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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. If he have a grounded and apprehended assurance of his Title to the Promise, he hath gained, and doth keep it by discerning and apprehending of the Condition wrought in him: If he knows that these Mercies are his, he first knows this, that he is (by Grace) made such an one as they do belong to by Promise. To make the Promise it self to be an evidence of our interest in the Promise, What is it else but to make the question it self the third argument by which it is proved? Then which way of arguing what can be more foolish and ridiculous? if it be known, it must be known by the Condition: So the Apostle John argues, 1 Joh. 3. 14.
1. If he have a grounded and apprehended assurance of his Title to the Promise, he hath gained, and doth keep it by discerning and apprehending of the Condition wrought in him: If he knows that these Mercies are his, he first knows this, that he is (by Grace) made snch an one as they do belong to by Promise. To make the Promise it self to be an evidence of our interest in the Promise, What is it else but to make the question it self the third argument by which it is proved? Then which way of arguing what can be more foolish and ridiculous? if it be known, it must be known by the Condition: So the Apostle John argues, 1 Joh. 3. 14.
2. Upon supposition (for we may suppose things that never shall be) that a true Believer might fall from the Condition of the Covenant totally and finally, it is certain he should lose, or miss of Salvation, and not inherit these everlasting Mercies, Heb. 10. 38. If any draw back, my Soul shall have no pleasure in him. Every Believer shall certainly be saved; that is an impregnable truth: but yet if the Believer could become an unbeliever and so remain, he should not be saved, for there shall no unbeliever, so dying, go to heaven. The sum is, that a Believers Title to these Mercies is continued by preserving and fortifying and rendering immortal