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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.
1. Because, having been at first placed under a Covenant of Works, he could not so well be delivered from the fears and terrors arising from his apprehended violation of it, and the curses thereby brought upon himself, but by the discoveries of a New Covenant of Grace. If God had not proclaimed a Covenant of Grace, Man would have been held under the tenor of the Law. Adam (now fallen) was under the amazement of that threatening of Death, Gen. 2. 17. Nor could he discover any the least glimmerings of Hope till the Covenant-Promise was made known for his encouragement, Gen. 3. 15. The Curse denounced came by a Covenant, and therefore the Mercy promised must come in the same way, that it may be every whit as plain and sure to us, for they are only Covenant-Mercies, which are sure Mercies. Isa. 55. 3.
1. Because, having been at first placed under a Covenant of Works, he could not so well be delivered from the fears and terrours arising from his apprehended violation of it, and the curses thereby brought upon himself, but by the discoveries of a New Covenant of Grace. If God had not proclaimed a Covenant of Grace, Man would have been held under the tenor of the Law. Adam (now fallen) was under the amazment of that threatning of Death, Gen. 2. 17. Nor could he discover any the least glimmerings of Hope till the Covenant-Promise was made known for his encouragment, Gen. 3. 15. The Curse denounced came by a Covenant, and therfore the Mercy promised must come in the same way, that it may be every whit as plain and sure to us, for they are only Covenant-Mercies, which are sure Mercies. Isa. 55. 3.