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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.
3. That Man was in himself a Creature serviceless as to any actual employment for the glory of God, he was without strength, Rom. 5. 6. More cost must be laid out upon him to make him a vessel of glory, and fit him up for his Master's use, than to have made a new World. He was a Creature like to be a great trial and exercise to Divine Patience as long as he lived: A Creature not fit to be trusted again with any Stock of grace, having so woefully failed, and discovered himself faithless in his first Trust.
3. That Man was in himself a Creature serviceless as to any actual employment for the glory of God, he was without strength, Rom. 5. 6. More cost must be laid out upon him to make him a vessell of glory, and fit him up for his Master's use, than to have made a new World. He was a Creature like to be a great tryall and exercise to Divine Patience as long as he lived: A Creature not fit to be trusted agen with any Stock of grace, having so wofully failed, and discovered himself faithless in his first Trust.
4. That when there were so many fallen Angels, Creatures capable of doing more service, might they but have been restored, Creatures, for their Make, more Noble and Laudable, and that yet notwithstanding he should pass by these, and have nothing to do with them in way of a second Covenant, but leave them held under that just condemnation in which they had involved themselves to be held Prisoners of Justice, without any hope for ever, that he might look in Mercy upon Men! This is a thought the Apostle could not entertain without very great admiration, Heb. 2. 16.