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book_n	blood_n	covenant_n	sprinkle_v	1,619	5	12.4273	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A29528	The saints solemne covenant vvith their God as it was opened in a sermon preached at Beccles in the countie of Suffolk, at the taking of the Nationall Covenant there, by the ministers and other officers of that division / by Ioh. Brinsley ...	Brinsley, John, 1600-1665.	1644 (1644)	Wing B4728; ESTC R19027	25,595	42

and they shall be his People So ran the Covenant that God made with Abraham I will be thy God and the God of thy seed And such is the Covenant that God maketh with his Church and people in all ages it being still one and the same Covenant for substance viz. that hee will be their God Their God What is that Nay what is it not their Father their King their Saviour their Deliverer their All a God Alsufficient such a one he is in himself and such a one he will shew himself to all that are in Covenant with him And They shall be his People acknowledged of him favoured by him Hee will pardon their sins hee will heale their infirmities supply their wants sanctifie their natures bestowing upon them all good things requisite for thē That is the Covenant on Gods part But what is the Covenant on his People part That is the Covenant we have now principally to deal with That Covenant wherein the Lords people do bind themselves unto him Now this is nothing but an Eccho to the other a Restipulation When the hearts of a people come to close with God taking him for their God and giving up themselves to him to be his people When to Gods I will be your God and you shall be my People their Souls Eccho backe again Lord Thou shalt be our God and we will be thy People Now is this Covenant made up Such was the Covenant that Iacob promised to renew with his God upon his safe returne from his journey Gen. 28. If the Lord will be with mee c. so that I return safe to my fathers house c. Then shall the Lord be my God Now what is it for a people to take God for their God Why to engage themselves in the solemne Vow purpose and resolution of their hearts that they will set him up as God and that both in their Hearts and Lives giving all those respects unto him which are due to a God viz. to Love him above all to Feare him above all to Trust in him above all to Worship him according to his will to walk before him in the conscionable endeavour of an universall obedience This it is for a man to take God for his God And this must all the Lords people doe striking such a Covenant with God even a Covenant of Obedience Such was the Covenant which the Israelites entred with their God at the giving of the Law Upon Moses his comming downe from the Mount having received the Tables of the Covenant and the Booke of the Covenant the Morall Iudiciall and Ceremoniall Laws from God he calleth the people to enter a Covenant with God And what was that Covenant Why a Covenant of Obedience Hee read the Book of the Covenant in their eares And the People said All that the Lord hath said we will do it and be obedient This was the Covenant for the confirming whereof Moses then sprinkled upon them the bloud of the Covenant viz. the Bloud of the Sacrifices wherewith they made that Covenant And such a Covenant it is that all the Lords people have made and are to make with their God A Covenant and that A solemne Covenant a word of that and but a word my aime being chiefly at the Application Such a Covenant it was that the people of the Iews had made and often renewed with their God not a slight but a solemne Covenant a Covenant with Sacrifice Many were the Sacrifices instituted by God and observed by his people under the old Testament Of these Sacrifices as there were divers kinds so there were divers ends and uses Amongst other this was common to them all they were all as so many sigilla syngraphae so many signes and seals of the Covenant betweene God and his People Signes Commemorative signes and tokens putting them in mind of the Covenant Seals for confirmation of that Covenant the Covenant on Gods part the Covenant on their part On Gods part Hereby did God assure them that hee would be their God On their part Hereby did they binde themselves unto him that they would be his people This was one common end of all their Sacrifices the proper and particular end of some of them These Sacrifices they are now ceased But in the mean time God hath not left his Church without signes and seals of this Covenant Such are the Sacraments of the New Testament Baptisme and the Lords Supper both seals of this Covenant the one as I told you a Seal of our Entrance into it the other of our continuance in it And with or by these doe the Lords people now strike a Covenant with their God Giving themselves to the Lord in Baptisme they confirme that gift in the receiving of the Supper both which are appurtenances to this Covenant annexed to it as for the testification and confirmation so for the solemnization of it I might adde Christians now as they have their Sacraments so also have they their Sacrifices their Propitiatorie Sacrifice and their Eucharisticall Sacrifices Their Propitiatorie Sacrifice viz. Christ himself the substance of all those Ceremoniall shadows at whom all the Legall Sacrifices looked Their Eucharisticall Sacrifices their Spirituall Sacrifices of Prayers and Prayses and other spirituall Oblations which as spirituall Priests they offer up unto God Now by and with these Sacrifices they are to make their Covenant with their God 1 By and through that Ilasticall that Propitiatory Sacrifice the Lord Iesus Christ who is the Mediatour of this Covenant bringing God and man together and that by by Passing as I may say betwixt the Parties An observable difference betwixt those Sacrifices and this Sacrifice There the Covenanters passed betwixt the parts of the Sacrifice Here the Sacrifice passeth betwixt the Covenanters Christ interposing himself as a middle person betwixt two disagreeing parties bringing them together Reconciling God to man and man to God first meriting then applying that Reconciliation And by and through him it is that Christians are now to make this Covenant with God viz. with an eye to Iesus Christ the Mediatour of this Covenant Taking God for their God in Christ and giving up themselves to be his people in Christ Thus are they to Covenant by Christ and as I may say over Christ Even as under the Law the person that came to offer a Burnt offering to the Lord to make an Attonement for his sin and so to renew his Covenant with God he was to stand over his Sacrifice putting his hand upon the head thereof thereby disburdening himself of his sin and laying it upon the Sacrifice Even thus now under the Gospell Christians comming to make or renew their Covenant with God they must bring a Sacrifice with them even the Lord Christ represented shadowed out by those typicall Sacrifices presenting him unto God his Father withall laying their hands upon the head of that Sacrifice by faith resting relying upon Jesus Christ upon