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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 they are always equally capable of actually enjoying the Privileges of the Covenant: Divines well distinguish between jus ad rem, and jus in re. A Child may have as good a right to his Estate when a Child as afterwards; but he cannot take possession of it, till he be legally of age: So neither doth their being in Covenant bring them immediately to all the Privileges, but according to the Rules of the Gospel. Nor,
1. That they are alwayes equally capable of actually enjoying the Priviledges of the Covenant: Divines well distinguish between jus ad rem, and jus in re. A Child may have as good a right to his Estate when a Child as afterwards; but he cannot take possession of it, till he be legally of age: So neither doth their being in Covenant bring them immediately to all the Priviledges, but according to the Rules of the Gospel. Nor,
2. That they have always an equal invisible right to the blessing of the Covenant: The advantage here is secret, and may sometimes be on the side of the Parents, sometimes on the part of the Child, according to the inward operation of the spirit: It is only the visible Covenant then which these stand equally related to. Nor,
2. That they have alwayes an equal invisible right to the blessing of the Covenant: The advantage here is secret, and may sometimes be on the side of the Parents, sometimes on the part of the Child, according to the inward operation of the spirit: It is only the visible Covenant then which these stand equally related to. Nor,
3. Do I dispute concerning the Parents conveyance of visible Privileges, or how far they are to stand of fall with their Parents, or whither Parents by bringing