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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. What Man had done to alienate God's heart and good Will from him for ever; who, when God had Created and put him in a glorious Estate, given him an holy Law for his direction; furnished him with his own Image, implanting all needful graces to render his Obedience to that Law fiezable, made a good Covenant with him, a Covenant of Life, put all the visible Creation in subjection to him, and promised him all happiness if he would obey him: He, this notwithstanding, wilfully slighted his Law, profaned his Covenant, abused all his Favours, trampled upon his Glory, and set up vile things in his room: how should God have good thought more of such a Creature?
1. What Man had done to alienate God's heart and good Will from him for ever; who, when God had Created and put him in a glorious Estate, given him an holy Law for his direction; furnished him with his own Image, implanting all needfull graces to render his Obedience to that Law fiezable, made a good Covenant with him, a Covenant of Life, put all the visible Creation in subjection to him, and promised him all happiness if he would obey him: He, this notwithstanding, willfully slighted his Law, profaned his Covenant, abused all his Favours, trampled upon his Glory, and set up vile things in his room: how should God have good thought more of such a Creature?
2. That God had no need of Man to glorify him, nor was he obliged to any such way as this to glorify himself by him. He could have gotten himself a Name by destroying him, and made his Justice triumph in everlasting revenges. He had glorious Angels enough to do him Service, and the residue of the Spirit was with him, whereby he could have Created a New Generation of Men, even out of the very Stones, had he •een meet.
2. That God had no need of Man to glorifie him, nor was he obliged to any such way as this to gloryfie himself by him. He could have gotten himself a Name by destroying him, and made his Justice triumph in everlasting revenges. He had glorious Angels enough to do him Service, and the residue of the Spirit was with him, whereby he could have Created a New Generation of Men, even out of the very Stones, had he een meet.