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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. It is not a thing indifferent whither you keep Covenant or no. If you would enjoy the comfort of the Promise, you must have the witness of your own consciences unto this. It is one thing to be in visible Covenant, and another to have the promise of the Covenant positively engaged to you. Men deceive themselves greatly with this opinion, that they think, if they are in Covenant, they have Christ for their Surety and Undertaker: And hence can maintain strong confidence in the midst of their own careless and carnal neglects; abusing and perverting many Scriptures, and particularly, that, 1 Joh. 2. 1. If we sin, we have an Advocate: They promise themselves that Christ shall answer for all their breaches of Covenant, and hereupon it is no great matter with them to neglect Duty, and live carelessly and irregularly: but we must beware of deceiving our selves, for God will not be mocked, 1 Thes. 4. 7 Consider then,
2. It is not a thing indifferent whither you keep Covenant or no. If you would enjoy the comfort of the Promise, you must have the witness of your own consciences unto this. It is one thing to be in visible Covenant, and another to have the promise of the Covenant positively engaged to you. Men deceive themselves greatly with this opinion, that they think, if they are in Covenant, they have Christ for their Surety and Ʋndertaker: And hence can maintain strong confidence in the midst of their own careless and carnal neglects; abusing and perverting many Scriptures, and particularly, that, 1 Joh. 2. 1. If we sin, we have an Advocate: They promise themselves that Christ shall answer for all their breaches of Covenant, and hereupon it is no great matter with them to neglect Duty, and live carelesly and irregularly: but we must beware of deceiving our selves, for God will not be mocked, 1 Thes. 4. 7 Consider then,