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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A65373	David's testament opened up in fourty sermons upon Samuel 23, 5 wherein the nature, properties, and effects of the covenant of grace are clearly held forth / by Alexander Wedderburn.	Wedderburn, Alexander, d. 1678.	1698 (1698)	Wing W1239; ESTC R26311	330,515	376

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I have long longed to handle this Head of personal covenanting ye have now heard fourteen Sermons on it the Stones of these Walls and the Timber of this House God himself and his holy Angels shall be witnesses against you if ye do not personally Covenant with him for in so far as I know the mind of God has been delivered truly to you and all of you your selves shall be witnesses against other if ye fall not on this work of personal covenanting with God I know nothing would conbribute more to make you serious Christians then the practice of it and if ye have not done it go and do it subscribe your Name life up your hand to God if ye delay it and expects some better time remember a Fever a Flux or a Scrubie will stop the flux of your glass and if you delay until death either Roving or Stupidity shall carry you to to the Grave Therefore let one go and say I am the Lords and another subscribe and call himself by the name of Israel 2ly if ye will go and do it all by-gones shall be bygones and all former Transgressions shall be past nay if ye were never so poor never so simple never so Ignorant if ye were of never so mean a Birth of never such mean Parts if ye had never so weak a Father if ye had never such a mixture of Corruption with it if ye will but say I am the Lords and from this time forth will Covenant to take him as he is offered in the Gospel and do the Duties that the Covenant requires the Bargain is made and it 's subscribing it 's an everlasting Covenant and as ye have made an everlasting Covenant ye shall have an everlasting Name so long as God is God and this Covenant shall bring you to the place where ye shall be made a Pillar in the Temple of God and ye know a Pillar lasts as long as the house stands SERMON XXI 2 Samuel 23.5 Although my house be not so with God yet he hath made with me an everlasting Covenant ordered in all things and sure for this is all my Salvation and all my desire although be make it not to grow THE third particular in this part of the verse remains which is the assurance that David had that he was personally Covenanted with God he can affirm it and set it down in the Bible and make it a part of the Canon of the Scripture The Lord has made with me an everlasting Covenant so that this being the third thing I shall take this third Note and therewith close this second Branch of the verse and the Note is this Doctrine That not only does God take Believers in a personal Covenant with Him but they may be clear assured and able to affirm it that God has made a Covenant with them This assurance David hath here and the Spirit of God doth so agree with his assertion that it 's made a part of the Cannon a part of the Bible that God made with him an everlasting Covenant So this is the Truth that I will handle this day that one may be assured and very clear they may be able confidently to assert that God has made a Covenant with them This being a thing of great Importance I will follow it in this Method 1. I will open to you that Assurance of a personal Interest to the Covenant is very necessary 2ly I will shew you that this Assurance is not only attainable but it 's not so difficult as ordinarily it 's apprehended to be 3ly I will open to you some of the Ways and Methods that the Spirit keeps in bringing Believers to be Assured that God hath made a Covenant with them And Lastly I shall apply it For the First That this Assurance that we particularly are in Covenant with God is of great necessity that we may be able to say The Lord hath made with me a Covenant For clearing a little the necessity of it I will premise two Distinctions First Take notice that there is a Three-fold Assurance that the Scripture mentions First There is an Assurance of knowledge Colose 2.2 That their hearts might be comforted being knit together in love and unto all riches of the full assurance of understanding to the acknowledgment of the mystery of God and of the Father and of Christ 2ly There is an Assurance of Faith Heb. 10.22 Let us draw near with a true heart in full assurance of Faith having our hearts sprinkled from an evil Conscience and our bodies washed with pure water 3ly There is an Assurance of hope Heb. 6.11 And we desire that every one of you do shew the same diligence to the full assurance of hope unto the end v. 12. That ye be not slothful but followers of them who through faith and patience inherit the promises There ye have a Three-fold Assurance there is an Assurance of Knowledge that is the first proposition of the practical Syllogisme by it I come to be assured of the Mystery of Godliness that it 's a Truth There is an Assurance of Faith whereby I am assured of my Interest in that Mystery there is an Assurance of Hope whereby I am assured that God will make out all that is contained in that Mystery now we take in all the Three when we speak of Assurance in the Covenant there must be first Assurance of Knowledge that God hath made a Covenant and on what Terms he hath made in 2ly There is Assurance of Faith that I am in that Covenant 3ly There is Assurance of Hope that all the contents of that Covenant shall in due time be accomplished when I say that it 's necessary a Believer be assured I take in all the Three But 2ly Take notice that there is a twofold necessity when we say this assurance is necessary that God hath made a Covenant with us First There is something necessary for the being of a Christian 2ly There is somewhat necessary for the well-being of a Christian now we say not assurance that we are in the Covenant is necessar for the being of a Christian no one may be in Covenant with God and far from being assured of it several times Questions about their Interest may be more necessar than Assurance for them several times the Thief Scandalous and presumptuous sins will take away their Assurance and some times the moth slothfulness will take it away it were a hard Doctrine and dreadful to say Assurance is necessary for the being of a Christian only this Assurance we say is necessary for the well-being of a Christian they cannot live so comfortably in Christ if they were not assured that the Covenant is made with them so ye may understand what is meaned by this when we say Assurance is necessary for the well-being of a Christian to be assured that he is in the Covenant To confirm this I will offer you five or six things that will let you see the

of Grace hath bound us to all the Duties be hath commanded in the Covenant of Works what a multitude of them there are take a compend of them in that word 2 Cor. 7. at the beginning Having these promises dearly beloved let us cleanse our selves from all filthiness of the flesh and spirit perfecting holiness in the fear of God mark there we must cleanse our selves of the fil hiness of the flesh and spirit a famous Ancient said well when he read that verse this seems to me says he like the Message the King of Syria sent to the King of Israel 2 Kings 5.2 I have sent my servant to thee that thou mayest recover him of his leprosie what says he am I a God to kill and make alive that this man sendeth to me to cure him of his leprosie 2ly We are to consider the constancy we are bound to in these Terms if we enter in Covenant with God it 's a marriage Covenant whatever fall out to a man or woman except Adulters the marriage-tye remains firm if one were never so sickly or tender it does not break that tye all the variety of cases his people can come under cannot dissolve it we are not to be Time-servers in these things for in a little they that serve Time their Master will be taken from them Rev. 10.5 And I saw an angel Hand upon the sea and he lift up his hand to heaven and sware by him that liveth for ever and ever that there should be time no longer But 3ly We are to consider the difficulties that will accon pany these Terms the Terms are to cleanse our selves from all filthiness of the flesh and spirit perfecting holiness in the fear of God what multitude of difficulties must these Terms be carried on with will they make a man walk like an Owl among the rest of the Birds What a deal of crosses and difficulties will attend him that makes a Covenant with God Now one that would Indenture in a personal Covenant with God must consider and ponder all these Now this is the second Property of personal Indenturing with God it 's an Act of absolute necessity and we ought to be very deliberat and serious in it Thirdly This Act of personal covenanting as it ought to be deliberat so it ought to be sincere and an Act of the whole Soul Psal 16.2 O my soul thou hast said unto the Lord thou art my God God will dispense with any Infirmity in this Act sooner than Hypocrisie He cannot endure to be mocked For clearing this that it ought to be done with the whole Soul I would have you notice First This Act of personal covenanting requires a very well ordered Soul not only Morally well ordered but Spiritually Divines observe well the Soul is well ordered in two Cases First When the Will comes to beled by the Understanding several times the Will like a domineering Lady it glories in it's Liberty and Freedom it will bind the Understanding and draw it after it we are easily brought to believe what the Will inclines us to and to find our Reasons for justifying of the thing which it desires Next the Soul is well ordered when Understanding Will and Affections follow the Conscience and the Conscience is regulat by the Word of God the Affections often it holds true of them that is said of Fire and Water they are good Servants but ill Masters when the affections comes to domineer they are ill Masters but when they are ruled by the Conscience and the Conscience regulat by the Law of God so that we can moderat our Anger and not sin that we can desire nothing but what we lawfully desire and we fear nothing but what we lawfully can fear when gref keeps within it's bounds when the Affections are thus regulat what a sweet calm is there in the Conscience like an Instrument that all the Strings of it are rightly placed and when ye strike on them every string gives the sound they ought to give so the Understanding Will and Affections when they are rightly regulat they give the sound that is proper for them when the Understanding is thus regulat that the Will follows the Understanding and the Soul is regulat by the Conscience and the Conscience by the Word of God 2ly This Soul covenanting it imports a rightly ordered frame of the Soul for it 's an affectionat and sincere Act it 's not to be wrung out of us Bellarmine calumniats Protestants when he says we maintain in the Act of Effectual Calling that Deus torquet voluntatem in he doth not thraw the Will no in this Act of personal covenanting it uses to be done when it 's done with the Soul not with the Affections only but with the Bensil of the Affections it 's as it were the marriage day and in that day the Soul is clothed in its best Appatel and the Unferstanding Will and Affections are at the height of their Vigor and Fervency it 's necessar it should be so for the Lord when he entered in Covenant with us O! so sincerely and affectionaly as He enters and when he hath found the lost Goat and stragling Sheep He call His neighbours and friends to rejoyce with Him Luk. 15. I likewise say there is joy in Heaven over one sinner that repents c. When he doth it so affectionatly and is so much taken when a person doth personally Covenant with Him ought we not to Covenant sincerely with the Bensil of the Affections SERMON XIV 2 Samuel 23. Verse 5. Although my house be not so with God yet he hath made with me an everlasting Covenant ordered in all things and sure for this is all my salvation and all my desire although he make it not to grow AMong many excellent Truths in this verse this is one not of the meanest that David speaks of the everlasting Covenant as a thing personally and particularly made with him he doth not say the Lord hath made with the Church but with me an everlasting Covenant I entered on the Properties of this personal Covenant and spoke to three of them there are some yet remaining and therefore I shall proceed as this personal covenanting with God is of absolute necessity and is a very deliberat Act and a sincere Act so there is a Fourth Property of it it 's an Act that ought to be timeously speedily and early done without delay some of our Divines in their casuistical Disputs with Papists they rationally alledge that the Doctrine of the Popish Casuists in some Principles tends to hough all the Practises of Religion for among other things they maintain that if a sinner fall in sin he is obliged to repent when he comes under some cross or at some solemn Ordinance or at the hour of Death we maintain against them that a sinner is obliged to repent immediatly on the back of the commission of the Sin the same we say of personal covenanting with God it 's to be