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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 this be confirmed by a faithful endeavour after conformity to the whole known and revealed will of God: This hath its rise from the former, for if we do ⟨p. 41⟩love God, we will keep His Commandments, Joh. 14. 15. i. e. According to the measure of Grace received, we will observe them with an upright and devoted heart, David will exercise himself in the Law day and night, because he loves it, Psal. 119. We must avoid Temptations, abstain from fleshly lusts, walk according to Rule, do our outmost that God may be glorified by us, and therefore endeavour conformity to His holiness in our whole conversation.
2. That this be confirmed by a faithfull endeavour after conformity to the whole known and revealed will of God: This hath its rise from the former, for if we do ⟨p. 41⟩love God, we will keep His Commandments, Joh. 14. 15. i. e. According to the measure of Grace received, we will observe them with an upright and devoted heart, David will exercise himself in the Law day and night, because he loves it, Psal. 119. We must avoid Temptations, abstain from fleshly lusts, walk according to Rule, do our outmost that God may be glorified by us, and therefore endeavour conformity to His holiness in our whole conversation.
3. To bear about an humble sense or consciousness of, and a Spirit of mourning for our frailties and daily neglects; we must bewail both our impotency and exorbitancy: Though we do Sin (for who lives and Sins not) yet we do not allow it, though we do omit much of our duty, yet we condemn our selves for it: Though Sin be too subtle and potent for us, and often we are entangled by it, yet we do account it a sore Oppression, a distressing Captivity, and cry out earnestly to Heaven for help and deliverance: This was Pauls Spirit and practice,