Reformed Covenanter
Cancelled Commissioner
Fifthly, walk humbly and dependently; rejoice, but be not secure. Trust to God in Covenant, not to your Covenant. Make not your Covenant, your Christ; no, not for this Temporal Salvation. As a Horse trusted to, is a vain thing to save a man, Psal. 32. so likewise is a Covenant trusted to; neither can it deliver a Nation by its great strength: though indeed the strength of it bee greater, then the strength of many Horses. In vain is salvation hoped for from this Hill, or from a multitude of Mountains heaped up and joined in one by the bond of this Covenant. Surely in the Lord our God, our God, in Covenant, is the Salvation of ENGLAND.
We cannot trust too much in GOD, nor too little in the Creature; There is nothing breaks the staff of our help but our leaning upon it. If we trust in our Covenant, we have not made it with God, but we have made it a God; And every God of man’s making, is an Idol, and so nothing in the World: you see, pride in, or trust to this Covenant will, make it an Idol, and then in doing all this, we have done nothing, For an Idol is nothing in the World. 1 Cor. 8. 4.) And of nothing comes nothing. By over-looking to the means, we lose all; And by all our travail shall bring forth nothing but wind It will not work any deliverance in the Land. Wherefore, rest not in the thing Done, but yet, up and be doing which is the last point, and my last motion about your walking in Covenant.
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We cannot trust too much in GOD, nor too little in the Creature; There is nothing breaks the staff of our help but our leaning upon it. If we trust in our Covenant, we have not made it with God, but we have made it a God; And every God of man’s making, is an Idol, and so nothing in the World: you see, pride in, or trust to this Covenant will, make it an Idol, and then in doing all this, we have done nothing, For an Idol is nothing in the World. 1 Cor. 8. 4.) And of nothing comes nothing. By over-looking to the means, we lose all; And by all our travail shall bring forth nothing but wind It will not work any deliverance in the Land. Wherefore, rest not in the thing Done, but yet, up and be doing which is the last point, and my last motion about your walking in Covenant.
For the reference, see:
Joseph Caryl on not making an idol of the Solemn League and Covenant
Fifthly, walk humbly and dependently; rejoice, but be not secure. Trust to God in Covenant, not to your Covenant. Make not your Covenant, your Christ; no, not for this Temporal Salvation. As a Hors…
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