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A76707	The copy of the covenant of grace With a true discovery of several false pretenders to that eternal inheritance, and of the right heir thereunto. Together with such safe instructions as will inable him to clear his title, and to make it unquestionable. Exactly evidenced by many perspicuous and unconstrained testimonies of scripture. Penned, and published upon mature deliberation, and good advise. / By Robert Bidwel, a servant, and minister of the gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ.	Bidwell, Robert.	1657 (1657)	Wing B2886; Thomason E2117_1; ESTC R212678	175,027	429

this we wait upon the Lord our God without repining murmuring or offence even in the greatest tryals or distresses Ye have heard of the patience of Job saith Saint James and have seen the end of the Lord that the Lord is very pitifull and of tender mercie Jam. 5. 11. This patience expecteth no reward but what the Lord is pleased to allow and she as willingly will wait his leisure for the performance of his gracious favour If we hope for that we see not then do we with patience wait for it saith St. Paul Rom. 8. 25. Be of good courage therefore and he shall strengthen your heart all ye that hope in the Lord as Psal 31. 24. I will not say but patience may miscarry And hope deferred may make the heart sick But this Patience of Hope in our Lord Jesus Christ who is the God of patience and of hope Rom. 15. 5 13. This verily is such a threefold cord as never can be broken And thus according to this patience we must continue and conclude the work begun by faith and laboured in by love For let this patience have her perfect work and ye shall be perfect and entire wanting nothing According to that of the Apostle Ja. 1. 4. And when our actions shall be undertaken by such a faith as onely respecteth Gods Commands and laboured in by such a love as onely affecteth Gods glory and continued by such a patience as onely expecteth Gods favour Then we may certainly assure our Souls they have brought forth the fruit of godlinesse And to confirm you further in this Rule I shall present you with some few examples Behold it first in father Abraham In that great work of offering up his son He undertakes it first by Gods command Gen. 22. 1 2. And therefore in the obedience of faith And Secondly his labour is of love of love to God For in comparison of that his love to God he loved not his Son his onely Son Thirdly his willingnesse did manifest his patience his patience of hope who against hope believed in hope saith the Apostle Rom. 4. 18. See it again in Josephs abstinence His Mistris courts him to commit a sin odious to God injurious to his Master and thereupon he could not but believe it was the minde of God he should refuse her Gen. 39. 7. 8. And here his love to God was evident How can I do this great wickednesse saith he and sin against God verse 9. And was it not a sign of Patience that he would rather suffer then accuse his lustfull Mistris or excuse his own abused innocency as verse 20. We likewise find this power of godlinesse in the three children as we use to call them In Shadrach Meshach and Abednego The king injoyns them to fall down and worship his golden image Dan. 3. 14 15. A thing quite opposite to Gods command Exod. 20. 4 5. And therefore in obedience to faith they disobey his heathenish injunction For they answered and said O Nebuchad-nezzar we are not carefull to answer thee in this matter our God whom we serve is able to deliver us from the burning fiery furnace and he will deliver us out of thine hand O King But if not be it known unto thee O King that we will not serve thy gods nor worship thy golden image which thou hast set up Dan. 3. 16 17 18. In which reply it likewise may appear they loved God more deerly then their lives Nor is their patience lesse observable in that they went to their intended torture without recanting murmuring or repining As verse 21. Yet one example more and that from Paul The author of this Rule this Golden Chain and in relation to his Ministery unto the which he was commissionated by God in Christ Acts 9. 15 16. Which is yet more exactly set forth Act. 26. 15 c. And set his matchlesse love unto his Lord in his undaunted resolution Act. 20. 22. to 26. And with what patience of hope in our Lord Jesus Christ he suffered the afflictions of the Gospel it may most perfectly appear unto us in that he gloried in such tribulation We glorie in tribulation also saith he knowing that tribulation worketh patience and patience experience and experience hope and hope maketh not ashamed c. Rom. 5. 3 4 5. Now these and every work of the like nature whether it be of doing or of suffering of speech of action or of abstinence begotten by God in the womb of faith and born unto God by the hand of love and nursed for God at the breast of patience This is the sweet fruit which the teeming Soul doth usually bring forth unto her husband to God in Christ her husband And therefore it may very well be called according unto Gods name Godlinesse or after Christs name Christianity I will not say that ever any man except the Son of God both God and Man did fully and exactly steer his course according unto these points But I say that he which failes in any one of these so far he falleth short of godlinesse And yet 't is not denied but he may be a godly man that oftentimes doth misse to shape his actions to these principles Provided that his heart be well disposed that his desires be orderly and good and his endeavours vigorous and constant A Ship at Sea may sometimes be becalm'd and sometimes weather-beaten by a storm so as she cannot keep a steady course Sometimes the winde may set so sore against her that you would think her sailing to a Coast far distant from the Port that she intendeth And yet the Pilot is a skilfull man and brings his Vessel to his wished Haven in a good hour Even so the precious Soul may sometimes want Divine assistance sometimes such a storm of strong temptations may circumvent her as may inforce her from her good desires or Satan in his malice may beset her with some such difficulties as may drive her far distant from the course of her endeavours And yet the body joyned with this Soul is a good godly person and so full both of the seed and fruit of godlinesse That he may lay a warrantable claim unto the title of eternal life as a joynt Heir with Jesus Christ his Lord through the obedience of faith and love by vertue of that Covenant of Grace For God so loved the world that he gave his onely begotten Son that whosoever believeth in him should not perish but have everlasting life FINIS The chief Heads contained in and pertaining unto this Copy of the Covenant of Grace   Page Page THe Covenanters 1. to 25. The Consideration 25. to 29. The Gift 29. to 38. The Provisoe 38. to 55. The Prevention 55. to 65. The Inheritance 65. to 93. Several Pretenders to the said Inheritance together with their Actions their Allegations and their Evidences 93. to 125. The right Heir discovered 125. to 133. His Evidence examined 133. to 200. His rich Plantation 200. to 243. His Souls affection 243. to 258. Her Profession 258. to 270. Her Inquisition 270. to 288. Her Confirmation 288. to 371. Her Satisfaction 371. to 388. Her gracious marriage 388. to 397. Her godly seed 397. ad finem Errata PAge 23. l. 3. r. in the wayes p. 54. l. 3. r. and of the gift p. 103. l. 6. r. of the Lord p. 14. l. 15. r. yet it p. 152. l. 11. r. me to do 193. l. 6. r. but in de p. 199. l. 16. r. such as p. 201. l. 4. r. find it in p. 204. l. 6 r. yet this p. 210. l. 4. r. strange flesh p. 206. l. 5. r. must not be p. 251. l. 13. r. Cant. ● 3. p. 298. l. 24. r. the praises due p. 270. l. 27. r. his prayer p. 271. l. 28. r. 1 King p. 277. l. 19. r. Son p. 281. l. 28. and 29. r. speak p. 283. l. 3. r. learns p. 284. l. 14. r. is leading p. 298. l. 4. r. if the. p. 301. l. 14. for intimated r imitated p. 302. l. 14. r. nor according p. 307. l. 6. r. this is p. 328. l. 13. r. Jo. 1. 29. p. 329. l. 21. r. and is in p. 346. l. 26. r. world lieth in p. 349. l. 2. r. drink wine p. 360. l. 8. r. Haman l. 17. r. or future p. 373. l. 15. r. wary Soul p. 381. l. 8. r. is the third p. 383. l. 19. r. and it is p. 408. l. 17. r. and see his

well qualified as none but a true Believer can rightly apprehend and therefore I will referre the censure to such a one as the onely competent Judge in this case And to the second part I answer That without doubt the Apostle did speak no other then what was dictated unto him by the Spirit of God that holy Spirit that never deluded nor deceived any man But let us take heed that we deceive not our selves by expecting other kindes or degrees of profit then the Lord in his wisdom sees to be beneficial for us Serve the Lord with all your heart and turn ye not aside for then should ye go after vaine things which cannot profit nor deliver saith Samuel 1 Sam. 12. 20. And for the promise of the life that now is or of the things belonging to the life that now is we must know that we may not be altogether our own carvers But must willingly submit our selves unto the Lord both for the time the quality and the quantity Jacob Joseph David and the Church of the Jews in general were servants and greatly distressed before they came to be Masters and men of Authority Job Mordecay and Manasseh were more prosperous in their beginning and end then in their middle age Lot Asa and Josiah seemed most unhappy in and towards the end of their dayes Yet these were all approved of God and such upon whom he bestowed very remarkable favours Neither do I remember any of Gods most successefull servants that suffered not their several interruptions or alterations in their outward happinesse either at one time or another who will appoint me the time saith the Lord Jer. 5. 44. And therefore every good Christian will say unto the Lord with the Prophet David My times are in thy hand as Psal 31. 15. Secondly for the quality Peradventure the dearest Childe of God may sometimes desire such things as are very inconvenient Hezekiah that good King desired to be renowned for his precious things his Silver and his Gold c. 2 Kings 20. 13. But it threatned the ruine of his posterity ver 18. And that godly King Josiah desired a victory over Necho King of Egypt But he sought his own destruction For thereupon he received his deaths wound in the valley of Megiddo 2 Chron. 35. 22. James and John the Sons of Zebedee and the Disciples of Christ desired that they might sit the one on his right hand and the other on his left in his glory Mar. 10. 37. But he answered ye know not what ye ask verse 38. And Peter the Apostle desired to know more of his Lords minde then his Lord was minded to reveal and was reproved with what is that to thee John 21. 22. We see here that there are mistakes among the godly But what may be expected from such as suppose that gain is godliness Truely it is to be suspected that riches honour and preferment with the like outward additions have made many seekers For all seek their own not the things which are Jesus Christs Phil. 2. 21. I will not say but a man may desire a competency or a sufficiency agreeable to his calling or condition but not primarily or principally Seek ye first the kingdom of God and his righteousnesse and all these things shall be added unto you saith Christ our Lord Mat. 6. 33. Lay hold on the substance and then doubt not of the circumstance For it is the Lord that maketh poor and maketh rich 1 Sam. 2. 7. But they that will be rich fall into temptation and a snare and into many foolish and hurtfull lusts which drown men in destruction and perdition 1 Tim. 6. 9. And lastly concerning the quantity It is a rare thing for a man to see when he hath enough we say much would have more Yet commonly the more we have the less good we do with it and the more loath we are to part from it We consume our dayes in hunting after increase and though we live never so long yet we die unsatisfied He that loveth silver shall not be satisfied mith silver nor he that loveth abundance with increase Saith the preacher Ecles 5. 10. Whereas if we could truely consider that of our Saviour where he saith A mans life or the happiness of a mans life consisteth not in the abundance of the things which he possesseth Luke 12. 15. Certainly our conversation would be more without covetousness and we should be better content with such things as we have seeing the Lord hath said I will never leave thee nor forsake thee According to that of the Apostle Heb. 13. 5. This is a sore evil under the sun yea even among the saints of God Baruch the Scribe was faithfull unto the Lord yet he desired more then the Lord was pleased to allow him And therefore the Lord sent Jeremiah to say unto him Seekest thou great things for thy self seek them not for behold I will bring evil upon all flesh saith the Lord but thy life will I give unto thee for a prey in all places whither thou goest Jer. 45. 5. I will not say but a rich man may be a true beleever But charge them that are rich in this world that they be not high minded nor trust in uncertain riches but in the living God who giveth us richly all things to enjoy That they do good that they be rich in good works ready to distribute willing to communicate laying up in store for themselves a good foundation against the time to come that they lay hold on eternall life Saith Paul to Timothy 1 Tim. 6. 17 c. Thus you see that though it is very true that godliness is profitable unto all things having promise of the life that now is yet the best of Gods people may deceive themselves either in the time the quality or the quantity And therefore it is necessary that we moderate our desires or rather that we refer them wholy to Gods all-seeing and all-searching wisdom And whosoever shall thus continue in the faith by patient waiting upon the Lord in time of Adversity and by moderating his affections in time of prosperity with this confidence that whatsoever he doth or suffereth it is all through Christ which strengtheneth him It is a very good sign that he is well rooted in Christ by faith Another sign is to be grounded in the faith If ye continue in the faith grounded c. And to be grounded in the faith I conceive is to beleeve upon good ground It is to be feared that in these last dayes these perillous times we have too many that do build their faith upon very slight and slippery grounds As upon temporary promises good success revelation traditions or self-worthiness By which they decei●e both themselves and generally all the simpler self-ended sort of people In whom the God of this world hath blinded the minds of them that beleeve not least the light of the glorious Gospel of Christ who is the image of God should