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land_n	husband_n	wife_n	writ_n	1,307	5	9.8893	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A65373	David's testament opened up in fourty sermons upon Samuel 23, 5 wherein the nature, properties, and effects of the covenant of grace are clearly held forth / by Alexander Wedderburn.	Wedderburn, Alexander, d. 1678.	1698 (1698)	Wing W1239; ESTC R26311	330,515	376

man then must give up all his Writs and Lands to another and his Right to them will be as legal as if they were made over by Disposition O how refreshing will this be then that God shal be theirs and glory theirs 2 Death as it dissolves all unions and relations made for life-time it takes away a mans Right to his Inheritance the Woman is no more bound by the Marriage covenant to her Husband death hath loosed the Contract so death comes as a curse it was inflicted in the beginning as a curse when God cursed the Man and the Serpent now a title to this Covenant makes the thing that was a curse a blessing it 's now Blessed are they that die in the Lord and all things are yours and ye are Christs 3 Consider death as it 's the March-stone betwixt time and eternity we stand as it were on the March-stone when we are going to die we are going from the one in to the other now a Title to the everlasting Covenant when we stand on the top of the stone and bids adieu to Sun and Moon Husband and Wife to Children to Lands and Possessions to bid them all adieu and claim to an interest in the Covenant and to all the priviledges if it what a special encouragement is this when a man is making his Testament he puts in nothing to himself his Lands and Possessions must go to others or to his friends and he has nothing to himself it 's remarkable Jacob when he was a dying he calls all his Children and gives them all Legacies when he was making his Testament but he puts in something for himself in one little verse in Gen. 49. Lord I have waited for thy salvation so that if ye will take a view of the Covenant as it contains the great concernments of time and eternity and what a priviledge it is to have an interest in it he that made us out of nothing might have commanded us all duties that he has commanded and annexed no more but if ye do not these duties I will eternally damn you and cast you in hell and ye shal drink of the Lake of Fire and Brimstone so long as I am God but so condescending has grace been that God hath been content to transact thus Covenant-ways and among the rest ye have this if any keep my Commandments he shal have my peace my pardon nay more he shal have my self nay more he shal have my Son and my self for all eternity now to have a Title to this everlasting Covenant when we are giving up with all our Lands and Possessions and death is loosing all Relations and when we are meeting with that which is a curse in it self then to be able to say yet he hath made with me an everlasting Covenant c. SERMON II. 2 Samuel 23.5 Although my house he not so with God yet he hath made with me an everlasting Covenant ordered in all things and sure for this is all my Salvation and all my desire although he make it not to grow THese are the last words of David the son of Jesse the sweet singer of Israel many excellent Psalms hath he penned and many sweet songs had he sung but like the nightingal that they say sings sweetliest before his death he reserves this song to be sung among his last words Although my House be not so with God yet he hath made with me an everlasting Covenant c. I proposed this general Observation from the scope of the words That the great encouragement at death and when we come to speak our last words is an interest in the everlasting Covenant I confirmed this from the tenor of the Covenant the advantages of an interest in it and from the trysting of these two together with the time of death I will only clear one Question and so apply this point Quest It may be Questioned Is not Christ the great encouragement of the Soul when we come to speak our last words and why do we ascribe this to the Covenant I thought it necessary to clear this in the entry of this noble Theme which I will do with these two considerations Answ 1. It were a very great injury to take from Christ and give to the Covenant what is his due all the lustre of the Covenant is like the Moon that borroweth its light from the Sun the Moon would be but a dark Planet except it had light derived from the Sun so all the lustre and excellency of the Covenant flows from Christ And I will open here a four-fold reference that Christ hath to the Covenant 1. He was the Purchaser of it for as much grace as there is in the Covenant there is not a promise in it but it is bought and bought at the full value how free soever it be to us they were not so to our Cautioner but all the promises of Peace of Pardon of Sanctification they stood him the price of his blood and so he is the Purchaser of the Covenant 2. He was the Mediator of the Covenant he treated it and in effect drew the Articles of it the Father when the Covenant was in treating he knew he had to do with fools that could not nor had no skill of their own writ drawing the Son was the fit person concerned in both parties therefore he has a liberty from the Father to draw the Articles of the Covenant as he pleased which he did in one of the strangest ways he satisfies the Father and abundantly satisfies us and it was difficult to satisfie both Parties but he took the difficulty on him therefore he is called Heb 12. Among the many honourable names he gets in the Bible he gets this Jesus the Mediator of the new Covenant 3. He is the surety of the Covenant Heb. 7. In so much as he was the surety of a better Tastement he is the Surety the Cautioner of a better Covenant Therefore I will offer two things in reference to this 1. He is the Cautioner for our part of the Covenant 2. For the Fathers part of the Covenant it is well Observed by one he had to do with a party that had three desects when he made the Covenant First that were Dyvors and not responsable and therefore behoved to have a Cautioner Secondly they were witless and had no skill to draw their own Writs and therefore left it to the Son to draw the Covenant Thirdly they were unbelievers and readily would not take him at his word therefore he wrote the Covenant in the blood of his Son and gave him to be Executor of all the things contained in the Covenant and that he had promised and is in a manner Surety for him therefore ye have Christ often telling his Disciples that they needed not doubt of his Fathers part of the Covenant for he had given him all power in Heaven and Earth for performing and accomplishing the Covenant so he is Surety for us Quest Ye will ask

of the Soul it is only these Covenanted that can reach the Souls interest he was indeed a fool that thought he could tell his Soul good news on the account he had his Barns full Soul take thee rest for thou hast enough laid up for many years It was good news to his Ox or his Ass but to tell it to his Soul he was a fool and the Scripture terms him so for it 's only these covenanted things that concern the Soul 2. Take notice that infinit wisdom has contrived the Covenant to be the only way of Convoyance of interests the great interest of the Soul the justification of it the Adoption of it the Sanctification of it the fellowship of it with Jesus the glorifying of it eternally they come in to the Soul no other way but by the Covenant they that talk of meriting for it or working for it or buying of it they do not understand what they say the Covenant holds out the greatest interests and the only way of attaining them and coming by them is in the Covenant way 3. Not only does this Covenant hold out the greatest interest God cannot make greater promises than he hath made to the Soul he cannot promise greater things than Himself and there is no other way for attaining them than by the Covenant So in the third place The Covenant gives sufficient security for them to speak with reverence God becomes a Debitor by vertue of his Covenant I confess there are many Divines that say they like not the word that God should be debitor to Man they think it below his Glory and Majesty yet they cannot deny but he is a Debitor in a two-fold sense 1. He is Debitor to his own faithfulness If we believe not yet he abides faithful he cannot deny himself it is not said if we believe not he cannot deny us but if we believe not he cannot deny himself he is Debitor to himself 2. It 's not denyed but he is Debitor to Christ for all the Promises of the Covenant are first made to Christ and through Christ they come to be ours as ye saw a man that makes over his inheritance to his Son and the Son marrying a woman it comes to be the womans through the Son she has right to it because of marrying the man the Father is principally if not properly Debitor to Christ for all the promises of the Covenant and he becomes Debitor to us and our right to them is like the Womans Right though the Father did not make over the Right first and principally to her but to the Son yet she has a Right to them because of marrying the Son some may scruple at that he is a Debitor to us but he is both a Debitor to his faithfulness and to his Son so that our Right to the Promises comes to be unquestionable and as fully secure as if God were a Debitor to us and if he after the promises he must both deny himself and his Son and O! what a mercy is it in such a strait as death is to have the Promises in so great assurance Now taking up the Covenant in these three respects O! what special encouragement must it be at death when all things are bidding us adieu to have our great interest by such a way of conveyance so secured as the Father must both deny himself and his Son before our Right to them be contradicted Secondly Our priviledge to have an interest in the Covenant at death will appear if ye take notice what the knowledge of an interest in the Covenant is I deny not but there may be an interest in the Covenant God may have made a Covenant with us and we know not of it yet consider what a priviledge the knowledge of an interest in the Covenant is and I will open this in three things 1. The knowledge of our interest in the Covenant in that which renders it useful for us in all the comanded Duties of the Law take for instance if ye be called to believe or love God which is the sum of the Law the ready way a Believer hath to perform this Duty is to search out some Promise and to lay it before God but unless they know their interest in the Covenant with what cheerfulness and confidence can they go to the promises I will not say as I find a certain Divine say I thought it a hard word that a person to love Christ that is not in Covenant with him is like a woman lying with another womans husband it 's a kind of adultery to love the person ye are not in Covenant with but yet the great encouragement to improve the Promise in order to performing duties is to know the Covenant to be ours otherwise with what confidence and hope can we plead the promise of help in Prayer 2. The knowledge of our interest in the Covenant is exceeding useful to bear off all temptations the great answer to challenges and fears is we are not under the Law but under Grace the truth is as a Divine observes the most part of our temptations and challenges they come from the Law the threatnings the curses the commands of the Law but the Tempter brings not our Bond against us he charge● a Believer with a Bond that he is not lyable to and the great Answer we have to them all is we are not under the Law but under Grace that is the way to bear off challenges when he presses with such a Debt thou hast broken all the precepts of the Law and thou art lyable to all the curse● thereof we may Answer thou hast taken the wrong Bond for we are not under the Law but under Grace 3. The knowledge of our interest in the Covenant lets us see ou● duty there are a number of Duties that we are called to do that ordinarly we lay quite by because of the want of the knowledge of our interest in the Covenant such as rejoycing in God delighting in God and they are the duties that are likest Glory and yet for all the commands given about them because of the want of the knowledge of our interest in the Covenant we neither can rejoyce nor delight in Him Thirdly That at all times and in all cases the knowledge of our interest in the Covenant is most necessary at death when like David we come to speak our last words it 's true it 's necessary through the whole course of our life but never more necessar than at death especially if ye take death up under a two-fold formality 1 Death is the thing that parts us and all other things a man then quites his inheritance by death he loses his legal right to it so that if there were a possibility he could come back again he would find that death had taken away his propriety to it death has taken away the propriety from Lands it loses the relation to the Husband to the Wife to the Children it parts all a