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A35172 KelaŹ» le-dor a compend of the covenant of grace as the most solid support under the most terrible conflicts of death, though arm'd with desertion, decay of grace, and sense of guilt / by Walter Cross. Cross, Walter, M.A. 1693 (1693) Wing C7258; ESTC R27629 28,536 34

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Conveyance and gives a Right to them And hence 3. It ●●●●s the Soul with assur'd Hope of them Rom. 8.23 We are sav'd by Hope For the third thing the proof of this the proof of the latter contains the former as the greater Blessing doth the lesser Man can never have his desire satisfi'd untill he be fav'd And indeed the Disease of Hunger and uneasie craving will also be remov'd when we are sav'd For such a desire is a great piece of Misery But a plenteous Redemption will bring a plentiful Salvation the fulness of Grace and Truth that is in Christ will remove the Emptiness of the Creature and all is contained in the Covenant 1. All that is in the Earth is promised Gold Silver fine Linnen Feasts of fat things Honey 2 Cor. 3. All things are yours God thinks not this Old World good enough therefore he will make it New for them 2 Pet. 3. Rom. 8. 2. Heaven also and all that is in it and this is more than we desire we would never have dream'd of it if the Promises had not contain'd it and given some preventive discovery For Eye hath not seen nor Ear heard nor hath it entred into the Heart of Man to consider what c. Isa 64.4 3. All in God I am thy God contains more than any man can infer from it Who would have dream'd of concluding a Resurrection out of it Mat. 22.32 Christ being ours contains all our Salvation and God being ours contains all our Desire they are both ours by vertue of this Covenant that contains a Covenant of Peace and War they are offensive and defensive with us all our Enemies theirs Omnipotency is on our side In a Covenant of Traffick and Commerce all they have in their All-sufficiency by sending of our Prayers the Ships of Desire may be obtain'd freely In a Marriage Covenant There will I give thee my Loves that is beyond all It is on this account Gen. 33.9.11 that Jacob retorts on Esau's Enough I have All because God was his God thô Esau more Riches The English wrong the word translating it Enough I shall conclude this with these Motives 1. We may do it 2. We must do it as a Duty and a Mean 3. Whenever we doe God accepts Heb. 8. Deut. 26.17 It would never enter into our Hearts without his Spirit Our saying I am thine is but the Echo of his Voice 4. God delights in it Jer. 30.24 5. We can do it 1. From Ability already received It is a true Article of the Synod of Dort That every Man may do more good than he does though we have no spiritual Power by Nature and I doubt much whether any Moral Power either For there is a great difference between what Man actually is by Heavens common Gifts and what Man is by Nature All the External Ordinances of Religion lye under our Power abstaining from External Vices Lying Swearing Murther Adultery else the Magistrate could not justly punish Criminals We may as Job make a Covenant with our Eyes and so with all our Senses and Organs that lye under the power of our Will when restraint is removed from Conscience often they lye under our Power to employ them about things that tend to our Souls good We can covenant to do what is within our Power to God as well as we do to Men and would we have God to work Miracies where there is no need to exercise a Supernatural Power where Natural Powers can do Which were to disorder the Harmonious Method of his beautiful Providence to work Extraordinary in us what Ordinary assistance can do He has promised Special Grace on our engaging in this Phil. 2.12 13. Work out your own Salvation c. and I will work in you c. He commands that we should try him in this very point Mal. 3.10 Prove me now herewith saith the Lord of Hosts All Believers have set their Probatum to it that God was always faithful to his Promise 2. Because we engage not in our Own strength Isa 45.24 Surely shall one say In the Lord have I Righteousness and Strength Christ is Man as well as God and in his Office as Mediator he stands on our side as well as Gods Behold I and the Children which God hath given me He is called the whole Covenant Himself Isa 42.6 * Gillespy on the Covenant p. 467. In Practicals we commonly fall short in giving Christ his own room in the Covenant 1. He is the Root and Original of it We ought not to deal with God as if it had its first rise when it first entred into our Heart 2. He is the principal Party we should not drudge him after us as an Assistant and we the principal Creditors of the Promises and the principal Debtors of Duty Isa 59.21 If we give Christ his own place we will find Covenanting with God an easie and comfortable thing The Lord grant we may find it so Amen FINIS
difference that was between him and any other Man in Matter of Religion It was the Awe of God upon Conscience that extorted the Truth out of it and I have heard Free-willers pray as inconsistently with their own Profession which made me have far more Charity to their Persons than their Principles But 2. Thy Condition is like the Lepers at the gate of Samaria thou art sure to starve if out of Covenant and art sure to sin against God out of Covenant in every thing thou dost but thou hast a May-be for it if thou fly to this Refuge and lay hold of the Covenant and dost not thou think that if God spoke immediately from Heaven to thee in a time of Plague Famine Sword or Sickness and say May be thou shalt be safe in such a Place that thou wouldst speedily fly to such an Asylum But we have more encouragement the King already holding out the Scepter and declaring his readiness to accept Imperfect Performance that we may approach with greater Courage than an Esther before her Ahasuerus Sixthly It is such an Encouragement at Death when all other Comforts prove as broken Cisterns without Water Thou hast made with me a Covenant is a Shete-Anchor of Hope and so much the more when they have had the Verdict of a Society of grave serious and experienc'd Christians that their Covenanting was not formal and hypocritical but sincere and accepted of God that the temper of Mind it was performed with could be the Effect of no less Author than the Spirit of God the Birth bespoke its Father to be Heavenly when each of that Company of sagacious Saints witness'd that it was on the same Bottom their Hopes were built and that their Souls were all in a like Condition in the same Bundle of Life and this not without a Minister of the Word holding that Glass before their Face wherein they might see their Language to be a Copy of that Original and that this Harvest was from the Seed of the Word This has prov'd to many the sweetest and strongest Cordial they had at Death and there is ground to judge the Consolation solid since Mat. 18. Christ has declar'd what they loose on Earth he would in Heaven what they agreed about to ask he would grant and such a Verdict is not pass'd without serious Prayer to God in the Name of Christ for a Judgment of Discerning in that present affair Is this the thing that discourages People from Joyning unto Churches of such a Constitution that becomes so much matter of Comfort and Encouragement at the hour of Death Who that are seriously concern'd about their own Salvation would want such an Ordinance of Tryal I think it is the Reverend Mr. Ba. who advises Persons to write the Condition of their Soul and desire some Ministers or understanding Christians Verdict of it But I think this Verdict is preferable on several Accompts 1. As much as the Verdict of many is before the Judgment of one or a Church before a single person's 2. As much as a Divine Ordinance that has such Promises of the Spirits Conduct Mat. 18. before a humane Help and Expedient That which indeed first recommended it to me was a Gentlewoman on her Death-bed who bewail'd David-like her want of growth much and had this complex Evidence alone left which she improved much more pathetically than I have here express'd it I have found it the Experience of three more since in the like condition tho not under such backsliding or desertion The Third Property is the Graciousness of the Covenant The word gracious is not in the Text nor is it any where in Scripture verbally the Epithet of this Covenant tho most usual among Divines and there is reason enough for it for a Covenant cannot be made between the Creator and Creature without a gracious condescendency and therefore some will not allow the Law of Works to bear the Name of a Covenant because there cannot be a Covenant and not of Grace Persons that have a Despotick Power as a Master over a Slave or a Father over a Child will not enter into Terms with them The end of a Covenant is to bring Persons under Obligation that are free and therefore Kings love not to hear of Covenant terms between them and their People Now Gods antecedent Right being Soveraign and absolutely founded on Creation it 's rather a giving away his Right than getting one Thy Maker is thy Husband contains a Miracle of Grace in it 2. It s being a Testament this famous Name gives Title to all the Bible the Old and New Testament This is the Nature of a Testament it can Convey nothing but what is good Priviledges but no Punishments All things that are Convey'd are Tokens Legacies Estate or Inheritance if any hard Condition be annexed the Person is not Obliged to accept so must be gracious by its being a Testament but how much more if we consider it as summ'd up by Christ from John 12. to 18. ch He leaves the Father our Tutor and Guardian the Holy Ghost Executor Heaven as an Inheritance Measures of Grace as Legacies Joy and Peace as Love-Tokens he leaves us under the Notion of Babes that cannot Forfeit their Estate without their Executor and Guardians consent which is impossible therefore in this sence true He that is born of God cannot sin 3. It 's gracious because so full of Promises Gal. 3.6.17 it 's call'd a Command and a Law too Ps 111.10 who hath commanded his Covenant for ever because all the Law that is holy just and good is still required in it being unchangeable in their Nature but now Grace shines in their being put in this Covenant where Grace is promised to enable and strengthen us to obey We are under all the Law Mat. 5. Christ came not to destroy it and our Condition enlarges the Duties of the Law mixes Humility with Sorrow Obedience with Repentance and so the new Discoveries of God by the Gospel enlarges the Objects of Faith Ye believe in God belive also in me And our Obligation is greater as a Married Woman is more obliged to Chastity than a Virgin and Moses's Nurse more obliged than another Nurse because also a Mother But there is so much Grace in the Promises that overballances all this 1. The mixing or joining of Christ's Works with ours the Covenant of Grace and Redemption together supply the Place of the broken Covenant of Works Hence our Imperfect Obedience if in Faith is accepted for perfect the Will for the Deed. Nathan says to David Because it was in thine Heart to build to me a House I will build to thee a sure House it admits of Repentance to supply the Place of Obedience it gives strength to Obey this Uniting of the Command and the Promise makes it appear Conditional but the Certainty and Ability to perform the Conditions both depending upon the Promises takes away the proper Nature of a Condition whose Properties