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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. 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. And therefore he instructed, and disciplined: Ishmael he circumcised him, and prayed earnestly for him.
1. Because God is faithfull 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⟩alwayes so, and yet have had their Children whom God hath rejected: Abraham his Ishmael: Isaack his Esau: David his Ahsolom and Adonijah: Eli his Hophni and Phinehas: Now of Abraham we read that he was Trusty and Faithfull in teaching his children, Gen. 18. 19. And therefore he instructed, and disciplined: Ishmael he circumcised him, and prayed earnestly for him.
2. Because the faithful People of God have themselves thus interpreted the Promise, they judged it to be upon Supposition, & to carry a Condition in it: Eminent for this is the forementioned instance of David: that he thus understood it is evident, not only by that forecited warning which He gave to Solomon, 1 Chron. 28. 9. But also by that knowledgment which he makes of it to God Himself, Psal. 132. 11, 12