregnable then ever; A perpetuall Covenant that shall not be forgart•a; which hints a
3. Answ. And that is there was never yet so full and strict a Covenant tendered to us since we were a people. Former Covenants have had their defect and failings, like the best of Gods people: But I may say of this in reference to other Covenants, as Solomon of his good House-wife, in reference to other women.