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A80141	A discourse of the true gospel blessedness in the New Covenant, or The distinction of the two Covenants, new and old, first and second. With the doing away of the first, and the establishment of the second, and likewise the mediatorship of Christ in the New Covenant, with some principles, duties, promises, and priviledges of the New Covenant. A useful companion for all saints at all times. / Written by Tho. Collier.	Collier, Thomas, fl. 1691.	1659 (1659)	Wing C5277; Thomason E1801_2; ESTC R35633	88,221	142

Nor to be conformable thereto Rom. 12. 2. Ephes 3. 17. Gal. 1. 4. Ephes 2. 2. 58. To walk so with God in this world as endeavouring to be found blameless in holiness before God our Father at the appearing of Christ 1 Cor. 1. 8. Ephes 1. 4. 1 Thes 3. 13. 2 Pet. 3. 14. 59. To put on the Lord Jesus Christ and to walk in him Rom. 13. 14. Col. 2. 6. Gal. 3. 27. 60. To give up our bodies as well as our souls to serve the Lord Rom. 12. 1. 1 Cor. 6. 20. Dan. 3. 28. because the body shall be saved as well as the soul by Jesus Christ Rom. 8. 11 23. Phil. 3. 21. 61. To set our affections on and to seek things that are above Col. 3. 1 2. 62. Holy and heavenly Meditations Psal 19. 14. and 45. 1. and 104. 34. 63. To have the word of Christ to dwell richly in us Col. 3. 16. 64. To do all our works in the name of the Lord Jesus Col. 3. 17. 1 Thes 4. 2. 1 Cor. 5. 4. 65. No man to go beyond and defraud his brother 1 Thes 4. 6. 66. To owe no man any thing but to love one another Rom. 13. 8. 67. Not to be wise in our own conceits Rom. 12. 16. 11. 25. Prov. 3. 7. 26. 12. but rather to be fools in our own eyes 1 Cor. 3. 18 19. 68. To greet one another with a kiss of love 1 Cor. 16. 20. Rom. 16 16. 2 Cor. 13. 12. 1. Pet. 5. 14. that is with a holy and hearty manifestation of love being compared with 1 Thes 5. 26. where the Apostle doth greet them with a kiss of love though at a great distance from them For salutations see Rom. 16. 69. Brethren not to go to law one with another 1 Cor. 6. 1 6. 70. Not to feast the rich but the poor Luke 14. 12. 13. 71. To observe and take notice of that Act. 15. 29. 16. 4. 72. Not to be offended in Christ Luke 7. 23. 16. 25. 73. To obey magistrates for conscience sake as it is an ordinance of God as well as for fear of punishment Rom. 13. from 1 to 6. 1 Pet. 2. 13 14 15. 74. To lend freely not looking for the like curtesie again Luke 6. 34 35. 75. To be zealously affected for the Lord his name and truth Gal. 4. 18. Tit. 2. 14. Rev. 3. 19. Numb 25. 11 13. 76. To have a respect to the whole law of Christ and to persevere therein unto the end Psal 119. 6. Joh. 8. 31. Luke 1. 5 6. Luke 9. 62. Duties of the Saints as they stand related each to other in the Church and as a Church of Christ 1. Not to forsake the assembling of themselves together but to assemble as a Church and the members to assemble with the Church as often as they may Heb. 10. 24 25. 2. To exhort one another daily to love and good works Heb. 3. 13. and 10. 24. 2 Tim. 4. 2. Acts 14. 22. and 11. 23. 3. The time for publick worship being especially the first day of the week Job 20. 19. Acts 20. 7. 1 Cor. 16. 1 2 Acts 2. 1. and was the first day of the week for this see my discourse about the sabbath and it is the duty of Saints to keep every day and week a sabbath to the Lord. 4. To walke together in love as brethren and to endeavour the peace and prosperity of the Church 1 Pet. 2. 17. 3. 8. Heb. 13. 1. Rom. 12. 9 10. 1 Thes 5. 13. 2 Cor. 13. 11. Ephes 4. 3. 5. To have fellowship together in the Lords supper viz. in breaking of bread and prayer Mat. 26. 26 27 28. Luke 22. 19. 20. Acts 2. 42. 1 Cor. 11. 23 24 25 26. 10. 16 17. 6. Not to mix in worship with those that walk contrary to the truth 2 Cor. 6. 14. 17. 2 Tim. 3. 5. Rev. 18. 4. Hos 7. 8. Nehem. 9. 2 13. 30. 7. To receive the weak but not to doubtful disputation Rom. 14. 1. that is not to inforce upon them indifferent things that lye doubtful and disputable See Rom. 14. throughout and 15. 1 2 3. 1 Cor. 8. 13. 8. To condescend one to another in subjection and to seek rather to please one another in things lawfull then to please themselves 1 Pet. 5. 5. Rom. 15. 1 2 3. 1 Cor. 10. 33. 9. To marry with such as may be judged to fear the Lord 1 Cor. 7. 39. Gen. 6. 1 2. 10. To observe the rule of Christ in dealing with an offending brother Matth. 18. 15. 2 Thes 3. 6. 1 Cor. 5. 4 5. Tit. 3. 10. 11. To have a simpathising and fellow feeling with and in each others afflictions and comforts Rom. 12. 15 16. 1 Cor. 12. 25 26. 12. To look diligently least any root of bitterness spring up and defile many Heb. 12. 15 16. and to avoid those that occasion divisions contrary to the doctrine of Christ Rom. 16. 17. 13. To withdraw from disorderly members that repent not 2 Thes 3. 6 14. 14. To reject offenders such of which there is no recovery to repentance by the means left by Christ for that end 1 Cor. 5. 4. 5. 11. Tit. 3. 10. 15. The man to have his head uncovered and the woman covered in prophecying or praying viz. the face 1 Cor. 11. 4 5 c. 16. Self examinations as at all times so particularly when they come to the supper of the Lord 1 Cor. 11. 28. 2 Cor. 13. 5. Psal 26. 2. 17. To try the spirits whether they be of God or no by the doctrine delivered 1 Joh. 4. 1. compared with the Scriptures 1 Thes 5. 21. 2 Tim. 1. 13. Isay 8. 20. 18. To lay a part every first day of the week as God hath blest for the supply of poor Saints 1 Cor. 16. 1. 19. To look diligently that there be no want in the body but that the poor be comfortably supplied and upon that count to be free in communicating 20. Every member that is of capacity to be exercised in some lawful calling 2 Thes 3. 10 11 12. 21. To help other neighbour Churches as need requires and ability hath fitted for such a work Acts 11. 28 29 30. 1 Cor. 16. 1 2 3. 2 Cor. 1. 8. 22. To restore a fallen brother in the spirit of meekness Gal. 6. 1. 23. To be much in the publick work and duty of prasing God to his name which I understand taken in speaking of him and to his praise Ephes 5. 16. Col. 3. 16. with 1 Cor. 14. 15 16. which is for one to speak to the praise of God and the rest to joyn in and say Amen as in prayer For all to sing in meeter together is that for which there is no rule in law or Gospel In the old Testament singers were appointed particularly to that work 1 Cor. 9. 33. Ezra 2. 65. Nehem. 7. 67. The popish queristers singing came nearest to this but I judge the old

bondage but of the covenant from Mount Sion which is free which is the mother of us all Let it be therefore your work by faith and hope and meditation about the grace and glory of this covenant to suck the sweetness and feed on the marrow and fatness that is freely from the father given to you in Jesus I am perswaded nay I am very much assured that the Lords poor people very often go without the comfort of the Covenant of the grace of the Gospel for want of feeding their souls thereon there is bread enough in the fathers house but there wants a will or skill to feed thereon Either want of sight of its worth or an appetite to it or else a supposition of unfitness and unworthyness occasions many a soul truly interested in the grace of the Covenant to lye short of a right improvement of their interest there and so lose the comfort and sweetness they might otherwise enjoy Here is a ground for and matter of consolation in all conditions and under all temptations be it sins and infirmities there is grace in the covenant to pardon If we confess our sins he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness If it be sence of weakness and fear of holding out to the end here is all the Attributes of God himself engaged for thy support the Promise is in Christ thou shalt be blessed See the great and Precious Promises of the new covenant to this purpose Jer. 32. 40. Isay 40. 28 29 31. 41. 10. 43. 1 2. Heb. 13 5. These with many more are the Promises of the new Covenant If it be reproach and persecution for the name of Christ or poverty or any affliction whatsoever here is Peace and spiritual content and assured Promises of the kingdom and the glory in the end If so be that we suffer with him that we may also be glorified together with him Rom. 8. 17. For those light afflictions which are but for a moment will work for us a far more exceeding eternal weight of glory while we look not at things that are seen but at things that are not seen c. And that your souls may live upon the goodness of God in this covenant of grace let it be your care to make much of the Scripture in which the Covenant is stated and held forth And acquaint your selves with the Promises of the covenant which are all but branches thereof and they are suitable to all estates and will afford assured comfort to thy soul if rightly and sutably applied And in the Promises of the Covenant if saith be rightly set on work thou wilt gather in all the Attributes of God for thy comfort goodness and love in engaging himself and interesting thee in such a Covenant Power wisdom faithfulness and justice in performing Oh here is a stable a sure Covenant Saints may draw stable and sure consolation to their own souls herein yet notwithstanding they may say with David although my house be not so with God yet he hath made with me a sure Covenant 2 Sam. 23. 5. although I am weak and frail and in my flesh dwelletb no good thing and I have cause to loath my self in mine own eyes yet God hath made with me or rather with Christ for me a sure Covenant Quest But some may say here is ground of strong consolation indeed for those that are interested in it and have a right unto it but how may I know that I have a right to this covenant that I may improve it to my comfort Answ Notwithstanding that God and Christ hath an interest in persons and that by virtue of this Covenant before they believe yet we cannot claim any interest or right before and without faith Therefore we may truly say as the Prophet Psal 41. 11. By this I know thou favourest me because mine enemies triumph not over me So I say we come to know our interest the incovenant by the work he hath wrought in us therefore hath the Lord wrought the work of faith and hope in God through Jesus Christ and this attended with self loathing and a sence of spiritual poverty and adhering to and depending upon the rich grace of God in Christ crucified and this attended with a true desire and endevour of living to God and answering of his goodness I say if this law of God be thus written by the Spirit in your hearts you may comfortably conclude your interest in the covenant For I say you must come to conclude your interest in the covenant from the work of the Spirit in you that answers the terms of the Covenant and holds harmony to what God hath promised in the covenant I say not that this work within is the ground of our being in the covenant nor the cause nor the ground of our faith but a demonstration of our interest there all is grounded upon the free and everlasting love of God in Christ Use 2. But I shall proceed to a second word of Application to the Saints interested in this covenant And that is a word of exhortation to be faithful to God in living the life of the new covenant and performing the duties thereof not onely to rejoyce in the sweetness and comfort of the covenant but likewise to be as willing to be found faithful in performing the duties of the Covenant for we are to know that God hath annexed duties to the covenant and doth as positively require and expect the performance thereof in the life of the covenant as he hath and doth work his people into a capacity thereof Therefore remember this that Gods goodness and absoluteness in the covenant no whit diminisheth the Saints duty but rather supporteth and engageth thereunto In this place I shall not come to state the particular duties but refer it till afterwards onely some general heads in which all particulars are included 1 Then to live the life of the covenant is to live the life of faith and hope in God by Jesus Christ 1 Pet. 1. 21. Heb. 10 38. now the just shall live by faith c. now that is on this side the possession of the kingdom and the glory The just shall live by faith that is in the Promises of God that relate to the kingdom and in the power strength and faithfulness of God in the covenant of his grace by which his people are preserved and kept untill that day 1 Pet. 1. 5. Who are kept by the power of God through faith unto salvation c. note that the Saints are kept by the Power of God unto salvation but it is through faith that is through their living by faith in his faithful word Hence it is that the Apostle saith Rom. 1. 16. I am not ashamed of the Gospel of Christ for it is the power of God unto salvation to every one that believeth The Gospel is the Covenant made sure and effecting its work but it is through