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An appeal to the learned. Being a vindication of the right of visible saints…
An appeal to the learned. Being a vindication of the right of visible saints to the Lords Supper, though they be destitute of a saving work of God's spirit on their hearts: against the exceptions of Mr. Increase Mather. / By Solomon Stoddard, Pastor of Northampton. ; [Two lines from Daniel]
Boston: printed by B. Green for Samuel Phillips, 1709
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1. That Unregenerate men are not in Covenant with God. This is a great ⟨p. 21⟩mistake, tho' Unregenerate men are not in the internal, they have not performed any act of Saving Faith, which is the condition of the Covenant, and God is not bound to give Saving Blessings of the Covenant to them: yet they are in the external Covenant. Moses saith, the Lord our God made a Covenant with us in Horeb, Deut. 5.2. And when he renews his Covenant, he is said to betroth them to himself, Hos. 2.19, 20. And therefore the Adoption is said to belong to them, Rom. 9.4. They are his People, his Sons & Daughters, his Spouse, and he becomes their God, he makes promises unto them upon condition of Obedience, and they promise Obedience unto him. Hence they become capable of breaking Covenant; they have broken the everlasting Covenant, Isai. 24.5. Neither were they steadfast in his Covenant, Psal. 78.37.
1. That Unregenerate men are not in Covenant with God. This is a great ⟨p. 21⟩mistake, tho' Unregenerate men are not in the internal, they have not performed any act of Saving Faith, which is the condition of the Covenant, and God is not bound to give Saving Blessings of the Covenant to them: yet they are in the external Covenant. Moses saith, the Lord our God made a Covenant with us in Horeb, Deut. 5.2. And when he renews his Covenant, he is said to betroth them to himself, Hos. 2.19, 20. And therefore the Adoption is said to belong to them, Rom. 9.4. They are his People, his Sons & Daughters, his Spouse, and he becomes their God, he makes promises unto them upon condition of Obedience, and they promise Obedience unto him. Hence they become capable of breaking Covenant; they have broken the everlasting Covenant,