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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. Christ stands Surety for Believers, not to encourage their neglect; but only to help their Faith, relying upon Him in sense of self-insufficiency: and that too, either whiles they are striving to do good, and cannot do the good which they would, or at least are mourning for and repenting of their falls and neglects. Christ never intended that His Grace should be the Abettor and Protector of Men's Wickedness: And so to improve it, is to turn it into wantonness, which every serious Soul must abominate, Rom. 6. 1, 2. And hence also, though Christ will be an effectual Advocate for every [True] Believer, Notwithstanding all his frailties and breaches of Covenant with God, yet He will be no Abettor of him for his wilful and bold transgressions committed upon presumption of Christ's intercession, but he will charge his sin home upon him, as he did upon David, and make it an evil and bitter thing to him; He will break his bones, wound his spirit, make him see the evil, and feel the smart of it, so as to loath himself for it: In a Word, he will not apply his pardon sensibly to the Soul, but in a way of deep humiliation, godly Sorrow and Repentance.
2. Christ stands Surety for Beleevers, not to encourage their neglect; but only to help their Faith, relying upon Him in sense of self-insufficiencie: and that too, either whiles they are striving to do good, and cannot do the good which they would, or at least are mourning for and repenting of their falls and neglects. Christ never intended that His Grace should be the Abettour and Protector of Men's Wickedness: And so to improve it, is to turn it into wantonness, which every serious Soul must abominate, Rom. 6. 1, 2. And hence also, though Christ will be an effectual Advocate for every [True] Beleever, Notwithstanding all his frailties and breaches of Covenant with God, yet He will be no Abettour of him for his wilfull and bold transgressions committed upon presumption of Christ's intercession, but he will charge his sin home upon him, as he did upon David, and make it an evil and bitter thing to him; He will break his bones, wound his spirit, make him see the evil, and feel the smart of it, so as to loath himself for it: In a Word, he will not apply his pardon sensibly to the Soul, but in a way of deep humiliation, godly Sorrow and Repentance.