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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

that tye on persons to perform the duty as God hath graciously bound himself to perform the mercy so the Moral law is called a Covenant Deut. 4.13.2 Chron. 6.11 and the mandatory part in general Lev. 26.15 Deut. 29.1.9.12 14 21 25. and the Hebrew Phrase which properly signifies to cut a Covenant amongst variety of words by which the LXX use to translate it one is 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 to Command See Heb. 9.10 from Exod. 24.8 Prop. V. That this Covenant is made with Believers and their Seed not only with the single persons of Believers but with their Seed also in them and themselves the representatives of their Seed Prop. VI. That every particular person of these is bound for himself to lay hold on the Covenant By Faith to apply all the Promises and in Obedience to perform all the precepts and duties required in this Covenant Now about our particular entring into and being in Covenant with God divers things are to be weighed and considered for a right understanding thereof We may be said to be in and to enter into Covenant with God two waies 1. Virtually and this is two waies 1. Either in our Fathers relation and obligation to God God enters into Covenant not with Believers persons only as before but with them and their Seed also Gen. 17.7 And I will establish my Covenant between mee and thee and thy Seed after thee in their generations for an everlasting Covenant to be a God unto thee and thy Seed after thee And every Believer ought to accept the Covenant not for himself only but for his seed Now my Father's accepting the Covenant not for himself only but for me and God's Covenanting with me as well as with him doth engage me with him to God in the same obligation This way of Covenant-transaction hath been always in all Gods dealings with the Sons of men in this kind even in both Covenants viz that of Works called a Covenant of life by our Divines before the fall and that of Grace ever since And this way of being in Covenant with God may be as soon as a man is conceived and before while he is in his fathers Loins thus were all the Sons of men all mankind in Adam's Covenant and every belivers Seed in their Fathers 2. Or else in our being baptized and receiving thereby the outward sign and Seal of the Covenant of Grace Now though hereby an outward application of the sign of the Covenant was made to us yet we did but virtually enter then and thereby into Covenant with God because we were altogether passive and not at all active in our participation of that Sacrament 2. Actually and this is two waies too 1. Something respects the nature of the thing it self that there be a serious cordial total Resignation of our selves to God in a holy dependance reliance and affiance on all his Promises accepting him to be our Saviour the Holy Ghost to be our God and Jesus Christ to be our Sanctifier and Comforter upon his own terms as he hath offered himself to us in his blessed Word with an unfeigned and univer●●l Obedience to all his Commandments 2. Something respects the manner of doing of it and here also something is 1. Publick when a person grown to years and understanding doth freely and voluntarily yea and openly too in the face and presence of the Congregation Mr. Hamner of Confirmation take upon him to fulfil that Covenant which his Father in his name and behalf at his Baptism undertook for him 2. * The nature of this particular express Covenanting with God briefly opened Private and that is when a person either at his Conversion or after doth this upon due deliberate Consideration between God and his own Soul draw up in writing a certain form of words according as his own heart shall upon serious search and knowledg of his estate according to the Scriptures direct him Wherein there shall be an humble and hearty accepting owning and acknowledging of God the Father God the Son and God the Holy Ghost to be his God in Covenant upon his own terms and that for ever as also a full and unfeigned Resignation of himself made to God and Resolution in the strength of God's grace to walk with him in an holy Communion and Conversation according to the duty required by God from him in this holy Covenant-state into which he is entred and taken Now for our better understanding in a matter of so great importance for further clearing of it I shall offer these following particulars to serious Consideration 1. That I make these two last imdiately forenamed only as the Circumstance of this matter not at all of the substance of our entring into Covenant We may truely be in Covenant partake of the benefits of it have an interest in God Jesus Christ Remission of Sins and Salvation yield our selves to God although we do neither of these last things forementioned that is to say though we are never brought into the Congregation there openly to profess our taking these obligations upon our selves which our Father did for us at our Baptism or never have such a draught in express writing between God and our selves 2. The Scripture saith One shall say I am the Lord 's as well as another shall subscribe with his hand unto the Lord and another shall call himself by the name of Jacob. Isa 44.5 Now if this particular should be a necessary Duty viz subscribing with the hand and the other too then some would be bound to one mode or form of transacti●● with God and others to another 〈◊〉 ●hereas the Scripture maketh one as lawful good and valid as another yea the Scripture seems to speak more in that expression of saying than that of subscribing with the hand as is easily observable there being two expressions of the former one only of the latter So that text Deut. 26.17 18. Thou hast avouched the Lord this day to be thy God and to walk in his waies c. or as the Hebrew hath it * 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 thou hast made to say that is to promise as worthy Ainsworth on the place though others thou hast exalted the Lord to be thy God and surely they that take God to be their God as they should exalt him above all in their estimation as the Prophet did Whom have I in heaven but thee Psal 73.25 so should they make him their Lord Paramount make him their Sovereign and Supream should not set up or suffer any thing higher than he the * 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 IXX. Greek thou hast chosen the Lord this day to be thy God but this interpretation though good is a digression to return therefore 3. All cannot do this taking only one expression in the letter that is subscribe with the hand for very many cannot write therefore cannot subscribe with the hand to God And if it should be drawn for them they may

Gal. 5.17 Flesh lusteth against the Spirit yet being * Eph. 3.16 strengthned with might by thy Spirit in the inner man will † Eph. 6.12 wrestle against Sin Satan and the World yea all manner of wickedness whatsoever * 1 Tim 6.12 fighting the good fight of Faith till I lay hold on the possession of eternal life † 2 Tim● 4.8 having finished my course and obtain'd the Crown of righteousness which thou hast promised Yet sith there is no man * Eccle● 7.20 that liveth and sinneth not I do in thy holy presence protest against any contrived allowed sin whereby I shall † Ps●● 18.21 wickedly depart from my God and that though of force I do and shall in part while I am in this body * Rom. 〈◊〉 25. with my flesh serve the law of sin yet with my mind will I serve the law of God wholly and for ever Now the † Josh 22.22 Lord God of Gods the * Jer. 17.10 searcher of the hearts and tryer of the reins † Psal 139.23 24. search me and try me and if their be any way of wickedness in me lead me in the way everlasting sith thou * Psal 119.4 commandest me to keep thy precepts diligently † Psal 27.8 my heart saith unto thee * Psal 119.5 Oh that my waies were directed to keep thy statutes therefore will I † Deut. 26.16 keep and do them with all mine heart and all my Soul Blessed God I desire to * Phil. 4.4 rejoice in thee and in the † 2 Chron. 15.15 Oath and Covenant made with thee this I do in the truth and uprightness of my heart as I have chosen so I desire to prize thee above all * Ps 73.25 Whom have I in Heaven but thee and there is none on Earth that I desire besides thee † Song 6.3 I am my beloved's and my beloved is mine * Psal 16.6 The lines are fallen to me in pleasant places yea I have a goodly heritage † Eph. 1.4 5. Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ who hath chosen me in him before the Foundation of the World * Rev. 5.9 10. Blessing Honour and Glory be given to the Lamb for ever who was slain and hast redeemed me to God by thy blood † Zech. 9.11 the blood of the Covenant Blessed be the eternal Spirit who hast * Gen. 1.2 moved my heart to enter into this solemn relation and obligation unto God † Deut. 7.9 29.9 The Lord my God the faithful God which keepeth Covenant and Mercy to them that Love him and keep his Commandments keep to me the Covenant and the Mercy and Confirm it to the end and strengthen me so with thy Grace that I may keep the words of this Covenant and do them and this Covenant made this day with my God let not any thing Sin Satan World Life nor Death disannul but let it be confirmed to all Eternity Amen Amen FINIS AN APPENDIX Containing PROPOSITIONS Evidencing Not only the warrantableness but expediency of transacting with God in a particular express Covenant-way Written at first for the satisfaction of a private friend now published at the request of some others and for the benefit and advnatage of any that shall peruse them By SAMUEL VVINNEY sometimes Minister of the Gospel at Glaston in Somersetshire London Printed for Thomas Cockeril at the Atlas in Cornhil near the Royal Exchange 1675. To the Reader Courteous Reader THere being lately extant a worthy Treatise of a Reverend Divine called Vindiciae Pietatis written by Mr. R. A. pressing to a strict and precise Conversation and in it giving advice to persons not yet in Covenant to come in and compleat all by Solemn Covenanting with God I most gladly sweetly and delightfully viewed the design and meeting with the doubts of some person a pretious Servant of God and my dear and intimate friend about the warrantableness of that way because I my self was so much affected with the thing did set my self upon his request and letter to me seriously to seek what warrant Gods word afforded to it and at some spare-hours in some few days of vacation from my incumbring and tedious imployment drew up the following Propositions tending to the evidence thereof hoping that either the author of the forenamed treatise or some person else whose Graces Abilities and Leisure are greater than mine may be stirred up more fully to clear it The Lord grant that whosoever may peruse them may have the same comfort and benefit thereby as the Author that composed them and now through the importunity of others made them publick Amen Certain PROPOSITIONS tending to the clearing of a Question and Satisfaction of some doubts about particular express entring into Covenant with God Prop. I. THat God hath of his own good pleasure from all eternity elected so me to everlasting life 1 Pet. 1.2 Elect according to the foreknowledg of God Eph. 1.4 According as he hath chosen us in him before the Foundation of the World Prop. II. That God did from all eternity ransact the business of the Salvation of these elected persons between himself and his Son Jesus Christ God gave every one of those whom he would have mercy on to Jesus Christ to the intent that he might deliver them all and every one of them out of the estate of sin and misery which they should implunge themselves into by the fall of Ad●m and the Son he accepts of this work of Salvation and Redemption of them by his own death to be accomplished in the fulness of time and this by Divines is called the Covenant of Redemption Prop. III. That besides the Covenant transacted between the Father and the Son about the Redemption and Salvation of the elect from all eternity God he enters into a Covenant of Grace with the persons themselves that are elected in due time which yet is a consequent of the former For if Christ had never undertaken or accepted of the terms in that Covenant of Redemption before time there had been no Covenant of Grace in time with the Elect themselves Prop. IV. This Covenant between God and his people is mutual and stipulatory that is obligeth God to speak with due reverence of so great a Majesty and also obligeth all and every the persons of his people taken into it wherein as God graciously doth promise to be their God to be good and kind unto them yea to be all to them and do all for them which shall be for present and future temporal spiritual and eternal good so are they answerably bound to become his people for their part and so to live before God as his people in Faith Repentance Holiness and Obedience all their daies So that the preceptive part as well as the promissive part of the Covenant is expresly in Scripture called and entitled by the name of a Covenant because of