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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.
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.
2. Because the faithfull 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.
Object. But we shall find that God makes an absolute Promise to David that He will establish His Covenant with His seed, and not Violate it, Psal. 89. 28, 29.
Ans. It is to be observed that in that place David represents or typifies Christ the Head of the Church, and by His Children we are to understand only those that are given to Christ of God in the Covenant of Redemption, concerning whom it is certain they shall obtain Salvation; for as the Apostle saith,