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heart_n	affection_n	speak_v	word_n	2,295	5	3.9793	3	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A81214	The nature, solemnity, grounds, property, and benefits, of a sacred covenant. Together with the duties of those who enter into such a covenant. Delivered in a sermon at Westminster, at the publique convention, (ordered by the Honourable House of Commons) for the taking of the Covenant, by all such, of all degrees, as willingly presented themselves, upon Friday, Octob. 6. 1643. By Ioseph Caryl, preacher to the Honourable Society of Lincolnes-Inne.	Caryl, Joseph, 1602-1673.	1643 (1643)	Wing C782; Thomason E72_12; ESTC R14164	28,363	50

measure know not the cause and such as have no love at all to the cause should be outcasts from thu Covenant Such saplesse and rotten stuffe will but weaken if not corrupt this sacred band The Tenour of the covenant now tendered speakes thus respecting the persons We Noble-men Barons Knights Gentlemen Citizens Burgesses Ministers of the Gospell and Commons of all sorts in the Kingdome of England Scotland and Ireland c. And doth not this indistinctly admit all and all of all sorts I answer No. For the words following in the Preface shew expressely that onely they are called to it who are of one reformed Religion which shuts out all Papists till they returne And the Articles passe them through a finer Sieve admitting onely such as promise yea and sweare that through the grace of God they will sincerely really and constantly endeavour the preservation of the reformed religion against the common enemy in the one Kingdome the reformation and extirpation of what is amisse in the other two as also in their owne persons families and relations They who doe thus are choice persons indeed and they who sweare to doe thus are in charity and justice to be reputed so till their owne acts and omissions falsifie their oathes Thus our Covenant makes an equiualent though not a formall or nominall election of the persons Secondly there must be a choice of conditions in a Covenant As the persons obliged so the matter of the obligation must be distinct This is so eminent in the Covenant offered that I may spare my paines in the clearing of it every mans paines in reading of it cannot but satisfie him that there are six Nationall conditions about which we make solemne oath and one personall about which we make a most solemne profession and declaration before God and the world And all these are choyce conditions such as may well be held forth to be as indeed they are the results and issues of many prayers and serious consultations in both the Kingdomes of England and Scotland Conditions they are in which Holinesse and Wisdome Piety and Policie Zeale for God in purging his Church and Care for man in setling the Common-wealth appeare to have had in a due subordination their equall hand and share Thus much of a Covenant from the force of the word in the first sense leading us to the choice both of persons and conditions Secondly the root signifies to eat moderately or so much as breaks our Fast And this refers also to the nature of a Covenant which is to draw men into a friendly and holy communion and converse one with another David describes a familiar friend in whom he trusted to be one That did eat of his bread Psal 41. 9. And the Apostle Paul when he would have a scandalous brother denied all fellowship in Church-Covenant he charges it thus With such a one no not to eat 1 Cor. 5. 11. Hence it was a custome upon the making up of Covenants for the parties covenanting soberly to feast together when Isaac and Abimilech sware one to another and made a Covenant The sacred Story tells us that Isaac made them a feast and they did eat and drinke Gen. 26. 29 30. A Covenant is a binder of affection to assure it but it is a loosner of affection to expresse it And their hearts are most free to one another which are most bound to one another How unbecomming is it that they who sweare together should be so strange as scarce to speake together That which unites ought also to multiply our affections Further the word hints so to converse together as not to sinne together for it signifies Moderation in eating As if it would teach us That at a Covenant-Feast or when Covenanters feast they should have more grace then meat at their Tables or if through the blessing of God their meat be much their temperance should be more The Covenant yeelds us much businesse and calls to action Excesse soyles our gifts and damps our spirits fitting us for sleepe not for worke In and by this Covenant we who were almost carried into spirituall and corporall slavery are called to strive for the mastery Let us therefore as this word and the Apostles rule instruct us Be temperate in all things 1 Cor. 9. 25. Intemperate excessive eaters will be but moderate workers especially in Covenant worke A little will satisfie their Consciences who are given up to satisfie their carnall appetites And he who makes his belly his God will not make much of the glory of God So much concerning the nature of a Covenant from the originall word for a Covenant signifying both to chuse and to eate We may take in some further light to discover the things from the orginall word which we translate make Let us make a Covenant That word signifies properly to cut to strike or to slay 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 The reason hereof is given because at the making of solemne Covenants beasts were killed and divided asunder and the Covenant-makers went between the parts When God made that first grand Covenant with Abraham he said unto him Take an heifer of three yeers old and a shee goat of three yeers old c. And he tooke unto him all these and divided them in the midst and laid those pieces one against another c. Gen. 15. 9 10. At the seventeenth verse Behold a smoaking furnace and a burning lamp which latter was the token of Gods presence for the deliverance of his people passed betweene those pieces In the 34. of Jeremy vers 18. we have the like ceremony in making a Covenant They cut the calfe in twaine and passed betweene the parts thereof Upon this usage the phrase is grounded of cutting or striking a Covenant Psal 50. 5. Psal 89. 3. which Ceremony had this signification in it That when they passed betweene those divided parts of the slaine beast the action spake this curse or imprecation * Foedus facientes primò furabant postea transibant inter partes pecudis quasi dicerent discindatur dividantur ejus membra fiat sicut pocus istud qui furamentam violaverit Let him be cut asunder let his members be divided let him be made as this beast who violates the Oath of this Covenant From these observations about the words we may be directed about the nature of the thing and thence collect this description of a Covenant A Covenant is a solemne compact or agreement betweene two chosen parties or more whereby with mutuall free and full consent they binde themselves upon select conditions tending to the glory of God and their common good A Covenant strictly considered is more then a promise and lesse than a Oath unlesse an Oath be joyned with it as was with that in the Text and is with this we have now before us A Covenant differs from a promise gradually and in the formalities of it not naturally or in the substance of it God made promises to