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A16505 The rainebow, or, A sermon preached at Pauls Crosse the tenth day of Iune, 1617 by Immanuel Bourne ... Bourne, Immanuel, 1590-1672. 1617 (1617) STC 3418; ESTC S725 61,782 73

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and thou shalt liue The couenant of grace Couenant of grace was that which God made with our first parents after their fall promising them eternall life and freedome from wrath in Christ Iesus the seede of the woman shall breake the head of the serpents Genes 3. Genes 3.15 The current of this is hoc crede viues Beleeue this and thou shalt liue The corporall couenant Corporall couenant concerneth temporall benefits and this is that which God made with Noah and his sonnes and their posterity for euer and with euery liuing creature vpon the face of the earth especially aymed at by Moses in the wordes of my text It shall bee for a signe of the Couenant betweene me and the earth 1. This couenant was made betweene God and the earth that is the inhabitants of the earth with Noah and with his seede after him God then was mindfull of vs before we were borne God mindfull of vs before wee were borne mindefull of vs not in anger but in grace much more will be not be forgetfull now while we walke in the path of faith and waies of righteousnesse 2. The mercie of God farre exceeds his iustice Againe this couenant was an euerlasting couenant not to continue for a short time but to the end of the world to shew that the mercy of God doth farre exceed his iustice for the rigour of his iustice was but for a little space in once destroying the world by water but his mercy is perpetuall in the continuall preseruation thereof For a moment in mine anger haue I hid my face from thee but with euerlasting mercy haue I had compassion on thee saith the Lord of hoasts Isaiah 54 8. Isaiah 4.8 To mooue vs to relye on Gods mercy in the depth of misery and to sing with the Prophet Dauid Sorrow may indure for a night Psal 30.5 but ioy commeth in the morning To conclude The spirituall couenant the fountaine of the corporall it shall be for a signe of the couenant betweene mee and the earth Of this couenant the Rainbow was a seale and as it sealeth this couenant so it signes in this that eternall couenant of God with his Church Ferus in Genes which is the fountaine and foundation of this Pactum hoc cum Noe praefigurauit faedus Christi cum Ecclesia saith one This couenant with Noah did prefigure that couenant of Christ with his Church spoken of Isaiah 54.10 Isaiah 54.10 Iris designat Christum qui est signum reconciliationis perfectae The Rainbow doeth figure Christ who is a figure of our perfect reconciliation a signe of our eternall friendship with God the Father and an euerlasting memoriall of our peace Christ the mysticall rainbow an euerlasting memoriall of our peace For although the Rainebowe the outward signe shall passe away with clouds yet notwithstanding the couenant of which it is a signe the memorial of our redemption that shall remaine for euer in the sight of God the Father and be visible in the flesh of his Sonne in the charactars of the wounds of his hands of his feete and of his side by which hee procured our most happie and endlesse peace Rom. 5.1 Actes 10.36 Ephes 1.6 Hebr. 1.14 Isaiah 11.6 Acts 4.32 Luke 2.29 Phil. 4.7 Ecclus. 2.14 peace with God the Father yea with the blessed Trinitie peace with the blessed and glorious Angels blessed and happy peace one Christian with another And last of all but not least of all peace of conscience which passeth all vnderstanding Which happy and endlesse peace with God the Father with the blessed Trinitie the glorious Angels the blessed Saints and our owne consciences with euerlasting blessednesse for euer God of thy endlesse mercie and most infinite grace graunt vnto vs to thy whole Church to euery one of thy faithfull seruants for the vnspeakeable loue and inestimable merits of thy deare Sonne our blessed Sauiour To whom with thee and the holy and most blessed Spirit one God in Trinitie and Trinitie in Vnitie be ascribed all honour glorie and power all might maiestie and dominion this day and for euermore Amen 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉