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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 Faith is to eye the Precept as well as the Promise: Faith is to influence our duty as well as our assurance. Faith is the principle of our obedience: And if we believe this is our duty, to perform, because God commands it, and are hereby animated to our duty, this is Obedience of Faith: it is our duty to sow our Seed in the Morning, &c. Although we know not which shall prosper this or that: because Faith works by Love.
1. That Faith is to eye the Precept as well as the Promise: Faith is to influence our duty as well as our assurance. Faith is the principle of our obedience: And if we believe this is our duty, to perform, because God commands it, and are hereby animated to our duty, this is Obedience of Faith: it is our duty to sow our Seed in the Morning, &c. Although we know not which shall prosper this or that: because Faith workes by Love.
2. That a Believer is to be engaged to his duty, not only by a promise, but also by the precept; it is true the promise is our Encouragement, but the precept is our Rule; in submission to the command therefore he is to go about his Work, and to leave the success of it to Divine dispose, and so doing he performs his duty in Faith: and he that is not acted by this principle, but doth all merely as he thinks it may succeed, is truly mercenary.
2. That a Beleever is to be engaged to his duty, not only by a promise, but also by the precept; it is true the promise is our Encouragement, but the precept is our Rule; in submission to the command therefore he is to go about his Work, and to leave the success of it to Divine dispose, and so doing he performes his duty in Faith: and he that is not acted by this principle, but doth all meerly as he thinks it may succeed, is truly mercenary.