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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.
4. That Divine Faith is not only a confidence, but a grounded confidence: The Rule doth not only command and bind us to believe, but it also tells us what we are to believe: The Hold of Faith is the Promise, and therefore it can be assured of any thing no further then that goes: Faith must have a clear Word for its Trust, else it is but vain: All our Plea is in the Covenant-Promise, and if we cannot find that we look for [There] we have nothing to build upon, but are at uncertainty.
5. That Believers have no absolute and illimited Promise in the Word of God that all their Children, or this or that Child shall be saved, no nor limited neither to their care, and faithfulness, that if they do their best, He will infallibly add saving Grace: This will appear by two Arguments.
5. That Beleevers have no absolute and illimited Promise in the Word of God that all their Children, or this or that Child shall be saved, no nor limited neither to their care, and faithfulness, that if they do their best, He will infallibly add saving Grace: This will appear by two Arguments.
1. Because God is faithful to every Promise which He hath made, He is a God that cannot lie, or repent. I know godly Parents may be remiss, but they are not ⟨p. 78⟩always so, and yet have had their Children whom God hath rejected: Abraham his Ishmael: Isaac his Esau: David his Absalom and Adonijah: Eli his Hophni and Phinehas: Now of Abraham we read that he was Trusty and Faithful in teaching his children, Gen. 18. 19