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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A96684	God a Christian's choice, compleated by particular covenanting with God Together with an appendix, containing propositions, tending to clear up the lawfulness, and expediency of transacting with God in that way. In pursuit of a design proposed by Mr. R.A. in his book entituled, The vindication of Godliness. And by Mr. Tho. Vincent, in his book, called Words whereby we may be saved. To which is added, a brief discovery of the nearness of such a people unto God, on Psal. 148. 14. By Samuel VVinney, sometimes minister of the gospel at Glaston in Somersetshire.	Winney, Samuel.	1675 (1675)	Wing W3034; ESTC R231145	79,544	241

Arguments but of ordinary reason for the capacity of any that may desire Satisfaction 1. It is lawful and warrantable to transact with God in a particular and personal way because every person is bound by a particular Faith to apply the Promises to himself in particular that are proposed in general to all yea some Promises that are made to some particular persons in reference to some particular matters are yet by the Holy Ghost extended to all and offered to and to be applyed by every Christian thus Joshua was not to carry away and impropriate to himself all the benefit of the Promise made to him about Gods being with him and not failing nor forsaking him Josh 1.5 Compared with Heb. 13.5 where the Apostle extends it to all and yet seem thereby to apply it to every particular Christian● I will never leave thee nor forsake thee Ther 's the particular application of that Promise made at first to Joshua to every particular Christians exigence ver 6. Wherefore we may boldly say viz. All Collectively and each one singlely in his own behalf and for his own especial behoof the Lord is my helper c. And if so why should not sith the Covenant is mutually and reciprocally obligatory there be a particular resignation made by every Christian of himself to God 2. If I am bound in particular by every Command then I ought and may lawfully give my assent thereto in word or writing either or both That command reacheth every particular Christian Rom. 6.13 yield your selves unto God 3. Where there was a general vocal assenting stipulation made to God and at any time an answer made to his call there were also the particulars implyed or exprest or both So before Exod. 19.20 and 24. Chap. It is said all the people answered together and all the people answered with one voice So Deut. 5.27 28. It is not said their Heads only or Officers or Elders but all the people with an express mention of their voices Yea further we shall see the people expresly mentioned and distinctly from all these Josh 24.1 2. with 16.17 c. 4. Because the benefits of the blood of the Lord Jesus Christ which is called the Blood of the Covenant Zech. 9.11 which are also the benefits of the Covenant of grace for both are one are applyed in particular by Gods Saints in Scripture see Gal. 2.20 I am crucified with Christ nevertheless I live yet not I but Christ liveth in me and the life which I now live in the flesh I live by the faith of the Son of God who loved me and gave himself for me The like the Apostle speaks Rom. 8.2 for the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus hath made me free from the law of sin and death 5. David's Prayer may give a little light to this truth which he makes and we may read recorded Psal 35.3 Say unto my Soul I am thy Salvation Wherein David desires God to say to him in this kind in particular then certainly it may not be unwarrantable for Gods people to deal with God in reserence to their particular Interest in God and consequently in the Covenant 6. It 's Considerable how much Gods transaction with the Sons of men in this kind and way is spoken of and uttered in the terms and under the notion of single and particular persons 1. They were particularly numbred out to Jesus Christ and accordingly returned by tale as I may say to the Father by the Son John 17.12 Those thou gavest me I have kept and none of them is lost but the Son of perdition c. 2 One shall say and another shall subscribe not some and others in the plural number but one and another in the singular number 3. In the precepts of the moral law at mount Sinai which all sound Divines hold acknowledg to be a Covenant of grace with Israel Exod. 20. the Lord speaks particularly thou shalt and thou shalt not not ye but thou 4. The Covenant with Christ Mystical mentioned Gal. 3.16 is expressed in Terms of particularity Now to Abraham and his Seed were the Promises made he saith not and to his Seeds as of many but as of one and to thy Seed which is Christ now though by Christ here is not meant Christ's single person but Christ mystical a collective term As 1 Cor. 12.12 So also is Christ that is Christ's mystical body of which he is the Head yet this may shew and point out to us by Analogy and proportion that every believer hath interest in and should accordingly make particular application of the whole of the Covenant unto themselves 7. Because the Holy Ghost warranteth this in his own expression See 1 Cor. 12.27 Now ye are the body of Christ and members in particular Our transacting with God this way is to that end and purpose that we may make sure of an interest in him and our union and relation to the Lord Jesus Christ to our selves in particular If the Holy Ghost is so particular in this kind surely we may not onely be so but much more ought to be so 8. If the Devil in the Covenants he makes with persons doth make every particular person subscribe with his hand yea and some I have heard or read or both with their own blood their resignation of themselves to him in that hellish bond they are tyed to him in may we not then yea how much more are we bound to deal particularly with God to make him sure to us and our selves sure to him 9. The expressions and resemblances by which this Covenanting with God is set forth do imply and import as much as this is 1. It is resembled to a marriage-Covenant Hos 2.16 thou shalt call me Ishj that is my husband and ver 19. I will betroth thee unto me for ever yea I will betroth thee unto me in righteousness c. ver 20. I will hetroth thee unto me in faithfulness c. Now God is our husband Isa 54.5 thy maker is thy husband c. And doth the husband in the mariage Covenant for that is called a Covenant also the wife married is called the wife of thy Covenant viz. by marriage Mal. 2.14 the marriage knot and obligation is called the Covenant of God Prov. 2.17 only promise to be a loving faithful husband and no more Surely this is but half-marriage the promise of the one party or rather doth not the wise also engage by word of mouth that she will be a loving faithful and obedient wife and then the marriage is full and compleat In like manner as God the husband of his people promiseth to be their God so the espoused Soul promiseth to be only for God and Jesus Christ and for none else and this ought every particular Soul to do which is the spouse of the Lord Jesus I have betrothed you unto one husband saith the Apostle Paul * Conversion is the Soul's Espousal 2 Cor. 11.

quicken us when we be sluggish and backward and our hearts dull and slow in our saith dependence in our holy Conversation and Obedience if any thing in the World will draw on the Soul that is withdrawing or drawing back this will do much to consider how we have bound our selves and that if we prove not stedfast in this Covenant both our tongues and our hands will witness against us and that this will be as it were an hand-writing of our own act and deed another day against us 3. This will be a strong motive to keep the heart off more firmly from and against all sin for this is the first thing that is done in this so solemn a work even to renounce all others that have been as the Lords of and over the Soul Say as the Church did Isa 26.13 O Lord our God other Lords besides thee have had dominion over us but by thee onely will we make mention of thy name The Consideration of the mischief of which was the great motive to draw her to the disclaiming of them insomuch that these two things laid together will make the person that laies them to heart resolve to follow the Apostles direction Rom. 6.12 That they will not let sin reign in their mortal bodies that they may obey it in the lusts thereof Their Covenant with hell and death being broken and dissolved they resolve through grace that they will not be Servants any more to divers lusts and pleasures nor will they be as they have been any more taken captive by Satan at his will 2 Tim. 2.26 4. This will be a means to banish all hard and evil thoughts of God and to cherish and foster good thoughts of him For hereby we shall look on God as at peace with us and our selves as friends and reconciled unto him So that we shall not be filled with jealousy about his love nor slavish fear of his wrath and indignation which we were before under in our estate of nature being an estate of wrath for we were by nature children of wrath as well as others saith the Apostle Eph. 2.3 So that now the strise is at an end and the Controversy is taken up that there was between God and us and so these thoughts and suspicions that he is armed with vengeance against us and that it may be speedily executed upon us are removed So that as Jacobs fear of Laban was taken off when there was a solemn Covenant entred into by them on both sides so the slavish fear in the Soul will be hereby for the present removed and by degrees abate Gen. 31. and decay in the Christians heart more and more 5. All our unwillingness to come unto and before God will be taken away and our boldness in comming to him to the throne of grace will be increased yea it will breed an earnest longing to be in Communion with him for though two cannot walk together except they be agreed yet they can meet and walk delightfully together when they are agreed All that loathness and shieness will be taken out from us and we shall be brought to delight in his presence See it in David who could say God was his God he could also long to come and appear before God as the hart panteth after the Water-Brooks Psal 42.1 2. An Answer to some few Objections lying in the way that might seem to be made against this way of transacting with God in particular and express Covenant Object 1. There is no precept for this in all the Scripture Answ 1. It is enough that it is warranted by the practice and example of the Saints of God in the Word which is proved abundantly in the second Scripture-evidence Sup. p. 16. Where it hath been sufficiently shewed that God's Saints have particularly owned God and appropriated him unto themselves as their own God Psal 67.6 God even our own God shall bless us and have also engaged themselves to God in a particular manner in duty and obedience which is ground enough for such a practice Answ 2. To the real and serious and inward doing of this all are bound that intend to be saved Rom. 6.13 Yield your selves unto God with 2 Chron. 30.8 and Rom. 12.1 I beseech you Brethren by the mercies of God that ye present your bodies a living Sacrifice holy acceptable unto God c. Answ 3. I grant that we are not bound to this external formal doing of it in such a manner as a matter that is necessary to Salvation so as that every Christian must of necessity do it if he ever means to go to Heaven or partake of the benefit of the Covenant this hath been spoken to before also but as an excellent expedient for the comfort of our Souls in assuring our selves of the partaking of the benefits of the Covenant and keeping the heart more firm and close to God in an holy Covenant-Conversation and walking in order to Salvation Answ 4. This is but doing the same thing in another way which hath been already done and that often it may be and many ways too as to the substance thereof for I take these things for granted 1. That every true Christian hath done this already in his heart 2. That every person in the visible Church hath done this virtually in his Baptism as before and in the primitive times none were baptized without an express Covenanting wherein they renounced the World the Flesh and the Devil and engaged themselves to Christ and promised to obey him I shall refer you for more yet not much of this to Mr. Baxters Saints rest Edit 8. p. 149. Edit 9. p. 143. The Question was proposed Abrenuncias that is dost thou renounce c. Ans Abrenuncio I do renounce Q. Credis dost thou believe Credo I do believe Now if it was done actually by persons aged at their Baptism afore-time openly and before others though in few words Why is it not warrantable to be done by any now in a more full and large way either openly or privately in this express way here treated and discoursed of as God shall incline the hearts of any amongst us Further consider 3. How often do men do it actually in their own persons at the Lord's Table even as often as they come to partake of the same For what else is set forth by these Sacramental actions of every Communicant in their participation that being also a Sign and Seal of the Covenant they take God to be their God and Jesus Christ to be their alone Saviour and every one doth this for himself and by the same reaching forth of the hand as he doth receive Jesus Christ unto himself so doth he as it were give up the hand to God and thereby his whole self to Jesus Christ according to the former observation Sup. script Arg. 10 to become one of his people and Servants thereby resigning himself up to him to be wholly his and at his Command 4.