By John Warburton
The Mercies of A Covenant God
By John Warburton
John Warburton
John Warburton, was a Lancashire weaver, a father of twelve, and a Particular Baptist preacher. Notably, he authored the Christian classic, “The Mercies of a Covenant God.” Warburton played a pivotal role as one of the three founders of the Gospel Standard Baptist Churches, alongside William Gadsby and John Kershaw. His enduring legacy includes serving as the Pastor of Zion Chapel in Trowbridge for an impressive 42 years, where he shepherded a regular congregation of up to a thousand members.
About the book ‘Mercies of a Covenant God:
It is a living experience of the trials and afflictions of forty years, written in the most simple, feeling and savoury way – not with wisdom of words, but in the very language of the heart itself. Again and again it records the appearing of the Lord in answer to prayer both in providence and grace; and what a faithful, merciful, promise-making and promise-keeping God He was at all times and under all circumstances. How simply and yet how sweetly does he record the leadings, teachings, guidings, comfortings, chastisings, reprovings, supportings and blessings received from the hands of his gracious Father and Friend.
As we read the ups and downs, ins and outs, sinkings and risings, sighs and songs, groans and shouts, fleeings and pursuings, slippings and standings, fightings and conquerings of the dear man of God, we follow him from the first moment that the Lord the Spirit quickened his soul all through his tried and exercised life until, in a good old age, he at last left this vale of tears with the love of God in his heart, the smile of peace on his face, and the revelation of opening glory to his departing spirit.
J.C. Philpot about the book:
Well was it named the “Mercies of a Covenant God.” No one whom we have known more felt, first and last, his need of mercy. His first cry, when the arrow of God was shot into his conscience, was, “God be merciful to me a sinner,” and “Begging mercy every hour” was more or less his experience to the very end of his course. He was, indeed, blessed with a sweet assurance of the everlasting love of God to his soul, and a firm confidence of his salvation. But few men knew or felt more of the dreadful evils of his heart, and what he was as a vile, polluted sinner before the eyes of an infinitely pure and holy God; and it was this abiding sense of his deep and desperate sinfulness that made him such a daily, hourly debtor to mercy. Mercies attended his path; nor were they viewed by him merely as mercies given every day. He looked higher, and saw their eternal spring, that they came from a covenant God, and were “the sure mercies of David,” founded on “an everlasting covenant, ordered in all things and sure.” His book is, therefore, a record of the “mercies of a covenant God” -of God the Father who chose him, of God the Son who redeemed him, and of God the Holy Ghost who taught, led, blessed and comforted him.
And now may this edition of the “Mercies of a Covenant God” be owned and blessed as when the heart which indited and the hand which penned them were still in our midst. By it, he being dead, yet speaketh; and may we who loved him for his work’s sake, as having spoken unto us the word of God, follow his faith, “considering the end of his conversation, Jesus Christ, the same yesterday, and to-day, and for ever.”
Taken from the preview of J.C. Philpot.
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