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A78965	The great danger of covenant-refusing, and covenant-breaking. Presented in a sermon preached before the Right Honourable Thomas Adams Lord Mayor, and the Right Worshipfull the sheriffes, and the aldermen his brethren, and the rest of the Common-councell of the famous City of London, Jan. 14. 1645. Upon which day the solemne League and Covenant was renued by them and their officers with prayer and fasting at Michael Basinshaw, London. / By Edmund Calamy, B.D. and pastor of Aldermanbury London.; Great danger of covenant-breaking, &c.	Calamy, Edmund, 1600-1666.	1646 (1646)	Wing C254; Thomason E327_6; ESTC R200648	37,036	51

covenant First for the Lords Supper How often have we spilt the bloud of Christ by our unworthy approaches to his Table and hence it is that he is now spilling our blood How hard a matter is it to obtain power to keep the blood of Christ from being profaned by ignorant and scandalous Communicants and can we think that God will be easily intreated to sheath up his bloody sword and to cease shedding our blood Secondly for the Sacrament of Baptisme How cruell are men grown to their little infants by keeping of them from the seale of entrance into the Kingdome of heaven and making their children their own children to be just in the same condition with the children of Turks and Infidels I remember at the beginning of these warres there was a great fear fell upon godly people about their little children and all their care was for their preservation and their safety and for the continuance of the Gospell to them c. But now our little children are likely to be in a worser condition then ever The Oxford Army labour to steale away the Gospell from them and the Anabaptist labours to steale away the seale of the covenant of Grace from them and that which is worser then all there are some godly people love to have it so And all this is come upon us as a just punishment of our Baptismall covenant-breaking And as for Jesus Christ who is the Angell of the covenant are there not some amongst us that un-god Jesus Christ and is it not fit and equall that God should un-church us and un-people us Are there not thousands that have sworne to be Christs servants and yet are in their lives the Vassals of sin and Satan And shall not God be avenged of such a nation as this These things considered it is no wonder our miseries are so great but the wonder is that they are no greater The second use is an use of examination Dayes of humiliation ought to be dayes of selfe-examination Let us therefore upon such a day as this is examine whether we be not amongst the number of those that make the times perilous whether we be not covenant-breakers Here I will speak of three covenants First of the covenant we made with God in our Baptisme Secondly of the covenants which we have made with God in our distresses Thirdly and especially of this covenant which you are to renue this day First of the covenant which we made in Baptisme and renue every time we come to the Lords Supper and upon our solemn dayes of fasting There are none here but I may say of them The vowes of God are upon you You are servi nati empti jurati you are the born bought and sworn servants of God you have made a surrender of your selves unto God and Christ The question I put to you is this How often have you broke covenant with God It is said Isaiah 33. 14. The sinners of Sion are afraid who shall dwell with everlasting burnings who shall dwell with devouring sire c. When God comes to a Church-sinner to a sinner under the Old Testament much more to a Christian sinner a sinner under the New Testament and layeth to his charge his often covenant-breaking fearfulnesse shall possesse him and he will cry out Oh! woe is me who can dwell with everlasting burnings our God is a consuming fire and we are as stubble before him Who can stand before his indignation Nahum 1. 6. Who can abide in the fiercenesse of his anger when his fury is poured forth like fire and the rockes are throwne down before him Who can stand Of all sorts of creatures a sinfull Christian shall never be able to stand before the Lord when he comes to visit the world for their sins For when a christian sinnes against God he sins not only against the Commandement but against the covenant And in every sin he is a commandement-breaker and a covenant-breaker And therefore whereas the Apostle saith Tribulation and anguish upon every soule that sinneth but first upon the Jew c. I may adde First upon the christian then upon the Jew and then upon the Grecian because the covenant made with the Christian is called a better covenant and therefore his sins have a higher aggravation in them There is a notable passage in Austin in which he brings the Devill thus pleading with God against a wicked christian at the day of judgement Aequissime judex judica quod aequum est judica meum esse qui tuus esse noluit post renunciationem Vt quid invasit pannos meos Quid apud eum lascivia incontinentia c. quibus ipse renunciaverit Quid intemperantia quid gula quid fastus quid caetera mea Haec omnia mea post renunciationem invasit Meus esse voluit mea concupivit Judica aequissime judex quoniam quem tu non dedignatus es tanto pretio liberare ipse mihi postmodum voluit obligare That is Oh thou righteous Judge give right judgement Judge him to be mine who refused to be thine even after he had renounced me in his Baptisme What had he to doe to wear my Livery What had he to doe with gluttony drunkennesse pride wantonnesse incontinencie and the rest of my ware All these things he hath practised since he renounced the devill and all his works Mine he is judge righteous judgement For he whom thou hast not disdained to dye for hath obliged himselfe to me by his sins c. Now what can God say to this charge of the Devils but Take him Devill seeing he would be thine take him torment him with everlasting torments Cyprian brings in the Devill thus speaking to Christ at the great day of judgement Ego pro istis quos mecum vides nec alapas accepi nec flagella sustinui nec crucem pertuli nec sanguinem fudi sed nec regnum coeleste illis promitto nec ad paradisum evoco tamen se mihi suaque omnia consecrarunt I have not saith the Devill been whipt and scourged and crucified neither have I shed my blood for these whom thou seest with me I do not promise them a kingdome of heaven c. and yet these men have wholly consecrated themselves to me and my service Indeed if the Devill could make such gainfull covenants with us and bestow such glorious mercies upon us as are contained within the Covenant our serving of Satan and sinne might have some excuse But when as his covenant is a covenant of bondage death hell and damnation and Gods covenant is a covenant of liberty grace and eternall happinesse it must needs be a sin inexcusable to be willingly and wilfully such a covenant-breaker Secondly let us examine concerning the vowes which we have made to God in our distresses in our Personall distresses and our Nationall distresses Are we not like the children of Israel of whom it is said Psal. 78. 34. 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