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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
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. That we believe in Christ for Life and Salvation, which is nothing else but only this, That we receive this Saviour, that we embrace Him with our whole hearts, as he is presented in His Offices of a Redeemer, that we ⟨p. 61⟩with His satisfaction, and rely upon it for acceptance, and thereby make it our own, that it may stand up for us, and so become our Righteousness, and interpose to satisfy for our Sins, and embrace His Obedience that it may merit our happiness. How free a Salvation must that needs be which requires only our acceptance, that so it may become ours? This is all, Rev. 22. 17. Joh. 3. 16.
1. That we believe in Christ for Life and Salvation, which is nothing else but only this, That we receive this Saviour, that we embrace Him with our whole hearts, as he is presented in His Offices of a Redeemer, that we ⟨p. 61⟩with His satisfaction, and rely upon it for acceptance, and thereby make it our own, that it may stand up for us, and so become our Righteousness, and interpose to satisfie for our Sins, and embrace His Obedience that it may merit our happiness. How free a Salvation must that needs be which requires only our acceptance, that so it may become ours? This is all, Rev. 22. 17. Joh. 3. 16.