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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
faith_n	abraham_n	circumcision_n	seal_n	9,205	5	9.6285	5	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A29699	Paradice opened, or, The secreets, mysteries, and rarities of divine love, of infinite wisdom, and of wonderful counsel laid open to publick view also, the covenant of grace, and the high and glorious transactions of the Father and the Son in the covenant of redemption opened and improved at large, with the resolution of divers important questions and cases concerning both covenants ... : being the second and last part of The golden key / by Thomas Brooks ...; Golden key to open hidden treasures. Part 2	Brooks, Thomas, 1608-1680.	1675 (1675)	Wing B4953; ESTC R11759	249,733	284

creature by vertue of the Covenant and according to the Covenant By the blood of the Covenant Luk 16. 24 25. believers are delivered from the infernal pit where there is not so much water as might cool Dives his tongue and by the blood of the Covenant they are delivered from those deaths and dangers that do surround 2 Cor. 1. 8 9 10. them When sincere Christians fall into desperate distresses and most deadly dangers yet they are prisoners of hope and may look for deliverance by the blood of the Covenant this does sufficiently evince a Covenant betwixt God and his people But Fifthly God has threatned severely to avenge and punish the quarrel of his Covenant Levit. 26. 25. And I Deut. 29. 20 21 24 25. cap. 31. 20 21. J●s● 7. 11 12 15. cap. 23. 15 16. Ju●● ● 20. 2 King 18 9 10 11 12. will bring a sword upon you that shall avenge the quarrel of my covenant or which shall avenge the vengeance of the Covenant c. consult the Scriptures in the m●●ge●t Breach of Covenant betwixt God and man breaks the peace and breeds a quarrel betwixt them in which he will take vengeance of man's revolt except there be repentance on man's side and pardoning grace on his For breach of Covenant Jerusalem is long since laid waste and the seven golden candlesticks broken in pieces and many others this day lie a bleeding in the Nations who have made no more of breaking Covenant with the great God than if therein they had to do with poor mortals with dust and ashes like themselves Now how can there be such a sin as breach of Covenant for which God will be avenged if there were no Covenant betwixt God and his people But Sixthly The seals of the Covenant are given to God's people Now to those to whom the seals of the Covenant I● reason the Cove●ant and the S●●ls must go together Were it no● a fond and foolish thing in any man to make a Covenant with ●●e and to gi●e the seals to ano 〈…〉 In Equity and Justice the Co●enant and Seals must go to the same persons are given with them is the Covenant mad● for the seals of the Covenant and the Covenant go to the same persons But the seals of the Covenant are given to believers Abraham receives the sign of circumcision a seal of the righteousness of faith Rom. 4. 11. Ergo the Covenant is made with believers Circumcision is a sign in regard of the thing signified and a seal in regard of the Covenant made betwixt God and man Seal is a borrowed word taken from Kings and Princes who add their broad seal or privy seal to ratifie and confirm the Leagues Edicts Grants Covenants Charters that are made with their Subjects or Confederates God had made a Covenant with Abraham and by circumcision signs and seals up that Covenant But Seventhly The people of God are said sometimes to keep Covenant with God Psal 25. 10. All the paths of the Lord are mercy and truth unto such as keep his covenant and his testimonies Mercies flowing in upon us through the Covenant are of all mercies the most soul-satisfying soul-refreshing soul cheering mercies yea they are the very cream of mercy Oh how well is it with that Saint that can look upon every mercy as a present sent him from heaven by vertue of the Covenant Oh this sweetens every drop and sip and crust and crum of mercy that a Christian enjoys that all flows in upon him through the Covenant The promise last cited is a very sweet choice precious promise a promise more worth than all the riches of the Indies Mark All the paths of the Lord to his people they are not only mercy but they are mercy and truth that is they are sure mercies that stream in upon them through the Covenant Solomon's dinner Prov. 15. 17. D●● 1. 12. John 6. 9. of green herbs Daniel's pulse Barley loaves and a sew fishes swimming in upon a Christian through the New Covenant are far better greater and sweeter mercies than all those great things are that flow in upon the great men of the world through that general providence that feeds the birds of the air and the beasts of the field Psal 44. 17. Yet have we not forgotten thee neither have we dealt falsely in thy covenant that is We have kept Covenant with thee by endeavouring to the uttermost of our power to keep off from the breach of thy Covenant and to live up to the duties of thy Covenant suitable to that of the Prophet Micah We will walk in the name of the Lord our Mi●ha 4. 5. God for ever and ever Persons in Covenant with God will not only take a turn or two in his ways as Temporaries and Hypocrites do who are hot at hand but soon tire and give in but they will hold on in a course of holiness Rev 14. 4. and not fail to follow the Lamb withersoever he Cap. 17. 14. goes Psal 103. 17. The mercy of the Lord is from everlasting to everlasting vers 18. To such as keep his Covenant c. All sincere Christians they keep Covenant with God 1. In respect of their cordial desires to keep Covenant ●●em 1. ult 〈…〉 119. 133. Psal 39. 1 2. with God 2. In respect of their habitual purposes and resolutions to keep Covenant with God 3. In respect of their habitual and constant endeavours to keep Covenant with God This is an Evangelical and incompleat keeping Covenant with God which in Christ God owns and accepts and is as well pleased with it as he was with Adam's keeping of Covenant with him before his fall From what has been said we may thus argue Those that keep Covenant with God those are in Covenant with God those have made a Covenant with God But all sincer● Christians they do keep Covenant with God Ergo But Eighthly a●d lastly The Lord hath by many choice precious and pathetical promises engaged himself to make 2 Pet. 1. 4. good that blessed Covenant that he has made with his people yea with his choice and chosen ones take a few instances If ye hearken to these judgments saith God to Deut. 7. 12. Israel and keep and do them The Lord thy God shall keep unto thee the covenant and the mercy which he sware unto Under the name Ju●gments th● Commandments and Statutes of God are contained thy fathers This blessed Covenant is grounded upon God's free grace and therefore in recompencing their obedience God hath a respect to his own mercy and not to their merits So Judg. 2. 1. I made you to go up out of Egypt and have brought you into the land which I sware unto your fathers and I said I will never break my covenant with you God is a God of mercy and his Covenant with his people is a Covenant of mercy and therefore he will be sure to keep touch with