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A37065 The earnest breathings of forreign Protestants, divines & others, to the ministers and other able Christians of these three nations for a compleat body of practicall divinity ... and an essay of a modell of the said body of divinity / by J.D. ... ; together with an expedient tendered for the entertainment of strangers who are Protestants, and by their means to advance the Gospel unto their several nations and quarters ... Dury, John, 1596-1680. 1658 (1658) Wing D2855; ESTC R3545 75,860 66

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free and special grace of God conferred upon them who of his own good pleasure doth work in them by the gift of Faith both to will their conversion and to perform the same so that they are brought Free-willingly unto Christ and desire above all things to be found in him to partake of the merits of his death Concerning the Second We believe that God doth make good unto all such as by Faith are found in Christ the Tenour of his Covenant when by his grace they are justified and adopted to be his children and sanctified by the Spirit of regeneration whereby they are also sealed unto the day of their final Redemption and enabled to walk and persevere in the obedience of Faith and in the enjoyment of grace unto the end Concerning the Third We believe that all true Believers may have a comfortable assurance of their blessed estate in grace by the testimony of the Spirit of Adoption unto their conscience given them in the sincerity of their walking with God in the Covenant according to that which the Apostle saith Rom. 8. 15 16. The Spirit of adoption whereby we cry Abba Father the Spirit it self beareth witness with our spirit that we are the Children of God and a Cor. 1. 12. Our rejoycing is this the testimony of our conscience that in simplicity and godly sincerity by the grace of God we have had our conversation in the World How the Particular Tearms of the Covenant are made good to Professors IN the particular Call of Professors to entertain professedly the duties and therein to receive the Graces of the Covenant Two things are to be acknowledged wherein the Communion of Saints do consist First That such as professe the name of Jesus Christ are to be gathered together and bound to joyn themselves in one body as members one of another in Christ Secondly That they are to be perfected and built up by the work of the Ministry towards the effect of the Covenant Concerning The gathering of Professors together into one Body First We believe that to effect this the Lord hath given gifts unto men At first Apostles Prophets and Evangelists to lay the foundation of his Church and now Pastors and Teachers to build thereupon who have continued and shall continue by a lawfull Ordinary Calling unto the End of the World Secondly We believe also that the gathering together of Professors into one body is lawfully performed when they professedly give up themselves unto God through the Ministry of the Testament which Christ hath instituted and by their professed subjecting of themselves to all the Ordinances of Gods house which make the Believers as one in the Covenant with God so one with each other before the World in the profession thereof to Gods glory Concerning the perfecting and building up of the Professors as one man till they come to the measure of the stature of the fulness of Christ in the Covenant We believe that the Lord hath appointed severall administrations of the gifts of his Spirit to be used amongst them in the household of Faith some relating principally to the inward man and some to the outward man and all to be performed as the services of Love in the communion of Saints The administration of gifts relating principally to the inward man is in the duties of publick worship whereunto Professors are obliged to apply themselves by attending to the word of Prophesie and by joyning in the ordinary Sacrifices of Prayers and Praises to be offered up unto God in his house and in the extraordinary and lawfull use of an Oath and of a Lot wherein Gods presence is to be attested and petitioned when necessary matters cannot otherwise be determined The administration of gifts relating principally to the outward man is in the duties of Love belonging to the communion of Saints wherein Professors are obliged to watch over one another observing each others conversation and to supply each others wants in all things And although in some respect all are bound alike to administer their gifts to each other by themselves yet We believe that the Eldership is more especially bound to over-see the wayes of their Flocks and to make use of the Keyes of the kingdom of heaven towards them to open and shut the dore of comfort unto them as they shall find cause and that the Deaconship is more particularly obliged to consider the bodily necessities of the Saints and to distribute the Contributions of Professors to such as stand in need thereof Hitherto We have spoken of the wayes by which the Covenant is established that is to say whereby God doth offer it the Elect do embrace it and the Professors do entertain it before the World Now followeth the Reason wherefore all men are bound thus to entertain it and keep it Of the Third Wherefore all men are bound to entertain the Offer and keep the Tenor of the Covenant THe Ground and Motive wherefore all men should receive the Offer and observe the Tenor of the Covenant which God doth make with them is Twofold First because God hath now commanded all men every-where to Repent and believe the Gospel Act. 17. 30. Luk. 24. 57. Secondly because God hath appointed a Day wherein the Dead shall be raised and the World judged in righteousness by the man Jesus Christ Acts 17. 31. who will receive none into Glory but such as have kept his Covenant by Repentance and Faith and by making profession thereof before the World Hitherto We have mentioned the fundamental Heads of Faith which concern the Revealing and the establishing of the Covenant Now followeth that which concerneth the confirmation of the same Matters of Truth to be known to confirm us in the Covenant COncerning the confirmation of the Covenant two things are to be acknowledged First What God on his part doth offer to assure us of the truth of his meaning and the Reality of his purpose in the Covenant Secondly What the Believers on their part are bound to do in accepting that which God doth offer for their confirmation in the promises of the Covenant Concerning the First We believe First That God hath given unto such as he hath received into his Covenant certain Signs to represent the Reality of his Purpose to confirm the things promised in the Word and to conveigh the assurance thereof unto them thereby as badges of his special Love to them in the Profession Secondly We believe further That these Signes are appointed for three several uses in the house of God First for the Reception of Professors into Gods house to oblige them to entertain the Covenant professedly and to this effect Baptism is appointed Secondly for the maintenance and continuance of Professors in the unity of the Covenant with God and one with another to which End the Lords Supper is instituted and Thirdly for the settlement of orderly Courses and the due observation and administration of all Gods Ordinances in the house wherewith he is in