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A34673	The covenant of Gods free grace most sweetly unfolded and comfortably applied to a disquieted soul from that text of 2 Sam. 23. Ver. 5. : also a doctrinall conclusion that there is in all such who are effectually called, in-dwelling spirituall gifs [sic] and graces wrought and created in them by the Holy Ghost / by that reverend and faithful minister of Gods word, Mr. John Cotton, Teacher of the Church at Boston in New-England ; whereunto is added, A profession of faith, made by the reverend divine, Mr. John Davenport, in New-England, at his admission into one of the Churches there.	Cotton, John, 1584-1652.; Davenport, John, 1597-1670. A profession of faith.	1645 (1645)	Wing C6424; ESTC R30971	35,301	46

when we shall be presented blamelesse without spot or wrincle before the presence of his glory Reasons of the point Reason 1 The first Reason is taken from the expresse testimony of Scripture speaking of the gifts of the Holy Ghost as being in us and fruitfull in us 2 Pet. 1.5 6 7 8. Adde moreover saith hee to your faith vertue and to vertue knowledge and to knowledge temperance and to temperance patience and to patience godlinesse and to godliness brotherly kindnesse and to brotherly kindnesse love For if these things be in you and abound they make you that you shall neither be barren nor unfruitfull in the knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ From whence the Reason is concluded thus Faith Vertue Knowledge Temperance Patience Godlinesse Brotherly-kindnesse Love they are all in us and make us fruitfull in Christ The Text is plain but all these are neither the Holy Ghost himself for then one Holy Ghost should be added to another or one part of the Holy Ghost should be added to another Nor are they the actions of the Holy Ghost proceeding from us for these things are in us and abounding in us and consequently abiding in us and they cause us to bring forth actions meet for Christian profession For they are said to make us fruitfull in the knowledge of Christ vers 8. Therefore they are the gifts of grace abiding in us Reason 2 The second Reason is taken from such places of Scripture as put an expresse difference between the Holy Ghost and his gifts in us and the exercise of these gifts by us In 2 Tim. 1.6 Stirre up saith Paul to Timothy the gift of God which is in thee and vers 14. that good Treasure or thing which was committed to thee keep by the Holy Ghost which dwelleth in us where there is a plain difference between the gift of God and the stirring up of that gift which is the exercise of it and the Holy Ghost which helped him to keep it and to use it Object But hee speaketh of ministeriall gifts not of gifts accompanying salvation He speaketh of both Answ for in the verse next before vers 5. hee putteth Timothy in minde of the unfeigned faith which saith hee is in thee and which dwelt first in thy grandmother Lois and in thy mother Eunices and now in thee also Whence the Reason is plain If unfeigned faith and other such like gifts of God dwelt in Timothy and in his mother and in his grand-mother then there be gifts of grace accompanying salvation that dwell in such as are effectually called But the former is plain out of the Text therefore so is the latter In 2 Cor. 6.6 the Apostle saith He with the other Apostles approved themselves as the Ministers of Christ by purenesse by knowledge by long-suffering by kindnesse by the Holy Ghost by love unfeigned Object But by these Paul and the rest approved themselves as the Ministers of Christ and therefore hee speaketh of ministeriall gifts not of gifts accompanying salvation The inference is naught Answ for a man cannot approve himself as a Minister of Christ by ministeriall gifts without such gifts as do accompany salvation and therefore the Apostle doth plainly instance not only in ministeriall gifts but such also as do accompany salvation as purenesse long-suffering love unfeigned In 1 Cor. 12.4 The Apostle saith there be deversities 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 that is of gifts of grace which he distinguisheth from operations vers 6. Object But hee speaketh of ministeriall gifts not of gifts accompanying salvation Hee speaketh not only of ministeriall gifts but of all gifts of grace by which we are knit to Christ and one to another as head and members of one body and in respect of which The eye cannot say to the hand I have no need of thee nor the head to the feet I have no need of you vers 21. Reason 3 The third Reason is taken from the estate of the person united to Christ which being united is not a naturall but a spirituall man The Reason standeth thus If there be no spirituall gifts of grace wrought and created in the soul then Christ is united by the Spirit of God to the naturall man For without spiritual gifts there is nothing but nature in us to which Christ by his Spirit is united But Christ is not united by the spirit to the naturall man Proof of this 1 Cor. 2.14 The naturall man doth not receive the things of God nor of the Spirit of God and therefore doth not receive Christ united to him Object A man is not a naturall man but a spirituall man when the Spirit of God dwelleth in him True Answ because the Spirit of God where he dwelleth worketh gifts of spirituall grace but if he should not the soul would be still naturall as the Temple of Solomon was still a materiall Temple not a spirituall Temple as wee are 1 Pet. 2.5 though God dwelt in it because hee wrought not gifts of spirituall grace in the Temple whereby it might live unto God In all union the things united are distinct from the bond by which they are united Christ is one thing the soul is another the Spirit of God that uniteth them is distinct from both Now take the Spirit of God as a distinct thing from the soul and what is the soul but a naturall soule And so Christ by his Spirit being united to the naturall soul is united to the naturall man Reas 4 The fourth Reason is taken from the nature and kinde of that life which the members of Christ do live thus If the members of Christs body be living members and living stones then they live either by some gifts of spirituall grace created in them or else they live the uncreated life of the Holy Ghost communicated to them But they do not live the uncreated life of the Holy Ghost communicated to them therefore they live by the gifts of spirituall grace created in them The former Proposition or major is plain because the dis-junction is immediate there is no middle way can be given but either wee ●●st live a created life by some gifts of spirituall grace created in us or else we must live the uncreated life of the Holy Ghost communicated to us The latter Proposition or minor is as plain for no creature if being finite can live an increated life which is infinite but we are creatures and finite and the life of the Holy God is increated and infinite therefore wee cannot live his life Object The life of head and members root and branches is the same First Answ the life of Christs humane nature is not the infinite and uncreated life of the Holy Ghost which may serve for another proofe of the latter Proposition that wee do not live the uncreated life of the Holy Ghost communicated to us For we cannot live an higher or greater spirituall life then the humane nature of Christ lived But the humane nature of Christ lived

have our eternall happinesse in the highest heavens Luke 12.32 Fear not little flocke it is your Fathers good pleasure to give you your inheritance Vse 1 First it may serve to prove a distempered passion of our spirits who cannot be perswaded Gods Covenant reacheth to us unlesse we prosper in the world wee should rather be men after Gods own heart as David See how David carried himself in the like case and condition he doth rest himself in Gods Covenant whether his house grow or grow not but we are of another spirit though wee know Gods Covenant is everlasting and sure yet unlesse our children be great ones and all may prosper in the world according to the desire of our hearts we think we have no favour in the Covenant of Gods grace alas all things are counted otherwise but as dry things like Manna which at length the children of Israel began to loath and hate As concerning the light afflictions which are but momentary herein wee should comfort our selves that God will temper all to our everlasting happinesse as in the issue thereof wee shall see This pride of nature was the sin of Human Est 5.13 all availed him nothing as long as Mordecai the Jew did not bow to him If other mens sheafs may not bow to ours then wee think all little worth besides but this is a grievous sin against God it argues a base estimation of the Covenant of Gods grace it is a sin to be reproved and rooted out Wee think because God doth not make our houses to grow and flourish that there is no contentment to be found in the Covenant of Grace This sin of pride was also in Hezekiah in shewing to the Babylonish men all his garments and precious Jewels Vse 2 Secondly we must learn to grow in the Covenant of Grace though we should never grow great nor rise high in this world nor in the things thereof we must rest satisfied in and by the Covenant of Gods grace If David think it sufficient so must we What though wee be neglected in the world and finde no contentment in outward things yet this may serve to quiet the hearts of Gods children that though they grow not much in the world yet having a part in the Covenant of Grace they need not to trouble themselves about any other thing that is wanting to them this condition is a happy condition Vse 3 Thirdly it may teach every righteous Housholder and Parent to take more care to leave a good covenant to their children and servants then any thing else If they have but this portion left to them they shall do well whether they grow and prosper in the things of this world or no God hath made a Covenant with the Parents and Housholders and it shall descend upon them so far as God doth order it Vse 4 Fourthly it may serve to help our faith in the desolations of the Churches abroad though they grow not but decay yet seeing God hath made a Covenant with their fathers and undertaken to do them good they will at length prove the better for it and God will make his Covenant good unto them all that God doth exercise them withall is that hee may do them good at length Gods Covenant being an everlasting Covenant their condition at last shall be a glorious condition Vse 5 Fifthly it may be usefull to all such who have part in the Covenant of God that undoubtedly at length it shall be well with them though God never make them nor theirs to grow in outward things yet they may rest upon the Covenant there is enough for them Rejoyce we then in this Covenant for it is an everlasting Covenant and let us make it our chiefest happinesse that wee have a part in it though wee and others seem not to our selves to grow yet wee shall grow so far as God sees it meet for us to grow although we for our parts perceive it not Isaiah 3.10 11. Say to the righteous it shall be well with them for they shall eat the fruit of their own doings but wo to the wicked for it shall be ill with them for the reward of his hands shall he given unto him It shall be ill with Rome and her adherents the Covenant of Works shall be required at their hands A Doctrinall Conclusion That there be in all such as are effectually called and united unto Christ in-dwelling spirituall gifts of grace wrought and created in us by the Holy Ghost that is by the begetting whereof we are begotten and renewed to a spirituall life unto God and so become fit members of his Church The opening of the terms of this Doctrine BY gifts of Grace I mean holy qualities the same which Philosophers call vertuous habites or good dispositions whereby the faculties and affections of the soule which by corrupt nature are set upon a mans self and earthly things and cannot savour the things of God and so are said to be dead are hereby sanctified and lifted up to God and set upon him and heavenly things and so are said to be quickened and made alive to God Whence we are said to be begotten again to a lively hope 1 Pet. 1.3 and the faith of the righteous is opposed to the dead faith of vain men Jam. 2.20 These gifts we say are wrought or created by the Holy Ghost because they are the fruits or effects of the Spirit of God in us Gal. 5.22 23. wrought by his Almighty creating power out of nothing Col. 2.12 Ps 5 1.10 and thereby making us spirituall men 1 Cor. 2.15 And fit Instruments for Gods spirituall service 1 Pet. 2.5 and therefore every one of these gifts of grace whereby any faculty or affection of the soule is sanctified it is called the spirit of such a faculty or affection as the sanctified disposition of the mind is called The spirit of a sound minde 2 Tim. 1.7 The spirit of Faith is the gift of Faith 2 Cor. 4.13 The spirit of love or of the fear of the Lord are the gifts of holy love and fear sanctifying such affections 2 Tim. 1.7 Isai 11.2 Further we say these gifts of grace are in-dwelling and abiding in every child of God effectually called and united unto Christ in as much as they are neither mortified and extinguished in us as some would have it by our union with Christ for mortification is of corrupt lusts or of the body of sin in us Col. 3.5 Rom. 6.6 not of the gifts of grace neither are these gifts of grace transient and passing away as they would be if they were meer actions of the Spirit proceeding and passing from us Nor are they abiding in the Holy Ghost though he abideth in us because no created gifts or qualities abide in him whatsoever is in him is himself but they are preserved in us by the Holy Ghost as they were wrought by him and are also by him increased and perfected in us against the day of our dissolution