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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.
I shall only speak to the duty at present: we know that this people was in Covenant with God before this day of Fast was kept, and therefore the making of a Covenant here spoken of, intends only a Solemn renewal thereof.
The Doctrine therefore before us; is, That there are times wherein solemn Renewal of Covenant is a duty incumbent on the People of God. 1Now for the clearing of this Doctrine, there are four things that may be briefly enquired into. 1. What is implied in making a Covenant with God. 2. How it doth appear that renewal of Covenant is a duty. 3. When the Lords people ought to renew their Covenant. 4. The Reasons why they should do so.
The Doctrine therefore before us; is, That there are times wherein solemn Renewal of Covenant is a duty incumbent on the People of God. 1Now for the clearing of this Doctrine, there are four things that may be briefly enquired into. 1. What is implyed in making a Covenant with God. 2. How it doth appear that renewal of Covenant is a duty. 3. When the Lords people ought to renew their Covenant. 4. The Reasons why they should do so.
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Q. 1. What is implied in making a Covenant with God? A. 1. It Implies a choosing the Lord the only true God in Jesus Christ to be our God. Psal. 48. 14. For this God is our God for ever and ever. This is Covenanting, even a making an everlasting Choice of God. Hence it is expressed by that of Cleaving to the Lord.