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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A80637	A treatise of the covenant of grace, as it is dispensed to the elect seed, effectually unto salvation. Being the substance of divers sermons preached upon Act. 7. 8. / by that eminently holy and judicious man of God, Mr. John Cotton, teacher of the church at Boston in N.E.	Cotton, John, 1584-1652.	1659 (1659)	Wing C6465; Thomason E1920_2; ESTC R209963	152,585	277

As it is Dispensed to the Elect Seed effectually unto Salvation Act. 7.8 the former part of the verse And he gave him the Covenant of Circumcision THis blessed servant of God Steven being called to account concerning what he had said touching Jesus Christ his destroying the Temple it is the scope of his whole Discourse throughout this Chapter to justifie the Doctrine that he had taught that though he had taught Jesus of Nazareth should destroy that place yet in so teaching he taught no Blasphemy And this he doth in an Historical Narration make clear and evident 1. From the sweet Communion which their Fathers had with God before either Temple or Tabernacle was built and if so then he would not have them look at it as unsafe for them or as an utter ruine to Religion if that both the Temple and the Ordinances of the Temple were destroyed in themselves and fulfilled in Him Three passages of Abrahams communion with God Steven doth relate and maintain that he had them before any of Moses his Customes were known 1. God did effectually call him which call he did also obey 2 3 4. ver though as yet he knew no Circumcision 2. God giveth him a trial of his Faith wherein he found Abraham faithful 5 6 7. verses God promised to give him the land of Canaan for a Possession but he gave him not a foots breadth He promised to give it unto his Seed when as yet he had no childe and when God gave him Seed yet they should sojourn in a strange Land and be in Bondage four hundred years 3. God gave him the Covenant of Circumcision in the words of the Text. And Abraham in the strength of the Blessing of God begat Isaac and circumcised him according to Gods direction and all this before Moses gave any Ordinances unto them to keep and before either Temple or Tabernacle was built From hence we have heard that the soul may have very spiritual and gracious communion with God before it partake in any seal of Church-fellowship For Abrahams Faith was throughly tryed before he had the Seal of Church-Covenant given him We heard also this propounded which is the words of the Text that God gave unto Abraham the Covenant of Circumcision which Doctrine doth imply in it four principal parts all of them serving to clear Stevens meaning 1. The Author and manner of dispensing it God gave so it was by Gift 2. The Articles of it and they are to be inquired into 3. The Confederates and they are expressed God on the one side and Abraham and his Seed on the other side 4. The Seal of it Circumcision which was also the Seal of Church-Covenant These four parts do yeeld so many Notes the first of them was spoken unto in the last point formerly handled Now for the second and third parts to wit the Articles of the Covenant and the Confederates we comprehend them both in this one Note That in the Covenant which God made with Abraham Doct. God gave himself to be a God to Abraham and to his Seed and received Abraham and his Seed to be a People unto himself and the chiefest of this seed the Lord Jesus Christ he took to be the Mediator or Surety of this Covenant between them both This is the sum of the Articles and of the Confederates what the Articles be is not here mentioned but Gen. 17.7 they be for to speak of Circumcision before the Covenant it is but a seal to a blank where the Lord expresseth himself thus saying I will stablish my Covenant between me and thee and thy seed after thee in their generations for an everlasting Covenant to be a God unto thee and to thy seed after thee As for other parts of the Covenant they were more properly given unto himself as to be exceeding fruitful and to be the Father of many Nations to inherit the land of Canaan c. those things were more peculiarly proper unto Abraham though they have also a moral and universal use and force in all the Faithful whom the Lord doth make fruitful and giveth them a Nail in his Tabernacle In the Covenant these three things are implied 1. God gave himself to be a God unto Abraham and to his Seed this is such an Argument as the strength and wisdome of men and angels cannot unfold It is a Catechism-point and by way of Catechism to be opened as the Lord hath revealed it I mean plainly and familiarly 2 God did receive Abraham and his Seed to be his People this is implyed and necessarily inferred by the rule of Relatives for if God do give himself to be a God to Abraham and to his Seed and doth not firstly require it of Abraham and of his Seed that they should give up themselves to be his People then it must of necessity follow that the Lord will undertake to receive them to be a People unto himself and so he will perform both his own part of the Covenant and Abrahams part also according to what we read Deut. 7.6 7 8. The Lord thy God hath chosen thee to be a special People unto himself Not because ye were in number more then any people for ye were the fewest of all people but because he loved you and would keep the Oath we● he had sworn unto your fathers therefore hath be brought you out with a mighty hand c. when as they were in a land of Idols and the Lord lifted up his hand to have destroyed them there yet he remembred and wrought for his own Names sake So that though they were far off yet the Lord to make good his Covenant brought them out of Aegypt and so from one Covenant to another by all which things it doth appear that the Lord will keep our part of the Covenant also and this is necessarily implied in that he promiseth to be a God unto Abraham and to his Seed and there is no Restipulation on Abrahams part we see this likewise held forth Deut. 29.1 13. where the Lord entereth into another Covenant with them in the land of Moab besides the Covenant which he made with them in Horeb and in this Covenant he doth establish them to be a People unto himself as well as give himself unto them to be their God ver 13. And as God required it of them to circumcise the outward man even the foreskin of their children so he will also circumcise them taking possession of them and circumcising their hearts taking away the stoniness of them and so fitting them to be a Temple for himself to dwell in 3. The Lord in this Covenant taketh the chiefest of Abrahams Seed even the Lord Jesus Christ to be the Mediator and Surety of the Covenant and unto him do all the Promises belong so the Apostle doth expound it Gal. 3.16 Unto Abraham and to his seed were the Promises made He saith not And to his seeds as of many but as of one And to thy seed