N01347:79
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
Title page typeset from the transcription.
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.
USE. V. The Use in the fifth Place, is of Consolation unto all the faithful Servants of God, whom God hath made this Everlasting Covenant withal: You will find that this will never be forgotten. You have entered into such a Covenant, wherein Christ is yours, and the Covenant yours, and and all the Promises yours, and all the Blessings yours, and the whole World yours; and that which is the strength of the Consolation, they are yours Everlastingly, if the Lord bring you out of your selves, by a Spirit of Bondage, and unto Christ by a Spirit of Poverty; so that you wait upon him and cannot rest, until Christ hath revealed Himself to you by his Spirit here is your Comfort, the Lord hath made with you an Everlasting Covenant which shall never be forgotten. This was Davids comforts 2 Sam 2.3.5. Although my house be not so with God, yet […] hath made with me an Everlasting Covenant, ordered in all things, and sure; for that is all my salvation ⟨p. 36⟩and all my desire, although he make it not to grow. Though my house do not flourish with Ordinances, not in Ruling justly, as the Lord requires; tho' my House be out of order, and Common Wealth out of order, yet he hath made an Everlasting Covenant. God hath laid hold upon Christ, and Christ hath laid hold upon me, and this is his stay, & comfort, although' God make it not to grow. And I beseech you consider it, all those that have temptations to Separation, and some that have conceits of too much liberty: It is not hearing that makes a man clean, as we may see, Act. 17.32, 33, 34. When they heard the Apostles speak of the Resurrection from the Dead, some mocked, and some said, we will hear thee again of this matter, and some clave to him and believed; all that heard him did not cleave to him, but only some of them. And if you have heard in England, you do thereby neither cleave unto your Covenant, nor Order, unless you partake of the Seals of the Covenant, then indeed you join unto them. Now, this is the nature of the comfort of an Everlasting Covenant, tho' we fail in Families, and in Churches, yet if Christ be ours, the Everlasting Covenant is ours. Indeed when Moses came and saw the Israelites worshipping the golden Calf, Exod. 32.19. because he saw they had broken Covenant with God, therefore he brake the Tables of the Covenant; to show the Lord would have no fellowship with them;