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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]
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1. They do profess universal Obedience unto all the Commandments, Deut. 5.27. Exod. 19 8. Twice they repeat it, All that the Lord shall say unto us, we will bear it, and do it. Only consider this, They Promise it in some kind of opinion of their own Strength, without any sense or feeling of their own Insufficiency; like men under pangs of Conscience, they do believe that they shall be able to keep and do all that the Lord shall say unto them. O that there were such an heart in them! saith the Lord, Deut. 5.29. Or as ⟨p. 12⟩the word is in the Original; Who shall give them such a heart? But this they Promise.
2. They yield themselves to be accursed of God, if they shall not keep that Covenant; and therefore when it was pronounced, Cursed is every one that continueth not in all things that are written in the Law to do them, all the People did say, Amen; and so their faith lay upon a curse: This is the Old Covenant that God made with his People, and is called a Covenant of Works; the Lord requireth Righteousness and Works, He Promiseth Life to their Works, and they say, Amen, to enter into a curse. Now this was a temporal Covenant; this my Covenant they brake, saith the Lord; and they did quickly turn aside from the ways of the Lord, and therefore Moses when he cometh and seeth the Calf which they had made, he brake the Tables of the Covenant.
2. They yield themselves to be accursed of God, if they shall not keep that Covenant; and therefore when it was pronounced, Cursed is every one that continueth not in all things that are written in the Law to do them, all the People did say, Amen; and so their faith lay upon a curse: This is the Old Covenant that God made with his People, and is called a Covenant of Works; the Lord requireth Righteousness and Works, He Promiseth Life to their Works, and they say, Amen, to enter into a curse. Now this was a temporal Covenant; this my Covenant they brake, saith the Lord; and they did quickly turn aside from the wayes of the Lord, and therefore Moses when he cometh and seeth the Calf which they had made, he brake the Tables of the Covenant.