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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. The inward principle whereby they are acted, them that fear him which word is 1used in the Old Testament to be an expression of the obedience of Faith; they that fear God are true Believers, that have received the heart of Children, it intends that reverential and filial fear that is in true Converts, which is the spring and principle of obedience
1. The inward principle whereby they are acted, them that fear him which word is 1used in the Old Testament to be an expression of the obedience of Faith; they that fear God are true Believers, that have received the heart of Children, it intends that reverential and filial fear that is in true Converts, which is the spring and principl of obedience
- 1Jara, quando ad De •m refertur generale est complectens omnem reverentiam quae cum veneratione & Religione Deo exhibetur. Chemn.
2. The practice of this principle, such as keep His Covenant: i. e. those that so order their lives, as to observe the obligation lying upon them in the Covenant, and endeavour to frame themselves according to the Terms and Prescripts of it, and that observe the conditions of it.
3. The rule which they follow in their practice, and how they follow this rule; that remember His Commandments to do them: i. e. that study much to acquaint themselves with the will of God about their duty, or how He expects that they should order themselves and their ways; and this with full purpose, and constant endeavour to practise accordingly. Though it be the second of these I mainly intend to follow, yet so as including or comprehending of the other two, for he that keeps Covenant is one that fears God and keeps His commandments; these two comprise all that is required in the Covenant,