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A80141	A discourse of the true gospel blessedness in the New Covenant, or The distinction of the two Covenants, new and old, first and second. With the doing away of the first, and the establishment of the second, and likewise the mediatorship of Christ in the New Covenant, with some principles, duties, promises, and priviledges of the New Covenant. A useful companion for all saints at all times. / Written by Tho. Collier.	Collier, Thomas, fl. 1691.	1659 (1659)	Wing C5277; Thomason E1801_2; ESTC R35633	88,221	142

Nor to be conformable thereto Rom. 12. 2. Ephes 3. 17. Gal. 1. 4. Ephes 2. 2. 58. To walk so with God in this world as endeavouring to be found blameless in holiness before God our Father at the appearing of Christ 1 Cor. 1. 8. Ephes 1. 4. 1 Thes 3. 13. 2 Pet. 3. 14. 59. To put on the Lord Jesus Christ and to walk in him Rom. 13. 14. Col. 2. 6. Gal. 3. 27. 60. To give up our bodies as well as our souls to serve the Lord Rom. 12. 1. 1 Cor. 6. 20. Dan. 3. 28. because the body shall be saved as well as the soul by Jesus Christ Rom. 8. 11 23. Phil. 3. 21. 61. To set our affections on and to seek things that are above Col. 3. 1 2. 62. Holy and heavenly Meditations Psal 19. 14. and 45. 1. and 104. 34. 63. To have the word of Christ to dwell richly in us Col. 3. 16. 64. To do all our works in the name of the Lord Jesus Col. 3. 17. 1 Thes 4. 2. 1 Cor. 5. 4. 65. No man to go beyond and defraud his brother 1 Thes 4. 6. 66. To owe no man any thing but to love one another Rom. 13. 8. 67. Not to be wise in our own conceits Rom. 12. 16. 11. 25. Prov. 3. 7. 26. 12. but rather to be fools in our own eyes 1 Cor. 3. 18 19. 68. To greet one another with a kiss of love 1 Cor. 16. 20. Rom. 16 16. 2 Cor. 13. 12. 1. Pet. 5. 14. that is with a holy and hearty manifestation of love being compared with 1 Thes 5. 26. where the Apostle doth greet them with a kiss of love though at a great distance from them For salutations see Rom. 16. 69. Brethren not to go to law one with another 1 Cor. 6. 1 6. 70. Not to feast the rich but the poor Luke 14. 12. 13. 71. To observe and take notice of that Act. 15. 29. 16. 4. 72. Not to be offended in Christ Luke 7. 23. 16. 25. 73. To obey magistrates for conscience sake as it is an ordinance of God as well as for fear of punishment Rom. 13. from 1 to 6. 1 Pet. 2. 13 14 15. 74. To lend freely not looking for the like curtesie again Luke 6. 34 35. 75. To be zealously affected for the Lord his name and truth Gal. 4. 18. Tit. 2. 14. Rev. 3. 19. Numb 25. 11 13. 76. To have a respect to the whole law of Christ and to persevere therein unto the end Psal 119. 6. Joh. 8. 31. Luke 1. 5 6. Luke 9. 62. Duties of the Saints as they stand related each to other in the Church and as a Church of Christ 1. Not to forsake the assembling of themselves together but to assemble as a Church and the members to assemble with the Church as often as they may Heb. 10. 24 25. 2. To exhort one another daily to love and good works Heb. 3. 13. and 10. 24. 2 Tim. 4. 2. Acts 14. 22. and 11. 23. 3. The time for publick worship being especially the first day of the week Job 20. 19. Acts 20. 7. 1 Cor. 16. 1 2 Acts 2. 1. and was the first day of the week for this see my discourse about the sabbath and it is the duty of Saints to keep every day and week a sabbath to the Lord. 4. To walke together in love as brethren and to endeavour the peace and prosperity of the Church 1 Pet. 2. 17. 3. 8. Heb. 13. 1. Rom. 12. 9 10. 1 Thes 5. 13. 2 Cor. 13. 11. Ephes 4. 3. 5. To have fellowship together in the Lords supper viz. in breaking of bread and prayer Mat. 26. 26 27 28. Luke 22. 19. 20. Acts 2. 42. 1 Cor. 11. 23 24 25 26. 10. 16 17. 6. Not to mix in worship with those that walk contrary to the truth 2 Cor. 6. 14. 17. 2 Tim. 3. 5. Rev. 18. 4. Hos 7. 8. Nehem. 9. 2 13. 30. 7. To receive the weak but not to doubtful disputation Rom. 14. 1. that is not to inforce upon them indifferent things that lye doubtful and disputable See Rom. 14. throughout and 15. 1 2 3. 1 Cor. 8. 13. 8. To condescend one to another in subjection and to seek rather to please one another in things lawfull then to please themselves 1 Pet. 5. 5. Rom. 15. 1 2 3. 1 Cor. 10. 33. 9. To marry with such as may be judged to fear the Lord 1 Cor. 7. 39. Gen. 6. 1 2. 10. To observe the rule of Christ in dealing with an offending brother Matth. 18. 15. 2 Thes 3. 6. 1 Cor. 5. 4 5. Tit. 3. 10. 11. To have a simpathising and fellow feeling with and in each others afflictions and comforts Rom. 12. 15 16. 1 Cor. 12. 25 26. 12. To look diligently least any root of bitterness spring up and defile many Heb. 12. 15 16. and to avoid those that occasion divisions contrary to the doctrine of Christ Rom. 16. 17. 13. To withdraw from disorderly members that repent not 2 Thes 3. 6 14. 14. To reject offenders such of which there is no recovery to repentance by the means left by Christ for that end 1 Cor. 5. 4. 5. 11. Tit. 3. 10. 15. The man to have his head uncovered and the woman covered in prophecying or praying viz. the face 1 Cor. 11. 4 5 c. 16. Self examinations as at all times so particularly when they come to the supper of the Lord 1 Cor. 11. 28. 2 Cor. 13. 5. Psal 26. 2. 17. To try the spirits whether they be of God or no by the doctrine delivered 1 Joh. 4. 1. compared with the Scriptures 1 Thes 5. 21. 2 Tim. 1. 13. Isay 8. 20. 18. To lay a part every first day of the week as God hath blest for the supply of poor Saints 1 Cor. 16. 1. 19. To look diligently that there be no want in the body but that the poor be comfortably supplied and upon that count to be free in communicating 20. Every member that is of capacity to be exercised in some lawful calling 2 Thes 3. 10 11 12. 21. To help other neighbour Churches as need requires and ability hath fitted for such a work Acts 11. 28 29 30. 1 Cor. 16. 1 2 3. 2 Cor. 1. 8. 22. To restore a fallen brother in the spirit of meekness Gal. 6. 1. 23. To be much in the publick work and duty of prasing God to his name which I understand taken in speaking of him and to his praise Ephes 5. 16. Col. 3. 16. with 1 Cor. 14. 15 16. which is for one to speak to the praise of God and the rest to joyn in and say Amen as in prayer For all to sing in meeter together is that for which there is no rule in law or Gospel In the old Testament singers were appointed particularly to that work 1 Cor. 9. 33. Ezra 2. 65. Nehem. 7. 67. The popish queristers singing came nearest to this but I judge the old

faith As God by it works faith so he supporteth and powerfully effecteth the work of salvation by the exercise imploying or working of the same faith for faith is of a working nature it worketh by love Gal. 5. 6. Therefore as it is your duty so let it be your work to live by faith and remember that word Heb. 3. 12. Take heed brethren lest there be in any of you an evil heart of unbelief in departing from the living God And that word Rom. 11. 20. Because of unbelief they were broken off thou standest by faith be not high minded but fear Remember thy duty as well as Gods Covenant and be faithful A second new Covenant duty is to live the life of love and that to God to his name to his word to his ordinances to his people and to all men enemies as well as friends this is the duty of the new Covenant And this faith and love where it is in truth worketh over the soul to a universal obedience to the whole will of Christ in the new covenant it saith Amen to eve y part thereof it dares not entertain thoughts of taking one part and leave another no that is carnal and too low for a new covenant spirited Christian It dares not change the ordinances of the everlasting covenant no nor trample the blood thereof underfoot But I forbear in this place because you will finde a more exact stating of the duties of the covenant in the end of this Treatise to which I refer you I shall close up the point in hand in answering two weighty Queries Q. 1. What should be the Causes or Reasons that God should adde a conditional ministry and several conditional Promises with positive duties to an absolute Covenant Answ 1. That therein he might hold forth as in the one the riches of his grace and absoluteness of his purpose concerning the salvation of his people so in the other he keeps up his authority as a father and the authority of Christ as our Lord and king That although the new covenant on Gods part be absolute yet had he not stated conditions on mans part his authority over his people must have fallen and they left without duty to God as a Father or to Christ as their Lord and King Joh. 5. 22 23. Mat. 7. 21. Luke 6. 46. Therefore it is conditional as to them that they might know their duty and have conscience of it And it is absolute on Gods part that so they might look to him and be comforted and live by faith in the stabillity and unchangeableness that is in the Father and the Son So that by this means the Saints are kept clear and conscientious of and to their duties in the covenant and comforted in looking up to the Lord from whence their strength comes 2 Because persons must be judged by the duties of the Covenant on mans part and condemned too for transgression of the conditions and duties of the covenant The absoluteness of Gods covenant shall not be the rule of judging Though that be the ground of all true happiness to the Saints yet the Saints themselves must be judged in the great day of the Lord and the conditions and duties of the Covenant shall be the rule by which they shall be judged See 2 Cor. 5. 10. Mat. 25. 34 35 36. we must not onely all appear before the judgement seat there to give an account but we must expect to give an account according to the things done in the body c. and the Lords own people many of them are like to have such an account to give as in which they may must suffer loss 1 Cor. 3. 12 13 14 15. and the eternal judgement of the wicked will be for the transgression of the rules conditions and duties of the covenant I mean such as have come under the sound of the doctrine of the covenant Mark 16. 15 16. Rom. 2. 7 8 9 10. So that by this means all the world shall stand guilty before God at that day Sutable to the preaching forth of the grace of the Gospel Whether in the works of creation and the daily good the world enjoys upon that account or the communications of God through the law or in the plain ministration of the Gospel And true believers shall then be acquitted and eternally pardoned by the grace of the covenant for then shall be the perfect and compleat administration of the grace of the covenant and in this manner and at this time it shall make the comers thereunto perfect Isay 33. 24. Heb. 8. 12. Then the inhabitant shall not say I am sick for the People that dwell therein shall be forgiven their iniquity 3 That the Saints being justified and eternally saved by the grace of the covenant might have the reward of the kingdom promised dispensed to them sutable to their faithfulness in the performance of the conditions and duties of the covenant for thus it shall be Let none through ignorance account it Popish but keep clear in this That justification and a state of salvation is clear by the blood of the covenant our interest and claimed by faith and hope which faith if true is the faith of the operation of God Col. 2. 12. That is of the work of God but the reward so much spoken of shall be given sutable to the work either active in doing or Passive in suffering else what means those Scriptures Luke 19 17 18 19. with 1 Tim. 6. 17 18 19. 2 Cor. 4. 17 18. and the condemnation of the wicked shall be given to them sutable to the nature of their sin against Christ c. Luke 12. 47 48. Thus hath God stated conditions and duties in an absolute covenant that his own name and honour as a Father and Christs authority as a head and Lord might be preserved that he might be just and righteous when he judgeth and condemneth Fourthly That the persons who through faith come to profess an interest in this covenant might be manifest by their performance of the duties of the covenant The truth of faith in Christ and love to him is manifest by obedience to him and the people that have no heart to the duties of the covenant may justly suspect themselves to have no share in the grace in that Covenant Joh. 14. 15. If you love me keep my commandements ver 24. He that loveth me not keepeth not my sayings c. 5 That believers might be kept humble and heedful Rom. 11. 20. Thou standest by faith be not high minded but fear Ver. 21. Take heed lest he spare not thee Heb. 4. 1. Let us therefore fear lest a promise being left us of entering into his rest any of you should seem to come short of it God would that his peoples confidence and watchfulness should go hand in hand till they are fully possest of the promised rest Psal 2. 11. Serve the Lord with fear rejoyce with trembling Saints must rejoyce and yet tremble