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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.

expecteth to be received of thee that he should not * 2 Cor. 6.17 touch the unclean thing I do here in thy presence abhorring my self for all my past vileness sinfulness and unprofitableness resolve Covenant and promise in thy name and by thy strength to forsake the Devil World and Flesh 2 Cor. 4.1 and do renounce all the hidden works of darkness and dishonesty and before the Lord * Isa 30.22 say to every Idol in heart and Life get thee hence purposing in my heart never to * Rom. 6.13 yield my body or Soul nor the members and faculties of them as the members of unrighteousness to sin nor suffer for time to come as heretofore through thine assisting grace * v. 12. sin to reign in my mortal body nor immortal Soul that I should obey it in the lusts thereof that I will keep constant strict watch against all the advantages snares and temptations of all mine and and thine Enemies earnestly intreating and imploring thine * 2. Cor. 12.9 Allsufficient Grace to make me † 1 Pet. 5.8 9. Sober and Vigilant that my adversary the Devil though he goes about like a roaring Lyon seeking whom he may devour may not by any of * 2 Cor. 2.11 his devices take any advantage against me but that I may resist him stedfastly in the faith thy grace assisting thereto keeping my Heart Tongue and way from that which is displeasing unto thee And sith I know and am convinced † Isa 64.6 that my righteousness is as filthy rags and no possibility of Salvation by it I do renounce it and loath my self for the imperfections of it being a lost perishing and damnable wretch without thy pardoning and saving Grace And * Tit. 3.4 because the kindness and love of God towards man hath so exceedingly appeared as that thou hast freely offered and promised to make an † Jer. 32.40 Everlasting Covenant that thou wilt never turn away from them to do them good but wilt ever be their God that do * Isa 56.6 lay hold on thy Covenant I desire heartily to take thee O God Father Son and Holy Ghost to be my God to be my Father Saviour and Comforter to be my portion and happiness here and hereafter beseeching thee that thou wouldest † 1 Cron. 29.18 keep this purpose in my heart and continue to communicate this power to my Soul that I may ever cleave to the my Lord and God that I may become wholly and only thine for ever and ever sticking unto thy testimonies chusing the way of thy Commandements all my daies for now the * Psal 56.12 vows of God are upon me yea I have † Psal 119.106 sworn and will perform it that I will keep thy righteous Judgments And forasmuch as there is no Coming to the Father but by Christ who is the * Joh. 14.6 way truth and life who is freely offered in the Gospel † Mat. 3.17 in whom alone thou art well pleased and I can only be accepted I heartily and thankfully desire * Col. 2.6 to receive Jesus Christ and to walk in him To take him to be my † 1 Cor. 1.30 Wisdom Righteousness Sanctification and Redemption to espouse my Soul to him this day and * Isa 56.6 joyn my self to him in a Covenant that can never be broken off or forgotten My dear Saviour who hast made † Heb. 10.19 a new and living way to the Father for me I do here solemnly and freely * Psal 24.7 9. open the everlasting doors of my heart to thee that thou the King of glory mayst come in that so thou mayst † Eph. 3.17 dwell in my heart by faith that being lost without thee yet * Phil. 3.9 found in thee I may be saved thine I desire to be though I deserve no such priviledg at all being a filthy stinking sinner † Eph. 2.1 dead in trespasses and Sins * 2 Tim. 3.6 Laden with hellish lusts pressed down even to Hell it self but it hath pleased thee to † Hos 2.18 espouse me to thy self in Righteousness and Mercy and Faithfulness I do with my whole Soul embrace and lay hold on thee and do take thee the * Rev. 15.4 King of Saints to be my only Lord and Head and Husband my only King and Commander and willingly † Mat. 11.29 taking thy easy yoke upon me I present my self unto thee resolving to * Hos 3.3 continue not only many but all my daies with thee † Rom. 12.1 yielding up my self body and Soul as an holy living acceptable sacrifice to thee who hast offered up thy self as a * Eph. 5.2 Sacrifice to the Father for my poor lost Soul engaging through thy Grace that I will stoop to thy Scepter fulfil thy will and † Rev. 14.4 follow thee the Lamb of God whithersoever thou goest to be disposed of by thee in every condition that neither poverty nor riches nor * Rom. 〈◊〉 38 3● life nor death shall separate between me and thee Moreover si●h this † Eph. 〈◊〉 12. access is by one Spirit unto the Father through Christ I do here most blessed Spirit take thee to be my only God also to be my Guide and * J●●● 18 9● Comforter beseeching thee that thou wouldest * Eph. 〈◊〉 30. Seal me up unto the day of redemption That thou wouldest be in me a † Jo●● 〈◊〉 38. Fountain of living Water springing up to life eternal That so I may notwithstanding all difficulties * Job 17.9 hold on my way and grow stronger and stronger vowing to be † Gal. 5.18 led by no other Spirit but thy self * Rom. 8.1 walking after the Spirit for time to come and not after the flesh Also because thou requirest every one that expecteth to † Rev. 22.14 enter by the Gate into the City to keep thy Commandments and having now entred into and renewed the bond of the Covenant so to do as one of thy people to which end thou hast graciously promised that thou wilt * Jer. 32.40 put thy fear into my heart that I shall not depart from thee I here as thy Covenant-servant engage solemnly to become wholly thine that I will be for no other † Psal 116.15 O Lord truely I am thy Servant I am thy Servant * Psal 119.38 devoted to thy Fear Love and Service Praying that thou wouldest keep thy promise to enable me to walk in thy statutes and through the never-failing influence of thy Heavenly power * Psal 119.8 I will keep thy statutes † v. 48. my hands also will I lift up to thy Commandements which I love Oh forsake me not utterly yea I will * Isa 30.1 follow no counsel but of thy Spirit and Word from henceforth all the days of my life Though Satan tempt the World allures and the †

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

consider what a weighty matter is done now by you how sad to be found a Covenant-breaker often think how grievously God complains of such persons Psal 78.8 And might not be as their Fathers a stubborn and rebellious Generation a Generation that set not their heart aright and whose Spirit was not stedfast with God and further ver 37. For their heart was not right with him neither were they stedfast in his Covenant and again ver 57. But turned back and dealt unfaithfully like their Fathers they were turned aside like a deceitful bow And how severe Go Almighty will prove and shew himself against all those that do thus abominable take his name in vain 5. Finally I wish all persons to see to it that they walk worthy of it and answerable to it in that holy strict pure and upright way of Obedience which God calls for in that chearful dependence on God and Jesus Christ and in that pure Conversation which the holy Covenant requires Suffer not the remainders of unbelief in your hearts to cause you to depart from the living God and let not that hand be lifted up against God which you have lifted up to him in this transaction Beware of your selves that your practice and Conversation be no unsuitable but every way conformable thereunto that so you give not God cause to upbraid you as we read Psal 50.16 17. What hast thou to do to take my Covenant in thy mouth seeing thou hatest instruction and castest my words behind thee I wish unfeignedly that all those upon whom these strong and holy obligations lie might have a Conversation alike to that of Levi whom God commends as a patern unto others and reproves the Priests for difformity thereunto I know this Covenant spoken in this place had a peculiar respect to that Tribe yet his holy Conversation is in a most strict and exact manner possible to be imitated by every true Christian in Govenant with God see it recorded Mal. 2.5 My Covenant was with him of Life and Peace and I gave them to him for ohc fear wherewith he feared me and was afraid before my name vers 6. The Law of truth was in his mouth and iniquity was not found in his lips he walked with me in Peace and Equity and turned himself chiefly as well as many others from iniquity The Lord keep and uphold us by his free Spirit in an holy Covenant-Conversation answerable to our professed and I hope real Espousals to God and Jesus Christ here untill the marriage of the Lamb be come in the Kingdom of Heaven Amen FINIS THE NEARNESS OF God's Covenant-People Unto Him Being the Sum of two Sermons preached on Psalm 148. 14th vers last part Added as a motive to provoke Christians to and to promote the great design of particular express-Covenanting with God 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 Christian Reader Appiness is the Vote of all men But though all desire it yet most take the wrong course to the attaining of it as if one should intend a voyage to the East and Sail quite Westward Austin reckons up 288 opinons of the Philosophers about Happiness and they have all shot wide of the mark We must not weigh happiness populari trutina in the World's Ballance but in the ballance of the Sanctuary Doubtless the Psalmist did hit upon the right Psal 144.15 Happy is the people whose God is the Lord. God is the Summum bonum or chief Good In the chief Good there must be 1. Suavity it must be delitious causing a jubilation or extasy of Joy And where can we such those pure quintessential Comforts which do ravish the Soul with sweet delight but in God * In Deo duad im dulcedine delectatur anima immo rapitur Aug. Psal 16.11 In thy presence is fulness of Joy 2. Transcendency the chief Good must have an innate sparkling Beauty Superior to all other God is the spring of Being who doth enrich and bespangle the whole Creation the Cause is more noble than the Effect He must needs infinitely out-shine all sublunary Glory God is better than the Soul than the Angels than Heaven 3. Duration the chief Good must run parallel with Eternity * 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Chrys God abides King for ever Psal 29.10 Eternity is a Flower of his Crown he is an inexhaustible treasury of Goodness So that God being the chief Good the enjoyment of God is the sole thing which Crowns us with Blessedness And how doth God come to be our God but by choosing him It is one thing for the Judgment to approve of God and another thing for the Will to chuse him Many are in their Judgments convinced that God is the most amiable Object but they are swayed another away their Corruptions are stronger than their Convictions But we must upon mature deliberation 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Cleave to the Lord Acts 11.23 We must choose him though with Affliction Heb. 11.25 Religion is not a matter of chance * Nemo fortuito fit bonus but of choice Psal 119.30 I have chosen the way of truth This choosing of God for our God 1. Presupposeth an enlightned mind We must understand those illustrious Perfections which are in God his Wisdom Holiness Veracity Bounty as Knowledg ushers in Faith Psal 9.10 so it precedes choice 2. It denotes a singling out God from all other Objects to set out heart upon While others Court the World and like Apollo embrace the Lawrel-Tree in stead of Daphne the Believer saith as Asaph Ps 73.25 Whom have I in Heaven but thee and as Jacob Gen. 28.21 The Lord shall be my God This Choosing God is that in which the vital part of Christianity consists Affections not grounded upon a judicious Choice die and vanish That fruit cannot last which wants a root to grow upon This choosing God is a blessed sign we love God and belong to him our choosing God is but the result and effect of his choosing us John 15.19 And where there is this chusing of God there will be a davoting 〈◊〉 selves to him Psal 9.38 and 〈◊〉 entring into Covenant with him Jer 50.5 Come and let us joyn our selves to the Lord in a perpetual Covenant 〈…〉 follows 〈…〉 Bond and 〈…〉 a con●●●● 〈…〉 Vow 〈…〉 so often re●●●● 〈…〉 ratified in the 〈…〉 Supper These things are the subject-matter of the ensuing Treatise wherein the Reverend Author hath so far as I have read taken good pains and given the World a taste of that Savoury gracious Spirit which resides in him his whole Design in this book is to discover the intrinsecal Excellencies in God which may hasten our Choice of him for our supream solace and 〈◊〉 As also to make us break off our Covenant with Sin and engage in Covenant with the high God by vertue whereof we