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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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But by this a Church is at first established, and by this it is restored when it is fallen, and by breaking this, the Church is broken. This therefore giveth the being to a Church. By this a Church is at first established. You are here this day that the Lord might establish you to be his People, Deut. 28.12, 13. And how was the Church renewed, but by the renewing of this Covenant in the days of Asa, 2 Chron. 15.12. And so in the days of Ezra and Nehemiah, Chap. 9.38. Chap. 10 29. And afterwards when the Lord would cast off his People: Zech. 11.10, 14. He brake the staff of Beauty, and the staff of Bands: This now followeth, that so many of us, as have come to the Ordinances of God, and have partaken of the Seals of the Covenant, and have not entered into a Covenant, have violated the Seals of the Covenant which have not been given to the Elect of God in general, but to the Church of God; and therefore look at the Covenant by which you have entered here, as the ability of your State, which by no changes you are for ever to be removed from, but may for ever keep it by fellowship with Jesus Christ.
But by this a Church is at first established, and by this it is restored when it is fallen, and by breaking this, the Church is broken. This therefore giveth the being to a Church. By this a Church is at first established. You are here this day that the Lord might establish you to be his People, Deut. 28.12, 13. And how was the Church renewed, but by the renewing of this Covenant in the days of Asa, 2 Chron. 15.12. And so in the days of Ezra and Nehemiah, Chap. 9.38. Chap. 10 29. And afterwards when the Lord would cast off his People: Zech. 11.10, 14. He brake the staff of Beauty, and the staff of Bands: This now followeth, that so many of us, as have come to the Ordinances of God, and have partaken of the Seals of the Covenant, and have not entred into a Covenant, have violated the Seals of the Covenant which have not been given to the Elect of God in general, but to the Church of God; and therefore look at the Covenant by which you have entred here, as the ability of your State, which by no changes you are for ever to be removed from, but may for ever keep it by fellowship with Jesus Christ.