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A sermon preached by the Reverend, Mr. John Cotton, teacher of the First Church…
A sermon preached by the Reverend, Mr. John Cotton, teacher of the First Church in Boston in New-England. Delivered at Salem, 1636. : To which is prefixed, a retraction of his former opinion concerning baptism, uttered by him immediately preceding the sermon emitted. He dyed on the 23. day of December, 1652. Entering [sic] on the 68 year of his age. : [Seven lines from I Corinthians]A sermon preached by the Reverend, Mr. John Cotton, teacher of the First Church in Boston in New-England. Deliver'd at Salem, 1636. : To which is prefixed, a retraction of his former opinion concerning baptism, utter'd by him immediately preceeding the sermon emitted. He dyed on the 23. day of December, 1652. Entring [sic] on the 68 year of his age. : [Seven lines from I Corithians]
Boston: : s.n., Printed in the year, 1713
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Come, let us join our selves to the Lord. Israel and Judah spake this as they were a Church, and as they were about to renew Church Fellowship; let us join our selves to the Lord in a Perpetual Covenant that shall never be forgotten. You read the like Expression, Jer. 31, 31, 32, 33, 34. This shall be my Covenant with the House of Israel, saith the Lord, I will put my Law in their inward parts, and write it in their hearts, and I will be their God, and they shall be my People. And verse 34. I will forgive their Iniquities, and remember their Sins no more. It is therefore an Everlasting Covenant; and He doth make the main difference between this and the former Covenant to lie in this; whereas they break that Covenant, v. 32. This Covenant shall not be broken. The Lord made a Covenant with them before, but that Covenant they brake; and I regarded them not, saith the Lord: as it is repeated, Heb. 8.8. to 13. But in this latter Covenant, He will remember their Sins no more, and therefore He doth speak of the Old Testament, as of that which doth vanish away, but for the New Testament, He will establish that; according to what is written, Jer. 32.40. I will make an Everlasting Covenant with them, to do them good; but I will put my fear into their hearts, that they shall not depart from me. The like we also read, Ezek. 16 60. Tho' they have despised the Oath in breaking the Covenant; nevertheless, I will remember my Covenant with thee in the days of thy Youth, and I will establish unto thee an everlasting Covenant. And ⟨p. 10⟩wherein doth it differ from the Old Covenant? I know not better how to explain it than by laying both of them together, both the Old Covenant and this New Covenant, which he doth more renew in the days of the New Testament. In the Old Covenant you may observe a four-fold act of God, and a double act of the People.
Come, let us joyn our selves to the Lord. Israel and Judah spake this as they were a Church, and as they were about to renew Church Fellowship; let us joyn our selves to the Lord in a Perpetual Covenant that shall never be forgotten. You read the like Expression,