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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.
Ans. These Mercies comprise under them, the whole blessing of the New-Covenant: whatsoever is in particular promised to the People of God in His Word, comes under this general Denomination in our Text.
Ans. These Mercies comprize under them, the whole blessing of the New-Covenant: whatsoever is in particular promised to the People of God in His Word, comes under this generall Denomination in our Text.
These Mercies are called Everlasting for several Reasons.
These Mercies are called Everlasting for severall Reasons.
1. From the Bigger and better Part of them, which are Positively and properly so: Not but that there are Transitory and Passing Mercies, included in the Covenant-Promise: For, Godliness hath the Promise of the Life that now is, as well as of that which is to come, 1 Tim. 4. 8. But these Temporal Mercies are (though great in respect of our deserving, who are less then the least of God's Mercies, yet) Little and of Low Consideration, when they are compared with those which are in reversion in another World, and are therefore Swallowed up and lost in the Contemplation of these.
1. From the Bigger and better Part of them, which are Positively and properly so: Not but that there are Transitory and Passing Mercies, included in the Covenant-Promise: For, Godliness hath the Promise of the Life that now is, as well as of that which is to come, 1 Tim. 4. 8. But these Temporall Mercies are (though great in respect of our deserving, who are lesse then the least of God's Mercies, yet) Little and of Low Consideration, when they are compared with those which are in reversion in another World, and are therefore Swallowed up and lost in the Contemplation of these.