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A96684	God a Christian's choice, compleated by particular covenanting with God Together with an appendix, containing propositions, tending to clear up the lawfulness, and expediency of transacting with God in that way. In pursuit of a design proposed by Mr. R.A. in his book entituled, The vindication of Godliness. And by Mr. Tho. Vincent, in his book, called Words whereby we may be saved. To which is added, a brief discovery of the nearness of such a people unto God, on Psal. 148. 14. By Samuel VVinney, sometimes minister of the gospel at Glaston in Somersetshire.	Winney, Samuel.	1675 (1675)	Wing W3034; ESTC R231145	79,544	241

Arguments but of ordinary reason for the capacity of any that may desire Satisfaction 1. It is lawful and warrantable to transact with God in a particular and personal way because every person is bound by a particular Faith to apply the Promises to himself in particular that are proposed in general to all yea some Promises that are made to some particular persons in reference to some particular matters are yet by the Holy Ghost extended to all and offered to and to be applyed by every Christian thus Joshua was not to carry away and impropriate to himself all the benefit of the Promise made to him about Gods being with him and not failing nor forsaking him Josh 1.5 Compared with Heb. 13.5 where the Apostle extends it to all and yet seem thereby to apply it to every particular Christian● I will never leave thee nor forsake thee Ther 's the particular application of that Promise made at first to Joshua to every particular Christians exigence ver 6. Wherefore we may boldly say viz. All Collectively and each one singlely in his own behalf and for his own especial behoof the Lord is my helper c. And if so why should not sith the Covenant is mutually and reciprocally obligatory there be a particular resignation made by every Christian of himself to God 2. If I am bound in particular by every Command then I ought and may lawfully give my assent thereto in word or writing either or both That command reacheth every particular Christian Rom. 6.13 yield your selves unto God 3. Where there was a general vocal assenting stipulation made to God and at any time an answer made to his call there were also the particulars implyed or exprest or both So before Exod. 19.20 and 24. Chap. It is said all the people answered together and all the people answered with one voice So Deut. 5.27 28. It is not said their Heads only or Officers or Elders but all the people with an express mention of their voices Yea further we shall see the people expresly mentioned and distinctly from all these Josh 24.1 2. with 16.17 c. 4. Because the benefits of the blood of the Lord Jesus Christ which is called the Blood of the Covenant Zech. 9.11 which are also the benefits of the Covenant of grace for both are one are applyed in particular by Gods Saints in Scripture see Gal. 2.20 I am crucified with Christ nevertheless I live yet not I but Christ liveth in me and the life which I now live in the flesh I live by the faith of the Son of God who loved me and gave himself for me The like the Apostle speaks Rom. 8.2 for the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus hath made me free from the law of sin and death 5. David's Prayer may give a little light to this truth which he makes and we may read recorded Psal 35.3 Say unto my Soul I am thy Salvation Wherein David desires God to say to him in this kind in particular then certainly it may not be unwarrantable for Gods people to deal with God in reserence to their particular Interest in God and consequently in the Covenant 6. It 's Considerable how much Gods transaction with the Sons of men in this kind and way is spoken of and uttered in the terms and under the notion of single and particular persons 1. They were particularly numbred out to Jesus Christ and accordingly returned by tale as I may say to the Father by the Son John 17.12 Those thou gavest me I have kept and none of them is lost but the Son of perdition c. 2 One shall say and another shall subscribe not some and others in the plural number but one and another in the singular number 3. In the precepts of the moral law at mount Sinai which all sound Divines hold acknowledg to be a Covenant of grace with Israel Exod. 20. the Lord speaks particularly thou shalt and thou shalt not not ye but thou 4. The Covenant with Christ Mystical mentioned Gal. 3.16 is expressed in Terms of particularity Now to Abraham and his Seed were the Promises made he saith not and to his Seeds as of many but as of one and to thy Seed which is Christ now though by Christ here is not meant Christ's single person but Christ mystical a collective term As 1 Cor. 12.12 So also is Christ that is Christ's mystical body of which he is the Head yet this may shew and point out to us by Analogy and proportion that every believer hath interest in and should accordingly make particular application of the whole of the Covenant unto themselves 7. Because the Holy Ghost warranteth this in his own expression See 1 Cor. 12.27 Now ye are the body of Christ and members in particular Our transacting with God this way is to that end and purpose that we may make sure of an interest in him and our union and relation to the Lord Jesus Christ to our selves in particular If the Holy Ghost is so particular in this kind surely we may not onely be so but much more ought to be so 8. If the Devil in the Covenants he makes with persons doth make every particular person subscribe with his hand yea and some I have heard or read or both with their own blood their resignation of themselves to him in that hellish bond they are tyed to him in may we not then yea how much more are we bound to deal particularly with God to make him sure to us and our selves sure to him 9. The expressions and resemblances by which this Covenanting with God is set forth do imply and import as much as this is 1. It is resembled to a marriage-Covenant Hos 2.16 thou shalt call me Ishj that is my husband and ver 19. I will betroth thee unto me for ever yea I will betroth thee unto me in righteousness c. ver 20. I will hetroth thee unto me in faithfulness c. Now God is our husband Isa 54.5 thy maker is thy husband c. And doth the husband in the mariage Covenant for that is called a Covenant also the wife married is called the wife of thy Covenant viz. by marriage Mal. 2.14 the marriage knot and obligation is called the Covenant of God Prov. 2.17 only promise to be a loving faithful husband and no more Surely this is but half-marriage the promise of the one party or rather doth not the wise also engage by word of mouth that she will be a loving faithful and obedient wife and then the marriage is full and compleat In like manner as God the husband of his people promiseth to be their God so the espoused Soul promiseth to be only for God and Jesus Christ and for none else and this ought every particular Soul to do which is the spouse of the Lord Jesus I have betrothed you unto one husband saith the Apostle Paul * Conversion is the Soul's Espousal 2 Cor. 11.

Gal. 5.17 Flesh lusteth against the Spirit yet being * Eph. 3.16 strengthned with might by thy Spirit in the inner man will † Eph. 6.12 wrestle against Sin Satan and the World yea all manner of wickedness whatsoever * 1 Tim 6.12 fighting the good fight of Faith till I lay hold on the possession of eternal life † 2 Tim● 4.8 having finished my course and obtain'd the Crown of righteousness which thou hast promised Yet sith there is no man * Eccle● 7.20 that liveth and sinneth not I do in thy holy presence protest against any contrived allowed sin whereby I shall † Ps●● 18.21 wickedly depart from my God and that though of force I do and shall in part while I am in this body * Rom. 〈◊〉 25. with my flesh serve the law of sin yet with my mind will I serve the law of God wholly and for ever Now the † Josh 22.22 Lord God of Gods the * Jer. 17.10 searcher of the hearts and tryer of the reins † Psal 139.23 24. search me and try me and if their be any way of wickedness in me lead me in the way everlasting sith thou * Psal 119.4 commandest me to keep thy precepts diligently † Psal 27.8 my heart saith unto thee * Psal 119.5 Oh that my waies were directed to keep thy statutes therefore will I † Deut. 26.16 keep and do them with all mine heart and all my Soul Blessed God I desire to * Phil. 4.4 rejoice in thee and in the † 2 Chron. 15.15 Oath and Covenant made with thee this I do in the truth and uprightness of my heart as I have chosen so I desire to prize thee above all * Ps 73.25 Whom have I in Heaven but thee and there is none on Earth that I desire besides thee † Song 6.3 I am my beloved's and my beloved is mine * Psal 16.6 The lines are fallen to me in pleasant places yea I have a goodly heritage † Eph. 1.4 5. Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ who hath chosen me in him before the Foundation of the World * Rev. 5.9 10. Blessing Honour and Glory be given to the Lamb for ever who was slain and hast redeemed me to God by thy blood † Zech. 9.11 the blood of the Covenant Blessed be the eternal Spirit who hast * Gen. 1.2 moved my heart to enter into this solemn relation and obligation unto God † Deut. 7.9 29.9 The Lord my God the faithful God which keepeth Covenant and Mercy to them that Love him and keep his Commandments keep to me the Covenant and the Mercy and Confirm it to the end and strengthen me so with thy Grace that I may keep the words of this Covenant and do them and this Covenant made this day with my God let not any thing Sin Satan World Life nor Death disannul but let it be confirmed to all Eternity Amen Amen FINIS AN APPENDIX Containing PROPOSITIONS Evidencing Not only the warrantableness but expediency of transacting with God in a particular express Covenant-way Written at first for the satisfaction of a private friend now published at the request of some others and for the benefit and advnatage of any that shall peruse them By SAMUEL VVINNEY sometimes Minister of the Gospel at Glaston in Somersetshire London Printed for Thomas Cockeril at the Atlas in Cornhil near the Royal Exchange 1675. To the Reader Courteous Reader THere being lately extant a worthy Treatise of a Reverend Divine called Vindiciae Pietatis written by Mr. R. A. pressing to a strict and precise Conversation and in it giving advice to persons not yet in Covenant to come in and compleat all by Solemn Covenanting with God I most gladly sweetly and delightfully viewed the design and meeting with the doubts of some person a pretious Servant of God and my dear and intimate friend about the warrantableness of that way because I my self was so much affected with the thing did set my self upon his request and letter to me seriously to seek what warrant Gods word afforded to it and at some spare-hours in some few days of vacation from my incumbring and tedious imployment drew up the following Propositions tending to the evidence thereof hoping that either the author of the forenamed treatise or some person else whose Graces Abilities and Leisure are greater than mine may be stirred up more fully to clear it The Lord grant that whosoever may peruse them may have the same comfort and benefit thereby as the Author that composed them and now through the importunity of others made them publick Amen Certain PROPOSITIONS tending to the clearing of a Question and Satisfaction of some doubts about particular express entring into Covenant with God Prop. I. THat God hath of his own good pleasure from all eternity elected so me to everlasting life 1 Pet. 1.2 Elect according to the foreknowledg of God Eph. 1.4 According as he hath chosen us in him before the Foundation of the World Prop. II. That God did from all eternity ransact the business of the Salvation of these elected persons between himself and his Son Jesus Christ God gave every one of those whom he would have mercy on to Jesus Christ to the intent that he might deliver them all and every one of them out of the estate of sin and misery which they should implunge themselves into by the fall of Ad●m and the Son he accepts of this work of Salvation and Redemption of them by his own death to be accomplished in the fulness of time and this by Divines is called the Covenant of Redemption Prop. III. That besides the Covenant transacted between the Father and the Son about the Redemption and Salvation of the elect from all eternity God he enters into a Covenant of Grace with the persons themselves that are elected in due time which yet is a consequent of the former For if Christ had never undertaken or accepted of the terms in that Covenant of Redemption before time there had been no Covenant of Grace in time with the Elect themselves Prop. IV. This Covenant between God and his people is mutual and stipulatory that is obligeth God to speak with due reverence of so great a Majesty and also obligeth all and every the persons of his people taken into it wherein as God graciously doth promise to be their God to be good and kind unto them yea to be all to them and do all for them which shall be for present and future temporal spiritual and eternal good so are they answerably bound to become his people for their part and so to live before God as his people in Faith Repentance Holiness and Obedience all their daies So that the preceptive part as well as the promissive part of the Covenant is expresly in Scripture called and entitled by the name of a Covenant because of

nigh unto all them that call upon him The like passage in Psal 34.18 The Lord is nigh to them that are of a broken heart and saveth such as be of a Contrite Spirit This then is the first regard wherein Gods People are said to be Near to him viz. God's Nearness unto them 2. In regard of Affection to them he is and is said to be Near to them Lord help us to believe it God's People sometimes can't hardly believe it you know these People whom we by love account dear we account also to be very Near to us Dearness and Nearness are here Convertible Now God's People are the dearly beloved of his Soul Jer. 12.7 in Original but one word I have given the dearly beloved of my Soul Heb. the love into the hands of her enemies And that is one of the titles Christ gives his Church throughout the whole Song of Solomon My Love my Dove c. So near to him the Church desireth to be that Song 8.6 she prays Set me as a Seal on thy heart What is the meaning of that in short love me dearly and love makes as strong an impression on the heart as a Seal doth upon any thing to which it is applyed she desires to be near the heart of Christ and that his Love towards her may have deep impressions there as the names of the twelve Tribes of Israel had on the brest-plate of Judgment which Aaron did bear on his heart when he went in into the Holy-place Exod. 28.21 29. Further she prays there as a Seal upon thine arm for love is as strong as death in which she desires also his Compassion and Affection The Lord expresseth the same thing in a like phrase to his Church saying Behold I have graven thee on the palms of my hands Isa 49.16 I remember the Lord makes use of one expression more to set it forth by the signet on the right hand and that is near in place and affection too Jer. 22.24 where the Lord speaks of Coniah one of the Kings of Judah and saith to this purpose As I live saith the Lord though Coniah the Son of Jehojakim King of Judah were their Signet on my right hand yet would I pluck thee thence c. A Man's Signet that he wears on his right hand what an esteem and love hath he for that yet saith God though he was as the Signet on my right hand would I pluck thee thence Sin will make a separation between a person or people though near to him And that is the second thing God's People are his dearly beloved and so they are near upon the account of Affection 3. In regard of Relation to God they are nearly related to God there is a Spiritual kin and alliance between God and his people you shall find nearness and kin are Convertible in the Scripture Lev. 21.2 But for his kin that is near unto him that is for his Mother and Father and for his Son and for his Daughter and for his Brother and ver 3. and for his Sister That is nigh unto him c. So that Kin and Nearness are joyned together words of the same import Now there is a twofold Relation betwen God and his People which makes the Kin to be so Near. 1. By Regeneration and the new-birth 2. By the Marriage-Covenant and blessed are the people that are in such a Nearness unto God! First by Regeneration and the new-birth that is one way the kin comes in if I may so speak and therefore you shall find throughout the Scripture that they are said to be born of God and born again and hence is it that all that are regenerate are called the Sons and Daughters of the living God and who are nearer to us than our Children these are the Children of God being born of him Joh. 1.12 As many as believed to them gave he power to become the Sons of God How came they to be the Sons of God ver 13. shews which were born not of blood nor of the will of the flesh nor of the will of man but of God So in the Epistle of John throughout are they said to be born of God Now how near is the Father and Son I need not tell you that are Pa●ents So near is the relation between God and his People 2 Cor. 6.18 I will be a Father unto you and ye shall be my Sons and Daughters saith the Lord Almighty What a Promise is this he will receive them to be as near unto him as he will receive his own Son that serveth him And what a deal of Nearness of Affection as well as Relation is there in this case Behold what manner of love the Father hath bestowed upon us that we should be called the Sons of God 1 Joh. 3.1 You that are parents think on this when you see your Children in the streets or any where about you Oh how are your hearts drawn out after them learn hence to be affected with the nearness both of Relation and Affection that is between God and his People you cannot love your Children though your hearts run out after them as God loves his Children all the affection of all the parents in the World to their Children is but the drops of a bucket in Comparison of God's love to his people and his Children 2. By Marriage-Covenant are they Near to God And this is so near a Relation that all other kin are to be left for this Relation they that are married as to their Relation in the flesh are become one flesh so near they are Mat. 19.5 Just as Adam said of the woman when God brought her to him this is bone of my bone and flesh of my flesh Gen. 2.23 Beloved Gods people are his married people and they are his espoused people full of this is the Scripture in many places 2 Cor. 11.2 I have espoused you to one husband that I may present you a chast Virgin to Christ Hos 2.19 20. I will betroth thee unto me for ever yea I will betroth thee unto me in righteousness and in judgment and in loving kindness and in mercies I will even betroth thee unto me in faithfulness c. Jer. 3.14 turn Oh backsliding Children saith the Lord for I am married unto you Isa 54.5 For thy Maker is thine husband the Lord of hosts is his name Oh what an husband is this Every woman is apt to admire her own husband but what an husband is this of Souls Mark how the Apostle doth improve this natural marriage to a Spiritual use 1 Cor. 6.16 17. What know ye not that he that is joyned to an Harlot is one body for he saith ye shall be one flesh ver 17. but he that is joyned to the Lord is one Spirit The Apostles design is to take off people from Fornication and the argument is taken from the design of God in Marriage God made Marriage that there might be an union betwixt the Man and the