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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. We are to distinguish between that which we stand positively engaged to, and that which God affords us to be our encouragement in standing to our engagement: We stand engaged actually to serve God, to obey all His Commands: But of our selves we cannot do it, Josh. 24. 19. Now to relieve our impotency, and animate our Obedience, Christ engageth to us, that if we will believe in Him, we shall serve God, viz. That He will put His fear in our hearts, that we shall not depart away from Him; He will give Grace. This is the excellency of the Covenant of Grace, that it requires nothing of us, but withal discovers to, and sets before us what, and where our help is for the performance of it, which Grace is then highly abused when we think our selves thereby acquitted from our duties; Paul was of another mind, and therefore frames an argument to ⟨p. 37⟩excite us to greater diligence, from this very consideration, Phil. 2. 12, 13.
2. We are to distinguish between that which we stand positively engaged to, and that which God affords us to be our encouragement in standing to our engagement: We stand engaged actually to serve God, to obey all His Commands: But of our selves we cannot do it, Josh. 24. 19. Now to relieve our impotency, and animate our Obedience, Christ engageth to us, that if we will believe in Him, we shall serve God, viz. That He will put His fear in our hearts, that we shall not depart away from Him; He will give Grace. This is the excellency of the Covenant of Grace, that it requires nothing of us, but withall discovers to, and sets before us what, and where our help is for the performance of it, which Grace is then highly abused when we think our selves thereby acquitted from our duties; Paul was of another mind, and therefore frames an argument to ⟨p. 37⟩excite us to greater diligence, from this very consideration, Phil. 2. 12, 13.