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lord_n	daughter_n	father_n	son_n	10,765	5	4.8829	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A29528	The saints solemne covenant vvith their God as it was opened in a sermon preached at Beccles in the countie of Suffolk, at the taking of the Nationall Covenant there, by the ministers and other officers of that division / by Ioh. Brinsley ...	Brinsley, John, 1600-1665.	1644 (1644)	Wing B4728; ESTC R19027	25,595	42

the merit of his death and obedience for the pardon of all their sins the acceptation of their persons the salvation of their souls Having thus layed their hands upon this Sacrifice now are they to make a Covenant with God a Covenant of obedience And thus may they be said to Covenant By and Over Sacrifice 2 And as Over so with Sacrifice As over this Propitiatory so with Gratulatory Sacrifice Such a Sacrifice it is the Psalmist calleth for from this Covenanting people in the fourteenth Verse of this Psalme Offer unto God thanksgiving and pay thy vows unto the most high And call upon mee in the day of trouble Verse 15. These are Evangelicall Sacrifices more worth then all the Sacrifices of the Law Prayers and Prayses And these Sacrifices must they offer up that will make a Covenant with God so making a Covenant with Sacrifice But my promise was not to give way to doctrinall Enlargements The service of the day calleth for Application which let it be directed only by way of Exhortation whereof Take these three Branches 1 That wee would all of us strike such a Covenant with our God 2 That having struck this Covenant wee would be mindfull of it 3 That being mindfull of it wee would be faithfull in it Begin with the first which putteh us all upon this act of Covenanting As many of us as desire to be owned of God as his people let us strike a Covenant a solemne Covenant with him This is that which the Prophet Ieremy saith of the children of Israel and the children of Iuda returning out of captivitie should doe and excite one an other to doe it Ier. 50. Come shall they say and let us joyne our selves to the Lord in a perpetuall Covenant that shall not be forgotten And this in the feare of God let all of us here present this day doe and encourage one another to do it Come let us joyne our selves unto the Lord in a perpetuall Covenant that shall not be forgotten Obiect Why but happily you may say what needs this Exhortation to a people that are in Covenant with God already This work is not now to doe we have all of us done it alreadie We have given up our names and wee have given up our selves unto the Lord This we have done in Baptisme and this wee have done in the Sacrament of the Lords Supper both Seals of this Covenant Thus are we a people in Covenant with God alreadie Answ. And were not the children of Israel and the children of Juda so They were a people in Covenant with God before and in their captivity being the seed of Abraham and carrying the seal of the Covenāt in their flesh Yet for all that wee finde them there taking up thoughts and resolutions of ioyning themselves to the Lord in a Covenant and that by renewing the same Covenant A practice frequent amongst the people of God in the old Testament Many instances wee meet with holding forth to us presidents for this practice the renewing of Covenant This we find the people of God doing upon divers occasions Specially in these two cases In case of Defection Affliction 1 In case of Defection when by falling away from God they had broken this Covenant Secondly In case of Affliction when having broken his Covenant the Judgements of God were out against them either present or imminent feared or felt In these cases we shall see them ordinarily applying themselves to this Remedie the renewing of Covenant Take but two instances for both the first of Asah the second of Hezekiah both obvious The former 2 Chron. 15. There you shall finde King Asah and his people making a solemne Covenant with God Verse 12. And they entred into a Covenant to seek the Lord God of their fathers withall their heart and with all their soul c. This they did and upon what occasion did they it Why at that time they stood guiltie of a great Defection so you have it Verse 3. Now for a long time Israel hath bin without the true God and without a teaching Priest and without Law A wonderfull defection And behold Affliction following it great Affliction great Distraction great vexation so it follows Verse 5. And in those times there was no peace to him that went out nor to him that came in but great vexations were upon the inhabitants of the Countries Such was their condition In this condition what course take they Why they apply themselves to this as the most sovereigne remedie They entred into a Covenant to seek the Lord their God c. The like did Hezekiah as you may see in the 29 chapter of the same Book Now it is in mine heart to make a Covenant saith Hezekiah Verse 10. Not a Personall but a Nationall Covenant And what occasioned it Why first the Kingdome at that time lay under the guilt of a great Defection The Worship of God had been neglected the Temple ruinous and polluted So you have it in the 6 and 7 Verses of that Chapter Our fathers have trespassed and done that which was evill in the eyes of the Lord our God and have forsaken him and have turned away their faces from the habitation of the Lord and turned their backs Also they have shut up the doores of the Porch and put out the Lamps and have not burnt Incense nor offered burnt offerings in the holy place unto the God of Israel Thus was the Temple-worship neglected the place unfrequented nay polluted In the fifth Verse of the Chapter Hezekiah calls for the Levits requiring them to sanctifie themselves and to sanctifie the house of the Lord and to carry forth the filthinesse out of the holy place Lying under this great Defection they were also under great Affliction So it followeth Verse 8 9. Wherefore the wrath of the Lord was upon Judah and Jerusalem and he hath delivered them unto trouble to astonishment and unto hissing For loe our Father have falne by the sword and our sonnes and our daughters and our wives are in Captivity for this Such was their present condition And hereupon it is that that worthy Reformer betakes himselfe and his people to this course the renewing of Covenant Now it is in my heart to make a Covenant c. To these instances if need were I might adde that other in the days of Nehemiah The people were generally guiltie of a great Defection So much the Levits in their names confesse and acknowledge Nehem. 9. 34 35. Wee have done wickedly Neither have our Kings nor our Princes our Priests nor our Fathers kept thy Law c. For they have not served thee in their Kingdom and in thy great goodnesse that thou gavest them and in the large and fat land which thou gavest before them That Defection was followed with great Affliction so you have in the Verses following Behold we are servants this day and for the land that thou gavest