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Covenant-keeping the way to blessedness, or, A brief discourse wherein is shown the connection…Covenant-keeping the way to blessedness, or, A brief discourse wherein is shewn the connexion…
Covenant-keeping the way to blessedness, or, A brief discourse wherein is shown the connection which there is between the promise, on God's part; and duty, on our part, in the covenant of grace as it was delivered in several sermons, preached in order to solemn renewing of covenant. By Samuel Willard teacher of a church in Boston in New-England.Covenant-keeping the way to blessedness, or, A brief discourse wherein is shewn the connexion which there is between the promise, on God's part; and duty, on our part, in the covenant of grace as it was delivered in several sermons, preached in order to solemn renewing of covenant. By Samuel Willard teacher of a church in Boston in New-England.
printed by James Glen for Samuel Sewall, 1682
Discourse › Pages 1-60: Covenant-Keeping the way to Blessedness.
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
2. That both of these bear a relation to the Covenant of Reconciliation, or are in the Gospel-Covenant as it is exhibited to Men in the outward dispensation of it, is also a Truth not doubted of by those that love the Truth. And the reason for it is plain, because (as we before heard) God still transacts with Man in way of a Covenant; as also because there are Evangelical Promises made to the one and the other, and threatenings denounced against the neglect of the one as well as the other, which things declare that Obedience also hath its relation to that Covenant.
2. That both of these bear a relation to the Covenant of Reconciliation, or are in the Gospell-Covenant as it is exhibited to Men in the outward dispensation of it, is also a Truth not doubted of by those that love the Truth. And the reason for it is plain, because (as we before heard) God still transacts with Man in way of a Covenant; as also because there are Evangelicall Promises made to the one and the other, and threatnings denounced against the neglect of the one as well as the other, which things declare that Obedience also hath its relation to that Covenant.
3. That Faith is a new Covenant condition, is not a matter that needs dispute (always denying it to be a meritorious Condition, or any ways to infringe the freeness of Grace, but rather to enhance it) the Gospel is so full for it, and so clear in setting it in opposition to the Works of the Law, i. e. the condition of the first Covenant, and giving it the same place in the New Covenant, viz. Of a Condition; the Promise also which is conditionally annexed unto it, and that inseparably, makes it beyond ground of question, see Mark 16. 16. Joh. 3. 16. 36. Joh. 5. 12.
3. That Faith is a new Covenant condition, is not a matter that needs dispute (alwayes denying it to be a meritorious Condition, or any wayes to infringe the freeness of Grace, but rather to enhaunce it) the Gospel is so full for it, and so clear in setting it in opposition to the Works of the Law, i. e. the condition of the first Covenant, and giving it the same place in the New Covenant, viz. Of a Condition; the Promise also which is conditionally annexed unto it, and that inseparably, makes it beyond ground of question, see