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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. You must go to and believe in Jesus Christ for Grace whereby you may be enabled so to do. I name this first, Because it is the foundation of all: Christ is the Surety and Undertaker in the Covenant on both Parties, and if you would do any thing in this business, you must go to Him that He may work your Works in and for you, the Life of a Christian, is a Life of Faith, Heb. 10. 38.
1. You must go to and believe in Jesus Christ for Grace whereby you may be enabled so to do. I name this first, Because it is the foundation of all: Christ is the Surety and Ʋndertaker in the Covenant on both Parties, and if you would do any thing in this business, you must go to Him that He may worke your Workes in and for you, the Life of a Christian, is a Life of Faith, Heb. 10. 38.
Consider therefore,
1 As long as you remain in unbelief, you are on that very account, Covenant-breakers; for it is the first thing required in the Covenant, viz. that we believe. It binds and obligeth us to go to Christ, and make an absolute choice of Him, and place the Hope and Trust of our Souls upon Him: Think of this, you that live & lie in a State of Unregeneracy; you break your bond as long as you thus live, and are not therefore under the Promise, but the threatening at the present: When you shall be put upon trial, whether you have kept Covenant with God, the first question will be, whither you have believed; and if this cannot be made good, there needs no more enquiry to be made, but the Case is cast against you, all the pleas you can possibly make from your Moral Obedience, or Legal Works done by you will not in the least salve it, but you will be found among, and pronounced to be workers of iniquity.