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Renewal of covenant the great duty incumbent on decaying or distressed churches. A sermon…
Renewal of covenant the great duty incumbent on decaying or distressed churches. A sermon concerning renewing of covenant with God in Christ, preached at Dorchester in New-England, the 21. day of the 1. month 1677. being a day of humiliation there, on that occasion. / By Increase Mather, teacher of a church in Boston. ; [Eleven lines of quotations]Renewal of covenant the great duty incumbent on decaying or distressed churches. A sermon concerning renewing of covenant with God in Christ, preached at Dorchester in New-England, the 21. day of the 1. moneth 1677. being a day of humiliation there, on that occasion. / By Increase Mather, teacher of a church in Boston. ; [Eleven lines of quotations]
printed by J.F. i.e for Henry Phillips, 1677
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.
There are (though none such that I know of amongst you) who have opposed the Doctrine of the Church-covenant, not only as to Renewals thereof, but they strike at the thing it self, denying it to be an Ordinance of Christ, or to have any Scripture foundation. (a)Those Eminent servants of God who were Instruments in the hand of Christ, of planting these Churches, have asserted and proved, not only that Covenanting is lawful, but necessary and essential to the very Being of a Church. Albeit I doubt not but that you unto whom I am now speaking; are fully satisfied in the Truth concerning this matter, yet it may be, it will not be altogether unprofitable (as tending to your […] establishment in the present Truth) to remind you of the Arguments whereby that Principle of our way (and we trust the way of Christ) hath been confirmed, And they are such as these.
THere are (though none such that I know of amongst you) who have opposed the Doctrine of the Church-covenant, not only as to Renewals thereof, but they strike at the thing it self, denying it to be an Ordinance of Christ, or to have any Scripture foundation. (a)Those Eminent servants of God who were Instruments in the hand of Christ, of planting these Churches, have asserted and proved, not only that Covenanting is lawfull, but necessary and essentiall to the very Being of a Church. Albeit I doubt not but that you unto whom I am now speaking; are fully satisfied in the Truth concerning this matter, yet it may be, it will not be altogether unprofitable (as tending to your 〈…〉 establishment in the present Truth) to remind you of the Arguments whereby that Principle of our way (and we trust the way of Christ) hath been confirmed, And they are such as these.
- (a)Mr. Cotton in his Book of the […] My Father in his printed discourse of the Church Covenant. Mr. Hooker in his […] of Church discipline. Ch. 4, 5. 6, 7 Mr. Norton in Responsed Apol. Cap. 2 The Platform of Discipline. Ch. 4.Mr. Cotton in his Book of the 〈…〉 My Father in his printed discourse of the Church Covenant. Mr. Hooker in his 〈…〉 of Church discipline. Ch. 4, 5. 6, 7 Mr. Norton in Responsed Apol. Cap. 2 The Platform of Discipline. Ch. 4.