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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.
2. That we perform Gospel-Obedience, which is nothing else but a sincere devoting of our selves to God and His Service; a Dedication of our Lives to Him, and endeavouring that in all things we may act and be to His Glory. That we renounce the service of Sin and Satan, unto which we were devoted, and cast off the usurped Government of other Lords, breaking all our Leagues with them, that we may be for Him, and no other, who hath bought us with His own Blood, that we might be to Him Peculiar. Now what less can he demand, or we pay to Him in order to the enjoyment of such, and so great favours and benefits as those are which we receive by the Covenant? The yoke of the Covenant of Grace, is an easy yoke,