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A53077 The covenant of grace effectually remembred being the substance of a sermon or two / preached by a minister of the Gospel. Newcome, Henry, 1627-1695. 1682 (1682) Wing N894; ESTC R13264 17,290 32

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mind for all he requires for do not think that an outside compliance with the way of your Education will serve you you cannot for shame throw off the way you have been bred in for it is a disgrace for Children of good Parents to be loose even in the eies of those that have no Religion themselves and therefore you will keep it up of the cheapest and slightest sort of the kind that ever you can But your heart is malignant at the same time and when you can get any thing of worldly advantage for it you will part with your profession too but let such persons know that God searcheth all hearts and understandeth all the imaginations of the thoughts He knows how deep your Religion lies he knows what you secretly think to do but take this for the conclusion He is faithful in his Covenant but he will not be imposed upon by such as are Treacherous If thou seek him he will be found of thee if thou be faithful and mindful of the Covenant as thy duty and interest to do thy part he will be true to thee but if thou forsake him he will cast thee off for ever and then thou art undone for evermore I would on this occasion offer at two or three things both with respect to Children and Parents in reference to this Covenant of God which is all our Salvation and all our desire 1. It were advisable that it be clearly understood how the Covenant of God came in upon the fall and what is the Tenor of it on both sides Gods and mans and the purport of the Baptismal Covenant in the words of the shortest Catechism by Mr. Baxter p. 9. The Holy Covenant I do believe in God the Father the Son and the Holy Ghost according to the particular Articles of the Christian Faith And heartily repenting of my sinful life I do presently absolutely and resolvedly give up my self to him my Creator and reconciled God and Father in Christ my Saviour and my Sanctifier Renouncing the Devil the World and the sinful desires of the Flesh That takeing up my Cross and the denying my self I may follow Christ the Captain of my Salvation to the Death and live with him in endless Glory 2. That Parents understood the nature of Baptism that it is a solemnizing of the Covenant and that they would as seriously prepare to bring a Child to Baptism as they do to go themselves to the Lords Supper and so seriously and solemnly take hold of the Covenant for themselves and renew it in their own person and to take hold of it for their Child 3. To hold the Covenant for the Child whilst it is not capable to take hold for it self to plead it solemnly and frequently for it and to instruct the Child in it diligently according to its capacity that so it may not be a Christian by example but by Principle and may set out with a stock and title of its own 4. That Children take heed to this Solemnly and explicitely to take up the Christian Title and Covenant in their own persons that so God may remember it always for them and they may be always mindful of it This is an estate left you whilst your Father lives and the sooner you have it in your own hands the better for you and your Father too But 3ly I shall improve this in a word or two to those that are truly serious 1. Let it be improved to our support and comfort in all troubles of Life Let us believe that God always remembers his Covenant This may comfort us against Temptations Dissertions Great Afflictions Great Backslidings and sad fits of Deadness The Covenant he will not go from and this may be strong comfort to us at all times against all sad appearances of things and against all discouragements from inward guilt God is gracious and ready to forgive and therefore have I hope still If we be weak in faith and can scarce think how he should shew such glorious things to such poor wretches as we are and so at present may not believe as we should do 2 Tim. 2.13 yet he abideth faithful he cannot deny himself He will remember his Covenant for thee and treat thee according to the terms of it as a gracious long-suffering and ever merciful God Keeping Mercy for Thousands c. 2. Let us make it our work and business to be always mindful of his Covenant Psal 25.14 The heart of the Lord is with them that fear him and he will shew them his Covenant he will shew him that fears him to understand it and shew them to fulfil and perform according to it O strive to live upon it always That as it is your comfort that God remembers it for ever so let it be your duty always to be mindful of it And since his heart is so enlarged that he always remembers his Covenant for us 2 Cor. 6.11 12 13. let us in allusion to that of the Apostle for a recompence be enlarged also towards him Let the Covenant be still in our thoughts reign in our hearts and be the principle and rule of our whole lives And having said a little of Baptism let me accommodate this matter to the Sacrament of the Lords Supper At such a time let us be actually mindful of the Covenant which we come there to Seal and Solemnize Apply the Covenant to all the blessed ends and intents of it let us hope to have it Sealed to us at such a time To allude to that of Gen. 9.15 16. I set my bow in the Clouds and when I behold it says God I will remember my Covenant That I will not destroy the World with Water any more He hath appointed this Bread and Wine to be also a sign in a greater matter and he hath said of other great promises That they shall be unto him as the Waters of Noah Isa 54.9 10. All his promises shall be as fully kept and fulfilled as that hath been Take this Bread and Wine and recieve it as he hath appointed and say This is a sign of the Covenant plead that God would look upon it and remember his Covenant for thee Take hold of it for thy Soul and labour to renew your own part of it to be faithful in the Covenant for ever that you may feel your self sweetly helped to be mindful of the Covenant to be duely and sutably affected with it and may find the sweet effects to your Soul of God remembring his Covenant for you in particular and dealing with you according to the Royal purport of it for the increase of your Grace and Peace and hope of Eternal Life FINIS