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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
Discourse › Pages 1-60: Covenant-Keeping the way to Blessedness.
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.
3. By the Entail of it, vers. 17. where the word Righteousness, is put in instead of the word Mercy, to note unto us the sweet consent that is between Justice and Mercy in this work, and also to confirm us in the belief of the certainty of the accomplishment of this promise, inasmuch as God being a God of Righteousness, cannot but do that which is right, he will therefore Perpetuate his mercy according to the tenor and Terms of his Covenant.
3. By the Intaile of it, vers. 17. where the word Righteousness, is put in instead of the word Mercy, to note unto us the sweet consent that is between Justice and Mercy in this work, and also to confirme us in the beliefe of the certainty of the accomplishment of this promise, inasmuch as God being a God of Righteousness, cannot but do that which is right, he will therefore Perpetuate his mercy according to the tenor and Terms of his Covenant.
* The word Covenant, used in our 1text, implies a mutual obligation, and voluntary, between parties, comes from a Root which signifies to choose, because in a Covenant there is a choice of parties and conditions.
* The word Covenant, used in our 1text, implies a mutual obligation, and voluntary, between parties, comes from a Root which signifies to chuse, because in a Covenant there is a choise of parties and conditions.
- 1Berith Ab eligendo, quia eliguntur Personae &c. Buxtorf. quod foedus est mutuus Consensas duorum, super aliqua re,