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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
work_n	conscience_n	dead_a	purge_v	5,027	5	9.3264	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A79028	Two solemne covenants made between God and man: viz. [brace] the covenant of workes, and the covenant of grace. [brace] Clearly laid open, distinguished, and vindicated from many dangerous opinions; the right knowledge of which [sic] will be very profitable to all those that have escaped the first, and are confirmed in the second at the Sacrament. January 15. 1646. Imprimatur. John Downame.	Calamy, Edmund, 1600-1666.	1647 (1647)	Wing C268; Thomason E373_6; ESTC R201327	30,224	34

against the grace of God saith Elihu if I should give flattering titles to men my maker would soon take me away Job 33.21 and saith David if I regard iniquity in my heart God will not heare my prayer Psal 66.18 therefore one of them durst not slatter nor the other hide iniquity in his heart lest he should lose the favour of God the spouse in the Canticles having smarted for her negligence to Christ when she found him held him fast Can. 3.4 then did she not act to be kept in his favour and David prayed for it saying O visit me with that favour thou bearest unto thy people Psal 106.4 then he saith to hold forth works as the conditions of the first covenant denies Christ to be come in the flesh all this I grant and he that obeyes the Law as a covenant of works is to deny Christ but to obey the morall Law as a rule of righteousnesse doth very wel consist with the covenant of grace as many as obey this rule peace be on them and mercy Gal. 6.16 let us walk by the same rule Phil. 3.16 the tables of the covenant were in the Ark which signified Christ The use of his 4. difference if the promises of the new covenant are only spirituall then this may silence all those that walk not with them in the publike way but I deny the promises of the new covenant to be only spirituall for godlinesse hath the promise of the life that now is and of that which is to come 1 Tim. 4.8 and they are to blame that will not walk with them that do obey the rule but those are not Anabaptists who despise the rule and will not admit any poore into their Congregations and receive mony for admittance to my knowledge but they have a salve for this sore they will tell you that the mony which maintains their Minister is spirituall then he is troubled that they are called Sectaries and that any should run or write to Magistrates to have them put to death for denying their authority writing stories of them in Germany as if all were such here then he falls of praising of Anabaptists in England who are in the field with their lives in their hands to maintain a lawfull Magistracy exceedingly blaming those that discover their wicked lives then he returns to his own faction calling them the people of the new covenant and tels them what they must suffer then he seems to envy our Churches happinesse and outward blessings attending it saying their Ministers are Gentlemen and must have tythes of all mens charge and labour all which brings them under the first covenant to deny Christ to be come in the flesh which is Antichristian you see his Logick and I think you will judge it not worth answering then he comforts them in the new covenant against falling away saying if God have writ his Law in their heart who shall raize it out if God have pardoned their sins who shall lay them to their charge if God will not remember them who shall call them to mind but what of this Israel had this promise made to them at the return out of captivity as well as to us Jer. 31.34.32.40 yet if he had meant that first covenant to be made to Adam and this to Christ it had been the truth for Adam brake his but Christ who is both God and Man cannot sin therefore those in his covenant although before his coming in the flesh they could not fall away yea the same person Adam although he fell from the covenant of works yet when he beleeved in the promised seed which was Christ he could not fall away then to be kept from falling is not peculiar to us but as a priviledge of all beleevers ever since the promised Messias to Adam for then by his faith he was admitted into the covenant of grace The use of his sift difference if the covenant of which Christ and not Moses is the mediator be the better covenant then to have any other mediator besides is to deny Christ to be come in the flesh and so is Antichristian I answer this is but course logick to grant that Moses is a mediator and to say he that hath any other then Christ denies his comming in the flesh and is Antichristian happy is he that condemneth not himself in that thing which he alloweth Rom. 14.22 but I say it was not a covenant but a rule for those in covenant which Moses received for the people and in that also he did but tipify Christ who as soon as he entred into the mediatorship at least to manifest it he in his first Sermon gave them the law in his own name saying you have heard thus but I say thus Mat. 5. but then he believes so long as Christ appears risen Christ for us and continueth his mediatorship these in covenant with God shall so continue but he seems again to deny this benefit to those before his resurrection The use of his sixt difference if the blood of Christ and not the blood of beasts is the blood of the new testament then here is the priviledge of Saints the blood of the first Testament did only purify the flesh Heb. 9.13 but the blood of Christ purgeth the conscience from dead works to serve the living God Heb. 9.14 I answer from this very text where Christ took the cup and said this is my blood Mat. 26.28 meaning the wine in the cup but that wine cannot purge the conscience no more then the blood of beasts which signified the blood of Christ to come to their faith as the wine in the Sacrament signifies the blood of Christ already shed for many then he speaks highly of their priviledge so that now for the people of God to mourn for sin as under sin is sinfull but here we may see this man who would be thought to be for Christ doth flatly oppose and contradict Jesus Christ who would have us mourn for sin with this motive they are blessed that mourn for they shall be comforted Mat. 5.4 but saith this man to mourn for sin as under sin is sinfull only he hath left here a starting hole as under sin here I grant that they are not under the raigning power of sin but yet many a dear child of God hath a law in his members that leads him captive to the law of sin Rom 7.23 and so they are under sin as under a Tyrant but he saith this undervalues the blood of Christ as if it did need to be affered up yearly I answer although we are wholly justified yet we are not wholly sanctified although our sins be pardoned yet they are not fully taken away in this world then he saith to lye under the guilt of sin hinders duty I grant it but the guilt is taken away though not the being of sin and as grace growes sin dyes and he that is mortally dead is freed from sin Rom. 6.7 1 Pet. 4.1 The use of