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A93701	A solemn discourse upon the grand covenant, opening the divinity and policy of it: by John Saltmarsh, Master of Arts, and not long since, pastour of Heslerton in Yorkshire.	Saltmarsh, John, d. 1647.	1643 (1643)	Wing S501; Thomason E1208_1; ESTC R208789	9,766	72

which is an indication of some Divine vertue descended and co-operating Covenant The Reformation Principles In Praeamb. 1 To endeavour the advancement of the kingdome of Iesus Christ Artic. 1. The Reformation of Religion in Doctrine worship and Discipline according to the word of God and the example of the best Churches Art 6. The unfained desire to be humbled for our sinnes and the sins of these kingdomes Discourse THese are such maxims as will make a kingdome holy and happy for holinesse is the foundation and basis to all other blessings and hath a perpetuating quality and it is such a condition as God takes in at the felicitating of a person or people Seeke first the kingdome of God and all things shall be added unto you The advancement of Gods kingdom was alwayes the advancement of the kingdome of Israel and the glory of the one declined and set in the declination of the other for the Arke and the glory departed together and both expired at once in a dolefull Ichabod The advancement of Christs Kingdome hath been the designe of God from all eternity and it is the designe of the godly too God revealeth his secrets to his servants and we have the mind of Christ Now knowing so much of the counsels and designes and secrets and minde of God we are carried on by the same Spirit to be aiding to that designe now though the kingdom of Christ be such a name as imports glory and dominion yet it is not a glory of this world but a spirituall glory seated in bare and simple administrations such as are foolishnesse to the Greek and to the Jewes a Rock of offence and this kingdome of Christ like other Monarchies hath its rise and growth its ages improvements according to the propheticall latitude being at no fulnesse nor perfection till the rest of the Monarchies be consumed before it this is that small excrescency advancing out of the Mountaine and by a power insensible exalting it selfe through all oppositions working through Atheisms Paganisms Idolatries Superstitions Persecutions and all the carnall machinations into a lustre glorious in the judgement of those onely who can spiritually discerne the advancement of this kingdom is onely attainable by a Reformation to the word of God here we shall take occasion to part with all the Models and Idea's wch are not to be found in holy Scriptures it is markt there as a grand transgression to walke after the imagination of our owne hearts and that was laid to Jeroboam's charge That his Priests and Sabbaths and worship were such as he devised in his own heart God will indure no such rivallity nor conjunctures with himselfe it is an incompleating the worke of God to build his house with our own timber and as he made this world at first onely after the patterne of his owne counsels so in this second work of the setting up a spiritualll structure for his glory God thinks none worthy of coordination in those things wherein his glory shal be sure to suffer in a distribution with his creatures and his owne Image hath ever pleased him best therefore he made the best piece of his creation according to it And where this kingdome of Christ is there is holinesse of Doctrine holinesse of Government holiness of Ordinances holinesse of Life GOD hath had a people at first whom hee made his owne by speciall adoption by eminent priviledges by rare providences by lawes and institutions by worship and administrations And now because darknesse in part is hapned to Israel God will still have a people that shall be his and have their lawes and usages and forms from him their guidance providences from him This kingdome of Christ is a company of godly gathered by his own Spirit having their Lord and Saviour in the midst confederated by an holy and sacramentall paction ruled by the law of his will and Spirit obeying his cōmands whither in silent inspirations or lowder exhortations either by a word behinde us and a saying Seeke yee my face or by outward intimations and interpretations of his will from such wayes of distribution administration as hee hath ordained studying what will adorne the Gospell of Jesus Christ and those that walke in the light and glory of it Being transformed frō glory to glory as by the Spirit of the Lord Now these principles viz. The advancement of Christs kingdome and humiliation for sinnes are such as will bring God into this kingdome and seat him and determine his presence as the Tabernacle and Arke Temple were the engagements and enthronizations of mysterious fixations of Gods divinity They are likewise an advancement of the nation too setting it higher then other nations that was the preferment of the Jewes That to them the Oracles of God were committed Therefore they were said to dwell in the light when other nations sat in the Region and shadow of death And that principle of reformation according to the Word of God and the best reformed Churches brings us closer to God and consociates us with heaven and makes us arrive at the highest mystery even the deniall of our selves our owne inventions will-worship and superstitions pulling down at once all our relations to Rome and Popery and working to the patern so That things which shal be seen shall not bee made of things which do appear we shal likewise be associated to the Church of Christ and so incorporated more cleerly and purely and mystically into the body of Christ we shall be now in a capacity wth them to partake equally of graces and priviledges and thus the kingdom of Christ gathers power and latitude and stretches to the breadth of that Prophesie Of the fulnesse of the Gentiles and gathers strength too against the present antichristian Monarchy by that other principle of humiliation we obtain the qualification and condition for mercy and peace wee approach into tearms of reconciliation with God if the wicked forsake his way and the unrighteous man his thoughts God will forgive and abundantly pardon What is it that thickens the clowde over us but the evaporation and exhalation of our sins and iniquities For your iniquities have turned away these things your sins have with-held good things from you Covenant The Princip. of Extirpation In Preamb. Calling to mind the treacherous and bloody plots conspiracies attempts and practises of the enemies of God Arttic 2. That we shall in like manner endeavour without respect of persons the extirpation of Popery and Prelacy Discourse HEre lies the propheticall power of it against the Church of Rome or Antichristian Monarchy and the bloody plots and conspiracies are such fresh remembrances as seal us to strong and perpetuall endeavours we can read in the leafs of our former ages their conspiracies still in red Letters and at this day we have a succession of their bloody Designes and I conceive the rise we take from their own foundations in blood is but in