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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
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Covenant-Keeping the way to Blessedness.
PSAL. 103. 17, 18. 17. But the mercy of the Lord is from everlasting to everlasting upon them that fear him: and his righteousness unto Children's Children. 18. To such as keep his Covenant, and to those that remember his Commandments to do them.
PSAL. 103. 17, 18. 17. But the mercy of the Lord is from everlasting to everlasting upon them that fear him: and his righteousness unto Childrens Children. 18. To such as keep his Covenant, and to those that remember his Commandments to do them.
IT is an Observation worth our serious minding, that ever since God made Man upon the Earth, he hath dealt with him in the way of a Covenant: he was no sooner brought into the World, but was transacted with in this way: and when he had utterly lost himself by his disobedience to the first, then was a new & Gospel Covenant opened and revealed unto him, in that first glorious promise made after mans Apostasy; that the woman's Seed should break the Serpents head, Gen. 3. 15. The knowledge therefore and understanding of the Covenant, and of our true relation to it, is that which only can help us to the knowledge of our own true estate, which is done by comparing